Geonote: A Field Notebook and Database for Geology

Field studies in Geology typically require taking notes in a paper based field notebook that is then stockpiled for future references. The so stored data is hardly accessible over the years, and information sharing is also difficult because of searching time, and the particularities in notation from different experts. Although organizations like the Open Geospatial Consortium favor the standardization, the aforementioned issues exhibit the need for information systems to store geologic data that enable further analysis. In this paper, a system is proposed for geological data capture and storage, based on requirements specified by Geology experts in Peru. The resulting system maintains a hierarchical organization of geologic information, and suggests an architecture based on a normalized relational database. Finally, the system is capable to retrieve information from the geologic database, and generate a set of user defined reports.