Open Foris Arena Mobile

Arena Mobile is a fast, intuitive and flexible data collection tool for field-based surveys.

This app allows the completion of complex data structures, such as biophysical, socio-economic or biodiversity surveys. Its many features include:


On-the-fly validation to improve data quality

Handling of large lists of species or other attributes

Geo-location through embedded GPS

Integration with Collect And Arena for data management, analysis and export to commonly used formats

Processes inputs and calculates attributes for quality control in the field



Arena Mobile is part of the Open Foris tools suite for designing and managing field-based inventories. To setup a survey use Arena, create your survey, and export it for Arena. Once the data has been collected, import it into Collect or Arena for data cleansing and analysis. Go to http://www.openforis.org to find out more.