The Environmental and Natural Resources System is for site managers who need to collate and report large volumes of diverse types of environmental data.  Methods are provided to enable easy electronic data receipt from consultants or other parties working on the site.  The data is consolidated into a single database for time-series or spatial analysis.

It is intended that all environmental data, and related management data will be stored within the system, and as such, it can accommodate all Geo-Environmental, Flora Fauna, Land use, and Environmental Management data.

Environmental monitoring often generates large datasets that are continually updated. Often electronic copies of the data are in non-consistent formats and files, meaning that effective data re-use is difficult and expensive.

ESDAT provides a systematic approach to storing, managing, analyzing, and reporting this data so it is stored in a consistent format and is immediately and easily made available to any party, whether or not they have an ESDAT license.

Data which needs to be collected, stored, and analyzed may include (but is not limited to):  

Geo-Environmental	Flora/Fauna	Land use	Management
Geological	Native flora	Fire Occurrences/Management	Energy and Resource Usage
Lithological	Native fauna	Erosion	Waste Production
Chemistry (soil, water, air)	Other flora/fauna	Heritage Sites (European/Indigenous)	Environmental Incidents
Piezometric levels	Pests
Contamination	Weeds
Surface Water

ESDAT databases are designed to accommodate data spanning many investigations, years and investigation types and can accommodate widely available data exchange formats.  ESDAT can be extended to accommodate any customizations required.  Key issues often encountered by Environmental Managers are: 

Transfer data between organizations Investigations are often undertaken by consultants who need to easily access the data at the start of an investigation, and need to submit the data upon completion.	Import laboratory, field, and historical data ESDAT imports from laboratories, field data can be entered using a PDA, historical data can be imported from a variety of typical formats.
Internet access to data ESDAT easily operates on databases stored over your network or over the internet, multiple organizations can have restricted or full access.	Data Analysis ESDAT has a built in GIS interface, with powerful analysis tools.
Export data to  ArcGIS, MapInfo, Surfer, Excel, EVS, WinLoG and other packages.	Formatted Chemistry, General Tables Chemistry, Geology, Water levels etc. can be output in any data structure/orientation. Exceedances of guidelines are indicated in a variety of formats.
Trend graphs and reports Plots any time series data into Excel (chemistry with environmental standards if desired). Identifies trends in a trend analysis report.	Report Production Automatically generate factual reports summarizing all available data as maps, graphs, tables and flag significant trends, output to Explorer or Excel.
Chemical Quality Assurance Summarize Field, lab and inter-lab duplicates with RPD errors, holding time exceedances, detects in blanks etc. are identified in Explorer or Excel.