In Australia, housing conditions in remote Indigenous communities have a major influence on the health and wellbeing of their occupants. Health improvement in these communities being a government priority, the calculation of Aboriginal Community housing stock repair costs is crucial to secure federal funding and make informed decisions on whether to upgrade or build new houses. The Department for Families and Communities (DFC) Aboriginal Asset Services (AAS) therefore requires a comprehensive and detailed picture of housing conditions for each dwelling. The DFC AAS uses ikeGPS mobile gis systems for its data collection surveys.
Case Study at a Glance:
Key reasons the DFC AAS selected ikeGPS mobile GIS systems
- Streamline manual field data capture process
- Offers a simple, rugged, compact and reliable data capture solution
- Comprehensive, user-specific field data capture functionalities
- Guarantees integrity and verifiability of the collected information
Key benefits
- Rugged and robust design
- Standardises data collection methodologies
- Ease-of-use, integrated and discreet
- Easy to train non-GIS professionals in using ikeGPS
- Verifiable data
- Contributes to build a comprehensive, detailed and trusted picture of housing conditions for remote indigenous communities dwellings
- Improved intelligence at business and strategic level
Technology used
- ikeGPS mobile GIS systems from Surveylab
- ESRI ArcGIS
- ArcPad Mobile GIS software
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