Spatial Data Management

Managing spatial data is key to the success of any GIS implementation. We are hugely experienced in spatial data management and provide the following services.

Data hosting

We can provide you with an outsourced GIS data storage and data delivery service using industry leading hosting partners.

Data can be served to key stakeholders using ESRI’s ArcGIS Server technology, and consumed using a variety of GIS client viewers, such as web-based maps, rich internet application (RIA) viewers, and desktop client applications such as ArcGIS Desktop.

Our GIS services ensure timely access to high quality spatial data to all stakeholders, while allowing you to reduce your data management burden by leveraging the 'cloud computing' paradigm.

Data management health checks

Our consultants can provide you with a healthcheck to help ensure that your data is in good shape (i.e. up to date, correct and complete), well integrated with the rest of your business data, and able to suppport your stated business objectives.

Data standards

Spatial data standards can be important within the E&P industry, aiming aim data consolidation, conversion and integration in order to achieve the maximum levels of data interoperability within organisations.

We can assist you in applying standards within your spatial data infrastructure, e.g.:

• Data model standards
• Data content standards
• Data exchange standards
• Coordinate Reference System standards
• Metadata standards.

Data architecture design

We can design a geodatabase to meet your business requirements, from developing standard data nomenclature to designing for a data model to hold the data.

Data is often stored in the geodatabase with cryptic nomenclature designed for data management staff. To simplify the system we would deliver the data through layer files or services, ensuring that cartographic symbology standards, attribute aliases and friendly layer names have been applied.

Data loading and QC

We are experienced in loading and managing both raster and vector data to a variety of datastores, ranging from flatfile to relational database formats. We can design and build geoprocessing tasks to automate elements of the loading process to help streamline the service and make it more efficient.  In addition we have established processes for checking the quality and completeness of both spatial data and metadata.

Data distribution

We can implement database synchronisation to keep your corporate and regional data synchronised. With ArcGIS Server we can also create GIS services from your data to allow you to generate content for your GIS tools, both desktop and web based.

Data reformatting

Data often needs to be exported to or imported from a wide variety of formats. For digital data we can work with a number of third-party reformatting tools or design and build our own. For paper data we can scan and digitise the data into an appropriate spatial form. We have worked with a number of companies to transform non-GIS datasets to a spatial format, e.g. the Millennium Atlas.

Metadata management

We will load all required metadata to whichever standard your business has aligned to (ISO, FGDC , custom etc). We can design bespoke tools to help with the input of metadata to ensure that as much metadata as possible is captured automatically.

Software

In addition to our services, our Team GIS Directory and Team-GIS KBridge software are designed to assist in ArcGIS Desktop deployments and data integration with SMT's KINGDOM, respectively.