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Shallow-Water Benthic Habitats of American Samoa,
Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Project Methods

Classification Scheme

Habitat Digitizer

Getting Started

Creating a Scheme

Scheme Legends

Editing a Scheme

Digitizing Restrictions

Theme Creation and
      Digitizing Tools

Product Development

Accuracy Assessment

References

Manual in PDF

Scheme Legends

Saving, Re-Loading, and Creating Scheme Legends
Change Classification Dialog Box

After creating or modifying a scheme, save the scheme to a file by selecting "Save All settings to HCS File" in the "Change Classification" dialog box. The file will be saved as a *.hcs (habitat classification scheme) file. To access a saved scheme, select "Load Scheme from HCS File" in the "Change Classification" dialog box. A file selection dialog will open showing only the *.hcs files. Additional options that can be used at this time include the "Export to Table" button, which will export the scheme as a dBase file, "Export As Text" button, which will create a text file showing the hierarchical structure of the scheme, and the "Create" button, which will make a legend that contains each Unique ID and its attributes. Select whether a point, line, or polygon legend will be created from this scheme. The extension can store all three types of legends as default legends simultaneously. Legend labels will have all of the categories in the classification hierarchy concatenated into one string. Colors will be randomly selected and an additional "Unclassified" category will be added with a uniqueID of 0.

Overview Methods Data Maps Partners About

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Ocean Service (NOS) | National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA) | Biogeography Program