Ashtech’s Mobile Mapping software provides easy-to-use and simple yet professional and effective GIS data collection capabilities. Use this application to create and update maps for analysis and maintenance in a standard GIS system.
This is an ideal solution for such GIS professionals as foresters, farmers, safety personnel, utility workers, and anyone who manages positioned assets in the field.
The Mobile Mapping application includes all GPS features that GIS professionals really need without the burden of complicated and rarely used functions. The software is very intuitive and easy-to-use, requiring a minimum of training, making it easy to work with complicated and unfamiliar GIS data sets.
Ashtech Mobile Mapping application offers powerful yet easy-to-use GIS data collection features. Key GIS data-logging capabilities include:
- GPS data collection and navigation capabilities
- SBAS corrections activation and de-activation
- Raw data collection for post-processing
- Support for vector layers in 2D/3D shapefile format for point, line and area collection
- Continuous or vertex data collection and averaging
- Area and perimeter calculation in the field for real-time area determination
- Structured attribute information definition for each feature, including text, numeric, date, area, perimeter, picture or voice-tag attributes
- Support for the built-in digital camera for image association with a particular feature
- Possibility to offset measurements for all feature types including point, line and area for logging hard-to-reach features
- E-compass reading for offset bearing calculation or picture azimuth measurement
- Nesting, allowing additional points collection while mapping a line or area
- Support for raster data geo-referenced images in TIFF, JPEG and Bitmap formats
- Geo-referencing of raster images in the field
- Interface to cable locators (3M Dynatel)
- Navigation and guidance to an existing feature for the purpose of GIS data maintenance
- Pre-defined (national and international) and user-defined / custom coordinate systems
- International languages support
- Microsoft ActiveSync communication feature for data transfer and synchronization between the GPS receiver and a PC platform
