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| Subject: | Re: GISList: GPS for plot surveys |
| Date: |
03/17/2003 10:17:19 AM |
| From: |
Robert Heitzman |
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>Does anybody have advice or insights about what kind of investments in GPS
>recievers would be most appropriate for a farmer survey we're planning in
>East Africa, in which we would like to reliably measure plot areas (plots
>which are sometimes as small as half a hectare)?
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Recreational grade combined with a good inexpensive GIS on a decent PC would
be a good combination. Accuracy would be OK for your task with just about
any unit. Other considerations like battery life may be more important.
There are also very simple GPS receivers that work with Windows CE. In a
pinch you could do the whole task on the PDA. You can do capture of GIS
point data and attribute data on a PDA running ArcPAD.
I'd recommend Manifold as the GIS as it is inexpensive and easy to use.
Needs a real PC or laptop however, won't run on a PDA. Take the GPS into the
field along with a notebook for notes and then return to the PC to upload
the data and transcribe the attributes to the areas you capture. It should
work with ArcPad as well - but you may need some special setup software for
ArcPAD to do fancy data entry in the field.
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