Case Studies

Case studies illustrate how ArcView is used to understand the geographic context of data, make better decisions, and solve problems faster.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [PDF-1.18 MB, 2 pages]
Web portal provided information about environmental contaminants during hurricanes.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Yellowstone River Conservation District Council [PDF-829 KB, 2 pages]
Participants in the Yellowstone River study needed to collect geospatial data and assess current and future states of the river.

Coinstar, Inc. [PDF-136 KB, 2 pages]
The company uses GIS to manage its network of 12,500 coin-counting machines in 50 states, Canada, and the United Kingdom. GIS is used for a variety of business applications, including marketing research and analysis, retail account development, coin services, field operations, installations,and finance.

Moreno Valley, California
To manage its explosive growth, the city of Moreno Valley implemented an enterprise GIS system, allowing it to share data among departments and make decisions faster and more accurately.

City of Greenville, Texas
Read how the city of Greenville, Texas, built a GIS system to provide relevant information and data quickly to real estate developers interested in revitalizing abandoned urban areas.

City of Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
Applying the power of GIS, the city of Quinte West improved the quality and content of its economic development proposals and reduced the time to answer real estate developers' requests for information.

San Diego Zoological Society, San Diego, California
GIS is helping the San Diego Zoological Society to preserve, track, and study its extensive plant and animal collection. The collected data can then be visualized and interpreted in a number of different ways to reveal various patterns and lead to further research.

Joyabaj, El Quiché, Guatemala
Find out how Peace Corps Volunteers, working with various governmental and nongovernmental agencies, helped Guatemalan municipalities implement GIS systems. The creation of much-needed basemaps and tracking of demographic and social data generated a tremendous interest in GIS and more advanced applications.

Klamath Basin Rangeland, Southern Oregon/Northern California
A water crisis in the large Klamath Basin led to the use of GIS to model and map irrigation effects. The resulting maps were then used to easily communicate the complexity of the project to many different stakeholders.

Project TAMAR–IBAMA, Brazil
To protect sea turtles from incidental capture, Brazil's National Project of Conservation, Handling and Research of Sea Turtles implemented GIS to share data and administer the project. The quick and accurate integration of various databases and ability to visualize spatial data via maps allowed for sharing information and better communication among project members and the public.