Create AOI

Owned by Marjorie Lucas
Last updated: Sept 02, 2021 by Jack McNelis
2 min read

This guide walks the reader through the steps required to create an Area of Interest (AOI).

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Estimated job run time: 1 minute

  1. Navigate to Tosca.

  2. Specify the geographic area to turn into an AOI by doing one of the following:

    1. Using leaflet to draw a polygon directly on the basemap

    2. Entering the geoJSON that defines a polygon

       

KML data need to be converted to geoJSON data. One such tool that may be used may be found here: https://mapbox.github.io/togeojson

Other data types such as KMZ can be converted to geoJSON here: https://mygeodata.cloud/converter/

3. Click the On-Demand button to bring up the actions modal.

4. Select the Create Area of Interest PGE from the dropdown.

5. Enter desired parameters.

tag: string that can be used to identify job within the job manager
condition: query that defines the inputs over which the PGE will run (i.e. the geoJSON)
action: the selected PGE
queue: the selected queue in which to run the job
priority: job priority
name: AOI name
account: task account associated with processing for the AOI
type: AOI type
geojson_polygon: input polygon (populated by default)

starttime: YYYYMMDD

eventtime:

endtime: YYYYMMDD

emails: not in regular use

additional_metadata: not in regular use (my inputs cause parsing errors -Jack)

6. Click the Process Now button to submit the job.