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Browsing Encounters

What you’ll learn

Section titled “What you’ll learn”
  • How the encounter overview page is organized
  • What information is shown on each encounter card
  • How to use search and filter options
  • What the status icons mean

Encounter overview

Section titled “Encounter overview”

The encounter overview page displays the most recent encounters for your population. Each encounter appears as a card with a thumbnail image overlaid with key information.

Encounter cards

Section titled “Encounter cards”

Each encounter card shows:

  • Date — when the encounter occurred
  • Location — where the encounter took place
  • Photographer — who captured the images
  • Image count — the total number of images in the encounter
  • Detected fins — the number of fins detected by finwave’s ML models
  • Confirmed identities — the identities that have been confirmed by annotators

Clicking a card opens the full encounter detail page with all images, metadata, annotations, and identification results.

Status icons

Section titled “Status icons”

Each encounter card displays status icons on the right side of the overlay.

Analysis status indicates the ML processing state:

  • Green circle — analysis complete
  • Yellow circle — analysis in progress
  • Red circle — new encounter, analysis has not started

Completeness indicates whether all individuals present were photographed:

  • Filled circle — complete encounter (all individuals photographed)
  • Partial circle — incomplete encounter (not all individuals photographed)
  • Open circle — unknown completeness

Predation indicates whether the encounter involves a predation event.

License indicates the encounter’s sharing terms:

  • CC icon — public domain or Creative Commons
  • Non-commercial icon — non-commercial use only
  • Attribution icon — photographer attribution required
  • Private icon — visible only to members of the submitting organization

Search and filter

Section titled “Search and filter”

The encounter overview provides a search and filter interface for narrowing results.

Data source

Section titled “Data source”
  • All public data — encounters accessible to any population member
  • Data from my organizations — encounters submitted by your organizations
  • Both — combine public and organization data

Filters

Section titled “Filters”
  • Encounter completeness — filter by complete, incomplete, or unknown
  • Behavioral annotations — filter by population-specific behaviors defined by your administrator
  • Analysis status — filter by new, in progress, or finished
  • Individuals of interest — multi-select to find encounters containing specific individuals
  • Photographers — multi-select to filter by photographer
  • Locations — multi-select to filter by location
  • Date range — restrict to encounters within a specific time period
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