Environmental, Earth and Ocean Science on Nantucket

EEOS 480 ArcPad Mobile GIS Software for Field Mapping Applications

4 Credits
The course has 3 components: lecture, lab, and field data collection. It will be conducted at the UMass Boston campus and the UMass Boston field station on Nantucket. The course is designed for those interested in learning how to deploy mobile GIS for research or enterprise applications. ArcPad mobile GIS software is used to capture, display, analyze, and edit geographic information in the field. This course provides an overview of ArcPad 7. You will learn about the wide range of tools, symbols, and style sheets that come with ArcPad and how ArcPad is used to gather and edit data. The course emphasizes best practice principles and considerations for common field tasks. Data collection will be done at both the Nantucket and Boston campus. The course goal is to develop a working data collection application using ArcPad.
August 3 - August 14
UMass Boston
Monday - Friday
12pm - 5pm
S-3-020 (Science Bldg, 3rd Floor, Room 020) and S-3-034 (Science Bldg, 3rd Floor, Room 034)
August 16 - August 22
  • Arrive in Nantucket on Sunday (Aug 16) and depart on Saturday (Aug 22)
  • 6 nights at Gouin Village, Nantucket, MA
  • 5 full days of course work