Decatur, AL – May 12, 2011 – 3-GIS, a GIS software development and services company is assisting the Franklin County GIS Consortium, consisting of fourteen agencies across Franklin County, by developing the Alabama Storm Tracker URL to review damage assessment data from the April 27 storms that devastated northern Alabama communities.
3-GIS, the developers of the latest technology in GIS mapping information systems, have been assisting the Franklin County Consortium in damage assessment. 3-GIS created the Alabama Storm Tracker URL, a service showing, not only the storm track, but also a fly-over from immediately after the tornado and post storm photos associated with each structure with the storm path. The aerial photography for the damage assessment data was provided by The Atlantic Group, LLC to the GIS Consortium team and then passed over to 3-GIS and uploaded in to the system. Franklin County GIS Manager, Michael Hughes and colleagues will continue to provide technical information from the affected areas that can be updated as needed to insure a comprehensive picture of the ravaged area. 3-GIS’s Alabama Storm Tracker URL is used by local community agencies to identify where they need to concentrate efforts for cleanup, power, water issues, FEMA for quick response, and others in the community to determine how and where to help.
“The work 3-GIS performed trimmed weeks off the recovery effort versus the old paper method,” Said David Palmer, Franklin County Engineer, “Providing maps and data to so many critical agencies, during a crisis of this magnitude, can be quite overwhelming. The 3-GIS web solution streamlined that process allowing a much quicker and more efficient solution. The benefits of providing relief more quickly and efficiently to devastated families are quite substantial”.
The work from 3-GIS and their partners is ongoing to continue to assist Franklin County in their recovery effort.
About Franklin County
Franklin County, Alabama offers Southern Hospitality at its best. Residents of the county benefit from the small town advantages that include lower costs of living, smaller teacher-to-student ratios, and availability of affordable homes and property. The growing cities of Russellville, Red Bay and Phil Campbell offer the convenience of major retailers, restaurants and recreational amenities.
About 3-GIS
3-GIS delivers innovative thin-client web-based solutions to companies worldwide in the Utilities, Telecommunications and Emergency Management markets. 3-GIS offers Express Solution, an ArcGIS Server-based suite of thin-client asset management products and Command Center an Esri-enabled Operational Picture and Situational Awareness solution. 3-GIS proudly received the 2011 Esri Partner’s Choice Award & the 2011 Esri Private Web Application Award. More and more companies are finding 3-GIS’s cost effective powerful applications simple to deploy and easy to use.
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