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Simon Holdaway, formerly of La Trobe University and now of ????? [help me out here someone] arranged an elaborate computerised field survey recording program in the top left hand corner of New South Wales, based upon individual artefact level data recording using his data capture program called ENTRER TROIS. This was loaded onto early steram driven handheld data loggers.
Entrer Trois is a DOS program, and simply structures a set of prompts that allow for the repettive entry of data in a logical structure, with error checking etc. Really simple and easy to use. From memory it was included on one of the CDs that accompanied a BAR computer applications in archaeology volume in the last couple of years. The data is then able to be dumped into a spreadsheet or database and played with.
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Check out ArcPad from ESRI
http://www.esri.com/software/arcpad/index.html
There are several software programs out with varying degrees of complexity
and interfaces for capturing field data. Are you interested in using a
laptop or a handheld computer (i.e. PalmPilot or ThinkPad) and how is the
captured data going to be used? The more thought that goes into designing
the database and it's interface before heading to the field the simpler the
data collection task is.
Howard Beverly
GIS Analyst
Archaeologist
System Administrator
Wilbur Smith Associates
Lexington, Kentucky
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Lee
> Bennett
> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 4:06 AM
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> Subject: Field data collection
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> Does anyone have experience collecting field data using a
> hand held computer? I'd like to learn more about this
> possibility. Thanks.
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> Lee Bennett
> Bennett Management Services LLC
> Monticello, Utah
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