Low cost PDA/Gps based eld logging solution for GRASS data
A. Frigeri, Giorgio Minelli · 2002
The need of electronic data to be inserted in geospatial databases lead us to develop a simple Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) based eld log system to store punctual data to be imported directly in GRASS as a site-le. The application communicates with a GPS unit so positional data are automatically stored, allowing the user to input only categorical data. The system frame has been chosen so that the overall cost of a basic system is very low but no changes are required to use it with professional GPS units and dieren t PDA systems. The software is released under the terms of GPL license so that everyone could improve it or adapt it to his own eld logging campaign.