Strat Mobile
Strat Mobile is a program for iOS devices that enables you to measure and record stratigraphic sections right on your iPhone or iPad. It is a companion app to my Strat Desktop app. Some of the basic tasks that one can perform with the app include:
Real time plotting of the stratigraphic section as it is being measured.
Strat Mobile offers five (5!) ways of measuring a stratigraphic section:
Using your known eye height while sighting down-dip through the device camera.
Using your phone attached to a monopod and sighting down-dip through the camera — a modern digital Jacob staff
Using a traditional Jacob staff. The device can determine the strike and dip of the bedding for you with the tap of a button
Using a tape measure. You enter the tape azimuth, slope, start and end point, as well as the strike and dip of bedding, and the device will calculate the correct thickness automatically.
Using your GPS position and strike and dip entered at the base and top of each measured interval
Automatically record, latitude, longitude, time and date for every interval measured.
You can define an unlimited number of lithology types (with corresponding colors and widths) to draw your section and tag your observations.
Provide basic statistics on the section measured, including the thicknesses and percentages of each lithology
See the locations of entire sections, measured intervals, and samples on a satellite image or road map.
Provide basic input and output of data using standard iOS conventions
Will work on iPhones or iPads. The program will work on iPods or iPads lacking a cellular data connection but those devices have fewer sensors and thus cannot be used in automatic data collection mode.