This is the Standard Operating Procedure for the Frog-BATT Field Maps app created by the European Frog-bit Collaborative.

Frog-BATT (European Frog-bit Before-and-After Treatment Tracker) App overview

• Goal: Enhance the effectiveness of European Frog-bit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae; EFB) management plans across the Great Lakes basin by assessing control action efficacy.
• Objective: Integrate adaptive management principles into EFB management and monitoring plans to develop best management practices (BMPs) for control. A scalable and interoperable methodology and data collection platform able to evaluate the impact of EFB management across treatment types, organizations, locations, and time.

Introduction
Implementing a region-wide standardized data collection protocol to assess EFB control actions can advance understanding of their impacts and enable the development of an EFB-focused best management practice document. The EFB Collaborative initially attempted to accomplish this with the Standard Treatment Impact Monitoring Protocol (STIMP; CMU 2020) to collect EFB, habitat, and management information before and after management actions. But after several years of implementation the protocol was unable to deliver the necessary information. Therefore, the EFB Collaborative has revised and renamed the protocol to correct various problems with the STIMP. The new protocol is titled “European Frog-bit Before-and-After Treatment Tracker (Frog-BATT).”