BLM UT Mobile Data Collection

MOBILE APPS FOR ARCGIS

DATA PREPARATION AND PROCESSING FOR FIELD COLLECTION

TRAINING OUTLINE

• DATA PREPARATION AND PUBLICATION

• CONFIGURATION IN AGOL

• DOWNLOADING PROJECTS TO COLLECTOR

• SURVEY123 FORM CENTRIC DATA COLLECTION

• COLLECTING DATA

• SYNCING DATA BACK TO AGOL - COLLECTOR AND SURVEY 123

• EXPORTING DATA TO UT EGIS (if time permits)

COLLECTOR FOR ARCGIS


Points, polylines and polygons

COLLECTORDATA PREPARATION ARCGIS

• CREATING THE GEODATABASE

• CREATING THE ARC MAP DOCUMENT

• PUBLICATION AS A FEATURE SERVICE OR HOSTED FEATURE SERVICE TO ARCGIS ONLINE (AGOL)

• PUBLICATION REQUIRES A PUBLICATION ROLE IN ARCGIS

GEODATABASE PGDB OR FGDB

(DOMAINS)

• CREATE ALL DOMAINS NEEDED FOR THE GEODATABASE


(FEATURE CLASSES)

• CREATE ALL FIELDS NEEDED FOR THE FEATURE CLASSES

• THIS IS CRITICAL FOR PROPER DOMAIN ASSIGNMENTS AND DATA

VALIDATION


(FEATURE DATASETS AND FEATURE CLASSES)

• ASSIGN DOMAINS TO FEATURE CLASSES

• ADD ADDITIONAL (VECTOR)DATA*

• *NOTE OPTIONAL FOR BACKGROUND DATA

CREATE ARCMAP DOCUMENT

• ADD GEODATABASE

• ADD ADDITIONAL VECTOR DATA

• REVIEW ARCMAP BMP’S (PROJECTIONS,DATA SOURCES,VISIBLE SCALE RANGES,LABELING,SYMBOLOGY,EXTENTS,METADATA AND DESCRIPTIONS AND MXD SAVED IN UT EGIS)

• SHARED SERVICES (PARAMETERS, CAPABILITIES AND FEATURE ACCESS, DESCRIPTIONS AND ANALYSIS)

ADD YOUR DATA AND CHECK ALL BMP’S.

SIGN INTO AGOL.

SHARE AS:SERVICE

PUBLICATION OF SERVICES

PUBLICATION OF SERVICES

THIS IS A HOSTED FEATURE SERVICE.

THE DATA RESIDES IN AGOL CLOUD SERVICES.

WE COULD CHOOSE A DIFFERENT CONNECTION AND BLM-EGIS WOULD HOST THE DATA AND AGOL WOULD DYNAMICALLY CONSUME THAT FOR PUBLICATION.

SERVICE EDITOR (PARAMETERS AND CAPABILITIES)

SERVICE EDITOR (FEATURE ACCESS AND DESCRIPTION)

SERVICE EDITOR (ANALYZE)

ANALYSIS WILL SHOW ANY ISSUES WITH SERVICE DEFINTION.

ANYTHING FLAGGEDWILL NOT ALLOW PUBLICATION

ANYTHING FLAGGEDSHOULD BE REVIEWED AND ADDRESSED BUT WILL NOT STOP PUBLICATION

SERVICE EDITOR (PUBLISH)

AFTER ANALYSIS IS REVIEWED,CLICK ON PUBLISH.

AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES YOU SHOULD GET A SUCCESS MESSAGE

AGOL SERVICES, MAPS AND APPS

THE SERVICE DEFINTION RETAINS THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO EXPOSE THE FEATURE SERVICE TO THE WEB

THE FEATURE LAYER IS THE DATA (SETS)

THE WEB MAP IS USED TO EXPOSE THE FEATURE SERVICE TO COLLECTOR

THE MAPPING APP IS USED FOR PRINTING, EXPORTING, BASIC MAP BUILDING

GROUPS AND SHARING

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CONFIGURATION OF THE MAP IN AGOL FOR USE IN COLLECTOR

CONFIGURATION OF THE MAP IN AGOL FOR USE IN COLLECTOR

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USING COLLECTOR APP FOR ARCGIS

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SURVEY 123


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SURVEY123DATA PREPARATION ARCGIS

• SURVEY123 WEB APP (BASIC FORMS)

• SURVEY123 CONNECT (ADVANCED FORMS)

• PUBLICATION AS A HOSTED FEATURE SERVICE TO ARCGIS ONLINE (AGOL)


THE SURVEY123 WEB APP

SURVEY123

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SHARING

OVERVIEWDESIGN

COLLABORATEANALYZE

DATA

SURVEY123CONNECT

• SURVEY123 CONNECT (ADVANCED FORMS)

• USES XLS FORMS (TEMPLATES)

• PUBLISHED AS A HOSTED FEATURE SERVICE TO ARCGIS ONLINE (AGOL)


Connnect is a desktop app.

Sign in first using your SAMAL or geoplatformaccount.

Creating surveys is more robust as data rules can be more specific using xml markups.

A new survey can begin with several options.

Templates

Samples

Community

My Surveys

My Org

Feature Services

File

Connect gives you many more options in the form preview

SURVEY123 CONNECT

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BASEMAPS, OPERATIONAL LAYERS, TILE MAP PACKAGES

• Basemaps – generally static and well suited for caching. The basemap serves as a foundation for all subsequent operations and mapping.

• Operational Layers - operational layers are often dynamic, and thus generally should not be cached in advance. These data can be served with capabilities to edit.

• Tile Map Packages – combining basemaps and operational date together to customize reference data for mobile applications. * note this renders dynamic data to static.

BASEMAPS – OFFLINE AND SIDE LOADING

Collector for ArcGIS can consume your feature service prepped for editing and published basemaps. Areas of Interests or Project Areas can be defined for downloading offline use data

Survey123 can use premade TPK basemaps and sideloaded into GIS directories on your mobile device and used offline.

TPKs can be created with ArcMap, ArcPro or third party products like Tile Package Kreator.

SMART DEVICES – LOCATION SERVICES, HIGH ACCURACY SETTINGS, GPS RECEIVERS (CHIPSETS AND BLUETOOTH)

• LOCATION SERVICES - With your permission, Location Services allows apps and websites (including Maps, Camera, Weather, and other apps) to use information from cellular, Wi-Fi, Global Positioning System (GPS)networks, and Bluetooth to determine your approximate location.

• HIGH ACCURACY SETTINGS - When you select the High accuracy location service mode, you are allowing multiple networks to pinpoint your precise location (hence the name High accuracy). It does however, inhibit your accuracy when you are offline from everything but GPS.

• GPS (CHIPSETS AND EXTERNAL RECEIVERS) – Broadcom and Qualcomm chips are SiRFstarV Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems GNSS (GLONASS, SBAS,NAVSTAR, GALILEO). Generally 100-500 cm. The new model BCM47755 GPS chips feature a dual frequency design that allows data to intersect from two satellite-generated location points, providing location accuracy improvements down to about 30-50 cm. External receivers such as Garmin Glo $100, Trimble R1–R2 $2500-5000 are Bluetooth paired and will give more GPS channels and will reduce battery consumption on your tablet. There are also USB GPS Dongles –Bad Elf and GlobalSat. These require some virtual com-port software to expose NMEA language to your apps.

• APPS – S1, GPS Data and GPS Test

DATA SYNCING AND SURVEY123 OUTBOX

Collector for ArcGIS uses downloaded project areas. The edit capable feature service data collected in the field can be synced back into the hosted feature service on AGOL as soon as the device is online.

Survey123 data collection is stored in a outbox and each form(feature) entry is stored separately. Once the device is online, the outbox data can be transmitted to the Survey123 web application for data analysis and review.

DATA POST PROCESSING

• Collector – Remember, the Collector feature service was published from a FGDB. The form(s) were built from domains within the GDB. After sync, we can go into the web map to review and post edit. At this time our training feature service is hosted at AGOL. As discussed earlier, we intend to host our feature services internally and post editing and review will be dynamic. Edits performed on this AGOL hosted feature are not dynamic to our original FGDB. There are tools in Arc Tool Box to sync AGOL hosted feature services and attachments, back to the source FGDB.

• Survey123 – Survey123 data was collected on form(s)built using XML technology, there is no source GDB. Also, the ability for Survey123 to collect multiple choices per field make post editing only possible through the mobile application itself. Survey123 made post editing capable my integrating an “Inbox” in the app. After sending your “outbox data to the Survey123 web app, you can recall any dataset back into your mobile app through the inbox. Then you can make changes, and then resend back to the Survey123 web app. This must be done online.

Collector and Survey123Post Data collection

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MOBILE APPS FOR ARCGIS

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BLM UT Mobile Data Collection