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Survey Data with Feet
The integration of survey data has many valuable benefits leading toward increased efficiency - the data have feet and move between people and tasks. Road builders, planners, CAD / GIS professionals, equipment operators and legislation are just a few of the many places where integrated survey data can be used.
Trimble Access allows users to integrate both survey and imaging data. Using survey data, digital terrain models and volume calculations can be performed in the field. As the data is captured and processed, it can also be shared in a collaborative manner with other professionals interested in or needing that information.>/p>
SuperPad 3 from SuperGeo is a GPS focused product that enables users to integrate field survey data and use that information with GIS - in the field.
With changing patterns of data use due to improved technology there is a growing need to collaborate and move data to where the people are. This movement often uses wireless technologies and many manufacturers are now included WiFi enabled devices connected to surveying technologies.
On other fronts agreements like Mountain MOU where the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Kanagawa, Japan, and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu have signed a memorandum of understanding to foster collaboration in research on climate change, water, and forestry issues in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region also depend upon such sharing.
We are likely to see more agreements happening at the governance levels across Asia and these will result in greater demands for tools and technologies that enable closer collaboration and sharing of valuable survey information between people and agencies.
