At University of Salzburg, in the winter semester 2014/2015 during the course “SDI Service Implementation” and under the supervision of Mariana Belgiu, Barbara Hofer and Manfred Mittelböck, two groups of students worked on the development of mobile applications for the Galápagos Islands, testing tools available by ESRI and other open sources. The resulted applications, developed using Collector for ArcGIS App, enable the users to collect and edit (both on- and offline) data for endangered plant and animal species at Galapagos Islands.
User interface for plants at Galapagos Service in ArcGIS Collector (from Project document “Collecting plants species data in the field” by Pascal Krafft, Sebastian Scheckel, Florian Usländer).
The opening of the application to map endangered animals by using an android device (from Project documentation “Solutions for mobile applications to map endangered species at the Galapagos Islands SDI Services Implementation” by Huber, David; Papapessios, Nikolas; Pogácsás, Réka).
But also students of the distance learning and residential
UNIGIS programmes are given the opportunity to learn step by step how to develop web and mobile applications. The
Optional UNIGIS Module: ArcGIS for Server aims at giving UNIGIS students practice in publishing GIS services using ArcGIS for Server technologies. Focusing on Galapagos Islands, first the students
publish feature access service using ArcGIS Online and get familiar with the data visualization options available in ArcGIS Online Web Map Application. As next step they develop in ArcGIS Online an online editing application for mapping online endangered animal species. Finally, the Collector for ArcGIS app is used for the development of a mobile application that enables users to collect endangered plant species on the Galapagos Islands.
