Adding Images

Uploading Images

To upload images from a local drive, users must first access a specific event from the Earth science events. Users can then select the upload A small image of the upload button a user can utilize to add images to an event. button on the event pages. This will pop up a window where the user chooses the file to upload, sets a tag status and provides any metadata.

This image shows a popup window to upoad images from local drive.

Figure 14: GeoTIFFs, unzoomed, default settings

All the images will be uploaded to the specific Earth science event pages from which the user began the upload process.

Extracting Images

To extract images, first navigate to the Mapview feature by clicking on A small image of the Mapview icon located in the left-side menu that redirects users to the mapview feature. in the left menu. The Mapview feature displays historic and current satellite data products from various instruments. The process for extracting images is defined in more detail in the Using the GeoTIFFs Feature and Selecting Images for Tagging sections.

This image shows the GeoTIFFs set to the default settings to showcase the options a user has to modify the feature to get a desired output.

Figure 15: GeoTIFFs, unzoomed, default settings