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Page Contents: Technical Tools of real and virtual fieldwork for scientific inquiry

• Smartphone and Tablet Apps for Accessing Information About a Field Site
• Smartphone and Tablet Apps for Capturing Aspects of a Field Site
• Desktop software
• Web-based tools
• Hardware



Technical Tools of real and virtual fieldwork for scientific inquiry

While the pace of change makes listing technological tools a challenging and always incomplete task, we've found some tools especially useful. Descriptions, unless otherwise noted, are taken from the linked web page. Some tools have multiple competitors, and new tools emerge all the time. We expect that there are already superior tools to some of those we list here; that new and better tools will emerge; and we welcome your suggestions.

Last Updated: January, 2020

Smartphone and Tablet Apps for Accessing Information About a Field Site

Smartphone and Tablet Apps for Capturing Aspects of a Field Site

Scientists working in the field in California's Kettleman Hills. What do you see that tells you about the present environment of these hills, and offers clues to their past? Note that this image is an interactive Street View panorama. Use your mouse and the controls in the upper right corner of the image to view fullscreen, and to pan and zoom.

Desktop software

Web-based tools

Purisima boulder by dugganhaas on Sketchfab

Hardware

The hardware listed here also has associated software.

Google Earth Files Useful to a Range of VFEs