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Nusser, Sarah M.

nusser@iastate.edu

Iowa State University

Abstract
A wide array of federal, state, and local agencies collect and analyze data to carry out their missions, evaluate programs and services, or provide information on characteristics of the population and the economy. A significant portion of these activities require mobile data collection in the field, although the nature of the field data collection environment is extremely variable, ranging from federal surveys with strict protocols for using information resources to crisis management applications with ad hoc data collection and information resource needs. Our research focuses on developing a new paradigm for mobile computer-assisted data collection that broadens the types of data used as critical information resources and as objects of data collection. In particular, we will transcend traditional text and numeric data usage to fully and flexibly integrating distributed geospatial information resources in mobile data collection activities.