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Step 5 — Choose what to show

Goal

Select a factor, two scenarios, and the area to summarise over.

Background

Three choices drive every view in the application: which factor, which two scenarios, and over what area. Get these right and the map, charts, dials and tables all follow.

The factor list comes from the data itself, so it reflects whatever data pack you have installed.

Where step 5 sits in the guide

Your place in the guide.

Steps

  1. Open the indicator panel — it opens automatically in single-pane view.
  2. Set Factor: a searchable dropdown of every attribute in the loaded data, for example Grass cover fraction, Percent burned, Total methane production.
  3. Set Scenario 1 (Left) and Scenario 2 (Right) — any two of the three below.
  4. Set Zone Range to control what the statistics and colour scale are computed over.

The three scenarios

Scenario Meaning
Ecological Reference Condition measured against scientifically determined optimal standards
Current State Conditions as currently observed
Target State A condition you are aiming for. Starts equal to Current State until you edit it

Zone Range

Option Summarises over
Full The entire loaded domain
Extent Only catchments visible in the current viewport
Site Only catchments inside the open site's boundary

Site is unavailable in Explore mode, because there is no boundary to aggregate to.

Not every factor appears in every view

The factor list is filtered by what the data declares each factor suitable for. A factor may be mappable but not graphable, or vice versa. Dial view additionally requires the factor to declare a dial type.

What you achieved

  • You can choose a factor from the loaded data
  • You can set the two scenarios being compared
  • You understand what Full, Extent and Site each summarise over