Advanced Activities with GPS:RoboGeo & Google Earth

With support from:

NSF DUE-0903270

Prepared by:

in partnership with:

John McGeeJennifer McKee

Geospatial Technician Education Through Virginia’s Community Colleges (GTEVCC)

Photo2GPS

• A free software program that associates GPS track files with digital photographs

• Created by the Geospatial Extension Educator at the University of Connecticut

• Only works with Windows XP (does not work with Vista or Windows 7....)

• Can be downloaded from http://clear.uconn.edu/geospatial/GPSResources.htm

Photo2GPS (software)

• We are not going to work with Photo2GPS, but I wanted you to be aware of it...

• We are going to work with RoboGEO

RoboGEO

• RoboGeo is very similar to Photo2GPS• It is a bit more “powerful”• More functionality...• User-friendly• There is a “free trial version”• 1 license of the real version costs $79• 10 license “lab kit” is $399• More information at: www.robogeo.com

Final Product

Red icons are photos

Click on icon to see photo taken at that location

Work Flow

GPS tracks

Take pix. photos

KML file

University of Connecticut, Geospatial Technology Program

Take photo of GPS unit with Time displayed

RoboGeoSoftware

Carry GPS receiver and automaticall

y collect trackpoint

data

Picture taken at 15:42:28 which puts the picture at

2/3 of the distance between the track points

24 seconds between track points

Track points w/ date and time

displayed

Interpolated Photo Locations

University of Connecticut, Geospatial Technology Program

2007/04/02-15:42:44 2007/04/02-15:42:32 2007/04/02-15:42:18 2007/04/02-15:42:03

15:42:28

Using RoboGeo

• Detailed instructions have been developed. These instructions are available from the Virginia Geospatial Extension Program Website

• http://www.gep.frec.vt.edu (under “Cool Tools”)