TransektCount

TransectCount supports the species-specific counting of butterflies per transect section according to the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme method. It is meant for transect counters to ease registering butterflies and day-flying moth during transect surveys.

New in Version 5.1.6:
• Code improvements
• GPX file import recognizes also files having 1 track with n track segments instead of having n tracks
• Entering species notes proposed with predefined wordings like "Photo", "Flyby", "New species", …
• Cloud %-values rounded to multiples of 10
• More restrictive plausi for input of metadata numbers
• Name composition for exported files changed
• "Help" text updated
• Docs updated
• Bugfix for importing a species list

Features:
• Data collection is based on a transect inspection.
• Databases refer to a transect and can be individually created and customised within the app with regard to metadata, transect sections and expected species.
• The app contains an internal list with many European species and has a prepared database for a transect section with the most common species to be expected in Germany as a starting point for direct use.
• Export of the current species list for later re-import by TransektCount or import by the complementary app TourCount.
• Separate counters for internal/external counting areas and separately for ♂-♀-indeterminate, ♂, ♀, pupa, caterpillar or egg.
• Results page with prepared presentation for transfer to the input mask of Butterfly Monitoring Germany (web.app.ufz.de/tagfalter-monitoring/).
• The results can be exported in formatted XLSX or CSV format, as well as in an SQLite database file (e.g. to transfer them to a PC, for easier reading in a spreadsheet program, or for further processing).
• The help contains detailed user instructions.
• TransektCount supports counting in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish language and provides locale species names in these languages.

Functions:
• Duplicate and delete transect sections.
• Editing the transect section lists (adding and deleting species and editing terms).
• Editor for metadata in preparation for an inspection.
• Counter page per section with scroll-down list for species selection.
• Species editor for annotation and bulk counter entries.
• Optionally, GPS support for an info to change the current section.
• The results page shows metadata, notes, totals and counting results per species and transect section.

Prerequisites:
The app requires permits for
• storage access for importing and exporting counting data, results, species lists or track data,
• preventing the sleep mode und
• (optionally) the GPS controlled signaling of the current transect section.

The device screen should have a minimum resolution of 1024 x 1920 pixels.
The app can be used with Android version 11 or newer.

Documentation is provided under:
https://github.com/wistein/TransektCount/tree/master/docs.

TransektCount is one of two apps for monitoring European butterflies.
The second app, TourCount, supports the species-specific and individually GPS-localised counting of butterflies on any walk in nature.

Both apps use the coding scheme of Karsholt/Razowski for European butterflies and thus contain only European butterfly pictures.