Field evidence that holds up under review
Environmental consultants and conservation teams live and die by the defensibility of their field records, from wetland boundary determinations to monitoring-well readings that an agency or opposing expert may scrutinize years later. Smart Site Plan puts NWI wetlands, NHD hydrography, and soils on the same map as your geotagged observations, and every form submission records who logged it, where, and when.
Real Environmental work over Bent Creek, Asheville, NC, captured in the product
The old way
Delineation flags get re-keyed from waterproof field notebooks into a spreadsheet, photos sit in a phone gallery with no coordinates, and the regulatory context lives in a stack of agency PDFs that nobody can reconcile against the GPS points. When a determination is challenged, there is no clean trail showing the sample point, the soil call, and the date in one place.
With Smart Site Plan
Defensible field records for wetlands, remediation, and compliance
The data, already on the map
Drawn from 20 million open datasets, one click each. No agency portal hunting, no format wrangling.
Workflows
How Environmental work gets done
End to end, in the browser, on one map.
Wetland delineation field day
- 1. Open Data
Load NWI wetlands, NHD streams, and SSURGO hydric soils for the project parcel to scope where boundaries are likely.
- 2. Forms
Record a routine determination at each sample point: vegetation, hydrology, and soil indicators captured in a structured form, filled offline if there is no signal.
- 3. Photos
Pin geotagged photos of the soil pit and the dominant vegetation to the exact sample-point coordinate.
- 4. Draw
Walk and draw the delineated wetland boundary with live area readout, then compare it against the mapped NWI polygon.
- 5. Export
Export the boundary and sample points as GeoJSON or, on Pro, DXF for the delineation report and survey base map.
Remediation monitoring round
- 1. Import
Bring in monitoring-well coordinates and the permitted site boundary from a Shapefile or GeoPackage, reprojected from State Plane on import.
- 2. Forms
Log each well's gauging and field readings as a dated form submission tied to the well location.
- 3. Style
Apply a data-driven color ramp so wells exceeding cleanup thresholds stand out and plume extent reads at a glance.
- 4. Smart Query
Run a Smart Query to flag wells trending upward across the last several rounds.
- 5. Share
Send the regulator and the client a share link to the current round.
Conservation compliance watch
- 1. Import
Load the conservation easement or mitigation bank boundary as the monitored area of interest.
- 2. Alerts
Set an alert to be notified when activity or conditions change inside the protected boundary.
- 3. Photos
Document any encroachment or vegetation change with geotagged photos during the annual monitoring visit.
- 4. Share
Send the steward and counsel a view-only link to the flagged location so both work from the same record.
What you can do
Frame a delineation against regulatory context
Pull NWI wetland polygons, NHD streams, and SSURGO hydric soil ratings into the current view before you ever set a flag, so your sample points land where the published mapping suggests a boundary. Compare the agency context against what you record in the field and document where the routine determination departs from the mapped line.
Track a remediation site through its lifecycle
Import monitoring-well locations and the permitted site boundary, then log each sampling round as a structured form submission pinned to the well so concentration trends sit on the map, not in a binder. Style points by analyte exceedance to show plume extent and recovery over successive rounds at a glance.
Monitor permitted boundaries for change
Set Alerts on a conservation easement, mitigation bank, or remediation footprint so you are notified when activity or conditions change inside the line. Catch encroachment, unauthorized clearing, or a missed monitoring interval without a truck roll to confirm.
Keep a defensible field record
Each form submission is stored with who submitted it, where, and when, and geotagged photos stay pinned to their coordinates, so a determination can be rebuilt from its sample points long after the crew has demobilized.
The capabilities Environmental teams lean on
Offline field forms + geotagged photos
Crews capture routine wetland determinations and sampling-round readings on a phone in a no-signal floodplain, with photos pinned to coordinates and drafts submitted on reconnect.
Regulatory context, scoped to the site
NWI wetlands, NHD hydrography, and hydric soil ratings load scoped to the current view, so determinations are framed against the published mapping a reviewer will check.
Reviewer-ready share links
A view-only link gives the regulator, the client, or counsel the same map of boundaries and sample points, with no account to create.
Boundary alerts
Monitored conservation, mitigation, and remediation boundaries notify you of change between scheduled site visits.
In practice
Defending a contested boundary in the Hillsborough River watershed
A wetland scientist runs a delineation on a 60-acre parcel in the Hillsborough River watershed near Tampa, Florida, with NWI wetlands and SSURGO hydric soils already on the map. A routine determination and a soil-pit photo are logged offline at each sample point, and the boundary is drawn where the field indicators actually fall, several yards inside the mapped NWI line. Eight months later, when the determination is challenged, every sample point comes back with its date, location, and photo.
What changes
- Delineation boundaries, sample points, and photos live in one defensible record, not three disconnected systems
- Monitoring rounds build a visible plume-over-time history on the map, not in a binder
- Encroachment and missed intervals surface through alerts before they become violations
- Determinations can be reconstructed years later from dated, geotagged form submissions
- Field crews work offline and submit clean records on reconnect, no re-keying from notebooks
Environmental, answered
Yes. Forms fill as drafts offline and submit automatically on reconnect, and geotagged photos stay pinned to their coordinates. A delineation deep in a floodplain records the same way it would with full bars.
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