{"id":2236472,"date":"2024-02-21T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2236472"},"modified":"2024-02-21T12:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:25:35","slug":"introducing-the-fieldwork-handbook","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/apps\/field-mobility\/introducing-the-fieldwork-handbook","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Fieldwork Handbook"},"author":5651,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23261],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[36591,679821,408802,36691],"class_list":["post-2236472","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-mobility","product-apps","product-field-maps","product-quickcapture","product-survey123"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":5651,"user_firstname":"Marika","user_lastname":"Vertzonis","nickname":"Marika","user_nicename":"marika","display_name":"Marika","user_email":"MVertzonis@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:17:25","user_description":"Marika Vertzonis is a product engineer at Esri focusing on the research and development of field apps. After studying environmental engineering at university Marika spent the early part of her career working in local government, regional water authorities, and engineering consulting as a GIS professional. Her own time in the field has made her a passionate advocate for using the most suitable technology available in scientific and engineering fieldwork. She is also the author of Fieldwork Handbook: A practical guide on the go (Esri Press, 2024).","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"The Fieldwork Handbook is a companion for people using GIS in the field.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Anyone using a mobile device and an app for fieldwork will have fallen into the trap of taking too much data, not enough data, ran out of battery, couldn\u2019t see the screen well enough in bright sunlight, or struggled with connections to a GPS, at least once! You don\u2019t need to repeat these mistakes, and new fieldworkers should be able to learn from our collective experiences and avoid many of these pitfalls.<\/p>\n

The Fieldwork Handbook<\/a> is intended to be a companion (for existing) or guide (for new) fieldworkers.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2236542,"id":2236542,"title":"Fieldwork_interior1","filename":"Fieldwork_interior1.png","filesize":3164035,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fieldwork_interior1.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/apps\/field-mobility\/introducing-the-fieldwork-handbook\/fieldwork_interior1","alt":"","author":"5651","description":"","caption":"","name":"fieldwork_interior1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2236472,"date":"2024-02-01 05:49:03","modified":"2024-02-01 05:49:03","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2597,"height":1908,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fieldwork_interior1-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fieldwork_interior1.png","medium-width":355,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fieldwork_interior1.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":564,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fieldwork_interior1.png","large-width":1470,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fieldwork_interior1-1536x1128.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1128,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fieldwork_interior1-2048x1505.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1505,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fieldwork_interior1-633x465.png","card_image-width":633,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Fieldwork_interior1-1470x1080.png","wide_image-width":1470,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

This book is part instruction, story, and activities. I hope that you can learn from the information sections, have a chuckle at some of the stories (or sigh when you recognise a familiar fail), and make notes on your own fieldwork experiences in the activities. For example, there\u2019s is a place to keep a log of the GPS hardware you\u2019ve trialed, and a place to plan out pilot projects. When you go out in the field regardless of what digital technology you use, I believe you should always carry a paper notebook. If you don\u2019t do that already, maybe consider this book as your field work companion!<\/p>\n

For those of you working in the field already \u2013 you can read how people in other industries do the same things that you do, your activities are not unique. You can learn from others experiences to do better.<\/p>\n

For those of you about to start fieldwork for the first time \u2013 you can learn tips and tricks to prepare for what you will encounter. University students studying any course that involves fieldwork are covered here, and not just GIS students. Any of the sciences, engineering, business, and arts courses that include the need to go into the field and collect data can use this book. Consider this your \u2018other textbook\u2019 for any course that includes fieldwork.<\/p>\n

For those of you who are building apps and maps and forms and projects for use by field workers \u2013 you can learn do\u2019s and don\u2019ts to make the data that is collected (or used out in the field) more useful for both those that are in the field, and those that will use the data after.<\/p>\n

What to learn more?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want to learn more about how this came about book, head over to the Field Notes podcast<\/a> and listen to my chat with Josh and D’maia.<\/p>\n

The Fieldwork Handbook: ArcGIS user stories<\/a> storymap contains a collection of user stories that align with the different types of fieldwork projects described in the book: capture, inspection, validation, and awareness.<\/p>\n

You can find more user stories and helpful information about field apps on each of the resources pages for our ArcGIS apps, in particular:<\/p>\n