Field data you can trust, from survey to report
For partners and investors: what Ursa does, where it stands today, and where it is going. Everything under "Today" can be checked.
The problem
Environmental impact assessments depend on ecological field surveys, and in most firms the path from field notebook to report is still manual. Paper tallies are typed into spreadsheets, species names are reconciled by hand, indices are recalculated in workbooks, and every step can introduce errors that end up in a regulatory document. Locations of protected species travel in photos and files that were never meant to be shared.
What Ursa does
- A field app for iPhone, iPad and Android: search a species, tap to record, work without a signal, with records encrypted on the device.
- A web review version where team leads check and correct records in the office.
- A report engine that turns the same data into species lists, diversity indices by area, and Word and Excel report drafts.
- Free tools on this site, the same formulas as the product, that anyone can use to check the numbers.
Today
- Four ecological consulting firms in Taiwan use Ursa under contract.
- The app is live on iOS, Android and the web; its interface is in Traditional Chinese.
- Taiwan's revised ecological assessment guidelines for EIA reports take effect on 1 December 2026. The free diversity calculator on this site already reports every common index and logarithm base side by side, and we have published what the change means for reports.
Where we are going
A rule pack for each jurisdiction
The rules that decide which indices a report needs, how areas are defined and how records are delivered change from country to country. We keep them out of the code, in rule packs that can be swapped. Taiwan is the first; Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia, whose assessment work is just as field-heavy, are the next candidates.
A neutral layer of ecological data
Species lists, conservation status and the history of each guideline are useful to consultants, developers and the public alike. We plan to publish them openly, without collecting anyone's survey data, and without steering anyone towards a particular consultancy.
Principles we will not trade
- Survey data belongs to the team that collected it.
- Ursa stays neutral: it builds software and does not compete with its customers.
- Calculations are open and can be checked by anyone.
Talk to us
To discuss a partnership or investment, write to hello@ursaeco.com.