OpenForis Arena Mobile

Important: The upgraded app Arena Mobile 2 is now available separately on the Play Store ( look for "Open Foris Arena Mobile 2"). While AM is still accessible during a limited transition period, we strongly recommend switching to AM 2 for the best experience.

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 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, send the data to the Arena server for data cleansing and analysis.

Go to http://www.openforis.org to find out more.