Upcoming Office Hours- The RockWare Family Interfaces, July 8, 2010
June 30, 2010
The EQuIS for RockWorks interface can be used to quickly and easily export your EQuIS data to RockWorks for subsurface data visualization. LogPlot is a desktop log design and plotting program that allows you to create customized log formats and also allows you to use one of the available log designs used in the petroleum, environmental, and mining industries. The EQuIS for LogPlot interface allows you to export your EQuIS data to LogPlot.
In this office hours, a member of the EarthSoft Help Desk will be showcasing the many enhancements made to these RockWare Family Interfaces.
This session will be held at 11am EDT (-5 GMT) and 6pm EDT (-5 GMT) on July 8th.
To sign up for a session, please send us an email at officehours@earthsoft.com or register on the Office Hours page and indicate your session of preference. Note that spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
EnviroInsite Data Sheet Added to Products Page
June 30, 2010
Please visit the EnviroInsite product page to download the full data sheet.
EQuIS for ArcGIS & ArcGIS Server Supports ArcGIS 10
June 30, 2010
EarthSoft announced today support for ArcGIS 10 for the EQuIS for ArcGIS extension for ESRI’s ArcMap and ArcScene 3D Analyst applications and ArcGIS Server. In addition to supporting all of the existing EQuIS for ArcGIS features on the ArcGIS 10 platform, the next release of EQuIS (v5.5) will support these new ArcGIS 10-specific features:
ArcGIS 10 Time-Aware Layers
- The EQuIS EZView LayerBuilder creates time-aware layers – using the new ArcGIS 10 time slider control for creating temporal animations
ArcGIS 10 BaseMap and Templates
- Support for the new ArcGIS 10 locations for styles and map templates
- The Springfield tutorial site now includes ArcGIS 10 map template documents using the new basemap layers concept
ArcGIS 10 Metadata
- In addition to writing FGDC metadata for ArcGIS 9.3 users, EarthSoft supports the new ArcGIS 10 metadata description and updated the custom ‘Metadata’ layer properties tab using the new ArcGIS 10 styles
ArcGIS 10 User Interface
- 3D Preview Window for visualizing and interacting with a 3D scene of your layers in ArcMap
- Automatic setup of the Default Geodatabase when new EQuIS layers are added to documents
ArcGIS 10 Query Layers
- EQuIS EZView now supports creating ArcGIS 10 Query Layers – this creates ArcGIS layers with a live connection to EQuIS databases without any of the limitations with previous versions of ArcGIS
EQuIS for ArcGIS Server integrates the latest and most powerful ArcGIS Server web GIS tools with the EQuIS Enterprise EZView, making it easy to share mapping services and applications across the web. Web map viewers can build queries and generate graphs, charts, tables, crosstabs, statistics, graphics and other EZView exports, with intuitive web mapping and services tailored to the specific audience.
Combined with EarthSoft’s sophisticated EQuIS for ArcGIS module, these two EarthSoft modules extend ESRI’s product line with decision support and data analysis schemas and applications focused on groundwater, limnology, hydrology, geotechnical and other environmental and sample data management markets. EQuIS database schemas and EZView Pick Lists are available to the ESRI GIS users for vapor air, landfill gas, discharge water and other very specific sample types and markets tied to environmental and geotechnical samples.
EQuIS for ArcGIS Server demonstration videos are available at EarthSoft’s Community Center and their YouTube channel – http://community.earthsoft.com/ and www.youtube.com/earthsoft.
EarthSoft Part of PROTECT Project in Puerto Rico
June 24, 2010
EarthSoft is participating in the Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT), a NIEHS SRP P42 Research Program. Click here for a project overview and more information regarding this initiative.
New Presentation Featuring the WQX Module for EQuIS!
June 24, 2010
Now available for download, a PPT presentation featuring our new WQX Module for EQuIS!
EQuIS Mentioned in ArcUser Magazine Article about Barrick Gold
June 23, 2010
EQuIS mentioned in ArcUser Magazine article about Barrick Gold, “Organizing a Century of Data — Spatial data infrastructure created by world’s leading gold company.”
Quote: “Future work will include incorporating spatial data stored in other repositories, such as acQuire from acQuire Technology Solutions for geochemical and drilling data and EQuIS from ESRI business partner EarthSoft for environmental data.”
Click here to read the entire article online.
EarthSoft Releases Sample Planning Module (SPM)
June 18, 2010
EarthSoft announced today the first public release of the Sample Planning Module (SPM). SPM provides an automated planning and tracking tool for sampling events and field activities. SPM reduces repetitive, manual, error-prone data entry. EarthSoft tested eight beta versions of SPM prior to this first public release. SPM integrates into the EQuIS sample workflow and helps:
- Plan future sampling events and create field EDDs
- Prepare and distribute electronic pre-populated Chain of Custody forms and Bottle Labels
- Generate several Completeness Reports with lists of planned but uncompleted samples
- Pre-populate EQuIS EDGE IDEFs virtually eliminating manual data errors
SPM offers the flexibility to easily plan future sampling events. Users can schedule unique or repetitive events, such as daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual sampling events. SPM works in tandem with the EQuIS Data Gathering Engine (EDGE) field data entry application ensuring that sampling data from the field or the lab are gathered accurately and in a timely manner. EDGE minimizes keystrokes and errors.
Our clients tell us the majority of data management errors originate in the field. SPM can identify and help users remove most of these errors. A version of EDGE is available so that field data entry errors are flagged in real-time. The EQuIS workflow is closed loop, extending from SPM (task creation and scheduling) to EDGE, to EDP, and back to SPM (reports). This eliminates many human errors by exporting directly from SPM into a predefined EDD with sample, location and facility information that can be used in EDGE. EDGE and SPM greatly reduce manual data errors.
Once data are collected, users can generate a new EDD from EDGE. Finally, the EDD is reviewed in EDP and loaded into EQuIS. SPM provides reports to document this complete workflow cycle. SPM provides the ability to:
- Plan and Manage Field Sampling Events, including field samplings and laboratory analyses
- Prepare Bottle request forms (Bottle Orders) and Lab EDDs
- Prepare and distribute electronic chain of custody forms (eCOCs)
- Prepare EDGE Field EDDs and Field Summary reports
- Assure correct and complete sampling and analysis events
- Generate field and lab Completeness Checker Reports
- Greatly reduce data entry errors in the field and at the lab
- Import data to EQuIS from field sensors and data loggers
SPM’s growing list of reports includes Planned Analyte Group, Task Preview and Cost Summary, Bottle Requests, Bottle Labels (with bar codes), and Lab EDD reports. Similar to the Incomplete Samples Report, the Unplanned Samples Report generates a table of samples taken that were not part of the sample plan. With the Frequency Report, managers can see at a glance on a calendar what is being sampled and where over an entire year.
EarthSoft thanks the consultants and industrial clients that helped test and tune SPM, including Dave Van Vliet at AquaResource, Mike Plunz with Areva, Kevin Wilson with Cemex, Barrick Gold, and Frank Hagar at R Squared.
Upcoming Office Hours- Show Us How the System Works for You, June 24, 2010
June 14, 2010
This session will be conducted by you, EQuIS users! We want you to show us, and other EQuIS users, what works well for you in the EQuIS suite of products and how you would like to see the products improved.
We are looking for volunteers to present, as well as attendees for this Office Hours. Each session will contain up to six different 5 minute presentations, with time for questions between each presentation..
This session will be held at 11am EDT (-5 GMT) and 6pm EDT (-5 GMT) on June 24th.
To sign up to either present or attend a session, please send us an email at officehours@earthsoft.com or register on the Office Hours page and indicate your session of preference. Note that spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
EQuIS Used on Gulf Oil Spill
June 9, 2010
Video Press Conference and short training from a Gulf Spill Response Team:
http://bp.concerts.com/gom_training/houmasampletraining_052810.htm *
*This video mentions EQuIS at approximately the 12:50 minute mark and again at 20:30
Video outlining a Data Management Workflow being used:
http://bp.concerts.com/gom/watersamples_22052010.htm
SPM and EDGE – June 2010
June 6, 2010
Click here to download EarthSoft’s Office Hour: SPM and EDGE_June 2010
[length 48:09] [59MB]
This EarthSoft Office Hour video is an in-depth demonstration of EarthSoft SPM (Sample Planning Module) and EDGE (EQuIS Data Gathering Engine).
The Sample Planning Module (SPM) has been designed to make sample planning easier and to improve communication between labs and EQuIS Professional clients. This demonstration includes: SPM overview and workflow, creating a plan and tasks, scheduling, COCs and reports.
EDGE is a comprehensive collection of integrated environmental field tools ensuring accurate and complete data collection, using modern software, and mobile computing technologies.
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Table of Contents
Definitions – 00:21
Why SPM & EDGE? – 01:21
SPM & EDGE Workflow – 04:17
SPM: Planning – 07:15
Create Sample ID’s – 09:54
Create Sample Code – 11:31
Adding an Activity – 13:49
Add Other Activities – 14:42
Add a Sample – 16:11
Create Locations – 18:02
Containers – 20:31
Question 1 – Can you do a couple of test from the same container” – 20:44
Scheduling – 23:05
Calendar – 23:39
Reports – 26:10
Labels – 28:54
COCs – 31:08
Upcoming Tasks – 31:32
Completeness Summary – 32:07
EDGE – 36:42
Auto-Fill – 40:38
Send COCs – 41:10
GPS – 43:11
eSketch – 43:59
EDP Exports – 44:34
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