Field workflow #
Field workflow is a field notebook on your phone. In the field, an entomologist uses the phone to take photos very quickly: photos of insects, of sites, and of anything else useful for documentation.
A photo becomes a record #
You take a photo through the ENTOMONE app. Once it is taken and saved, every such photo becomes a record.
After you get back home, each record can be edited and given a name. What matters most is that the record lands in your record database, which you can treat as documentation with a map, GPS and all the other data attached.
This is a fast way of working. In the field you do not need to describe everything right away. First you save the fact of the observation, the photo and the point.
Capturing a point in the field #
In this scenario you can also work differently. You can use ENTOMONE to capture points in the field by taking one or a few photos of the area you are working in.
Then you move on to normal field work and use the camera as usual, saving photos to the gallery and not through the app. This is very simple and fast.
After you get back home, you pick the photos you want from the gallery, upload them to the database and create records. The points saved earlier help you reconstruct the terrain and assign photos to the right context.
What matters most in the field #
In the field, what matters most is:
- the photo,
- the date,
- GPS,
- the active dataset,
- the observer,
- a quick save,
- the ability to return to the record later.
The full species identification, notes, site, specimen count and other details can be completed after you get back.
After the trip #
After you get back home, you open your records on a computer or phone and organise them. You can add a species name, correct the locality, check the site, add photos and prepare the records for further work.
This is exactly the point of ENTOMONE: the field work can be fast, while the data processing is thorough.