The Site Condition Assessment Spreadsheet

There are two options to provide Site Condition Assessments:


  1. Enter individual Site Condition Assessments online within the HCAT portal.
    Using this option, you will enter each site one at a time into the online form. This option may be preferred if you would like to enter each site individually, have relatively few sites to contribute, or the sites are complex polygons (i.e. not a square). This option can be accessed on the HCAT homepage.

  2. Enter multiple sites simultaneously using our customised spreadsheet (download below).

If you have large data sets of site assessments or surveys you may prefer to upload these data in a single spreadsheet.

We provide a downloadable preformatted spreadsheet into which you can copy site location information from existing records and then add your site condition assessments. Each row of the spreadsheet represents a unique site assessment. These may be different sites, or the same site for which you are providing multiple condition assessments over different periods of time. The spreadsheet requests exactly the same information as the online Site Condition Assessment form, but in a spreadsheet format. Note that, currently, the spreadsheet is only an option for square-shaped sites with a North-South orientation. All other sites must be entered individually within the HCAT portal directly.

You can download the Site Condition Assessment spreadsheet here:

Please refer to the instructions accessible from the homepage to enter data into the spreadsheet. Each column is a different item of data requested as part of the site assessment (e.g. condition assessment date, site condition score, a score for each ecosystem characteristic and threat, etc.). Please do not alter any of the column headings.

Once you have entered all your site condition assessments into the spreadsheet, you can upload and return the file to HCAT here:

If you wish to submit additional sites later, you can download a new copy of the template and upload additional records. There is no limit on the number of spreadsheets you can upload.