Getting started
Getting started with Arboair Portal
Great you are here and we are here to help you get started!
First of a few criteria to get started:
1. You need a subscription for Arboair Portal
2. You need an account for Arboair Portal
If you do not have it, head over to our website and register! Once you have received your account and your subscription is live head over to the portal to login!
Step 1. Add a forest
Once logged in you need to start with creating a forest. Do that by pressing Add a new forest.
Step 2. Create a forest
The first thing to do is to press on the right-hand sidebar and you will see a different set of tools. To draw your forest you choose the one called Draw Shape. Now it is as simple as pressing on the map to where your forest boundaries are.
If you have your forest boundaries as a shapefile you can upload them instead! And you can always order your exact bounderies via your contact person. Reach out to support@arboair.com to get started
When your boundaries are set on the map just save and you are ready to start analyzing your forest.
Step 3a. Upload images
If you have your own drone you can upload images over your forest. If now go to the next step (3b).
When uploading your own images make sure you have followed our Drone Guide!
There are two ways of uploading your own images. The fastest and easiest is to press the upload button next to your forest.
1. Press upload
2. Drag and drop your images or press on Click to select images
3. Press upload. Here you can review your images before you upload them to make sure they have the right quality. You will also see if all the images are connected. If there are multiple polygons with shifting colors you know your images are not connected. If so, delete all images from the upload and try again. If that does not solve your problem look at our problem-fixing guide for not connected images.
Congrats! You have now uploaded your images and the analysis will start to progress. Continue to step 4 to view your analysis.
Step 3b. Order images
To order images you press the button Order analysis and you will be able to order images from one of our drone partners. Before ordering you will be given an estimated price for the data collection to approve.
You can always order a data collection subscription from your contact person at Arboair to lower the price and be guaranteed supply.
Step 4. View your analysis
When your analysis is finished you will receive an email to take you to the analysis. View it again there are two ways.
1. Via your forest
You can access your analyses from the forest to which you uploaded the images or ordered the images. Do this by pressing to view the forest.
Then inside press on the right-hand sidebar to see all analyses connected to that forest.
2. Via the order list
First, navigate to the order list called Analysis. Here you will find all of your analyses ever made.
You can filter your analyses on multiple different features. See our guide of filtering to learn more about this.
To view your analysis press the button.
Step 5. What you are seeing
Step 5. What you are seeingWhen watching your analysis you have a few different options depending on what you have analyzed for. You can see forest damages and stressed trees if you have ordered the Forest Damages module, you can see the different tree kinds if you have ordered the Tree Kind module and you can see a grid of tree count as a heatmap if you have ordered the Tree Count module.
On the right side, you can press to view and hide the different shapefile layers and on the right-hand sidebar, you can download the different files.
Step 6. Done
You have now successfully
1. created a forest
2. uploaded images
3. ordered data collection
4. viewed your analyses
5. and understood what you are seeing.
Great work and good luck with your forest!