FAQs for Post-Intervention

Currently for the automatic comparison to work you need to have a baseline in Coreo. We are currently looking at ways to import external baselines into Coreo.

Absolutely. As long as the current record in your baseline has an area/length, a metric habitat, a strategic significance, and a completed condition assessment, you can use the tool. It will take a snapshot of your current baseline to work with. If you then update your baseline, you can duplicate your post-intervention plan and choose to “Sync with the latest” baseline.

Of course! Click the settings cog in your plan and switch on off-site. This will use offsite calculations and save out your features to the off-site section of the metric.

You can create as many plans as you like so you can experiment with and compare different scenarios without losing any work. Create a new plan to start from scratch, or duplicate an existing plan to iterate on what you’ve already created.

Yes you can currently upload shapefile geometry into the plan. In the near future you will also be able to map the shapefile relevant attributes. Make sure the shape file only contains valid geometry types. If you have CAD files these will need to be converted to geo-referenced shapefiles first.

Yes you can upload images to use for reference in the tool. Currently they will need to be in the format of a geo-referenced GeoTiff, however we will be building a georeferencer into the tool in the future.

You don’t need to! This is all done automatically for you based on a comparison between the baseline and the proposed feature. By looking at habitat and distinctiveness, condition, strategic significance and trading rules, the tool will tell you if your proposed feature is retained, enhanced or created.

Yes. It will automatically add the tree area based on the tree helper and add this area on top of the habitat below the trees.

Yes. Whenever a trading rule is not satisfied it will be shown in the trading summaries and flagged on the map. You will also be able to see what unit you need to find to satisfy the rules, and these will update in real time, as you update features on your site.

The tool has a built-in map images creator, with an automatically created legend. You can save out maps with symbology or colour coding for distinctiveness, condition or a metric analysis showing creation, retention, enhancement and loss.

Yes the final output is a fully populated metric workbook. You can also export an image of the map with an automatically generated legend.

You can export your plans as attributed shapefiles, geoJSON and as a GeoPackage.