GeoRover® Mobile

Overview

The SAIC GeoRover Mobile software solution combines powerful desktop capabilities with the flexibility of mobile devices to provide GIS on both platforms. The Mobile software solution streamlines and enhances the processes of editing, importing and sharing geospatial data through a combination of robust and flexible interactive editing tools and Map-Pack import and export wizards.

The GeoRover Mobile Desktop extension is a plug-in to the commercial Esri® ArcGIS® Desktop application (ArcView®, ArcEditor™, or ArcInfo®). The toolbar enables users to easily import and export points, lines, and polygons from new or existing feature layers and base maps from raster datasets.

The GeoRover Mobile Application is a program that resides on mobile devices (phones or tablets) that support the Android™ platform. This application can be used in connected or disconnected environments and allows users to edit and create features in existing shapefiles or feature classes. The Mobile application integrates both internal and external global positioning systems (GPS) and available Wi-Fi™ networks to provide current location data. All edits to geospatial features on the device can be reconciled easily back to the ArcMap™ application.

Features

GeoRover Mobile — Application

• Interactive touch screen functionality allows for adding point, line or polygon features to existing layers
• Supports editing of feature classes with domain values set in layer schema
• Attach photos, including geotagged photos, or voice recording to point, line or polygon features
• Create waypoints, track logs and routes when connected to an internal or external GPS, including Bluetooth®, to obtain real-time location
• Move selected point or reshape a line or polygon feature with versatile vertex editing

GeoRover Mobile — Desktop

• Create Map-Packs from existing raster datasets and new or existing vector layers
  • Choose an existing raster dataset as a base map layer
  • Include point, line and polygon features from existing shapefiles and feature classes or create new vector layers on-the-fly
• Map-Pack vector layers can contain existing features or be an empty layer with predefined schema only
• Easily save changes to feature layers from the Mobile application as feature classes within the ArcMap application
• Save Map-Packs directly to supported Android mobile devices or choose to save to a specified folder location
• All data imported to a mobile device is accepted in any projection

Benefits

• Works in connected and disconnected environments
• Integrates with available GPS and Wi-Fi networks
• Works with numerous mobile devices and tablets running the Android platform
• Seamlessly imports and exports data to and from the powerful ArcGIS Desktop application
• Easily collect field data, including geotagged photos and voice recordings
• Complements existing GeoRover software extensions for the ArcGIS Desktop Application