TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
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LIST OF TABLES
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LIST OF ANNEXURES
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ABSTRACT
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CHAPTER 1
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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Data management in the fieldwork context
1.3 Data management in a land administration context
1.4 Problem Statement
1.5 Research Goals and Objectives
1.6 Research Questions
1.6.1
Sub-questions
CHAPTER 2
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
2.1
Type of study
2.1.1
Purpose of the study
2.1.2
Methodology and approach
2.2
Structure of the thesis
2.3
Time Schedule
CHAPTER 3
LAND ADMINISTRATION
3.1
Introduction
3.2
What is land administration?
3.3
Components of land administration
3.4
Assessing the status of land administration
a. Land administration in Europe
b. Land administration in Hungary
3.5
Good practice in land administration
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CHAPTER 4
GIS IN LAND ADMINISTRATION
4.1
Introduction
4.2
Geographic information management systems in Land administration
4.3
Components
4.4
Literature review
4.5
Data capturing and management in the field
a. Data capturing / fieldwork
b. Data management
c. Data management in the field
4.6
Data management in land administration
4.7
Land administration information system
CHAPTER 5
WORLD OF MOBILE AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY
5.1
Introduction
5.2
Literature Review
5.3
What is Wireless?
5.4
Wireless Protocols
5.4.1
WAP
5.4.2
I-Mode
5.4.3
GPS
5.4.4
GPRS
5.4.5
SMS
5.5
Developments in the Mobile World
5.6
Mobile Environment
5.7
Mobile Devices
5.8
Software for Mobile devices
5.9
Mobile Database for data management in the field
5.10 Mobile Multimedia
5.10.1 Voice input/recognition
5.10.2 Digital imagery
CHAPTER 6
LOCATION-BASED SERVICES
6.1
Introduction
6.2
Location-Based Services
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6.3
Literature Review
6.4
LBS and the mobile technology
CHAPTER 7
INTELLIWHERE AND GEOMEDIA PROFESSIONAL
7.1
Introduction
7.2
IntelliWhere OnDemand
7.3
Advantages
7.4
Product Features
7.5
Technical specifications
7.6
Customisation of IntelliWhere for the M-learner
7.7
GeoMedia Professional
7.8
Integrating IntelliWhere and Geomedia
7.9
Upload and Downloading data
CHAPTER 8
MOBILE FIELD DATA MANAGEMENT IN LAND ADMINISTRATION
8.1
Introduction
8.2
Mobile field data management
8.3
Learning with mobile technology: What is wireless learning?
8.4
GIPSY
8.5
Introducing mobile learning in land administration: a module for mlearners
8.6
Survey content and customisation with IntelliWhere
CHAPTER 9
CASE STUDY
9.1
Introduction
9.2
Background of the case study
9.3
Study Area - Hungary
9.4
Methodology for data capturing and management in Land Administration
9.5
Evaluating IntelliWhere in the Land Administration field
9.6
Customising IntelliWhere
9.7
Data Capturing and management
9.8
Uploading and downloading data
9.9
Data manipulation
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9.10 Results
9.11 Conclusion
CHAPTER 10
MOBILE MULTIMEDIA: NEW DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Mobile Multimedia
10.3 Literature Review
10.4 Voice Recognition
10.5 Digital Imaging
10.6 IntelliWhere and integrated multimedia
10.7 Value of the project
10.8 Future Research
CHAPTER 11
CRITICAL ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
11.1
Limitations and constraints
11.2
Other solutions
11.3
Recommendations
CHAPTER 12
CONLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
ANNEXURES
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Flow chart: Structure of the thesis
Introduction
Research
Methodology
World of mobile
and wireless
technology
Land
Administration
Location-based
Services
GIS in Land
Administration
IntelliWhere and
GeoMedia Pro
Mobile field data
management in
Land
Administration
Case Study:
Wireless learning
in Land
Administration in
Hungary
Value of the project
Mobile Multimedia:
New data collection
techniques
Critical
Assessment
and
Evaluation
Conclusion
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ABSTRACT
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