Wetland Determination Survey 123 form

[ClaireInbody1]

Has any DOTs implemented Collector/Survey 123 for their wetland delineations and wetland determination forms? Nebraska DOT has a pilot project under way to convert the wetland determination form into Survey 123 application. We have almost completed it but having a few issues regarding dominance test for vegetation along with a few issues regarding the report template. We are willing to share our insights so far and interested to see what other DOTs are doing. 

[ThomasHamill]

@RobertVerheggen1, in the latest  beta version of the XLSForm design, many of the drop-down choices (for things like Cowardin Classifications,  soil textures, soil indicators, etc.) are coded under the choices sheet and I'm using the autocomplete setting under the appearance column in the survey for those autofills.

At this stage, the Feature Report template (for batch printing survey submissions to PDF) is incomplete, though partially drafted.  I think I need more feedback on the beta XLSForm design (to inform revisions, fine-tuning) before it would make sense to complete a draft of the Feature Report.

[RobertVerheggen1]

I tried to go through the form, and I got the error message shown below.  I want to pass it on to our wetlands specialists to see what they think of it, since their feedback will ultimately be more helpful than mine. 

I'd be interested to see what the data output looks like though since at this moment they are pretty comfortable filling in the Excel form this project is sourced from.  I want to try to combine that step though since they seem to double their effort by filling this form out twice.

[ThomasHamill]

@RobertVerheggen1, I just reconfigured access, so try again with a submission.

Here is the link to view/export your submitted records.

[RobertVerheggen1]

@ThomasHamill I talked one of our wetland folks into entering semi-realistic data into your form.  She said it met all her needs for a digital form, and would be interested to see what an output would look like.  That being said, we are in the midwest region so I would imagine the input is the same, but the indicators that are output from the USACE form would be different. 

Based on your mention of the XLSForm design, I guess you built it on the desktop interface?  And what kind of challenges are you running into for the report template?

[ThomasHamill]

@RobertVerheggen1, at this point (with the Feature Report Template not yet complete) export format is probably best viewed and reported tabularly.  Here is that link for viewing and exporting submitted data.

I used Survey123 Connect (desktop program, scroll down to see installation files) to draft and prototype the XLSForm.  Some of the challenges and outstanding items on the Feature Report Template are detailed in this earlier post.

[ThomasHamill]

Update: An XLSForm design for the USACE Wetland Determination Data Form (Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Region) has been accepted by the Esri Survey123 team and published as a community template in Survey123 Connect. Search for "USACE" in the New Survey menu of Survey123 Connect with the "Community" button selected to locate the template.

[ThomasHamill]

Update:  The USACE Wetland Determination Data Form (AGCP) is now available in the Community section of Survey123 Connect.  Here's the direct link to the survey item.

FWIW, here's the original thread associated with the effort.

[CurtKleist]

Thanks this looks great i will look it over in more detail this weekend! I wish you had one for the NC/NE region!

[ThomasHamill]

@CurtKleist, I'm going to try to make a "universal" one that'd work for any region (assuming it's even possible).  Unless I'm mistaken, a big piece of making this possible is using the National Wetland Plant List instead of the regional ones.  If that's the case, I need to prepare this species/plant list for use as an External Choice List first (which is what I did for the AGCP region) and this will involve some substantial data clean-up, removing special characters, etc.

[CurtKleist]

Yes that would likely be the key. Also, we only have 3 strata (plus vines)  in the NC/NE. Also, yes the National plant list would need to be used. Another item - it would be nice to enter saturation depth, HWT, Surface Water depths. I used one of these pretty similar through a different app I could screen shot u a few photos as well. I will look it over in more detail. This is great and amazing though, its something we really need!