Use a Mobile Field Data Collection App
As guardians of wildlife and habitat, Caskey’s business mission is to provide clients with “comprehensive fieldwork and reports that will meet regulatory requirements.” He realized that in order to more profitably continue that mission, he needed a mobile field data collection app that had these key features as a minimum:
- Flexible, accessible and easily adopted for fieldwork, enabling staff to use their own (familiar) mobile phones or tablets—whether android or iOS—to enter survey data.
- Offline productivity, cloud storage syncing, and integrated features
- Removal of the need to transcribe handwritten notes, thereby reducing errors and—most importantly—improving data integrity.
- The ability to deliver regulatory reporting in the strict format required.
Many Field Collectors Create One Unified Report
Once he was familiar with the standard features of Wildnote’s environmental data management software, Jason Caskey contacted Wildnote’s professional services with a custom request. He commissioned them to create the exact report export his client required, and never looked back. By implementing the Wildnote software, Caskey has an efficient way to review and edit information from the dozens of field biologists, and to consolidate all field data into the very specific single weekly report required by the utility. He is astounded at the time and frustration the Wildnote app and integrated software platform saves him.
“Wildnote has really helped us solve the time consumption problems that come with field documentation, and also managing and reporting that documentation in the office.”
Jason Caskey
Adopting Wildnote enabled Caskey to easily unify 250 individual field surveys and associated photos into a single document for the client to review each week. “We now have a custom photo-management system that gives us the photo log and data report that we need wrapped into one,” Jason says.
