ESDAT 4.0
Introduction
Earth-Science Data Manager (ESDAT) s designed to meet the needs of Contaminated / Industrial Site, Groundwater, and Landfill Investigations, as well as general environmental data management.
Developed in Australia, ESdat is used globally and is the leading specialist environmental database management software in the Asia Pacific. For use by environmental consultants and site managers concerned with environmental monitoring data, compliance and management.
The environmental database can input from laboratories, field PDAs, hand written notes, historical, logger, documents and other data sources. The environmental database software performs quality assurance (QA) analysis and has automatic data validation checks. Environmental guidelines are pre-loaded so that your data can immediately flag conformances and exceedances suitable for monitoring and the remediation of contaminated sites, industrial sites and mining sites.
Output from the environmental database includes formatted chemistry tables with environmental guidelines and exceedances. Chemistry quality assurance reports showing duplicate relative percent difference (RPD) calculations, detects in blanks, holding time exceedances and surrogate recovery problems with criteria levels are automatically produced. Spatial data can be shown directly on an inbuilt map, or linked to ArcGIS, MapInfo, Surfer, EVS or Google Earth. Data can be output as trend analysis with graphs. Borehole log data can be output using exports to gINT and WinLog.
Contaminated / industrial site
Investigations typically generate large volumes of soil, water, gas and QA data, which require time consuming analysis and reporting in standard formats. ESdat can automate these tasks.
Groundwater
Assessment often integrates geological, piezometric, chemical, surface water and rainfall data. ESdat users can analyse these data sets by aquifer, spatially or temporily.
Landfill
monitoring often results in significant time-series datasets. ESdat can store all your monitoring data; produce report-ready tables, graphs and maps; and can automatically update these as new data becomes available.
Site managers
Who need to track ongoing monitoring or investigations can collect large isolated datasets. Electronic copies of the data may be in non-consistent formats, meaning that data re-use and integration is difficult and expensive. ESdat provides a systematic approach to storing, managing, analysing and reporting this data. ESdat also has optional Flora/Fauna and Operational extensions that can extend the system to include all of your site's environmental data.