Abstracts and conference presentations

Overviews of digital data capture

• The British Geological Survey's SIGMA Project. Why is BGS evaluating digital field data capture techniques?
  Dr Andy Howard (BGS)
• Geological map of Lower Saxony 1:50 000 (GK50 digital) – Geological information in a new form
  Dr Carsten Schwarz (NLfB)
• An overview of the GeoKart project including an outline of the digital infrastructure at the Bavarian Geological Survey, the concept of a central database for normal and spatial data and its different clients, the activities of several of our departments in developing mobile applications for field data capture and the integration of these activities into the central system.
  Thomas Guelden (Bavarian Geological Survey, Munich)

Methods being tested or used

• The GeoKart project of the department of geological mapping, including the hard- and software in use and the development tools
  Christian Woelfl (Bavarian Geological Survey, Munich)
• Experiences using ArcPad, ArcView and iPAQs to enter field data in the Arctic Barrens of Northern Canada (19Mb)
  Doug Irwin (C.S. Lord Northern Geoscience Centre)
• Practical experiences of data capture in Greenland using PocketGIS on a Husky fex21 (23Mb)
  Dr Chris Thomas (BGS)
• A focus on hardware and software
  Bjørn Rindstad (Geological Survey of Norway)
• Digital fieldmapping with MapInfo, Geotracker and Gpoints
  Bjorn Wiberg (Geological Survey of Sweden)
• Geological field data capture using Palm-based RDBMS and PC-based GIS
  Ernst M Schetselaar (Geological Survey Division, ITC)
• Digital Field Data Capture at the Geological Survey of Finland
  Vesa Nykänen (Geological Survey of Finland)
• Overview about Field Data Capture in Geological Survey of Lower Saxony (NLfB)
  Dr Carsten Schwarz (Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany)
• Digital Field Data Capture for Geological Surveying in Northwestern Guinea 1998 - 2001
  Klaus-Dieter Meinhold (Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany)
• Ganfield: data integrity from field to final product
  Guy Buller (Geological Survey of Canada)

• Spatial technologies