An Android application for Fort Riley soldiers for integrated training area management and sustainable range awareness

Master of Science === Department of Computing and Information Sciences === Daniel A. Andresen === The purpose of this project is to develop an Android application for Fort Riley soldiers so as to support the theme “War Fighters Supporting War Fighters by Caring for Military Training Lands”. Ther...

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Main Author: Pathi Reddy, Hemanth Reddy
Language:en_US
Published: Kansas State University 2011
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KML
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2097/12168
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Summary:Master of Science === Department of Computing and Information Sciences === Daniel A. Andresen === The purpose of this project is to develop an Android application for Fort Riley soldiers so as to support the theme “War Fighters Supporting War Fighters by Caring for Military Training Lands”. There are four core features in this application: 1. Find a Gully 2. Report a Gully 3. View Current Weather 4. View Current Satellite Image Features are explained in brief below. 1. Find a gully In this feature based on the current location of soldier, application will display all gullies near that location using Google Maps API. Soldier can also view the gully details by tapping the gully icon. 2. Report a Gully In this feature, soldier can report a new gully i.e.; gully which is not already present on the map. This gully will be stored as unverified gully in the database. Once this gully is verified it will be changed to verified gully and it will be plotted on the Google map. 3. View Current Weather In this feature, soldier can view the current weather conditions of Fort Riley. 4. View Current Satellite Image In this feature, soldier can view the current satellite image of Fort Riley.