Features
01: Define Project — What do you need to study?
Project Wizard
Get your project’s data-to-report pipeline ready in minutes. Fill out this form and eOceans sets up your data management, analysis, and reporting automatically. Launch your project and it’s live and ready to receive data in the eOceans mobile app and dashboard.
To define a project tailored to your needs, use this form to specify your goals, study area, data sources, and variables. eOceans uses your answers to configure your project and its data workflows automatically. Add your project name, logo, and banner images to make it your own.
Smart Boundaries™
Draw your study area on the map, upload a geofence, or select a predefined area to set your project’s geographic boundaries. eOceans automatically routes data to the right projects. Once your study area is defined, incoming data from uploads, data streams, and field teams is matched to the geographic boundaries of each project. Data with coordinates inside your study area flows into your project automatically, without manual sorting.
Methods Catalogue™
Onboard your team to standardized protocols asynchronously, so everyone collects and records data the same way. Add text, videos, links, and images to explain methods clearly and keep practices consistent across locations, over time, and through staff changes. The result is cleaner, interoperable data you can compare and build on.
Variable Builder™
Select the variables you need to build your project around.
Species: Choose from more than 200,000 species, organized by group, kingdom, or name and kept up to date with international standards. Go beyond identification to record condition, behaviour, and life stage, including whether an animal is dead, injured, diseased, mating, or aggressive. Standardized variables help keep data consistent and valid. Not studying species? Simply select none.
Humans: Capture human activities and their impacts, including pollution. Your selections become data-entry fields in the app and flow through to your analyses and reports. Not studying human activities? Simply select none.
*If you need a species or humans variable that isn’t already available, it can be added.
Environment: Add environmental context to your observations, including optional water and surface-air conditions.
Policy Watch™
Put management rules into the hands of your field teams. Add the regulations, restrictions, and management requirements that apply to your project. Define prohibited activities, restricted actions, and any conditions that must be met. Field teams can access the relevant rules while collecting data, helping put observations in context and support monitoring against management requirements.
Ethics & Attribution Manager™
Track and share who supports the work. Find connections across projects. Record funders, sponsors, partners, rights holders, permissions, and ethical considerations in one place. Connect organizations and contributors across projects to make funding and partnerships easier to trace, recognize contributions consistently, and discover who else is working with the same funders or on related initiatives. Clear attribution and documented permissions also help teams understand where evidence came from and how it can be responsibly used.
02: Add Data — What data to add?
Datastream Builder
All your data together — clean, interoperable, properly managed. Bring field observations, existing datasets, and team contributions together in one connected, analysis-ready dataset. eOceans standardizes, validates, and integrates data from different sources, reducing manual data handling and making information easier to analyze, combine, and reuse.
Mobile app
Collect quality data in the field by giving your field team everything they need to record consistent, reliable observations. Collect your project’s selected variables and essential metadata in one place, including GPS coordinates, date, time, photos, and observer details. Built-in tools help teams identify species, collaborate on uncertain observations, and catch errors while still in the field, before data enters the wider dataset.
The eOceans mobile app has many features built-in to improve data quality:
Recents — Quickly select recently recorded observations and reduce repetitive data entry.
Automatic Metadata — Capture location, date, time, observer details, and other relevant information alongside each record.
Field Guide — Access species information in the field to support faster, more accurate identification.
ID Please — Ask teammates to help identify species or verify uncertain observations.
Quality Check — Catch missing information, invalid entries, and other issues in the field so they can be corrected before submission.
Magic Uploads™
Bring existing spreadsheets and historical datasets into your project.Upload your data and eOceans automatically standardizes, validates, and maps it to your project’s variables and rules. Combine historical records with new observations without manually reformatting or reconciling datasets.
Data Downloads
Download your data whenever you need it, in standardized, analysis-ready formats. Take your data into other tools, combine it with other datasets, or use it for your own analyses and reporting.
03: Review Results — What are your data telling you?
Live Dashboards
Turn your data into insights. Use eOceans to explore sampling effort, observations, trends, and patterns across sites and time. Filter and visualize your data in countless ways, with dashboards that update as new data arrives.
Automated & Custom Analysis
Your project includes analyses and filters based on your selected variables and needs (see below for examples). For additional analysis, download your data to use in other tools or work with our experts to add custom analyses and visualizations that update as your data arrives.
Maps
See where things happen — Automatically generate point maps, heat maps, and rasters as data comes in. See distributions, hotspots, spatial patterns, and changes across your study area.
Effort, Observations & Trends
See what’s happening and changing. Track where, when, and how observations are collected. Compare effort, observations, sites, seasons, species, and time periods using automated charts, analyses, and tables to explore abundance, diversity, richness, evenness, frequency, and trends.
Observations per Unit Effort
Compare results fairly. Compare catch or observation rates while accounting for differences in sampling effort. Explore measures such as CPUE and species accumulation curves to assess patterns and sampling completeness.
Interactions & Relationships
Explore what connects. Examine relationships among species, environmental conditions, human activities, and other variables. Explore co-occurrence, associations, and differences across sites and time.
04: Distribute Reports — How will you share your results, and with whom?
Automated Reporting
Turn results into reports and publications. Select the analyses, figures, and tables you need, then download them or add them to your own reports. Publish your results on demand and control who can access your projects and reports. Public access is the default. Generate HTML or PDF reports from your project data.
Reports & Publications
Generate HTML or PDF reports from your project data. Select the analyses, figures, and tables you need, then download them or add them to your own reports. Publish your results on demand and control who can access your projects and reports. Public access is the default, making open sharing straightforward.
05: Measure Impact — What impact is your work having?
Impact & Engagement Tracking
Understand the impact your work is having. Track the activity, reach, and engagement of your work over time. Monitor measures such as contributors, participation, surveys, observations, sites, and other project-specific indicators to understand who is involved, how your work is growing, and whether it is reaching its goals.
Impact Tracker™
Track activity and progress. Monitor participation, contributors, surveys, observations, sites, and other key measures over time. See how your program’s activity is changing, who is involved, and whether it is progressing toward its goals.
