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Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection and
Report Creation
Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection and
Report Creation
Time and money saving tool to collect data and create reports Time and money saving tool to collect data and create reports
Pallab Ghosh Choudhuri Email: [email protected]
Environmental Services Environmental Services
• NEPA Documentation • Waterway Permits • Ecological Survey • Air Quality and Noise • Wetland and Stream Mitigation • Environmental Site Assessment
Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection and
Report Creation
Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection and
Report Creation
Time and money saving tool to collect data and create reports Time and money saving tool to collect data and create reports
Pallab Ghosh Choudhuri Email: [email protected]
Overview Overview
• Conventional Old Ways to delineate wetland boundaries & fill out forms
• ArcPad way to Data Collection • ArcPad Application Builder • Custom forms for Wetland Delineation and Data Collection
• Generate and Print filled out forms • Advantages of Custom Forms • Room for Improvements
• Cumbersome paper field maps • Exact location of study area boundary • No reference layers available • Fill the forms in office from handwritten notes • Error prone process of filling out data forms • Time Consuming process of filling out forms
Problems:
Traditional Field data Collection
Traditional Field data Collection
ORAM Form v5.0 ORAM Form v5.0
Wetland Size
Buffer and Surrounding Land Use
Hydrology
Habitat Alteration and Development
Special Wetland
Plant Communities, Interspersion &
Microtopography
Grand Total
Routine Wetland Determination Data Forms
Routine Wetland Determination Data Forms
Enter Species Name: Scientific Name, Common Name, Indicator Status,
Percent Aerial Cover and Ranking of
Percent Aerial Cover
Dominant Plant Species
Hydrology
Wetland Determination
Soils
• A high performance & reliable GPS receiver with submeter accuracy
• Microsoft Windows Mobile v5.0 software, allowing flexibility in software choice
• 512 MB memory plus removable SD memory
• Bluetooth and wireless LAN connectivity options
• Rugged handheld w/allday battery
GPS Handheld: Trimble GeoXT GPS Handheld: Trimble GeoXT
Source: www.trimble.com
Role of ArcPad Role of ArcPad
Source: www.esri.com
• Design custom forms to streamline data collection and ensure data integrity in the field.
• Create new toolbars that contain builtin and custom tools.
• Build applets for field specific applications and tasks.
• Write scripts that interact with ArcPad software's internal objects.
ArcPad Application Builder ArcPad Application Builder
• Developed in ArcPad Application Builder
• ArcPad Layer File (APL) saves the basic form layout, any scale dependencies, labelling option and layer display
• VB Script file saves how the form would interact with the user
Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection
Custom Forms in ArcPad for Wetland Data Collection
• ORAM and Wetland Determination Forms created in MS Access and made to look like the original form
• Report linked to Shapefile database • Print out the database
Report Generation in MS Access
Report Generation in MS Access
Advantages of Custom built forms Advantages of Custom built forms
• Data Collection to Form printing takes 1/3 rd time now
• No More – dealing with cumbersome paper field maps – eyeballing features study area boundary in the field
– Inaccurate data collection – Typos and wrong calculations – Data input back in office – Lost field notes or reading other’s handwriting
Room for Improvements Room for Improvements
• Interface to show arcpad and Access in the same format
• Use contour files to determine stream slopes in HHEI forms
• More control over printing selected wetlands