by Chad Minteer | Jan 25, 2016 | GIS, Mapping/GIS, Mosquito & Vector Control |
FieldSeeker® GIS and Sentinel® GIS are primarily focused on Mosquito Control best practices and workflows – specifically, on supporting Integrated Mosquito Management activities including surveillance, larviciding, source reduction, site inspection, and various forms...
by Chad Minteer | Jan 12, 2016 | GIS, Mapping/GIS, Mobile, Mosquito & Vector Control |
Gathering citizen service requests from your website is nothing new. But often there is a disconnect between your website and operational system, requiring someone to review and manually re-enter the data from an email, database, or printout. What if instead of that...
by Chad Minteer | Dec 22, 2015 | GIS, Mapping/GIS, Mobile, Mosquito & Vector Control |
Dashboards are nothing new. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other dashboard lingo are inheritances from ERP and other business systems. Without getting bogged down in the lingo, let’s talk about the Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS and how it can help mosquito...
by Chad Minteer | Dec 12, 2015 | GIS, Mapping/GIS, Mobile, Mosquito & Vector Control |
Sharing public information in a public self-service setting is a tricky business. How much is enough? How much is too much? Information comes in a context, so merely dumping data on a website for everyone to look through doesn’t do anyone a lot of good. As a citizen,...
by Chad Minteer | Nov 2, 2015 | GIS, Mapping/GIS, Mobile, Mosquito & Vector Control |
I spent some time last week with CityWorks® and its partners, responding to a mosquito control opportunity in Florida. One of the big selling points for CityWorks is that it is GIS-Centric. What does that mean? Why does it matter? In their case, it means that the...
by Chad Minteer | Oct 21, 2015 | GIS, Mapping/GIS, Mosquito & Vector Control |
It’s critical that aircraft spraying be done effectively. Nothing is as expensive or as high profile as this type of treatment, and even in mosquito control operations that do a lot of it, efficient use of this tool is of utmost importance. FieldSeeker® GIS software...
by Chad Minteer | Sep 22, 2015 | GIS, Mapping/GIS, Mosquito & Vector Control |
There was so much to tell you about on this subject, we only got partway through it last time. View What’s New in FieldSeeker® GIS – Part 1. Here are some more awesome new features of FieldSeeker GIS: Trap Results, Landing Counts, Etc. Visible on Map Lab surveillance...
by Chad Minteer | Sep 14, 2015 | GIS, Mapping/GIS, Mosquito & Vector Control |
The biggest news is that FieldSeeker Mobile software is now available for iPads and iPhones. The iOS Mobile software is a native app, so it’s fast and sleek. It uses the Esri runtime, so it has all the great mapping & GIS awesomeness you’d expect. You can view...
by Chad Minteer | Aug 19, 2014 | GIS, Mapping/GIS, Mosquito & Vector Control |
One of the most sought after features for mosquito control Operations Managers and management staff in general is a GIS dashboard. Getting data into systems such as FieldSeeker GIS and Sentinel GIS is only part of the solution – it’s getting data back out in a...
by Chad Minteer | Jun 5, 2014 | Mosquito & Vector Control |
Many mosquito control operations use vehicle mounted ultra-low-volume (ULV) sprayers to control adult mosquito populations, in addition to surveillance and Larviciding activities. In a typical ULV application, a gas or electric powered pump and blower diffuses small...
