{"id":398901,"date":"2021-01-19T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&p=398901"},"modified":"2021-09-02T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T15:26:12","slug":"land-management-gets-a-new-look-with-mobile-map-annotation-app","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/land-management-gets-a-new-look-with-mobile-map-annotation-app","title":{"rendered":"Land Management Gets a New Look with Mobile Map Annotation App"},"author":6921,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10622,407892,275952],"tags":[134972,271,200732,159202,279282],"arcnews_issues":[472041],"class_list":["post-398901","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apps-for-the-field","category-field-operations","category-technology","tag-land-management","tag-mapping","tag-mobile-app","tag-survey","tag-technology-2","arcnews_issues-winter-2021","arcnews_sections-collaborations"],"acf":{"short_description":"Spring Creek Outdoors, LLC, set out to find a user-friendly way to access maps in the field and annotate them.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Spring Creek Outdoors, LLC, is a 15-year-old wildlife and habitat consulting company based in Texas. Its offerings include conducting wildlife population assessments, making harvest recommendations, hosting seminars, and doing appraisals, but its true focus is on education. When the company first began employing ArcGIS technology in 2017, for instance, it used the software to create visualizations that helped teach landowners and land managers how to better understand their properties, as well as how to provide the support their lands needed to thrive.\r\n\r\nFor many of its clients, Spring Creek Outdoors revolutionized how they got their properties inspected. This used to entail hiring a helicopter to perform in-person aerial assessments, but the cost and logistics of that were out of reach for many property owners. So the company came up with an effective solution: GIS-enhanced aerial drone imagery. This worked well for clients and even made aerial surveys a possibility for a wider range of landowners. But eventually, Spring Creek Outdoors wanted to learn more about how to apply location intelligence<\/a> to the challenges landowners face.\r\n\r\n\u201cShortly after we began using GIS in our business, we attended a short course on GIS for ranchers and had our eyes opened to the range of ways ArcGIS could be used beyond providing an overview of a property,\u201d said Cathy Ledbetter, vice president at Spring Creek Outdoors. \u201cWe came back to the office and went right to work on finding ways to enhance our services by using GIS software.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe company wanted to make the aerial survey data more versatile and useful for its clients. So Ledbetter and her team set out to find a user-friendly way to access maps in the field and annotate them on the spot with quick sketches and notes. Esri partner Bluefield GIS<\/a> \u2014a 2020 graduate of the Esri Startup Program\u2014had the answer.\r\n