Earth and Environmental Sciences: field classes with GIS/GPS and tablet PC

M. Donatis
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In the last few years, the field classes for Earth and Environmental Sciences degree courses at Urbino University are carried out using Tablet PC and ad-hoc developed mobile-GIS software: MapIT. Even though students have been dealing also with GPS and other digital devices, they can work with the same classical field mapping technique using paper-map and pencil substitute by the screen of a rugged tablet PC and its stylus. The power of a PC can be used to store a large amount of data, run specialized software, interact with a larger screen that allows student to sketch and write his/her interpretations and sharing them with the other people (students and teachers). The "interpretation path" can be more easily reconstructed and the uncertainties of the final synthetic map can be better estimated. The last generations of students demonstrate a more natural approach to those techniques then "old- rugged" geologists and field surveyors. This point allows an easy prediction that in a few years time, the "digital" will become "traditional".
地球与环境科学:使用GIS/GPS和平板电脑的实地课程
在过去的几年里,乌尔比诺大学地球与环境科学学位课程的实地课程使用平板电脑和特别开发的移动地理信息系统软件:MapIT进行。尽管学生们也一直在使用GPS和其他数字设备,但他们可以用纸质地图和铅笔代替坚固耐用的平板电脑屏幕和触控笔,使用同样经典的野外测绘技术。个人电脑的强大功能可以用来存储大量数据,运行专门的软件,与一个更大的屏幕互动,让学生绘制和写下他/她的解释,并与其他人(学生和老师)分享。可以更容易地重建“解释路径”,并且可以更好地估计最终合成图的不确定性。上一代的学生比“老派的”地质学家和野外测量员更能自然地运用这些技术。这一点可以很容易地预测,在几年的时间里,“数字”将变成“传统”。
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