Projects

Vineyard and Winery Management

One example of a grower striving to attain this optimal balance is Ken Deaver of Deaver Vineyards. A fifth generation Amador County farmer, Deaver Vineyards farms approximately 320 acres of zinfandel in the Shenandoah Valley near the c…

Kendall-Jackson Winery - Data collection Services

VESTRA completed multispectral image analysis of several vineyards owned and managed by Kendall-Jackson Winery (K-J). Working with K-J’s staff and viticulturists, VESTRA prepared a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for each viney…

The Hess Collection Winery - Vineyard Development

  The Hess Collection Winery (Hess) retained VESTRA to develop a GIS database that will be used to plan and manage its existing and new vineyard properties. Hess wanted to use GIS to determine if c…

GIS Database Design Services

Wattle Creek Winery - Vineyard Development

Wattle Creek Winery retained VESTRA to help map and analyze a 590-acre tract of land for its potential for premium wine-grape production. Using surveyed contour lines, VESTRA analyzed slope and aspect conditions of the property and integ…

Shasta Mosquito and Vector Control Mobile Operations System

Shasta Mosquito and Vector Control District (SMVCD) is a public health agency started in 1919; charged with protecting residents from disease carrying and pestiferous mosquitoes. Since then they have annexed approximately 1,086 square miles in Shasta C…

Calaveras County - GIS Implementation Support

 

Initially VESTRA was retained to develop a countywide GIS parcel database on an extremely short, 12-week time schedule. This parcel database was developed using data from a number of sources, including existing CAD data sets from variou…

Calaveras County - General Plan Layers Update and Adjustment

Calaveras County, received a grant from the California Regional Blueprint Planning Program to implement an ArcGIS based planning tool developed by UC Davis called UPLAN. The UPLAN tool essentially allows a user to run “what if” build…

California Children and Families Commission (First 5)

 

Birth Record Database, Internet Site Modifications and Further Internet Site Enhancements  

VESTRA has been working with the California Children and Families Commission (First 5) since 2004. VESTRA initially worked w…

California Department of Parks & Recreation

Environmental and Cultural Review Application (ECRA) Project VESTRA recently completed two web-based applications that will help facilitate the incorporation of GIS technology into the day-to-day workflow for development and review of capital outlay p…