About this module:

This module was created for the VegeSafe Project, based at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. VegeSafe is a community science participation program run by Environmental Science staff at Macquarie University focusing on pro bono testing of soil for metal and metalloid contaminants of around Australia. The module has been designed to record the results of soil sample testing, using the Bluetooth enabled portable XRF device.

Authorship:

This module was co-developed Mark Taylor at VegeSafe and Petra Janouchova, and Adela Sobotkova at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.

Funding:

Development of this module was funded by the Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP) aimed to support innovation and investment in the New South Wales in 2016 and 2017.

Date of release:

August 2016 (demo version only, connection with the pXRF device not yet implemented)

FAIMS Mobile version:

FAIMS v2.5 (Android 6+)

Licence:

This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Access:

The module can be downloaded / cloned from this GitHub repository.

This module contains the following FAIMS features:

• validated fields with user observations
• controlled vocabularies
• coordinates from internal GPS
• attribute-level timestamps

This module can be used with no or minor modification for:

• soil sampling / analysis using the portable XRF device

Contact info:

For more details about the VegeSafe please visit their website at https://research.science.mq.edu.au/vegesafe/.

If you have any questions about the module, please contact the FAIMS team at enquiries@fedarch.org and we will get back to you within one business day.