E-Surveyor
E-Surveyor is a free mobile app that helps farmers and landowners to assess the quality of habitats they manage by undertaking plant surveys. It can be used to support the assessment of agri-environment schemes such as Countryside Stewardship, Sustainable Farming Incentive and Landscape Recovery. The app can be used to compare plants you record in a survey with those sown on options such as meadows, wildflower plots and margins, as well as being a relevant monitoring method for Biodiversity Net Gain.
Within the app, users can take advantage of the AI technology to assist with the identification of plant species. This can be used to generate a plant list for the survey area of interest. Information on associated habitat types and pollinators are provided as a report for the user following completion of the survey. Surveys can also be undertaken in a more structured format allowing users to compare observations from different surveys and established checklists, such as positive and negative indicator plant species for their respective habitat type.
The app can be downloaded on the Google Play Store or on the Apple App Store.
More information, including introductory videos on how to use the app can be found
on the E-Surveyor page of the CEH website. What the short video below for
an introduction to e-surveyor:
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