Spatial Risk Analyst Performs Pipeline Risk Assessment for Integrity Management Planning

Spatial Risk Analyst

Spatial Risk Analyst helps operators meet regulatory requirements for data integration and risk assessment. The application saves time by connecting to multiple data sources, including spatial data, performing dynamic segmentation, and applying risk equations.

The Spatial Risk Analyst application offers the premier solution for pipeline risk and integrity analysis by providing a powerful GIS-based, data-centric approach to risk. New Century Software calls this innovative concept "Spatial Risk" and believes that this provides exciting new risk analysis capabilities.

A key element of Spatial Risk Analyst is the Spatial Risk Analyst Model Designer. This tool provides the ability to create multiple risk models from scratch or implement models developed by third-party consultants. Model Designer provides the flexibility to design qualitative- or quantitative-based models, simple or complex. By carefully assigning threat and consequence equations to on-line and off-line point and linear GIS pipeline features, Spatial Risk Analyst provides the user with resulting risk attributes that can be exported to many different output and analysis formats.

Using Spatial Risk Analyst saves an operator time by avoiding the need to move data into the model. Then, once a risk area is analyzed and evaluated, Spatial Risk Analyst can assist in drilling down to each detail of the specific threat or consequence being analyzed. Operators can develop "what-if?" scenarios to better understand the impact of proposed preventative and mitigative measures.

Features

Access data sources in their native location: Geodatabase, ArcSDE, Shapefile, Raster, and other ESRI spatial data formats

Analyze spatial data including one-call, soil type, land use, road, railway, waterway, structures, public areas, foreign lines, and many others

Easy integration with all pipeline datasets, including tabular and spatial GIS data

Design custom risk models using a bottom-up or top-down approach

Drill-down results for each data element branch and node

Run “what if?” scenarios

Supports "NewGen" AND-gate and OR-gate approach, and most other risk model design methods

Technical Requirements

ArcGIS 9.1

ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo required for viewing

Data outside the pipeline data model stored in Oracle, SQL Server, or Access

Application architecture and design consulting provided by Kent Muhlbauer to support "NewGen" AND-gate and OR-gate approach, and most other risk model design methods.