A Multi-User Mobile GIS Solution for Documenting Large Surface Scatters: An Example from the Doring River, South Africa

Ames, Christopher; Shaw, Matthew; O’Driscoll, Corey A.; Mackay, Alexander

doi:10.1080/00934690.2020.1753321

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“…This addresses limitations in commonly used field collection software, such as Esri products using ArcOnline for data storage and synchronization. These limitations include slow data upload or download speeds due to limited Internet conditions [7]. In addition, our platform's management system can run on private servers and support local area network data transmission.…”

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“…The methods of collecting geographic information in the field have undergone many developments. A few decades ago, traditional field geographic information collection relied heavily on field personnel to record data on paper maps or paper forms manually [7]. The process is time-consuming, inefficient, error-prone, and complex [8][9][10].…”

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“…For instance, Thoondil was specifically developed for fishermen to acquire and upload fishing information [21], STATUS was developed for the construction industry [22], and the CMR App was primarily used to record the tracks of wild animals [23]. These customized platforms can enhance the efficiency of geographic information collection and are tightly coupled with their intended uses [7,24]. However, they cannot be applied to new collection scenarios, resulting in users having to develop new software [25].…”

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Establishing a Generic Geographic Information Collection Platform for Heterogeneous Data

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Li,

Chen

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Applied Sciences

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Geographic information collection platforms are widely used for acquiring geographic information. However, existing geographic information collection platforms have limited adaptability and configurability, negatively affecting their usability. They do not support complete field collection workflows or capture data with complex nested structures. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a generic geographic information collection platform based on a comprehensive XML schema definition and a corresponding XML toolkit. This platform includes professional and non-professional versions of collection software, as well as a management system. Users can configure controls and define nested tables within this platform to collect heterogeneous and complex nested data. Moreover, the platform supports functions such as task assignment, local deployment servers, multitasking parallelism, and summary statistics of heterogeneous data, ensuring complete workflow support for field data collection. The platform has been applied in agriculture, forestry, and related fields. This paper uses the agricultural industry structure survey as a case study. Practical applications and our case study show that this platform can reduce software development costs, lower user knowledge prerequisites, and fulfill 95% of geographic information collection scenarios.

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Establishing a Generic Geographic Information Collection Platform for Heterogeneous Data

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“…These applications, known as “mobile GIS applications,” could be defined as GIS software aimed at the registration and consultation of data on mobile devices (e.g., tablets, PDAs). Not many articles have been published on the use of mobile GIS for the archaeological record (see Chyla and Bulawka 2020), given that most of the published literature being produced concerns paid software (e.g., Ames et al 2020; Lindsay and Kong 2020). If the functional conception of mobile GIS applications is examined, two generations can be distinguished.…”

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Archaeological Survey Supported by Mobile GIS

Fábrega-Álvarez

Lynch²

2022

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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In recent years, digital technologies applied to archaeology have led to considerable changes in fieldwork. However, the use of mobile GIS for fieldwork has not been widespread, especially in countries where GIS is not yet entrenched within the field of archaeology. Over the last decade, the technological context associated with mobile GIS has changed. In this text, these changes are discussed based on a case study developed in Catamarca (Argentina), in which the possibilities of a more generalized use of mobile GIS—based on free, open, and available resources (software, data, devices)–are discussed. This article assesses the main problems faced and describes the basic steps taken to implement a field recording system based on mobile GIS.

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