Sectors

Ecology

As an ecologist, time is precious and never more so than in ‘survey season’. Managing multiple projects is hard enough. But couple that with late night surveys that merge with early morning surveys and then add to that managing all your data and writing reports – it’s exhausting and time consuming. You need a no-fuss solution that helps you to collect accurate data and cuts out time wasted on tasks like transcribing data from paper forms.

Pen and paper is still often the go to method of data collection for ecologists, but with that comes some unavoidable challenges.

Locations, especially polygons are hard to map in the field on paper. Mandatory fields sometimes get missed. Back in the office, countless hours are spent transcribing data from paper to digital format and making sure photos are linked to records. There has to be a more efficient way.

How Coreo can help:

With its wide range of features focused on ecologists, Coreo will support you to streamline your data collection and give you more time to do the tasks that really matter.

Coreo helps you to…

Build surveys in minutes

It’s fast and seriously user friendly. Just drag and drop the questions and fields you need into your survey.
Once published, your survey is available immediately and you’re ready to collect data.
Update your survey anytime you need to. Updates are pushed dynamically to everyone using your survey.

Capture locations

Record location data quickly and accurately using the GPS on your device.
Whether its point data, lines or polygons, Coreo makes recording location data simple.
If you’ve already got locations you wish to use, import them into Coreo and reference them in your forms.

Improve data quality

Take control your datas’ quality with data validation.

Mandatory fields, drop-downs, multi-select lists and constrained numeric ranges all help reduce input errors.
And because your data is digital from the start transcription errors will be a thing of the past.
Custom reference guides provide you with in-field help when you need it.
Calculated fields and conditional questions make complex surveys super streamlined meaning that you can focus on what’s going on in the field rather than fighting with long paper forms.

Collaborate

Your surveys and/or data can be kept private. Or, you can set things up so that your whole team can collaborate.

Coreo lets you share some or all of your organisation’s surveys
Set permissions for individual users to enable certain people to build new surveys and manage both the team and the data.
If you have access to our citizen science module, you can share your project with the world

Manage your data

Easily manage all of your submitted data in Coreo’s Record Explorer module.

Quickly review and edit your records.
Set up a workflow to suit you. Once you’ve quality checked your data, flag your records.
Easily export your data in csv, GeoJSON or Shapefile format.

Relevant Case Studies

Monitoring Invasive Species – Queen Mary University London

Monitoring the damage caused to river banks by the invasive American signal crayfish

Monitoring wildlife on Wiltshire’s farms

Helping the farming community to monitor wildlife

Site management tool – Butterfly Conservation

A key tool for recording site visit and management activities for staff

Surrey Wildlife Trust & Surrey Biodiversity Information Centre

Streamlining data collection with the Trust realising the benefits of a digital method of data capture

The Back Garden Bird Race – Sussex Wildlife Trust

A hugely successful community project during Lockdown to record birds in your back garden

The Community Farm

Using Coreo to monitor changes in biodiversity

Relevant Blog Posts

Coreo – feature of the month: Recording location based data

This month we explore one of the key features of Coreo – recording location-based data. Background Data, especially environmental data, often has a spatial element to it. That is, we need to know where something is or was by recording its location. Despite advancements in technology, which have made accurate location mapping possible via phones […]

Dave Kilbey Nov 12 2021

Top 9 reasons that you should be using apps for data collection

Think that apps are beyond your reach financially as a business, or too complicated to consider? Think again! With cloud-based app systems anyone can build and run spatial data collection projects. Apps can act as a significant business lever, enabling you and your staff to save time, money and improve data quality. These days there […]

Dave Kilbey Nov 12 2021