| Why this course? |
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Mobile GIS (Geospatial Information System) refers to GIS for use on smartphones and tablets. It allows users to view, capture, and update data from a mobile device anywhere and anytime. With its advantages in mobility and location awareness, mobile GIS is becoming an indispensable part of GIS solutions in sustainable development, health and human services, emergency management, utilities, and all industries.
This course teaches students how to create native and web mobile GIS solutions. Solutions will cover common mobile tasks such as data collection, information search, field inspection, incident reporting, workforce coordination, and asset tracking accurately and efficiently. Students learn knowledge of mobile GIS principles and best practices, and gain skills to design mobile GIS databases, build interactive user interfaces, and configure rich functionalities.
Taking the no-code/low-code approach, this course aims to help students be productive quickly by leveraging Esri’s mobile GIS technologies, including ArcGIS Survey123, Field Maps, QuickCapture, AuGeo, Arcade, ArcGIS Earth, Indoors, and AppStudio. This course also explores popular types of applications and the frontiers, including location-based services (LBS), volunteered geographic information (VGI), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR).
Access to Esri’s mobile products and ArcGIS Online is provided.
Note: This course focuses on Mobile GIS and differs CSCI-8 (Web GIS Principles and Applications)
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| When & where? |
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- Online meetings (using Zoom): Thursdays, 7:40 pm – 9:40 pm (US Eastern Time)
- All live meetings will be recorded and posted on the course website for future viewing
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| Attendance and participation policy |
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- Always sign in to each class session with your name matching that on the class registrar
- If you have to miss any meetings, you need to watch the recordings later
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| Course objectives |
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This course aims to help students
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- Gain comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of Mobile GIS concepts, principles, and best practices
- Develop essential skills to create mobile GIS solutions for data collection, information search, field inspection, incident reporting, workforce coordination, and asset tracking
- Apply your knowledge and skills through real-world case studies in sustainable development, health and human services, digital storytelling, emergency management, utilities, and other industries
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| Textbooks |
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- No textbook
- Materials will be provided in video and other digital formats
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| Instructor & TA |
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Pinde Fu - Course Head
Senior Principal Software Developer and Team Lead of Platform Engineering, Esri, Inc.
pindefu@g.harvard.edu
909-533-1530
TA - to be decided
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| Schedule (Subject to change) |
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Week #
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Date
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Topics
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Assignments
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1
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1-Sep
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Mobile GIS Intro: principles, platforms, and location services
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#1
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2
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8-Sep
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Database schema and user interface design for both web and native app-based data collection
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#2
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3
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15-Sep
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Database rules and user interaction for form-based mobile GIS
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4
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22-Sep
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Map symbology for data visualization on mobile devices
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#3
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5
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29-Sep
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Designing user interfaces for map-centric data collection
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#4
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6
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6-Oct
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Using maps and data offline
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7
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13-Oct
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Waze-like rapid data capture and photo visualization on the go
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#4
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8
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20-Oct
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Coordinating & tasking mobile workforces
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#5
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9
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27-Oct
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Realtime location tracking, geofencing, and geo-messaging
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10
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3-Nov
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Virtual reality (VR), Augmented reality (AR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Mobile GIS
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#6
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11
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10-Nov
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Integrate mobile GIS with web apps to review/edit data and support decisions
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12
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17-Nov
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Extend mobile GIS with webhooks, Arcade, and JavaScript
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#7
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| Thanksgiving break. No class. |
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13
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1-Dec
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Develop custom and cross-platform native mobile GIS apps
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14
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8-Dec
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Mobile GIS case studies in sustainable development, digital storytelling, public health, and utilities
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#8
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15
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15-Dec
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Final project presentation (open book)
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| Prerequisites |
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- Basic experience with mobile maps and online maps.
- A computer (Windows or macOS)
- A smartphone or tablet (iOS or Android)
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| Evaluation methods |
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- Homework (60%) + final project (40%)
- Note: the homework assignments have extra requirements for graduate-credit students
- Homework late submission policy: deduct 10% points per day unless you have a legitimate reason in advance
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| Accessibility & academic integrity |
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The Extension School is committed to providing an accessible academic community. The Disability Services Office offers a variety of accommodations and services to students with documented disabilities. Please visit www.extension.harvard.edu/resources-policies/resources/disabilityservices-accessibility Links to an external site. for more information.
You are responsible for understanding Harvard Extension School policies on academic integrity ( www.extension.harvard.edu/resources-policies/student-conduct/academic-integrity Links to an external site. ) and how to use sources responsibly. Not knowing the rules, misunderstanding the rules, running out of time, submitting "the wrong draft", or being overwhelmed with multiple demands are not acceptable excuses. There are no excuses for failure to uphold academic integrity. To support your learning about academic citation rules, please visit the Harvard Extension School Tips to Avoid Plagiarism ( www.extension.harvard.edu/resources-policies/resources/tips-avoid-plagiarism Links to an external site. ), where you'll find links to the Harvard Guide to Using Sources and two, free, online 15-minute tutorials to test your knowledge of academic citation policy. The tutorials are anonymous open-learning tools.
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