Abstract

ArcGIS Mobile Implemented to Improve Damage Assessment Field Data Capture
Track: Mobile GIS
Authors: Sarel Jansen van Rensburg

•We had very tight deadlines and limited budget to conduct 7500 assessments in 12 weeks in very rural and dispersed areas.
•Capturing the assessments electronic using ArcGIS mobile eliminated a lot of post assessment cleanup and geo-referencing effort. Fields with dropdown lists guided the users to only capture valid information.
•The sites were very remote and getting the data from site was a major hurdle. We remotely synchronized the data using the GPS devices, with the Quality assurance effort to run in parallel.
Daily reports were accompanied by spatial hotspot maps demonstrating the activity and progress on the project through a web interface.
The effort in the office was one tenth of what is usually required, with huge time and cost savings. The 2500 page report was produced the day after the assessments finished, no delays for the forms to come back, capture and cleanup before preparing the report.