The Atlas of Living Australia is a collaborative, national project that collects biodiversity data from multiple sources and makes it freely available and usable online.
Now they have released a new mobile app called 'BioCollect' that will make it even easier for landholders and NRM managers to collect data on the go.
BioCollect is a sophisticated, yet simple to use tool developed in collaboration with over 100 organisations which are actively involved in field data capture. It has been developed to support the needs of scientists, ecologists, citizen scientists and natural resource managers in the field-collection and management of biodiversity, ecological and natural resource management data.
BioCollect provides form-based structured data collection for:
survey-based records;
method-based systematic structured surveys; and
activity-based projects such as natural resource management intervention projects (eg. revegetation, site restoration, seed collection, weed and pest management, etc.).
It also supports upload of unstructured data in the form of data files, grey literature, images, sound bytes, videos, etc.
The system is fully integrated with other Atlas tools and they are currently working to enable seamless linkages with other global project finders, and other related national research infrastructure facilities such as the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) and the Australian National Data Service (ANDS)