ALERTS(beta) user guide - Planetary Skin Institute

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Table of Contents Section Page Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Getting started ................................................................................................................................... 4 Functionalities and sample use cases ................................................................................................ 5 Sample ALERTS functionalities ................................................................................................... 5 Sample Use Case 1: Understanding disturbances and trends ....................................................... 6 Sample Use Case 2: Understanding risk ...................................................................................... 7 Sample Use Case 3: Understanding uncertainties in land change detection ................................ 8 Description of key application tools ............................................................................................... 10 Overview of the ALERTS interface ............................................................................................ 11 Optional Full Screen Mode ......................................................................................................... 12 PSI Toolbar ................................................................................................................................. 13 Layer Manager ............................................................................................................................ 14 Description of key layers in Layer Manager .................................................................................. 17 Disturbance Analysis Toolbar ..................................................................................................... 19 History Toolbar ........................................................................................................................... 21 Interactive Points ........................................................................................................................ 22 Tab Toolbox ................................................................................................................................ 23 Comparing Interactive Points ..................................................................................................... 24 Comparing Layers ...................................................................................................................... 25 Glossary of terms ............................................................................................................................ 29
Introduction ALERTS (the Automated Land change Evaluation, Reporting and Tracking System) is a decision support system developed by the Planetary Skin Institute and its R&D partners to support global efforts to monitor and record land cover and land use change. It is offered as a free public good to facilitate global collaboration in the analysis of land cover change. This public Beta release of ALERTS is a direct result of the Planetary Skin Institutes community swarming efforts that harnessed the innovation and expertise from a global ecosystem of R&D partners across many sectors and disciplines. The team spent 12 months designing an immersive decision support environment to facilitate Planetary Skin Institute’s mission for pioneering emerging R&D initiatives across sectors and disciplines for the monitoring and managing of scarce resources. The team achieved pioneering approaches to aggregating and blending disparate sources of data, incorporating scientific analysis, and creating a decision support environment that facilitates the communities abilities to collaborate on analysis, increase fidelity of information, and seek out “aha” moments when comparing the human, sensor, and modeled data sets. Its visualization and analysis tools enable users to analyze the spatial and temporal distribution of land cover disturbances, view disturbances in a contextrich environment, explore drivers of transitional risk and sign up for alerts of recent disturbances in areas of interest. Further by incorporating over 170 layers that span spatial and temporal land related themes ALERTS empowers the users to go beyond disturbance detections and assess and analyze projected transitional risk scenarios. Users are also enabled to assess and compare the economic, environmental, social, and other input elements that feed those projections. The Planetary Skin’s decision flow oriented design techniques allow users to explore land cover dynamics and risk in many different directions. There are many ways to interact with the data, and different users will find value in different parts of the application. The purpose of this guide is to provide an introduction on the ALERTS Beta release and the underlying Planetary Skin Platform that supports ALERTS and future Planetary Skin Institute R&D efforts. The first part of the guide describes three possible uses that may interest users, and walks through each of these in detail. Through this exploration, users will gain exposure to some of the core functions embedded into the environment. In
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