Quais São Seus Maiores Desafios com a Coleta de Dados de Campo?

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Olá a todos,

A coleta de dados de campo é uma parte crítica de muitas indústrias, seja mapeando infraestrutura, gerenciando recursos naturais, monitorando mudanças ambientais ou realizando inspeções de ativos. No entanto, raramente é um processo tranquilo.

Quais são alguns dos maiores desafios que você enfrenta ao coletar dados de campo? Algumas áreas-chave para considerar:

Precisão & Precisão – As imprecisões do GPS ou a recepção ruim do satélite estão afetando a qualidade dos seus dados?
Problemas de Conectividade – Você tem dificuldades com fluxos de trabalho offline, sincronização de dados ou integração de atualizações em tempo real?
Limitações de Equipamento & Hardware – A vida útil da bateria, durabilidade do dispositivo ou compatibilidade com ferramentas GIS são um problema?
Gerenciamento & Integração de Dados – Você acha difícil organizar, analisar ou sincronizar dados de campo com seu sistema GIS?
Treinamento & Adoção pelo Usuário – É um desafio fazer as equipes de campo se sentirem confortáveis com ferramentas digitais?

Adoraria ouvir suas experiências, sejam pontos problemáticos específicos da tecnologia, ineficiências no fluxo de trabalho ou até soluções que você encontrou e que funcionam bem. Vamos compartilhar insights e ajudar uns aos outros a melhorar os fluxos de trabalho de coleta de dados de campo!

Aguardando ansiosamente seus pensamentos.

Debert · Answer

Rural areas with little to no service reception. I have 215,000+ as-built notes/annotations turned into .tpkx's which makes creating .mmpk's (offline areas) a time consuming nightmare.

PegGronemeyer1 · Answer

Agree with @Obada_GeoGeek

Getting users to agree to even _try_ collecting data using apps is like pulling teeth.   Very frustrating. Even after showing examples of how the change could save time and money, even with training materials, offers of help, people want to write down data longhand in the field, then transfer to excel usually, then they want someone else to deal with getting it into GIS.  They do not seem to care about long-term investment in data - part of a larger problem.

@NorthernGeo  - agree, the back end data are messy and need python wizards (of which I am sadly not).

Working offline can be challenging, but is able to be overcome, usually.  We do not require high resolution, so accuracy is not an issue for our group.   (Incidentally, @MrRamonG I found that intermittant connection, or keeping a survey open for long periods of time with no activity tend to trigger issues - either requests to log in, or "missing service" messages. Turning off web access specifically on device while in the field seems the safest).

Constantly changing survey123 app _without_ coherent easy to search 'help'.  (Anyone remember how great the help was for ArcMap 9x?)

Last thing I would say is getting the _time_ allowed that is required to not just design a survye, but also to clean up the data after collection is frustrating.  And if the rest of the data workflow is inconsistent and people don't want to take 10 minutes to add metadata, sigh... again frustrating.  Obviously you hit on one of my top hair pulling issues.

Obada_GeoGeek · Answer

In my first years as a GIS Specialist in UN IOM Sudan I encountered a lot of challenges to track IDPs movements and displaced distances, also by using the Kobo collector tool which was the only familiar app used by field operators it was so challenging and tiresome but when survey 123 was introduced and I got my hands on it, it really facilitates the process in my "head" but it got denied by my supervisor and led me to quit working there. What I'm trying to point out here is :

The problem is not the techs or the procedure you want to adopt, but the human who refuses to evolve it