2010 SAG Award Winners

City of Los Angeles Harbor Department

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Project Goal

The Port of Los Angeles is the United States' busiest container port. Driven by port initiatives that require access to accurate and timely spatial data from within and outside the port, the enterprise GIS project goals included:

* Provide port police with comprehensive maritime domain awareness over its jurisdiction and by extension, a common operating picture for the rest of port operations.

* Create a self-perpetuating enterprise GIS where the more data and applications are added to it, the greater the motivation amongst participants to contribute to it.

* Create technical and management tools to bridge needs of GIS and CADD users.

* Complete integration between traditional static GIS data and dynamic data like weather, vessels, vehicles, and personnel.

* Deliver the benefits of GIS to nearly 1,000 employees.
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Business Problem Solved

The rnterprise GIS is based on ESRI technology and leveraged the port’s IT enterprise infrastructure to solve core business problems:

* Port police can track its human and motorized resources throughout the port in real time; this is Blue Force Tracking.

* Real time and archived tracking of vessels via AIS and radar

* All critical spatial data, whether edited in ArcGIS, AutoCAD MAP, or originating outside the port, is made available across the port through ArcGIS Server

* Complete data sharing across the enterprise including engineering, environmental, planning, real estate, police, construction and maintenance, survey, and executive

* The same GIS data content and cartography uniformly available to ArcGIS, AutoCAD, geoPOLA, Situator, AiM (Lease Management System), CrimeMap, and MaintStar (Maintenance Management System)

* Powerful access to GIS for all staff via the custom geoPOLA Silverlight viewer

* Port-wide active directory security model applied to all facets of GIS including the geoPOLA Web viewer

Technology Implemented

Hardware: HP-based ESX VMWare, IBM SAN
Servers: Eleven load-balanced VM Servers (eight in production, three in staging)
OS: Windows 2008 Server 64-bit, Windows 2003 Server 32-bit, Windows XP, Windows 7
Database: SQL Server 2008 64-bit
GIS Servers: ArcGIS Server 9.3.1, ESRI Image Server 9.3.1
Web Development: Visual Studio 2008, C#, ASP.NET, MS Expression Blend, IIS 8, Silverlight 3
GIS Desktop: ArcGIS 9.3.1
CADD Desktop: AutoCAD Map 9
Web GIS Browser: geoPOLA (custom)

Development Team Biography

Port of Los Angeles Team

Project Managers:
Christine Thome, Enterprise GIS Manager
Julia Kirwan, Manager of Police Technology

GIS Steering Committee:
Lance Kaneshiro, Chief Information Officer
Tony Gioiello, Engineering Division Head
Ron Boyd, Port Police Chief
Dave Mathewson, Planning Division Head
Mike Galvin, Real Estate Division Head
Paul Johansen, Environmental Division Manager

GIS Technical Committee:
Tamara Fatherree
Tsion Abebe
Andrew Jirik
Gegam Gasparian
Don Farrell
Nathan Ewert
Dac Hoang
Eric Gilbertson
Kurt Ramirez
Amy Arnold

Information Technology:
Kei Chan, Information Technology Servers
Tim Lee, Information Technology Network
Grace Su, Information Technology DBA

Consultant Partners:
NorthSouth GIS LLC (Prime Contractor), Daniel Elroi
Moffatt & Nichol, Craig Frampton
ESRI, Anak Agung
Tech/Knowledge, Tim Peters