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Author : Harrap, R.; Sheriff, C.; and Hutchinson, J.
Date : 2005.
Title : Computers, cables and collections: Digital field data collection for GIS support of landslide mapping along railroad corridors.
Publication : Landslide Risk Management: Proceedings of the International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, Vancouver. Edited by: Hungr, O.; Fell, R.; Couture, R.; and Eberhardt, E. Leiden: A.A. Balkema.
Issue :
Page(s) : 581-588.
Abstract
Field data collection systems, which incorporate GPS receivers, personal-digital-assistant (PDA) computers, and Geographic Information System (GIS) software, allow field data to be collected in a structured fashion and at a consistent level of detail across a project. Unfortunately, these systems often collect the wrong data in the wrong fashion; this results from software being designed with little attention to the needs and users. Software designers are typically not well versed in GIS, are even less likely to understand geotechnical engineering, and rarely have an appreciation for who will actually use the data and for what purpose. A user-centered design methodology addresses these issues. Herein we discuss the design of systems to support geotechnical mapping along railway corridors. The methods have revealed that understanding workflow, the path that information takes through an organization, is vital to designing a tool that is useable by geotechnical engineers and helps, rather than hinders, their daily work.
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