Pallab\'s Presentation at Gis for Transportation Symposium

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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]

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I presented this at GIS for Transportation Symposium, Nashville, TN in 2007. This presentation is about Custom ArcPad (GPS) Forms that cuts the time to collect data to half or even less. I developed this custom ArcPad forms in VBA and ArcPad Studio and can be used to collect any type of environmental/transportation data

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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]

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Environmental Services Environmental Services 

• NEPA Documentation • Waterway Permits • Ecological Survey • Air Quality and Noise • Wetland and Stream Mitigation • Environmental Site Assessment

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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]

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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

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•  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

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ORAM Form v5.0 ORAM Form v5.0

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Wetland Size 

Buffer and Surrounding Land Use 

Hydrology 

Habitat Alteration and Development

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Special Wetland 

Plant Communities, Interspersion & 

Microtopography 

Grand Total

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Routine Wetland Determination Data Forms 

Routine Wetland Determination Data Forms

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Enter Species Name: Scientific Name, Common Name, Indicator Status, 

Percent Aerial Cover and Ranking of 

Percent Aerial Cover

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Dominant Plant Species 

Hydrology 

Wetland Determination 

Soils

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•  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

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Role of ArcPad Role of ArcPad 

Source: www.esri.com

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•  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

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•  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

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•  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

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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

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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

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