Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection and Report Creation Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection and Report Creation Time and money saving tool to collect data and create reports Time and money saving tool to collect data and create reports Pallab Ghosh Choudhuri Email: [email protected]
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Pallab\'s Presentation at Gis for Transportation Symposium
I presented this at GIS for Transportation Symposium, Nashville, TN in 2007. This presentation is about Custom ArcPad (GPS) Forms that cuts the time to collect data to half or even less. I developed this custom ArcPad forms in VBA and ArcPad Studio and can be used to collect any type of environmental/transportation data
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Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection and
Report Creation
Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection and
Report Creation
Time and money saving tool to collect data and create reports Time and money saving tool to collect data and create reports
• Conventional Old Ways to delineate wetland boundaries & fill out forms
• ArcPad way to Data Collection • ArcPad Application Builder • Custom forms for Wetland Delineation and Data Collection
• Generate and Print filled out forms • Advantages of Custom Forms • Room for Improvements
• Cumbersome paper field maps • Exact location of study area boundary • No reference layers available • Fill the forms in office from handwritten notes • Error prone process of filling out data forms • Time Consuming process of filling out forms
Problems:
Traditional Field data Collection
Traditional Field data Collection
ORAM Form v5.0 ORAM Form v5.0
Wetland Size
Buffer and Surrounding Land Use
Hydrology
Habitat Alteration and Development
Special Wetland
Plant Communities, Interspersion &
Microtopography
Grand Total
Routine Wetland Determination Data Forms
Routine Wetland Determination Data Forms
Enter Species Name: Scientific Name, Common Name, Indicator Status,
Percent Aerial Cover and Ranking of
Percent Aerial Cover
Dominant Plant Species
Hydrology
Wetland Determination
Soils
• A high performance & reliable GPS receiver with submeter accuracy
• Microsoft Windows Mobile v5.0 software, allowing flexibility in software choice