Fieldwork Handbook

A practical guide on the go

Marika Vertzonis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2024
ESRI Press (Verlag)
978-1-58948-717-8 (ISBN)

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Fieldwork Handbook gives you tips, best practices and activities for using location intelligence in the field to make your work more productive and successful.

Make your work in the field more efficient and productive with the how-to of location intelligence.

A biologist in a rain forest making observations on indigenous frogs, an engineer maintaining utility equipment, or a citizen scientist taking water samples from a creek are all doing fieldwork. Their work is anchored by location. No matter what electronic tools they take into the field, they all take a notebook or a guidebook. As you head into the field along with all your equipment, be sure to include this practical fieldwork guide.

Fieldwork Handbook gives you tips, best practices, and activities that make your work in the field more productive and successful. No matter how you use location intelligence in the field, you can up your game with this book and improve your experience. Covering preparation, equipment, workflows, and data, this book will teach you how to

Organize and reconcile field data
Effectively coordinate and dispatch field resources
Refine fieldwork workflows
Sync the office with the field

Author and Esri product engineer Marika Vertzonis learned about geospatial technology in the field, and she knows what you need to know. This handbook is your friend in the field.

Marika Vertzonis is a product engineer at Esri focusing on the research and development of field apps. After studying environmental engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia, Marika spent the early part of her career working in local government, regional water authorities, and engineering consulting as a GIS professional. Her own time in the field has made her a passionate advocate for using the most suitable technology available, in scientific and engineering fieldwork.

Part 1 Introduction

              101 What is
fieldwork?

              102 What
is GIS?

              103 What
is a field GIS?

              104 Styles
of fieldwork

                            105 Capture

                             106
Validation

                             107
Inspection and monitoring

                            108 Validation

                             109
Awareness

Part 2 Preparation

              201 Trial
and pilot fieldwork

              202 Risk
assessment

              203 Field
office setup

              204
Training fieldworkers

              205
Allocating tasks

Part 3 Equipment

              301
Devices

              302 Apps

              303 Paper
notebooks

              304 GMSS
receivers

              305 Bluetooth

              306
Memory

              307 Cameras

              308
Rangefinders

4 Data

              401
Location measurement

              402
Tracking

              403
Coordinate systems

              404
Basemaps and operational layers

              405
Network datasets

              406 Uniquely
indentifying records

              407 Photos
and other documents

              408
Machine learning

              409
Results on the run

410 Changing data collection

411 Reconciling data

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Redlands
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-58948-717-6 / 1589487176
ISBN-13	978-1-58948-717-8 / 9781589487178
Zustand	Neuware