Case Studies

TerraGo's proven track record of success lies in the hundreds of organizations — both government and commercial alike — that depend on our software to deliver mission-critical geospatial assets to their non-GIS users.

Our client roster includes many organizations within the defense and intelligence community markets, along with every federal civilian agency in the U.S. government. Hundreds of state and local governments as well as emergency management and public safety officials use our solutions to provide their citizens and government officials greater access to geospatial information. Natural resource management, energy companies and engineering firms around the world also rank as some of our more popular market segments.

  • AgForce Provides Producers with GeoPDF® Maps to Assist in Statutory Land-Based Applications
    Farmers and producers in Queensland, Australia are required to submit detailed maps or GIS files with their applications to the government for vegetation clearing. The maps provided to producers by AgForce are complex with many layers including satellite imagery, cadaster, vegetation, contours and regional ecosystems. The majority of producers are not GIS-trained and require a simple method to show the proposed changes to the regional ecosystem.  
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  • Dewberry Enhances Disaster Impact Maps with TerraGo® GeoPDF® Solution

    The Hurricane Preparedness Team, a part of the Hazard Engineering Services team at Dewberry, works year-round to assist federal, state and county authorities responsible for protecting residents and businesses occupying the eastern U.S. coastline and the Gulf coast as well as cities and municipalities subject to inland flooding. The team needed a way to deliver location-based data in an electronic map format that could be easily accessed, updated and shared by clients.
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  • TerraGo GeoPDF Maps Accelerate Japan Disaster Damage Assessment
    As part of the recovery efforts from the Mar. 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, federal, prefectural and local governments needed a way to rapidly disseminate, update and share information to determine which buildings and homes were damaged and to what degree so that property owners could receive government-issued disaster victim certificates. Complicating matters was the inability to physically enter the nuclear evacuation zone to conduct on-the-ground inspection of property damage.
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  • USDA-NRCS Creates Online GeoPDF® Map Deliverable for Easy Sharing of Complex Land Data
    The Wisconsin office of NRCS recently faced the challenge of producing an online map deliverable that could enable farmers, ranchers, agronomists and others working or studying the land to easily see soil properties and nutrient spreading restrictions. In partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) and the University of Wisconsin – Madison Soils Department, NRCS sought the technology that could bring diverse data together in an easily understandable, interactive format.
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  • Using Location-based Intelligence to Protect and Preserve Public Safety
    Large, metropolitan police forces are chartered with preserving the welfare of citizens every day. When massive special events and unforeseen emergencies arise, that responsibility is truly put to the test. Maps and images become a critical part of the information distributed and shared throughout the police force during these events. In this case study, TerraGo solutions enable officers to familiarize themselves with the geography and infrastructure of their area of responsibility in order to effectively patrol the area.
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  • National Spill Control School Uses TerraGo Software to Teach Geospatial Collaboration to Emergency Managers and Responders
    The primary goal of the National Spill Control School (NSCS) is to serve as the nation’s leading resource for oil spill response training and advance the practice of oil spill management. NSCS aims to teach industry professionals how to use the latest technology to improve processes for assessing and responding to oil spills. This case study highlights how NSCS developed curriculum that introduces students to GIS-enabled tools such as TerraGo software and TerraGo GeoPDF maps as geospatial solutions for navigation, operational coordination and data collection.
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  • Gray & Pape Bridges the Gap Between GIS Experts and Field Researchers with TerraGo Software
    Consulting firm Gray & Pape, Inc., specializes in cultural resources management (CRM), including archaeology, history/architecture, and historic preservation planning services. Clients use Gray & Pape’s studies and survey results to plan mitigation activities and related expenditures for archaeological and architectural resources. Recently, Gray & Pape saw an opportunity to improve processes for enabling archaeologists and architectural historians to collect field data on cultural resources.
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  • USGS Delivers Topo Quads Via GeoPDF
    USGS recently celebrated its 125th anniversary showcasing the TerraGo GeoPDF files. For several years, TerraGo and USGS have partnered to deliver hundreds of thousands of GeoPDF files to users all across the United States. Anyone can access free GeoPDF files of the 7.5 minute topo quads from the USGS Webstore. Check it out today by downloading your own GeoPDF files.
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  • US Army: Maps for Non-Mappers
    The January/February 2010 edition of Geospatial Intelligence published an article about how the US Army has implemented TerraGo and Adobe software to help non-GIS oriented people in its organization create and share complex maps.
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