Mine rehabilitation monitoring software
Mine operators monitor rehabilitated landforms against the completion criteria in their approvals: slope stability, erosion, vegetation establishment, species diversity and weed cover. Monitoring is done on fixed transects and quadrats, often annually, and the progress report has to show each domain moving toward the criteria — or explain why it is not. Consistent plot identity over many years is the whole game.
Built for mine operators running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Rehab progress report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Rehab progress report
Rehabilitation domain R4 — Year 5 monitoring
- Operation
- Ironbark Ridge Mine (fictional)
- Domain
- R4 overburden emplacement, north face
- Monitored
- 20 August 2026
| Criterion | Year 5 observation | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Projective foliage cover | Shrub layer established across all quadrats | Status: On track |
| Erosion | Two gullies > 0.3 m deep on upper batter | Status: Not met |
| Species richness | Seed-mix species recorded in 4 of 5 quadrats | Status: Progressing |
| Weed cover | Buffel grass at toe drain | Status: Control |
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 rehab progress report where your template puts it.
Per quadrat or transect
- Plot ID (fixed across years)
- Cover by stratum
- Species list
- Weed species and cover
- Photo point
Per domain
- Erosion features and dimensions
- Slope and surface condition
- Drainage structures
- Comparison with completion criteria
How the rehab progress report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the rehabilitation 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 rehab progress report 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 rehab progress report 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 each plot keep its identity over ten years of monitoring?
- Plots are a stored register, and each year’s monitoring points at the same plot so its history accumulates in one place.
- Can our approval’s completion criteria be the checklist?
- Yes. Your firm authors the form, so each criterion can be a question per domain, with option wording that reads correctly in the report.
- Can the progress report compare years automatically?
- Your template can place earlier years’ results beside the current year’s for each domain, drawn from the stored plots.
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
- Phase 2 contamination samplingSampling analysis report
- 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
Other disciplines
Rebuild your rehab progress report 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.