How to use the Survey Coordination Tool
- Natalie Lennard
The Survey Coordination Tool (SCT) allows you to create 3 distinct record types. These are:
A survey plan
A priority area
A request for survey
Each record type serves a different purpose for you as the user, and for the community that utilises this information. The table below provides the details of each:
Record Type | Intended Purpose | Audience |
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Survey Plan | The purpose of the survey plan record type is to allow any organisations that are going out on survey to socialise this information with the community. | Published survey plans appear on the AusSeabed data portal under the upcoming surveys layer. |
Priority Area | The purpose of the priority area record is for organisations to communicate their surveying priorities to the community. The priority area record type allows the user to define multiple areas of interest, and provide indicators relating to how urgent the mapping priority is to the organisation. | Published priority areas appear on the AusSeabed data portal under the priority area layer. |
Request | The purpose of the request record is to allow the user to submit a request to the Australian Hydrographic Office for an area to be surveyed. The request may contain multiple polygons/areas of interest, however each request is treated as a single submission and all data held within must be applicable to all areas outlined. | The request record is packaged and passed directly to the Australian Hydrographic office for further assessment. |
General design features:
The Home Tab | |||
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The home tab provides you ready access to create all the record types from the user interface that is presented to you from login. Each record type has its own expandable section, with the “Add” button at the bottom. Sections can be expanded and collapsed as required. | |||
On Screen Controls
Consistent locations | Consistent Iconography for Functions | Call to Action buttons unambiguous and separated | Tab order | |
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| The use of red and bolded text for important guiding information and mandatory field validation messages. |
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The coordination tool has employed consistent methods of implementation across all the record types as required. | ||||
Further information relating to specific actions within the Survey Coordination Tool can be found below:
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