Going Mobile: Mobile Technologies and GIS

Going Mobile: Mobile Technologies and GIS

By David R. Green

This Quick Study Guide provides an introduction to mobile technologies for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how they might be used for data collection and access to spatial information. The Guide provides readers with background information about the availability of mobile hardware as well as mobile GIS software, and the potential for utilizing this rapidly evolving technology for geospatial data collection in the field. The reader is also given information about GPS and how they may be used with mobile computing technology for field-data collection. Field-data collection using large-scale airborne platforms for remote sensing is also touched upon. Examples of a number of applications of this technology in day-to-day data-gathering operations provide information on how this technology is already being used.

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