GPS Secrets to GIS Data Collection

Author: Richard Lewis
Organization: RLA Communications

78161 Suncliff Circle
Palm Desert, CA 92211
USA

Phone: 760-772-6885
Fax: 760-772-4914
rlacom@ix.netcom.com

In the past two years, a dramatic increase has occurred in the amount of GIS data collection using GPS. In the past, digitizing, scanning, field notes, and photogrammetry were favored for populating GIS layers. Increased GPS accuracy, data collection functions, and productivity have now shifted the balance in favor of GPS. This presentation will examine how a new GPS data maintenance technique allows GIS users to easily update, verify, modify features, and collect previously unrecorded features. Data maintenance will allow the user to transfer GIS files into GPS data loggers for background reference, updating, and navigation purposes.