Mobile GIS
Mobile GIS is the expansion of a Geographical Information System from the office into the field. This is heavy reliant upon wireless technologies to access remotely stored data. Mobile GIS may be based on toughened laptops or tablet PCs and have all or some of the functions of a desktop GIS. There are smaller PDA based systems, which have a more limited but often tailored set of functions. They allow the capture, manipulation and storage of data in remote locations. This has the advantage of real time updating of central databases, thus removing the need for storage of multiple copies of data and lessening data replication.
Those that are reliant on real time data transfer are generally dependent upon the GSM networks and are limited to the bandwidths of these networks.
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