VESTRA has been designated a Release Ready Specialty Partner based upon Esri’s criteria, which includes:
Keeping pace with Esri technology;
Having industry experience;
Offering solutions, services, or content based on the latest Esri software releases; and
Helping users make smart decisions using the ArcGIS platform.
Contact us if you need assistance with an upgrade.
As part of VESTRA's Biological Monitoring on the Delta Fire clean up, Anna Prang assisted CDFW with relocating an injured buck that she had been monitoring at the Delta Fire burn site for 4 days.
Anna worked with a CDFW Biologist to locate the buck around noon last Friday. CDFW decided the best approach would be to anesthetize the deer to examine his burn wounds more closely. After the buck was anesthetized, they moved in with water, iodine solution, etc. to find what appeared to be very painful but survivable burn wounds on the legs, groin, and "armpit" areas. CDFW then made the difficult decision to move the buck. Without relocation, the odds of a recovery were very small, as at this time he was living in a completely burned area with no food, limited cover, and his mobility was decreased due to his injuries. Anna scouted out the area earlier in the morning for a decent relocation site; and it was decided to deliver the buck to a peaceful, un-burned creek side site not too far from where it was believed his home range was. Anna checked the next morning and did not see him — but was pretty sure that the buck had gotten some food and water and sought out a place that satisfied his deer senses.
VESTRA is proud to be a part of what we hope is a happy ending for the injured buck- especially in the midst of this devastating wildfire season.
VESTRA will be attending the following shows in the months of September and October.
MISAC Annual Conference 2018 | September 30-October 3, 2018 | Booth #503 | Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort & Spa, Rancho Mirage, CA
GIS-Pro & CalGIS 2018 | October 9-12, 2018 | Booth #310 | Palm Springs Convention Center & Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel, CA
2018 NGIS Conference | October 16-18, 2018 | Booth #8 | Whitney Peak Hotel, Reno, NV
At these conferences, we will be exhibiting and discussing our GIS products and services. We have a number of exciting solutions tailored to the GIS market that you shouldn't miss, including our ArcGIS℠ Online Launch Kits, Enhanced Web AppBuilder (WAB) Widgets, Location Strategy Jumpstarts, our new Managed Services options, and more!
We will also be showcasing our GeoSystems Monitor®, the best real-time GIS monitor available on the market today. VESTRA recently released a new version of the GeoSystems Monitor with a new design and a number of new features and enhancements. Please stop by to discuss the product with one of our representatives and to view a product demo. The GeoSystems Monitor is available for your full Enterprise GIS Platform or for ArcGIS℠ Online only.
To explore the GIS products and services offered by VESTRA, visit our GIS Homepage. If you don't see what you need, please feel free to contact us to see how we can assist you or stop by one of our booths at the above conferences to speak to one of our GIS experts.
Galen Keily, GIS Analyst at the MISAC 2018 Conference in Rancho Mirage
Solomon Pulapkura, GIS Project Manager at the 2018 NGIS Conference in Reno, Nevada
Solomon Pulapkura, VESTRA GIS Project Manager and Raj Patil, Lucity Director of Strategic Partnerships at the 2018 URISA CalGIS & GIS Pro Conference in Palm Springs
VESTRA Resources, Inc. announces the highly anticipated GoeSystems Monitor v4.0.0 release is now available for download. The Silverlight version of the product has been depreciated and the product rebuilt in JavaScript. Design changes and new features are listed below.
DESIGN
UI style and design updated using Bootstrap 3
In JavaScript (deprecates Silverlight)
Works in all modern browsers (Edge, IE 11+, Firefox, Chrome)
NEW FEATURES
License Manager Module
Reports and Charts upgraded to new ReportLab libraries
Added/combined support for Vector Tile services
Increased WMI disk drive checks
Added support for Postgres databases
Redesigned SDE Layer checks
Added support for Oracle 12c
Redesigned MSSQL authentication practices
Key focus on Windows Authentication
Easier creation of containers and auto-population of services
Ability to “refresh” containers to add new services/remove old
Added a governor to manage cold start monitoring
Added “connections” to save credentials
Added ability to rearrange tabs
Contact us for more information or to request a demo.
VESTRA is a longtime supporter of 4-H and FFA programs, and attempts to purchase animals in all counties where we work. For the 2018 fair season VESTRA purchased animals from 4-H and FFA members at the Glenn County Fair, Intermountain Fair, Shasta District Fair, and Trinity County Fair. A summary of VESTRA’s 2018 participation is as follows:
Kenzie Eddy | Lake 4-H Club | Glenn County Fair | 4-H Market Hog
Isabella Cordova | Intermountain Fair | 4-H Market Hog
Aaron Forschler | Anderson FFA | Shasta District Fair | 2018 Grand Champion Poultry Meat Pen & 2018 FFA Champion Poultry Meat Pen
Dillon Fuentes | Central Valley FFA | Shasta District Fair | FFA Market Goat
Austin Grace | Swede Creek 4-H | Shasta District Fair | 4-H Market Hog
Cody Hawes | Golden Acres 4-H | Shasta District Fair | 4-H Market Goat
James Johnston | Twin Palms 4-H | Shasta District Fair | Pen of 3 Market Rabbits
Glorianna Junokas | Golden Acres 4-H | Shasta District Fair | Pen of 3 Market Rabbits
Chloe Schultz | Golden Acres 4-H | Shasta District Fair | 4-H Market Hog
Addie Snyder | Happy Valley 4-H | Shasta District Fair | 4-H Market Lamb
Aubrey Nelson | West Valley FFA | Shasta District Fair | 4-H Market Hog
Kassidy Zulliger | Golden Acres 4-H | Shasta District Fair | 4-H Market Goat
Michael Willis | Happy Valley 4-H | Shasta District Fair | 2018 4-H Champion Poultry Meat Pen
Joseph Johnston | Twin Palms 4-H | Shasta District Fair | Pen of 3 Market Rabbits
Abriana Coulter | Trinity County Fair | Pen of 3 Market Rabbits
Lydia Yarbrough | Trinity County Fair | Pen of 3 Market Rabbits
VESTRA looks forward to supporting 4-H and FFA members in 2019!
VESTRA's 2018 American Viticultural Area (AVA) maps are now available! Our popular AVA maps feature geographically accurate, legally recorded AVA boundaries as established by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
The 2018 AVA map updates include:
California AVA map:
Establishment of the 202,476-acre Petaluma Gap AVA in Sonoma and Marin Counties
Expansion of the North Coast AVA
North Coast AVA map:
Establishment of the 202,476-acre Petaluma Gap AVA in Sonoma and Marin Counties
Expansion of the North Coast AVA
Sonoma County AVA map:
Establishment of the 202,476-acre Petaluma Gap AVA
Visit the AVA (Viticultural) maps page, or call us for more information or to place an order.
VESTRA also creates custom maps to your specifications. Give us a call to discuss your design and get a quote.
VESTRA's 2017 American Viticultural Area (AVA) maps are now available! Our popular AVA maps feature geographically accurate, legally recorded AVA boundaries as established by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
The 2017 AVA map updates include:
Visit the AVA (Viticultural) maps page, or call us for more information or to place an order.
VESTRA also creates custom maps to your specifications. Give us a call to discuss your design and get a quote.
VESTRA Resources, Inc. announced November 2016 that it has been awarded the contract for the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Program Services by the City of Elk Grove, California. VESTRA Resources, Inc., teaming with Fremont Environmental Consulting (FEC), located in Folsom, California, will assist the City by leading and guiding them in leveraging their GIS more effectively through their GIS Program Services.
“The value of GIS has long been recognized for urban planning, but it is now playing an integral role in helping cities increase information delivery and services, control costs, and become partners with their residents and businesses,” said VESTRA's CEO Art Stackhouse. “We are honored to help cities like Elk Grove with their GIS needs.”
The City’s GIS solution is powered by Esri.
About Elk Grove, CA
Elk Grove is a city in Sacramento County, California, located just south of the state capital of Sacramento. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to Wikipedia; as of 2015, the population of the city was estimated at 167,965. The second-largest city in Sacramento County, Elk Grove was the fastest growing city in the U.S. between July 1, 2004, and July 1, 2005.
About VESTRA Resources, Inc.:
Since 1988, VESTRA Resources, Inc. has been an industry leader in Enterprise GIS design, customization and implementation. They specialize in consulting with industries such as Local, State & Federal Government, Healthcare, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Transportation. They’re an Esri Certified Gold Partner and have been honored with the following designations: ArcGIS Online Specialty Partner, ArcGIS for Local Government Specialty Partner, ArcGIS Marketplace Provider, and Federal Small Business Specialty Partner. They also developed the GeoSystems Monitor – the best real-time Enterprise GIS monitoring system used by many large clients worldwide. To learn more about VESTRA Resources, Inc., visit: www.vestra.com
VESTRA Resources, Inc. is happy to announce the availability of GeoSystems Monitor for ArcGIS℠ Online on Esri’s ArcGIS Marketplace.
GeoSystems Monitor for ArcGIS℠ Online allows your ArcGIS Online Administrator (or other ArcGIS Online User) to receive instant alerts pinpointing issues when your maps or services fail, helping you to get back online before users call.
CORE FEATURES:
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The innovative State of Maryland continually strives for change including using science to help drive policy during crucial decision-making processes. Since 2007, the State began applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as an enterprise solution for challenges and needs within its many communities. They advanced using GIS to map services, resources, and opportunities so they could measure outcomes and performance and use the data collected to discover patterns, problems, and find solutions.
Today Maryland’s Enterprise GIS system, MD iMAP ( http://imap.maryland.gov), is used by almost every Maryland State Agency in one way or another. This Enterprise GIS system provides geospatial data and services for government agencies, provides public facing applications for the citizens of Maryland, as well as maintaining data that is consumed by private entities such as GIS, real estate, architecture, engineering, and environmental professionals.
Currently managing Maryland’s GIS infrastructure is the Maryland Department of Information Technology (DoIT)/Geographic Information Office (GIO). They provide map services, custom applications, open data, training and support to all who use the MD iMAP Platform.
MD iMAP uses the ArcGIS Platform to support mission critical functions within its many agencies; including, Emergency Management, Public Safety, Health and Human Services, Housing, Environment, Transportation, Education, Business, and Planning. The DoIT GIO Team hosts all MD iMAP services through ArcGIS for Server, uses ArcGIS for Desktop for analysis and data management, and works in ArcGIS Online for collaboration to create unique web mapping applications.
They rely on ArcGIS to provide real-time services across state agencies when responding to an event such as a hurricane or a planned statewide celebration. The DoIT GIO Team are able to post accurate, real-time information to their website to keep citizens informed and aware of what is happening around them during the emergency. For example, Maryland Emergency Management Agency’s (MEMA) OSPREY applications are emergency management and public safety situational awareness viewers that allow the public and state agencies to quickly view information such as power outages, hospital statuses, open shelters, weather feeds and alerts, population distribution statuses, critical infrastructure, and more.
Maryland state agencies that work with GIS use MD iMAP services on a daily basis. If those services went down for an extended period of time, they would not be able to perform their jobs. The impact could be very large, especially for the emergency management and public safety community.
“As a measure to be more proactive than reactive in maintaining a resilient and robust MD iMAP, we decided we needed a monitoring system. Without one,” Matthew Sokol, Senior GIS Analyst for the Maryland Department of Information Technology/Geographic Information Office, admitted, “it’s likely our customers would be reporting issues with services before we knew about them.”
After looking to find the best monitoring system, the GIO Office decided on Esri Partner - VESTRA Resource, Inc.’s GeoSystems Monitor which allows the DoIT GIO to monitor their ArcGIS for Server map services, ArcGIS Online services, OGC services, database services, as well as many other components. They decided on GeoSystems Monitor because of the comprehensive dashboard view, its alerting capabilities, and the wide scope in the types of services that could be monitored including the components behind the services.
“On the server side, being able to monitor Disk Space, Memory and CPU usage across all of our servers is vital to keeping the system running at an optimal level,” said Sokol.
“GeoSystems Monitor allows me to better respond to issues in our system and provide the best possible customer support. Through its email and text message alerting capability, I know about critical system issues anywhere and at any time. Maintaining the MD iMAP Enterprise GIS is one of our office’s primary functions. GeoSystems Monitor enables us to provide the level of service that our customers and agency leadership expect from an Enterprise GIS,” Sokol stated.
“One of my favorite things about GeoSystems Monitor is the dashboard level view of my systems. It’s a simple way to see how the system is functioning at a high level and if there are issues that need my attention. The level of customization is important because not every service is the same. Most importantly, it provides us an intangible benefit of good customer service to our end users,” added Sokol.
For more information, contact Matthew Sokol, GISP, Senior GIS Analyst, Maryland Department of Information Technology, at matthew.sokol@maryland.gov or VESTRA Resources, Inc. at info@vestra.com / http://www.vestra.com
Concept-to-Prototype Reduced to Less Than a Day
By Matthew DeMeritt, Esri Writer
It’s a steep climb implementing an enterprise GIS — especially with a staff of one lone soul. Sometimes a city needs professional guidance to future-proof its map services. To ensure a lasting solution that grows with its needs, Mountain View, California, collaborated with Esri Professional Services and geospatial firm VESTRA Resources, Inc. (VESTRA), to transition from a limited desktop mapping system to a full enterprise GIS (EGIS). That partnership connected all of Mountain View’s business systems and laid a solid foundation for rapid web map deployment at the city.
Read Full Article here: https://medium.com/@Esri/web-gis-helps-small-city-deploy-maps-faster-7ec0b1c19952#.mdjppmuur
VESTRA's 2016 American Viticultural Area (AVA) maps are now available! Our popular AVA maps feature geographically accurate, legally recorded AVA boundaries as established by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
The 2016 map updates include:
Updated 2016 maps include:
Visit the AVA (Viticultural) maps page at http://www.vestra.com/environmental/products/ava-vit-maps, or call us for more information or to place your order today.
VESTRA also creates custom maps to your specifications. Give us a call to discuss your design and get a quote.
Jan 27, 2016 -- VESTRA Resources, Inc., an Esri Gold Partner, was recently designated by Esri as an ArcGIS for Local Government Specialty Partner. This designation recognizes partners who demonstrate subject matter expertise in the local government marketplace who work closely with Esri and its user community on the development and deployment of the ArcGIS for Local Government solution.
To earn the ArcGIS for Local Government Specialty, partners must demonstrate that their services and solutions leverage the ArcGIS for Local Government information model to the benefit of their customers.
VESTRA is looking forward to working with local governments to adopt and extend the Local Government Information Model and to contribute to the maps, applications, and tools that will be made available.
VESTRA is a full-service geospatial and IT systems provider, and has built a reputation for providing cutting-edge GIS services such as GIS Enterprise Design, Implementation and Support, Enterprise GIS Software Development and Training, GIS Data Management, and 3D Mapping and Modeling. Since 1988, VESTRA has provided cutting-edge geospatial solutions to clients of all sizes representing government and private organizations, throughout the United States. VESTRA was established to specialize in Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and was among the first consulting firms in the United States to offer a full spectrum of GIS development services. VESTRA is an Esri-Certified Gold Partner, ArcGIS Online Specialty Partner, and ArcGIS for Local Government Specialty Partner.
VESTRA Resources, Inc. - http://www.vestra.com
Esri’s ArcGIS for Local Government - http://www.solutions.arcgis.com/local-government/
VESTRA Resources, Inc. of Redding, California is proud to announce that Solomon Pulapkura, Project Manager/Senior GIS Specialist, successfully completed the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, on Wednesday, December 30, 2015. The PMP is the gold standard of project management certification. Recognized and demanded by organizations worldwide, the PMP validates a person’s competence to perform in the role of a project manager, leading and directing projects and teams.
Solomon has demonstrated a commitment to the industry, the company, the profession, and his own career. By studying for and taking the certification examination, Solomon has shown that he has the knowledge to be an exemplary project manager in virtually any industry, anywhere in the world, and with any project management methodology.
According to Art Stackhouse, President, VESTRA, "Solomon has demonstrated his commitment to excellence by getting his PMP certification. Through encouraging its employees to seek and maintain certifications VESTRA has shown that it's committed to providing our customers with the best service and the highest standards."
Founded in 1988, VESTRA was one of the first firms in the United States dedicated to providing GIS solutions to respond to client's needs. The six founders had previously implemented one of the first GIS systems in the state for one of the largest timber management firms in Northern California. Due to the owners' reputation for excellence, customer service, and finding innovative technical solutions to problems, VESTRA grew rapidly, and became one of the first Esri authorized business partners in California.
Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world's leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the project, program and portfolio management profession. Founded in 1969, PMI delivers value for more than 2.9 million professionals working in nearly every country in the world through global advocacy, collaboration, education and research.
For more information about VESTRA Resources, Inc., please visit us online at http://www.vestra.com For more information about PMI, please visit them online at http://www.pmi.org.
