GIS Data Collection Techniques

Presented by:
Jennifer Duncan, Four Rivers & Charlene Wagenaar, Four Rivers

GIS is one of the most widely used tools in environmental assessment, land use planning and resource development. Delegates will be introduced to a variety of tools used for data collection for GIS, such as, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV or more commonly referred to as a drone), handheld GPS units and smartphone/mobile device applications for offline data collection on the go (ArcGIS Collector App). Delegates will learn about what each tools is, how it works, what types of projects it can be used for and how the data product from each tools is incorporated into a GIS systems and used to create map products.

NOFNEC 2016