Getting to Know Mobile GIS

Getting to Know Mobile GIS empowers readers to creatively use Mobile GIS and drive innovation in this fast-advancing field.

"Mobile-first" and the "post-PC era" aren't just buzzwords; they represent today's reality. Within the GIS industry, the mobile internet and Mobile GIS have profoundly transformed how we acquire, visualize, analyze, and disseminate geospatial information. With its ubiquitous use and location-aware capabilities, the mobile platform is an essential part of enterprise GIS across industries, making Mobile GIS crucial to the business operations and future success of wide-ranging organizations.

Getting to Know Mobile GIS helps GIS professionals and GIS students grasp the opportunities presented by Mobile GIS. It provides principles and detailed tutorials to teach today's cutting-edge Mobile GIS technologies. Using a no-code, low-code approach, it makes Mobile GIS easy and fun to learn. Readers can immediately become productive in creating enterprise GIS solutions, ranging from online and offline spatial data visualization, data collection, location sharing, and workforce coordination to integration with enterprise workflows.

Dr. Pinde Fu leads the Configuration team at Esri Professional Services and teaches at universities, including Harvard University Extension School. Dr. Pinde Fu champions the configure-first approach, maximizing Esri's out-of-the-box Web and Mobile GIS technologies to swiftly build GIS solutions. Additionally, as a Senior Principal Software Developer, Dr. Fu employs full-stack programming to develop custom solutions as needed. Several of his projects have won special achievement awards. Fu is the author of Getting to Know Web GIS (Esri Press, 2022) and lead author of Web GIS: Principles and Applications (Esri Press, 2010).