Field Data Collection
Role
Locate significant items in your selected part of the city of Louisville (other cities or locations can be used, but consult with your instructor), this is the same area used in the Sanborn map project and remote sensing project. Your role will be two fold, one to data gather and the other as map creator. Your collected information will be used on a map of your study area, along with previously created elements.
Problem
The Case Study will require that field data be collected. This will involve the positioning of infrastructure items as well as trees. The field data collection will involve two different methods, collecting data using a GPS app on a smart device (student’s choice, there are free applications, but they vary by phone type) and the Esri Collector App. A web map will be created using ArcGIS Online (AGO) and Esri ArcGIS Desktop. The web map will be used in the Collector app.
Case Study Requirements
Problem
The Case Study will require that field data be collected. This will involve the positioning of infrastructure items as well as trees. The field data collection will involve two different methods, collecting data using a GPS app on a smart device (student’s choice, there are free applications, but they vary by phone type) and the Esri Collector App. A web map will be created using ArcGIS Online (AGO) and Esri ArcGIS Desktop. The web map will be used in the Collector app.
Case Study Requirements
- Construction of a new initially blank shapefile for infrastructure and another for trees.
- Create of one or more domain sets to be used in the collection application.
- Construction of one or more web maps in AGO.
- Construction of final map(s) to display the results on a poster.
- Creation of a new blank map file(s) with appropriate attributes to collect the required elements.
- Exporting of file to ArcGIS Online (AGO).
- Building a webmap using ArcGIS Online.
- x, y manual data adding from GPS utility.
- Collection of data points in targeted area.
Resources
- Smart Device that has a true GPS.
- GPS utility (student’s selection, should be free)
- Collector application (free download)
- Access to ArcGIS Online
- Student selected base map (suggested the use of Open Street Map)
- Maps and data from study area (previous assignment)
Rubric
Required to be turned in:
40 Points
20 Points
20 Points
20 Points
Creativity will include what is presented and how appealing it is to the user. Half of these points will be based on how well the designer accomplished the completion of the problem. The other half of the points in this section will be to the functionality and appeal of the maps. The instructor can choose to award more than 20 points to maps that far exceed the requirements.
- Map Package
- Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files of all maps.
- A written assessment of what was completed and the methods used, the report should include screen images.
- Creation of a poster on the results of the work, the major component element should be one or more maps.
- Name of Collector mapping files in AGO
- Manually collected x, y information
40 Points
- Maps must be display the research region, an overview map to locate the region within the county may be used.
- Basemap should not be the direct aerial image but could be the classification image or the Sanborn digitized layer.
- Maps must have:
- Title
- Legend
- Directional Arrow
- Scale
- Author Block
- Use of appropriate symbology for the collected items.
20 Points
- The location of the publishing elements
- Appropriate ramp colors utilized
- Labels turned on at appropriate scale range
20 Points
- Labels
- Classification
- Publishing
- Editing
- Domain creation
- Blank file creation with appropriate attributes
- Brief Report of methodology
- Creation of Map Package
- Creation of Poster
20 Points
Creativity will include what is presented and how appealing it is to the user. Half of these points will be based on how well the designer accomplished the completion of the problem. The other half of the points in this section will be to the functionality and appeal of the maps. The instructor can choose to award more than 20 points to maps that far exceed the requirements.