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Overview
The goal of this article is to present high-level curricula for training courses.
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example training courses for the Inventory Management System. Each course description represents a course that has been presented to one or more clients. Typically these are used as a starting point when designing courses during the the roll-out phase of a new implementation. The suggest possible topics, audiences, materials and prerequisites. It is possible to design hybrid courses based on your organization’s needs. For example, a 1.5 day training might include the content from the Basic Data Collection Course, and a few of the topics of the Advanced Data Collection Course for the full audience on day one, followed by a half day in which Administrators Course is presented to a small subset of participants.
Basic Data Collection Course
Goal: The goal of the basic course is to train a forester in the basic workflow of designing, implementing, reviewing and analyzing exporting data for a simple timber cruise. It assumes that follows the high-level workflow that is typically presented in demos and presentations of the the system:
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Audience: Field foresters who will use MobileMap to cruise timber. No GIS or specific mobile device experience is needed.
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Duration: 2-6 hours, depending on whether data collection will occur outside or in office, the complexity of the data collection, the number of supported cruise specs or workflows, etc.
Prerequisites:
MobileMap and InventoryManager have been configured
Settings and business logic have been configured
Data model has been published and shared with users
Participants have their ArcGIS credentials and have verified access to the feature service
Participants have a mobile device (minimum of one device per 3 participants) with MobileMap installed, licensed and a suitable base map downloaded, and a Wi-Fi connection
Participants have access to a laptop or PC (minimum of one computer per 3 participants) and a Wi-Fi connection
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Design
Importing source stands from a zipped Shapefile
Copy of Source Stand to Stand
Plot layout
Collect
Download to MobileMap
Navigate to plot(s)
Collect tree data
Upload data
Review
Review data in InventoryManager
Export data to Excel
Advanced Data Collection Course
Goal: The goal of the advanced course is to build on the basic training and add more advanced topics focused on alternative workflows, more advanced spatial data creation and editing, 3rd party analysis applications, etc.
Audience: Same as basic course
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Duration: 2-6 hours, depending on specific materials topics to be covered
Prerequisites:
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Design
InventoryManager
Heads up digitize Source Stands
Edit Stands: vertex editing, split, merge/explode, bulk delete
MobileMap (alternative workflow - field based cruise design)
Heads up digitize Source Stands
Edit Stands: vertex editing, split, truncate, expand, append
Plot layout in the field
Collect
Download parameters
GPS data collection
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for stand delineation, plot update, GPS tracking
Stand summary
Double sampling (FTN, STR, Big BAF, etc.)
Configurable defaults
Driving directions
Base map download in MobileMap
Data Analysis Course (Compilation and Reporting)
Goal: The goal of the Data Analysis Course is to train foresters and data managers to utilize InventoryManager to support the selected compilation and reporting system(s) for their implementation. This includes implementations that support in-app compilation and reporting (NVEL-based) as well as 3rd party integrations (TCruise, FVS, FPS, Silvah, LRM, etc.)
Audience: Data managers and/or GIS analysts
Format: Typically web-based
Duration: 2-4 hours, depending on topics to be covered and the depth at which they are addressed
Prerequisites:
Same materials (device, laptop, ArcGIS credentials, Wi-Fi, etc.) as basic course. Mobile devices may not be needed for this course but all users should have access to a PC.
Participants should have relevant 3rd party applications (e.g., TCruise) installed, licenses and with any required data, templates or other files.
Completion of basic course highly recommended
Topics:
TBD, but may include:
Compilation process, merch specs, log rules, etc.
In-app reports, saving to PDF and other systems (ArcGIS, LRM)
3rd Party apps
TCruise
FVS
FPS
SILVAH
LRM
Other
Administrators Course
Goal: The goal of the administrators course is to train data managers and GIS analysts to implement the back-end services (Feature Services), business logic, settings, etc.
Audience: Data managers and/or GIS analysts
Format: Typically web-based
Duration: 2-4 hours, depending on specific materials to be covered
Prerequisites:
Same materials (device, laptop, ArcGIS credentials, Wi-Fi, etc.) as basic course. Mobile devices may not be needed for this course but all users should have access to a PC.
Participants should have ArcGIS Pro installed on their PC
ArcGIS credentials should have sufficient privileges to publish services
Completion of basic course recommended
Topics:
Back-end services
Data Modeling
Publishing services
Sharing framework
Base maps
MobileMap base map download and limitations
ArcGIS Pro base map creation
Base map strategies (data sources, extents, zoom levels)
Managing base maps and project folders
Business Logic
Business Rules
Check Cruise Scoring Rules
Related Domains
InventoryManager Settings: Layers, Maps, Inventory Projects
Export configuration files