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Efficient ecology insights with KiECO.

Meet KiECO - The ecology module for better sampling

KiECO: Elevate environmental sampling with WISKI’s ecology module.

KiECO is an ecology module that sits within our core data management
software WISKI that has been designed to enrich the
comprehensive management of continuous and discrete environmental
sampling activities.
It’s features facilitate ecological assessments and then integrate this
information with hydrological and water chemistry datasets.
Whatever timescale you are monitoring within water, the environment or
weather, these IT innovations can help you to align data and add value to the
data chain, from collection to analysis and reporting.

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Product highlights

All-in-one planning, storage, analytics & reporting software

Enable multidisciplinary datasets — sampling data & hydrological information, discrete & continuous, ground-based & satellite sensing, and more — can be viewed, analyzed and reported together in a single system.

Flexible user-defined data fields

Define & track sampling methodologies, properties related to a group or individual organism, and abundance codes — without waiting for a developer or system administrator.

Unlimited storage of survey data & metadata

Perform extensive biological survey recordkeeping that meets quality assurance protocols. Store notes, images and video taken in the field with phones / tablets.

Web portal to share observations & indices with your community

Publish quality-assured, agency-approved observational data & insights via the Bio DataViewer web portal, or use web services to share with researchers / consultants.

Your benefits

1

Develop a holistic understanding of your watershed

Track & evaluate ecological, water quality, weather & hydrological data in a single platform to identify interdependencies. Examine environmental stressors, biodiversity and population changes.

2

Control lab costs with natural water quality indicators

Benthic monitoring costs less than chemical analyses. Some species are more sensitive to pollutants caused by human activity, and when they’re expected but missing from an ecosystem, poor aquatic health is a concern.

3

Overcome the fragmented nature of water quality monitoring

In contrast to water chemistry results from a sampling event, biological assessments and the absence / presence of immobile invertebrates reflect environmental quality over a longer term.

4

Ease burdensome biological monitoring data management

Different sampling methodologies, diversity of taxonomy, and changing taxa can make it difficult to store ecological data in the same system with water chemistry results & hydrological data — but we love overcoming challenges.

5

Calculate & share environmental health report cards with the public

Automate the calculation of biotic indices and more statistics on your ecological data; analyze results with water chemistry & report environmental health scores.

6

Meet Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) requirements

User-configurable & extensive meta data storage help meet rigorous QAPP criteria. Trace calendars, staff, GPS coordinates, etc. to document & confidently report qualified survey events and counts.

User-configurable & extensive meta data storage help meet rigorous QAPP criteria. Trace calendars, staff, GPS coordinates, etc. to document & confidently report qualified survey events and counts.

Laura Flynn, Data Mgmt. Specialist with Western Ontario Conservation Authority Hub in Ontario, Canada

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