CHaMP Topographic Toolbar

Development and Update Process

CHaMP developed an ArcGIS Add-In toolbar to facilitate processing topographic survey data collected during CHaMP surveys. Each year the functionality of the toolbar is reviewed based on:

• performance of previous year’s toolbar (code bugs, usability, crew feedback)
• supporting metric generation (does the toolbar adequately check data quality or guide in feature development that is required for metric generation?)
• alignment to protocol (is the toolbar processing data consistent with the current-year protocol?)

Annual Timeline
Dec-Feb: Toolbar functional requirements scoped and contracted
Mar-Apr: Core toolbar updates developed
May: Toolbar testing
June 1: Training version of toolbar
July 1: Field season version of toolbar
July-Sept: Crew support and troubleshooting. Critical releases only.

Support website (2016)

• Includes Tool Documentation (updated annually)
• Release notes and packages (updated before each Release)

Development Team

Philip Bailey (North Arrow Research) is the Lead Developer for the Topographic Toolbar. He is primarily supported by Kelly Whitehead (South Fork Research), with some tool-specific support from James Hensleigh (???) and Jesse Langdon (South Fork Research). Carol Volk (South Fork Research) and Joe Wheaton (Utah State University) provide development guidance.

Code Curation and Storage

Philip Bailey has managed a private Topo Toolbar Add-In code repository for code management since the 2012 Toolbar Add-In was developed.

Kelly Whitehead produced an ArcGIS Toolbox to support the development of the 2011 CHaMP Data Collection (REPO LINK).

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