Check out this video of Trey describing TrailScribe. Trey does an
awesome job of describing the idea and I really like the illustrations!
This sounds pretty much exactly what I was trying to advocate for during 1993-96 when I was doing more field work on land. I would add a couple features to Trey's design. First would be a VHF or UHF data link with repeater to pass around the team members' positions, sample report positions and maybe any text they entered. If you initially drop a repeater or two (maybe with a basic weather station and GPS base station) on high points in the field area, then the team could have pretty good sharing during the day. Even areas that do have cell coverage usually totally loose it in areas. Second would be to use Glass or something like it to allow the science team to snag images easier. It might also take low res context picture every few minutes (would be good to let people know when that image was going to be taken for privacy). You'd still want a camera with a macro feature for a lot of photos. Finally, it would be great to have speech-to-text to give a first past of transcribing audio notes. Science vocabulary is notoriously difficult, but rough starting text would be awesome.
I spent a lot of time thinking about this while mapping the Southern Snake Range. During they day, we were in 2 person teams mapping the structure (unit boundaries, strike and dips, etc). We often had evening discussions about what we were seeing between groups as we were transfering our field notes from our field map to the group map at camp.
This sounds pretty much exactly what I was trying to advocate for during 1993-96 when I was doing more field work on land. I would add a couple features to Trey's design. First would be a VHF or UHF data link with repeater to pass around the team members' positions, sample report positions and maybe any text they entered. If you initially drop a repeater or two (maybe with a basic weather station and GPS base station) on high points in the field area, then the team could have pretty good sharing during the day. Even areas that do have cell coverage usually totally loose it in areas. Second would be to use Glass or something like it to allow the science team to snag images easier. It might also take low res context picture every few minutes (would be good to let people know when that image was going to be taken for privacy). You'd still want a camera with a macro feature for a lot of photos. Finally, it would be great to have speech-to-text to give a first past of transcribing audio notes. Science vocabulary is notoriously difficult, but rough starting text would be awesome.
I spent a lot of time thinking about this while mapping the Southern Snake Range. During they day, we were in 2 person teams mapping the structure (unit boundaries, strike and dips, etc). We often had evening discussions about what we were seeing between groups as we were transfering our field notes from our field map to the group map at camp.