Android

Smartphone
User Guide
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This is a guide to using FieldMove Clino and will cover:

Introduction

Caution
Important safety note.

Definitions
A glossary of terms used in the app and their definitions in the
context of FieldMove Clino.

Workflows
A quick run down of how to navigate through the features of
FieldMove Clino.

Location
How to operate your phones GPS effectively and select your
location manually.

Conventions
A guide to the conventions used in the app.

Data
An explanation of how to export data, the data types that
FieldMove Clino records, and how to import data into other
software applications.

Importing maps
How to import your georeferenced map into FieldMove Clino.

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Our Experience
Battery life, performance and checks.

System requirements
Minimum platform requirements and other available platforms.

About Midland Valley

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Introduction 4

FieldMove Clino is a digital compass-clinometer for data capture on

your smartphone. The app will allow you to use your Android device as
a traditional hand-held bearing compass as well as a digital compass-
clinometer for measuring and capturing the orientation of planar and
linear features in the field. You can also capture and store digital
photographs and text notes.

FieldMove Clino supports online Google Maps as well as offline

maps, so that you can import your own georeferenced basemaps.
Data can be exported as comma-separated values (.csv) or Move
(.mve) files and then imported directly into FieldMove, Move or
other applications.

In the following sections we have outlined some of the common

workflows and functionality within FieldMove Clino, to help get you
started.

When you start up FieldMove Clino for the very first time, you will see
the help pages (below, left). From then on, a hand-bearing compass
will appear (below, right). The instructions for using FieldMove Clino
as a hand-bearing compass can be found here.

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Caution 5

The use of GPS devices and smartphones as navigation aids.

Global Positioning System (GPS) devices are commonly used to aid

navigation, having grown in popularity over the past decade. Over
the last few years, this has extended to smartphones and digital
compasses, which are often equipped with GPS functionality.

GPS is a valuable aid to navigation during fieldwork, although it is

important to keep safety at the forefront, and we draw your attention
to the advice given by a number of mountaineering councils:

Everyone heading into the hills needs to learn how to read a map, and
be able to navigate effectively with a paper map and traditional magnetic
compass, especially in poor visibility.

Midland Valley will accept no liability or loss, resulting from the use or
misuse of this product.

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Definitions 6

There are a variety of terms used within FieldMove Clino. Below is a

list of terms and a simple explanation that broadly explains the term in
the context of FieldMove Clino.

Localities
Localities are a way of grouping data, much like you would in
a field notebook, and are up to you to define. Localities can be
applied to a field station, an outcrop, or you can apply a new
locality for each day in the field.

Notes
Notes are a georeferenced description of anything you wish,
such as a notable change in vegetation. This is akin to the notes
you take while traversing in a field notebook.

Comments
These are linked to specific measurements, for example describing
in detail the surface you have taken a dip measurement from.

Project
A project is a set of readings for an area. When exporting data
each project is exported individually.

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Workflows 7

Menu bar

In any screen, tap the Menu bar

(top left) to access different app pages.
You can also swipe from the left edge of the
screen to reveal the Menu page.

Project Management

Tap Switch Projects to set up a new

project or to change to a different project.

From this screen you can also access the

start-up guide by selecting the Help button.

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Workflows 8

Deleting a project

To delete a project, navigate to the Switch

Projects page.

Long press on the project you wish to

delete. You cannot delete the active
project. In order to do this, you will need
to switch projects first.

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The GPS and updates 9

FieldMove Clino uses your Android smartphones inbuilt GPS unit for
two tasks:
Finding your location when taking a reading
Showing where you are on the map

When taking a reading in compass-clinometer mode:

The grey crosshair symbol, left, which is displayed in the top

right corner of your phones screen (below your battery icon),
indicates that your phones GPS is being used to update your
current location. The time stamp in the top bar shows the last
time a new position was found. Note that the GPS is constantly
trying to update when the arrow has been filled.

If you tap the grey crosshair, your phones GPS becomes idle and
the crosshair appears hollow. While GPS will still be obtaining
your location, it will not be used for saving data. GPS will be
reactivated when you tap the hollow crosshair, and the black
crosshair will reappear.

If you manually add your own location, by tapping the current lat/long
value in the top bar, automatic updates stop and the last received
GPS position shows on the map as a blue dot. Your current data
location is shown by the red pin. If you tap the hollow crosshair it will
turn on the GPS and jump you to your current location on the map.

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The GPS map view 10

In Map view, your location is shown as a

glowing blue dot. in Google Maps, red in
offline maps. To change the GPS mode, tap
the crosshair .

When the grey crosshair is displayed, the map will centre on

your current location and pan as you move.

When the hollow crosshair is displayed, GPS is enabled but

the map will not pan as you move. The blue dot is the current
GPS position.

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Setting your location manually 11

FieldMove Clino automatically updates

your location from your phones GPS. You
can override this and manually input your
location using the map or lat/long values.

With the Compass in full view, tap the lat/

long value at the top of the page. This will
take you to a new screen, where you can
manually enter your location.

In this screen, you can long press on the

map to set your location manually.

Alternatively, you can enter your lat/long

values in Degrees/Minutes/Seconds (which
you may have from another GPS device or
from a map sheet).

If you are using another GPS device to

track your location, you can save battery
life on your phone by disabling GPS in your
phones location settings.

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Setting the stratigraphy 12

Creating rock units

When using FieldMove Clino for the first time,

the stratigraphy column is blank. Readings
will need to be assigned an associated
rock type, and you will have to build up a
stratigraphic column

Tap the Tap to add rock unit button,

which will bring up the stratigraphy table.

Within the stratigraphy/rock type screen,

tap the plus button to add new rock units.

Changing the units name and colour

To edit a units name and colour, tap the rock

unit to bring up the Edit rock unit dialog.

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Editing the stratigraphy/rock unit 13

To change the stratigraphy within the app

tap the current rock unit. This brings up the
stratigraphy/rock type screen. Here you
can Import a stratigraphy .csv file
exported from move or create your own
stratigraphy.

When you have added your own units and

set a colour you can drag these to the correct
order. Here swipe the three bars
situated on the left side of the unit, up and
down.

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Taking a bearing 14

Navigate to the Compass/Clino screen.

This is the screen that is displayed when
FieldMove Clino starts up.

Rotate the phone to your desired heading

and tap on the compass face to take a
bearing.

When you rotate the phone the red bar

shows you the deviation between your
current heading and the set bearing.

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Taking a reading 15

To take a reading, the Compass/Clino

screen must be displayed, with the face of
the clinometer maximised. To do this, tap
on the small clinometer face and this will
enlarge the clinometer, setting the app to
clinometer mode.

Tap the compass and the dip will turn from

red to black and show your reading. Now
assign the dip a Rock Type and Comments
to complete. To manually change this, tap
on the dip and azimuth numbers. Note: the
dip symbol orientation does not correspond
to north, but instead uses your phones
orientation.

For the very first dip you will need to assign a

rock unit before you can save. To add a new
rock unit, tap on the leading rock unit (in the
example, left, this is the yellow Unit 1 bar).
Make sure the time stamp has updated and
the GPS reading is at your current location.

Click Save to store the reading. Make

sure you see the confirmation popup Save
Successful! (shown left) or your reading
will not have been stored.

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Deleting and editing data 16

Deleting data

If you wish to delete data in the app, navigate

to the notes and images page and long
press on a reading to delete.

To delete a stratigraphy, open the strat

column and swipe the units to the left or
right.

Deleting a locality

To delete a locality, long press on a locality

in the Notes or Project page. Note: you
cannot delete the active locality.

Editing data and localities

You can edit data type, rock unit and add

a comment to a reading in the Notes and
Images view. Tap the piece of data you
wish to change, which will bring up the view
shown left (for a lineation measurement),
and you can then edit the associated
fields of that data point. Notes, photos and
measurements have slightly different edit
screens.

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Conventions used 17

In FieldMove Clino, all data is automatically

adjusted to true north if the declination is
set.

The app calculates the declination if the

user taps the compass symbol in the project
settings. Alternatively, the declination can
be set directly by the user.

For each measurement true north is

calculated using the set value in the project
settings. The measurements shown in the
app and those exported are all values in true
north. It is important that this is set before
readings are taken because old data will not
be updated.

FieldMove Clino records planar data as dip and dip azimuth, and linear
data as plunge, plunge azimuth.

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Accessing the exported data 18

When you have finished recording data,

choose Export from the top right-hand
corner of the project settings or the main
menu. This saves your data directly to your
phones memory as Move (.mve) and CSV
(.csv) files.

Note: a project with a large number of

pictures and data can take some time to
export.

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Accessing the exported data 19

To access your data, connect your phone to your pc as a USB mass

storage device. Navigate to the folder your data was exported to (listed
in the project settings). Your data will be saved here in three types:
CSV files, an images folder (containing your images) and a .mve file.

Copy these files into a location on your computer.

If you decide to use the CSV files, it is important to remember to

copy across the images folder in addition to the CSV files. Images are
automatically embedded in .mve files.

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App data type 20

The app exports the data directly as a .mve (Move) file, which means
you can open your project directly in Move and start to interpret and
validate your model in 3D and back through time. You can also view
your model using FieldMove or our free MoveViewer.

Importing data into Move

When importing the data into Move it is advisable to set up the

projection you want in a new document and insert the move file into
this new document. Doing so will avoid UTM calculation issues and
misplaced data for larger spanning projects. Set up the projection you
need in a new document, before inserting your .mve file. This process
will also flag up any UTM calculation issues on the import summary
and, generally, is a good check of data location/projection validity.

Collected fracture orientations and horizons as surfaces showing in Move.

Data from St Corneli Spain

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App data type 21

The app records georeferenced point data and point referenced

photos. Each point can be easily defined in a table, and so the data is
also exported as a .csv (CSV) file. A comma-separated values (often
abbreviated to CSV) file is a text file that records a row of data on
each line, with columns separate by commas. We export one point
per line, with the column headings in the top line of each file.

Many GIS software packages can import CSV/ASCII data. To view

these files quickly, you can also open them up with simple text
viewers, such as Notepad or Text Editor, and also more sophisticated
applications such as Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers.

Photos cannot be exported as CSV files. Instead the images are stored
as PNG files in the CSV project folder. The geographic location of
each photo can be found in the Image CSV file, along with the name
of the file, the bearing and any notes that have been added.

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Importing maps 22

You can import your own maps into FieldMove Clino. For example,
you can import the following types:

Geological
Topographical
Survey
Geophysical
Any other georeferenced image

You will need to have a georeferenced image file of your map. Common
formats for this include geotiff, jpeg2, kml etc.

This file will then need to be converted to MBTiles format so that

FieldMove Clino can read it.

There are a variety of programs that can perform this conversion,

including:

Global Mapper [Windows]

Map Tiler (free demo available) [Windows/Mac OS X/Linux]
Arc2Earth plugin for ARCgis [Windows]

Make sure you choose to tile your map at a resolution that is suitable
for the scale of mapping that you are performing. The maximum zoom
level is set when creating the MBTiles file. High zoom levels result in
much bigger file sizes so be wary of producing files that are too big
for your devices storage capability.

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For topopgraphical maps, a scale of 1m/pixel will produce a very large

file with a scale that will show paths, streams etc. For satellite images,
a scale that fits the resolution of the satellite is suitable. For geological
maps, finer resolution than the mapping itself may be more suitable
as this will allow you to really zoom in and test contacts and previous
interpretations. It is also worth making sure that you have small scale
zoom levels (typically a zoom of above 1:2,000,000). This will ensure
that you can see where your map is in relation to the global maps
on your phone, and will only take up a small amount of your phones
memory. It is worth taking some time to experiment with the scale of
the map that you want to use before going into the field.

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Importing maps 24

Once you have exported your maps into the

MBTiles format, drop these maps on the
external storage of your device in the folder:
Fieldmove/Maps

Next, safely disconnect your phone from

your PC and open up FieldMove Clino.
Select the project that you wish to load the
map into.

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Importing maps 25

In Map view, tap the Map View icon

Select Manage Maps. A list of maps
that you have added into the designated
FieldMove Clino folder will appear here.

Click on the map to add it to your current

projects maps.

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Touch the Map View icon again and select

the map that you have just imported, so that
it has been ticked.

This map will now be displayed.

Using the tick along the top bar you

can also change the data displaying in the
Map view.

The data in this view (including photos

localities and dip data) can be selected by
tapping on it.

This will bring up associated values such

as: dip/dip direction, orientation and locality
number.

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Our experience 27

The following comments are based on our experience of testing

FieldMove Clino with the following Android smartphone devices
running various versions of Jelly Bean (Android 4):
Nexus 4 running Android 4.3
HTC One S running Android 4.1.1
Samsung Galaxy SIII running Android 4.1.2
Samsung Galaxy Fame running Android 4.1.2.

In terms of battery life, if you are mapping from 9am - 5pm, with a full
battery at the start of the day, we have found that we have 25 to 30%
of the battery life remaining at the end of the day.

When your phone is locked, the GPS will become inactive and will
not drain the battery. You will need to reopen FieldMove Clino to
reactivate the GPS.

Things to watch out for when mapping with a smartphone

1. Make sure that you lock your screen when it is in

your pocket. This will ensure that you dont end up with
ghost readings while youre en route to the next outcrop.

2. Check that the GPS location has updated to your

current location, before saving a reading. Look at the time
stamp (underneath the lat/long values) and check that this
has the lat/long values for your current location. If you are
still unsure if the GPS has placed you correctly, tap the lat/
long reading (this will bring up the Map view) where you

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can check that your current location is correct on the map.

3. Make sure that your phone has enough storage space

for a days data collection. We recommend that, at the end
of each day, you copy your files from your phone to your PC
and back these up. You can then delete the project from
your phone and start a new project, to free up memory. If you
wish to put a project back onto your phone, simply paste
it from its saved location on your PC into the app folder.

4. At the start of the day, check your phones calibration before

taking a reading. Make sure that you are away from buildings,
cables and vehicles and compare the readings from your phone
with a traditional compass-clinometer.

5. Take care to check that you have made the right lithology
and structure type choices before hitting the Save button. It is
very easy to collect incorrectly classified data, which cannot be
used later (e.g. you have recorded a cleavage measurement as
bedding or vice-versa).

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System requirements 29

Minimum Android model requirements

An Android smartphone running operating system

Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 and above.

Please note, FieldMove Clino for Android will not scale up to 7 or 10

tablet devices.

iPhone version

An iPhone version of FieldMove Clino is also available to download

from the App Store.

Minimum iPhone model requirements

An iPhone 4, running iOS 6.0 and above.

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About Midland Valley

Midland Valley is a world leader in the field of structural geology and the
deveopment of software modelling tools, using structural validation,
restoration and forward modelling, to provide best practice workflows
and reduce structural uncertainty. Our structural modelling software
Move is the technology set of choice for all of the major Oil and
Gas and Mining companies, in addition to being used by Geological
Surveys and a varierty of Geotechnical organisations worldwide.

About Move

Move provides workflows for digital field mapping, cross-section

construction, 3D model building, kinematic restoration and validation,
geomechanical modelling, fracture modelling and sediment modelling.
The software helps the user to go beyond static models, which may
be little more than an artists impression or a computer animation. By
addressing time development of structure and checking evolutionary
feasibility, you are three times more likely to produce the correct result.

Find out more about the Move suite by clicking on the individual
icons below or email us for more information, pricing details or for
details about our software evaluation license.

Midland Valley Exploration Ltd

144 West George Street
Glasgow G2 2HG
+44 (0) 141 332 2681
info@mve.com
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