Getting to Know Mobile GIS

by Pinde Fu

Overview

Getting to Know Mobile GIS empowers readers to creatively use Mobile GIS and drive innovation in this fast-advancing field.

“Mobile first" and the "post-PC era" aren’t just buzzwords; they represent today's reality. Within the GIS industry, the mobile internet and Mobile GIS have transformed how we acquire, visualize, analyze, and disseminate geospatial information. With its ubiquitous use and location-aware capabilities, the mobile platform is an essential part of enterprise GIS across industries, making Mobile GIS crucial to the business operations and future success of wide-ranging organizations.

Getting to Know Mobile GIS helps GIS professionals and GIS students grasp the opportunities presented by Mobile GIS. It provides principles and detailed tutorials to teach today’s cutting-edge Mobile GIS technologies. Using a no-code, low-code approach, it makes Mobile GIS easy and fun to learn. Readers can immediately become productive in creating enterprise GIS solutions, including:

• Online and offline spatial data visualization
• Data collection
• Location sharing
• Workforce coordination
• Integration with enterprise workflows.

Getting to Know Mobile GIS is a comprehensive resource covering the Esri suite of ArcGIS mobile technologies, including native-based apps such as ArcGIS Survey123, ArcGIS Field Maps, ArcGIS QuickCapture, and browser-based apps such as ArcGIS Dashboards and Experience Builder. Readers can also acquire advanced skills to extend Mobile GIS using ArcGIS Arcade, Webhooks, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the ArcGIS Maps SDKs. The book explores popular application types and frontiers, encompassing location-based services (LBS), volunteered geographic information (VGI), 3D mapping, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR).

Based on the author’s extensive Mobile GIS project experiences at Esri and teaching Mobile GIS at Harvard Extension, Getting to Know Mobile GIS has the latest concepts, trends, technology, and how-tos for Mobile GIS.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589488076
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	02/18/2025
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dr. Pinde Fu leads the Configuration team at Esri Professional Services and teaches at universities, including Harvard UniversityExtension School. Dr. Pinde Fu champions the configure-first approach, maximizing Esri’s out-of-the-box Web and Mobile GIS technologies to swiftly build GIS solutions. Additionally, as a Senior Principal Software Developer, Dr. Fu employs full-stack programming to develop custom solutions as needed. Several of his projects have won special achievement awards. Fu is the author of Getting to Know Web GIS (Esri Press, 2022) and lead author of Web GIS: Principles and Applications (Esri Press, 2010).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Mobile GIS Overview and Map-Centric Data Collection with ArcGIS Field Maps

Chapter 2: Situation Awareness and One-to-Many Inspections Using ArcGIS Field Maps

Chapter 3: Form-Centric Data Collection with ArcGIS Survey123

Chapter 4: Rapid Data Collection using ArcGIS QuickCapture

Chapter 5: Mobile Workflow in Offline Mode

Chapter 6: Workforce Coordination and Location Sharing

Chapter 7: Responsive Web Apps for Mobile Devices

Chapter 8: Integration with Enterprise Systems

Chapter 9: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence

Chapter 10: Developing Custom Mobile GIS Apps