Learn more about the importance of geospatial data collection, conversion, integration, and hosting, and the goals & benefits behind them.
Background
Geospatial Data Conversion & Integration
A geographic information system (GIS) integrates data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. GIS allows users to visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends. These relationships help organizations like municipalities answer questions and solve problems in regards to planning and maintaining infrastructure.
All municipalities have new and legacy data stored in a variety of formats in many locations. Municipalities need a way to integrate data so that it can be analyzed as a whole and leveraged to make critical infrastructure decisions. Not only is this important to make decisions, but as asset networks become increasingly complicated, GIS becomes a vital tool to ensure safety for communities.
Informed decisions rely on integrated information from diverse sources. Through INTUS Smartcities Web-GIS, data can be compiled into a common operational picture for comparative analysis, visual presentation and reporting.
Advanced and computationally efficient algorithms perform complex statistical calculations to accurately deliver timely results for decision making, planning and forecasting.
Presenting asset and administrative information through mapped data creates new information and operational possibilities that can be integrated, communicated and carried out expeditiously.
By integrating mobile systems and devices (sensors, tablets, etc.) geospatial data and descriptive information can be accurately entered and viewed.
Data is far more valuable when it can be integrated and used in the decision making process by a broad range of users. INTUS Smartcities technology provides a way to move data from the project level so that it can be used by the entire organization. Data can be easily accessed using through cloud computing.