Carbon project field monitoring software
Carbon projects that earn Australian carbon credit units have to keep evidence for each reporting period — stratum boundaries, plot measurements, management activities and anything that disturbed the project area such as fire or clearing. Auditors sample that evidence. A field visit that cannot show which plot it measured and when, with photos, is a gap the auditor will find.
Built for project developers running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Carbon audit evidence
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Carbon audit evidence
Field evidence record — Reporting period 3
- Project
- Mulga Plains regeneration project (fictional)
- Visit
- 6–8 July 2026
- Purpose
- Plot remeasurement and disturbance check
| Item | Evidence captured | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Plot CEA2-P14 | Remeasured; photos at four cardinal points | Status: Complete |
| Plot CEA2-P17 | Marker post missing; relocated by GPS | Status: Note |
| Fire scar, CEA3 east | Approx. 40 ha burnt since last period | Status: Report |
| Stock exclusion fence | Two breaks on western boundary | Status: Repair |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the carbon audit evidence where your template puts it.
Per plot
- Plot ID and carbon estimation area
- Marker condition and coordinates
- Measurements required by the method
- Photo points
Disturbance
- Type (fire, clearing, flood, pests)
- Location and estimated area
- Photos
Management activities
- Fencing and stock exclusion
- Pest and weed control done
Standards the report works to
- Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011
- The legislation that sets record-keeping, reporting and audit obligations for registered projects.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the carbon audit evidence gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the carbon project monitoring form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your sample locations
Enter sample locations once, as a register. Every one of your samples, bores and monitoring rounds then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The carbon audit evidence renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a carbon audit evidence must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The report says every bore was sampled to three metres; the form has BH07 refused at 1.2 m.
Checks a environmental framework usually carries
- Every exceedance in the results tables is discussed in the assessment text
- The guideline values cited match the land use actually being assessed
- No sample or bore ID appears in the prose that is absent from the data
- Data gaps, refusals and deviations from the sampling plan are stated as limitations
Questions
- Can plots be revisited each period without re-entering details?
- Plots are a register, so each visit points at the stored plot and adds to its history.
- Can disturbances be mapped?
- A map field captures the location of each disturbance, with photos and an area estimate.
- Can field staff work on remote properties without coverage?
- Forms, photos and notes are captured offline and synced once back in range.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other environmental work we cover
- Riparian zone assessmentsRiverbank condition report
- Sediment samplingSediment quality report
- Soil sampling programsSoil test report
- Spill response documentationIncident spill report
- Surface water samplingWater quality report
- Vibration monitoringVibration compliance report
- Weed mapping programsWeed infestation map report
- Wetland condition assessmentsWetland health report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your carbon audit evidence in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.