Shelter Monitoring Module

Data capture system for urban Cold-War civil defense amenity documentation in the Aarhus municipality, Denmark

civil-defense, urban preparedness, mobile computing, cold-war

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About this module:

This module supports precise documentation of spatial location, layout, and condition of surviving shelters (~250) and other civil defenses around the municipality Aarhus, with focus on the urban environment. The initial prototype and data collection was supported by the SDAM and SHAPE projects of Aarhus University. Continued use and development is funded by the Augustinus Fonden via the MELICA project. This module is in use in 2023-2024 and has the following functionality:

• simultaneous data entry by multiple users
• online and offline functionality (the latter with local server)
• loading of own raster and vector data
• creation of points, lines and polygons
• automatic GPS data capture from on-device and bluetooth GPS
• structured data entry including picture dictionaries, dropdowns

Authorship:

This module was co-developed by Adela Sobotkova, Aarhus University and Christian-Nassif Haynes at the FAIMS Project .

Cite us:

Sobotkova, Adela, Christian Nassif-Haynes. 2023. Aarhus Civil Defense Shelter Monitoring Module (version 3350c9d). Github. https://github.com/FAIMS/Aarhus-shelters-faims-2.6/releases/tag/fieldwork-2023.

Funding:

Development of this module was funded by SDAM and SHAPE projects

Date of release:

April 2023

Latest updates:

April 2023

FAIMS Mobile version:

FAIMS v2.6 (Android 7+)

Licence:

This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY-SA 4.0 International).

Access:

The module can be downloaded from this GitHub repository and reinstantiated on a FAIMS server, using the following Instructions 103: How to Deploy a module. Check [email protected] in case an early version is uploaded here.

This module contains the following FAIMS features:

• coordinates from internal GPS
• controlled vocabularies
• picture galleries
• customised validation

This module can be used with no or minor modification for:

• spatial data collection supported via user-provided map data and GPS
• repeat feature monitoring

Contact info:

For more details about the Shelter monitoring project, please visit [https://cas.au.dk/en/melica]. If you have any questions about the project, contact Adela at [email protected].

If you have any questions about the module, please contact the FAIMS team at [email protected] and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Screenshots from the module:

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