The Ecologist's Data Collection Toolkit
Ready-made data collection in QGIS
Customised and easy to use QGIS templates with pre-loaded data layers, map layouts & reporting outputs for you to embed into your workflow.
The Ecologist's Data Collection Toolkit templates have been designed for independent ecologists & small ecological consultancy firms to complete their data collection, digitisation and mapping outputs in-house without the need for enterprise level I.T or recurring subscriptions.
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Customised with your branding, colours and logos for you to create a consistent and easy to use workflow for your survey work using QGIS. All the hard work, research and development has been done to ensure you can plug in your survey information into the template data layers to produce great looking map outputs, reports and data for your work.
No more spending hours hand typing in your survey data
Produce consistent & clear map outputs for your reports
Collate all of your data for projects in one place
Habitat Mapping
What you'll receive
A customised QGIS project template with pre-loaded data layers, styles, map & report outputs with your branding for you to embed into your workflow.
Data layers included
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Target notes
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Site boundaries - red & blue line with automatic buffers
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Data collection layers:
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Habitats (multiple style options available)​
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​Linear features
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Trees (includes common species list)
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Habitat suitability Index results
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Customised BNG template (if required)​
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Digital map layouts included
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A4 & A3 print layouts in portrait and landscape using your logo and brand colours.
Report outputs included
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Table of target notes with your comments & map
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Table of habitats, area calculation and any comments
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HSI table export
Customisation
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Your brand on map exports & reports to create consistent and professional outputs that are report ready
Guidance notes & Documentation included
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Video guides
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Adding your target notes & comments​
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Adding a site boundary & using the buffer layers
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Creating your habitat features
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Generating & exporting your map
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Generating and exporting your report
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Importing DXF data from your client
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PDF Guides​
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What basemap to use & how to get quality data for accurate digitising & collection​
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Creating quality data layers & common GIS troubleshooting to get the best from your efforts
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Bat Mapping
What you'll receive
A customised QGIS project template with pre-loaded data layers, styles, map & report outputs with your branding for you to embed into your workflow.
Data layers included
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Target notes
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Site boundaries - red & blue line with automatic buffers
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Basic habitats to support wider contect of site​
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Potential roosting features, locations & images
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Preliminary roost assessment
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Surveyor location and viewing direction
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Emergence data - including species list
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Building PRA
Digital map layouts included
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A4 & A3 print layouts in portrait and landscape using your logo and brand colours.
Report outputs included
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Table of target notes with your comments & map
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PRF data report
Customisation
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Your brand on map exports & reports to create consistent and professional outputs that are report ready
Guidance notes & Documentation included
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Video guides
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Adding your target notes & comments​
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Adding a site boundary & using the buffer layers
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Creating your features
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Generating & exporting your map
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Generating and exporting your report
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​PDF Guides​
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What basemap to use & how to get quality data for accurate digitising & collection​
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Creating quality data layers & common GIS troubleshooting to get the best from your efforts
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Bird Mapping
What you'll receive
A customised QGIS project template with pre-loaded data layers, styles, map & report outputs with your branding for you to embed into your workflow.
Data layers included
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Target notes
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Site boundaries - red & blue line with automatic buffers
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Pre-populated forms to collect your species, flight direction & other required survey information
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Clear symbols reflect the data inputs to convey the information to the reader easily
Digital map layouts included
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A4 & A3 print layouts in portrait and landscape using your logo and brand colours.
Report outputs included
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Table of target notes with your comments & map
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List of species found and the total counts
Customisation
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Your brand on map exports & reports to create consistent and professional outputs that are report ready
Guidance notes & Documentation included
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Video guides
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Adding your target notes & comments​
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Adding a site boundary & using the buffer layers
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Creating your features
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Generating & exporting your map
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Generating and exporting your report
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​PDF Guides​
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What basemap to use & how to get quality data for accurate digitising & collection​
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Creating quality data layers & common GIS troubleshooting to get the best from your efforts
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Badger Mapping
What you'll receive
A customised QGIS project template with pre-loaded data layers, styles, map & report outputs with your branding for you to embed into your workflow.
Data layers included
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Target notes
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Site boundaries - red & blue line with automatic buffers
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Badger signs
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Other mammal signs
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General survey notes
Digital map layouts included
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A4 & A3 print layouts in portrait and landscape using your logo and brand colours.
Report outputs included
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Table of target notes with your comments
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Sett information
Customisation
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Your brand on map exports & reports to create consistent and professional outputs that are report ready
Guidance notes & Documentation included
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Video guides
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Adding your target notes & comments​
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Adding a site boundary & using the buffer layers
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Creating your features
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Generating & exporting your map
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Generating and exporting your report
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​PDF Guides​
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What basemap to use & how to get quality data for accurate digitising & collection​
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Creating quality data layers & common GIS troubleshooting to get the best from your efforts
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Reptile Mapping
What you'll receive
A customised QGIS project template with pre-loaded data layers, styles, map & report outputs with your branding for you to embed into your workflow.
Data layers included
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Target notes
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Site boundaries - red & blue line with automatic buffers
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Refugia locations & type
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Survey weather data collection
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Reptile data (age, sex, species)
Digital map layouts included
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A4 & A3 print layouts in portrait and landscape using your logo and brand colours.
Report outputs included
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Table of target notes with your comments & map
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Species list report
Customisation
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Your brand on map exports & reports to create consistent and professional outputs that are report ready
Guidance notes & Documentation included
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Video guides
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Adding your target notes & comments​
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Adding a site boundary & using the buffer layers
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Creating your features
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Generating & exporting your map
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Generating and exporting your report
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​PDF Guides​
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What basemap to use & how to get quality data for accurate digitising & collection​
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Creating quality data layers & common GIS troubleshooting to get the best from your efforts
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Go from field to finished!
Go from Field to Finished with this bonus offer! If you already collect your data digitally, or aspire to, I can amend your template to be compatible with QFIELD.
Improvements
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Integration of your templates to use QFIELD
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Allows you to take multiple photographs on site for target notes, PRAs, PRFs or other elements of your templates
Video guides
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Creating offline maps for context in the field
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Adding data into QFIELD
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Preparing a QFIELD project, exporting to the cloud and back into QGIS
PDF guides
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Your brand on map exports & reports to create consistent and professional outputs that are report ready
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What basemap to use & how to get quality data for accurate digitising & collection​
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Creating quality data layers & common GIS troubleshooting to get the best from your efforts
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Detailed QFIELD interface guidance
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