Integrating GPS Units and GeoPads part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers provide users with information about their geographic position. Although there is a plethora of choices when it comes to selecting GPS hardware, for a moderate-sized field ...

Georeferencing part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Georeferencing is the process of taking a digital image, it could be an airphoto, a scanned geologic map, or a picture of a topographic map, and adding geographic information to the image so that GIS or mapping ...

Remote Sensing Imagery part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Remotely gathered data is available from a range of sources and data collection techniques and is often the only type of data that is not always easily found within the public domain. This is largely due to the ...

Thematic Maps part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Thematic map data is typically the most difficult data type of the three (thematic, topographic, remote sensing) to find in digital format. In large part this is because the demand for digitization of analog ...

Data Preparation for Geologic Mapping part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Preparing data for a digital geologic mapping project generally involves three steps: Preparing digital base map data (i.e. downloadable or previously stored thematic, topographic, or remotely sensed data, or data ...

Topographic Data Resources part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Topographic data are information about the elevation of the surface of the Earth. Two such data types are commonly used with GeoPads. The first are data that represent the information typically found on a ...

Teaching with GeoPads part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Field geology is benefiting greatly from digital technologies of all kind. In particular, the use of ruggedized laptop and palmtop computers with integrated GPS, GIS, data management, and note-taking software ...

What is the Purpose of this Site? part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Bowling Green State University Geology Field Camp. Details In developing this website, we have aggregated tutorials, examples, and practical advice based on the experience of numerous colleagues and programs who ...

Data Resources part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Digital data suitable for use in GeoPad applications comes in three principle types and is widely available from a range sources both nationally and internationally. The key data types are: Thematic Data Thematic ...

Logistics part of Integrating Research and Education:Teaching with GeoPads
Below are some of the logistical issues and solutions one will typically encounter using GeoPads. Loading GeoPads -- standard approaches to loading and maintaining the operating system and software applications on ...