This document provides an outline for training on using mobile apps for ArcGIS for data preparation, processing, and field collection. It covers preparing and publishing data to ArcGIS Online, configuring projects in Collector and forms in Survey123, collecting and syncing data in the field apps, and exporting data. Specific topics include geodatabase and map document creation, publishing feature services, configuring apps in AGOL, using Collector and Survey123 for data collection on points, polygons and lines, and considerations for location services and GPS on mobile devices.

1. MOBILE APPS FOR
ARCGIS
DATA PREPARATION AND PROCESSING
FOR FIELD COLLECTION

2. TRAINING OUTLINE
• DATA PREPARATION AND PUBLICATION
• CONFIGURATION IN AGOL
• DOWNLOADING PROJECTS TO COLLECTOR
• SURVEY123 FORM CENTRIC DATA COLLECTION
• COLLECTING DATA
• SYNCING DATA BACK TO AGOL - COLLECTOR
AND SURVEY 123
• EXPORTING DATA TO UT EGIS (if time permits)

3. COLLECTOR FOR ARCGIS
DATA PREPARATION AND PROCESSING
FOR FIELD COLLECTION
Points, polylines and polygons

4. COLLECTOR
DATA PREPARATION ARCGIS
• CREATING THE GEODATABASE
• CREATING THE ARC MAP DOCUMENT
• PUBLICATION AS A FEATURE SERVICE OR HOSTED FEATURE
SERVICE TO ARCGIS ONLINE (AGOL)
• PUBLICATION REQUIRES A PUBLICATION ROLE IN ARCGIS

5. GEODATABASE
PGDB OR FGDB
(DOMAINS)
• CREATE ALL DOMAINS NEEDED
FOR THE GEODATABASE

6. GEODATABASE
PGDB OR FGDB
(FEATURE CLASSES)
• CREATE ALL FIELDS NEEDED FOR
THE FEATURE CLASSES
• THIS IS CRITICAL FOR PROPER
DOMAIN ASSIGNMENTS AND DATA
VALIDATION

7. GEODATABASE
PGDB OR FGDB
(FEATURE DATASETS
AND FEATURE CLASSES)
• ASSIGN DOMAINS TO FEATURE
CLASSES
• ADD ADDITIONAL (VECTOR)DATA*
• *NOTE OPTIONAL FOR BACKGROUND DATA

8. CREATE ARCMAP DOCUMENT
• ADD GEODATABASE
• ADD ADDITIONAL VECTOR DATA
• REVIEW ARCMAP BMP’S (PROJECTIONS,DATA
SOURCES,VISIBLE SCALE
RANGES,LABELING,SYMBOLOGY,EXTENTS,METADATA AND
DESCRIPTIONS AND MXD SAVED IN UT EGIS)
• SHARED SERVICES (PARAMETERS, CAPABILITIES AND
FEATURE ACCESS, DESCRIPTIONS AND ANALYSIS)

9. ADD
YOUR
DATA
AND
CHECK
ALL
BMP’S.
SIGN
INTO
AGOL.

10. SHARE
AS:
SERVICE

11. PUBLICATION OF SERVICES

12. PUBLICATION OF SERVICES
THIS IS A HOSTED FEATURE
SERVICE.
THE DATA RESIDES IN AGOL
CLOUD SERVICES.
WE COULD CHOOSE A
DIFFERENT CONNECTION
AND BLM-EGIS WOULD
HOST THE DATA AND AGOL
WOULD DYNAMICALLY
CONSUME THAT FOR
PUBLICATION.

13. SERVICE EDITOR (PARAMETERS AND
CAPABILITIES)

14. SERVICE EDITOR (FEATURE ACCESS AND DESCRIPTION)

15. SERVICE EDITOR
(ANALYZE)
ANALYSIS WILL SHOW ANY ISSUES
WITH SERVICE DEFINTION.
ANYTHING FLAGGED
WILL NOT ALLOW PUBLICATION
ANYTHING FLAGGED
SHOULD BE REVIEWED AND
ADDRESSED BUT WILL NOT STOP
PUBLICATION

16. SERVICE EDITOR (PUBLISH)
AFTER ANALYSIS IS REVIEWED,
CLICK ON PUBLISH.
AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES YOU
SHOULD GET A SUCCESS
MESSAGE

17. AGOL SERVICES, MAPS AND APPS
THE SERVICE DEFINTION RETAINS THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO EXPOSE
THE FEATURE SERVICE TO THE WEB
THE FEATURE LAYER IS THE DATA (SETS)
THE WEB MAP IS USED TO EXPOSE THE FEATURE SERVICE TO
COLLECTOR
THE MAPPING APP IS USED FOR PRINTING, EXPORTING, BASIC MAP
BUILDING

18. GROUPS AND SHARING
LIVE DEMO

19. CONFIGURATION OF THE MAP IN AGOL FOR USE IN COLLECTOR

20. CONFIGURATION OF THE MAP IN AGOL FOR USE IN COLLECTOR
LIVE DEMO

21. USING COLLECTOR APP
FOR ARCGIS
LIVE DEMO

22. SURVEY 123
DATA PREPARATION AND PROCESSING
FOR FIELD COLLECTION
Points

23. SURVEY123
DATA PREPARATION ARCGIS
• SURVEY123 WEB APP (BASIC FORMS)
• SURVEY123 CONNECT (ADVANCED FORMS)
• PUBLICATION AS A HOSTED FEATURE SERVICE TO ARCGIS
ONLINE (AGOL)
• PUBLICATION REQUIRES A PUBLICATION ROLE IN ARCGIS

24. THE SURVEY123 WEB APP

25. SURVEY123
LIVE DEMO

26. SHARING
OVERVIEW
DESIGN
COLLABORATE
ANALYZE
DATA

27. SURVEY123
CONNECT
• SURVEY123 CONNECT (ADVANCED FORMS)
• USES XLS FORMS (TEMPLATES)
• PUBLISHED AS A HOSTED FEATURE SERVICE TO ARCGIS
ONLINE (AGOL)
• PUBLICATION REQUIRES A PUBLICATION ROLE IN ARCGIS

28. Connnect is a
desktop app.
Sign in first
using your
SAMAL or
geoplatform
account.
Creating
surveys is
more robust as
data rules can
be more
specific using
xml markups.

29. A new survey
can begin
with several
options.
Templates
Samples
Community
My Surveys
My Org
Feature Services
File

30. Connect gives
you many
more options
in the form
preview

31. SURVEY123 CONNECT
LIVE DEMO

32. BASEMAPS, OPERATIONAL LAYERS, TILE MAP
PACKAGES
• Basemaps – generally static and well suited for caching. The
basemap serves as a foundation for all subsequent operations and
mapping.
• Operational Layers - operational layers are often dynamic, and thus
generally should not be cached in advance. These data can be
served with capabilities to edit.
• Tile Map Packages – combining basemaps and operational date
together to customize reference data for mobile applications. * note
this renders dynamic data to static.

33. BASEMAPS – OFFLINE AND SIDE LOADING
Collector for ArcGIS can consume your feature service prepped for
editing and published basemaps. Areas of Interests or Project Areas
can be defined for downloading offline use data
Survey123 can use premade TPK basemaps and sideloaded into GIS
directories on your mobile device and used offline.
TPKs can be created with ArcMap, ArcPro or third party products like
Tile Package Kreator.

34. SMART DEVICES – LOCATION SERVICES, HIGH ACCURACY
SETTINGS, GPS RECEIVERS (CHIPSETS AND BLUETOOTH)
• LOCATION SERVICES - With your permission, Location Services allows apps and
websites (including Maps, Camera, Weather, and other apps) to use information
from cellular, Wi-Fi, Global Positioning System (GPS)networks, and Bluetooth to
determine your approximate location.
• HIGH ACCURACY SETTINGS - When you select the High accuracy location
service mode, you are allowing multiple networks to pinpoint your precise location
(hence the name High accuracy). It does however, inhibit your accuracy when you
are offline from everything but GPS.
• GPS (CHIPSETS AND EXTERNAL RECEIVERS) – Broadcom and Qualcomm
chips are SiRFstarV Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems GNSS (GLONASS,
SBAS,NAVSTAR, GALILEO). Generally 100-500 cm. The new model BCM47755
GPS chips feature a dual frequency design that allows data to intersect from two
satellite-generated location points, providing location accuracy improvements
down to about 30-50 cm. External receivers such as Garmin Glo $100, Trimble
R1–R2 $2500-5000 are Bluetooth paired and will give more GPS channels and will
reduce battery consumption on your tablet. There are also USB GPS Dongles –
Bad Elf and GlobalSat. These require some virtual com-port software to expose
NMEA language to your apps.
• APPS – S1, GPS Data and GPS Test

35. DATA SYNCING AND SURVEY123 OUTBOX
Collector for ArcGIS uses downloaded project areas. The edit capable
feature service data collected in the field can be synced back into the
hosted feature service on AGOL as soon as the device is online.
Survey123 data collection is stored in a outbox and each form(feature)
entry is stored separately. Once the device is online, the outbox data
can be transmitted to the Survey123 web application for data analysis
and review.

36. DATA POST PROCESSING
• Collector – Remember, the Collector feature service was published from a
FGDB. The form(s) were built from domains within the GDB. After sync, we
can go into the web map to review and post edit. At this time our training
feature service is hosted at AGOL. As discussed earlier, we intend to host
our feature services internally and post editing and review will be dynamic.
Edits performed on this AGOL hosted feature are not dynamic to our
original FGDB. There are tools in Arc Tool Box to sync AGOL hosted
feature services and attachments, back to the source FGDB.
• Survey123 – Survey123 data was collected on form(s)built using XML
technology, there is no source GDB. Also, the ability for Survey123 to
collect multiple choices per field make post editing only possible through
the mobile application itself. Survey123 made post editing capable my
integrating an “Inbox” in the app. After sending your “outbox data to the
Survey123 web app, you can recall any dataset back into your mobile app
through the inbox. Then you can make changes, and then resend back to
the Survey123 web app. This must be done online.

37. Collector and Survey123
Post Data collection
LIVE DEMO

38. MOBILE APPS FOR
ARCGIS
Questions and Discussion