faims / soilsmodule

Soil mapping and sampling in New Zealand

About this module:

This module was created for the New Zealand Soils Survey, based at UNSW, Sydney, Australia and New Zealand Geological Survey, New Zealand. The module has been designed to collect soil samples by distributed crews across New Zealand.

Authorship:

This module was co-developed by David Cohen at UNSW and Adela Sobotkova at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.

Funding:

Development of this module was funded by the ARC LE140100151, FAIMS: Transforming archaeological research through digital technologies and the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources, RT043, Federated Archaeological Information Management Project: initial scoping and development.

Date of release:

Nov 2014

FAIMS Mobile version:

FAIMS v2.0 (Android 4+)

Licence:

This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Access:

This module is part of the FAIMS Demo library on our publicly accessible Demo server (http://demo.fedarch.org/).

This module contains the following FAIMS features:

• on device created photos, photograph logs, sketches etc.
• full GIS (map tab with basemaps, layers management and ability to manual create geometries)
• coordinates from internal GPS
• validated fields with user observations
• controlled vocabularies

This module can be used with no or minor modification for:

• soil sampling
• mapping of environmental features

Contact info:

For more details about the New Zealand Soils Survey please, contact David Cohen ([email protected]).

If you have any questions about the module, please contact the FAIMS team at [email protected] and we will get back to you within one business day.

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