Settings

Region of Interest

  • Objective: Learn how to set up the environment for your analysis using Trends.Earth.

  • Estimated time of completion: 5 minutes

  • Internet access: Required

  1. Click on the Trends.Earth toolbar within QGIS, and click on settings.

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  1. The Settings menu will open in a new window.

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Country or Region

Select a country from the First level drop-down list. Sub-national analysis is possible using the Second level selections to identify a province or city for your region of interest.

Note

The Natural Earth Administrative Boundaries provided in Trends.Earth are in the public domain. The boundaries and names used, and the designations used, in Trends.Earth do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by Conservation International Foundation, or by its partner organizations and contributors.

If using Trends.Earth for official purposes, it is recommended that users choose an official boundary provided by the designated office of their country.

Point

Select this option to upload coordinates or select a point on the map.

Area from file

Select this option to upload a point or polygon of your choice.

Note

Select Apply a buffer to the chosen area if you experience issues with geometries or want to

add a buffer around a point entered in the city or coordinates options.

Reports

This contains configuration options for the Reports module.

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Template Search Path

An additional directory containing report templates (qpt files). If there are templates with the same name to those in [base_data_directory]/reports/templates, then the system will prioritize and use the ones in the search path.

Common Report Information

Common contextual information that can be modified to suit the reporting context. Any changes to the settings under this category, will be applied in subsequent report generation tasks.

Note

These are only applicable in those report templates where the corresponding variables are used. For the default templates (that ship with the toolbox), only the organization logo and disclaimer text variables are used.

a. Organization Logo - This is a path to an image file that can be used as a logo in the reports. By default,

it points to trends_earth_logo_bl_small.png that ships with the toolbox. It is available as a QGIS layout variable named te_report_organization_logo.

b. Organization Name - Free text corresponding to the name of the organization. It is empty by default. It is

available as a QGIS layout variable named te_report_organization_name.

c. Footer Text - Free text that can be used in the footer section of reports. It is empty by default. It is

available as a QGIS layout variable named te_report_footer.

d. Disclaimer Text - Disclaimer statement that applies to one or more elements in the reports such as data.

The default statement reads:

The provided boundaries are from Natural Earth, and are in the public domain. The boundaries, names and designations used in Trends.Earth do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by Conservation International Foundation, or by its partner organizations and contributors.

It is available as a QGIS layout variable named te_report_disclaimer.

Log warnings in output directory

When checked, the output report folder will contain a html file with details of any warning or errors that arose during the report generation process. It is useful for debugging purposes. By default, it is unchecked.

Advanced

Select the Advanced drop-down list to view more options within the Trends.Earth toolbox.

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Base data directory

All data will be saved in the Base Data Folder. To change where data from Trends.Earth is stored select button next to the Base data directory and select a folder to store your data.

There are several check boxes to set your preference under the Base data directory selection.

Check the boxes to: 1) Filter remote jobs according to local base directory 2) Enable debug mode - saves detailed logging information from your session 3) Download remotely-generated datasets automatically - Do not check this if you have limited bandwidth or are working offline 4) Poll remote processing server periodically - This sets the frequency that the server will check for finished analyses to download automatically - Do not check this if you have limited bandwidth or are working offline 5) Use binaries for faster processing - Select folder to store binaries

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