Monitoring & data quality
How to track planting and survival, choose monitoring tools, and test whether your restoration numbers hold up for funders.
Finding the Bad Records Across Thousands of Smallholder Plots
Find overlapping boundaries, duplicate farmers, impossible locations and made-up GPS across thousands of smallholder plots, then fix them in the field.
Best Biodiversity Monitoring Software in 2026: The Buyer's Shortlist
The best biodiversity monitoring software in 2026: Restoration Scope for most projects, then the tool for each method: camera traps, sound, eDNA and insects.
Audit Your Own Restoration Data with AI, a Free Skill to Copy
A free AI skill that audits your planting, monitoring and land data the way we do, with four questions and four tests, and tells you what to fix first.
How to Build Restoration Monitoring That Funders and Carbon Investors Trust
Funders and carbon investors trust monitoring they can trace. Define indicators early, tie numbers to plots and evidence, and report from the same records.
Restoration Monitoring Tools Compared and How to Choose
Restoration monitoring tools, from Restoration Scope, FERM, Restor and TerraMatch to KoboToolbox, QField and Collect Earth: what each tracks and who runs it.
How to Track Tree Planting and Survival Across Many Sites
Track planting and survival across many sites by tying every count to a site, date and species, then revisiting the same trees or plots each season.
What Four Basic Data Questions Reveal in Planting Data
Where, what happened, when, and what is true now? In planting operations, quantities and species need to connect to a place, a date, and current evidence.
A Spreadsheet Can Look Full and Still Be Missing What Matters
A full spreadsheet can still miss what matters. Four ordered tests (exhaustive, complete, correct, current) find data gaps while you can still act.
A Hierarchy of Data Needs for Nature Restoration Projects
Five levels of restoration data, from “we planted 100,000 trees” to a living record across seasons. Where you sit determines what you can prove.
Nature Data is Gold - The Foundation of Successful Restoration Projects
Discover why properly collected and georeferenced data is the most valuable asset for nature restoration projects.