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8.3.1 Classify Contacts
The first step of attributing your contacts is to classify them with comments and tags. These are
user-defined properties that give context to the image and enable sorting, filtering, and
identification of each contact for later review and export. The comment field is a text field for
entering any text description that suits your purpose. Tags are labels used to filter and sort your
contact database.
Add Comments
Add a comment two different ways:
In the thumbnail list, right-click on a thumbnail and click
Edit comments
. Enter the
comment and press Enter/click
Okay
.
In the properties table, click in the
Comments
field. Enter the comment and press Enter.
Add Tags
Recall, for SAMM tags are user-defined labels for contacts to allow grouping and analysis.
Before adding tags, think about how you would like to be able to sort your data. Your
classification system is only as useful as you make it. For example, you may make tags for
unknown, wreck, cinder block, diver, ordnance, etc. to be able to filter and sort contacts by the
type of object they represent. Or, define tags using location identifiers or swath number if you
have a need to sort by location. If the purpose of your survey was to identify and locate
disposed ordnance, for example, you would obviously define tags for as many different
ordnance types as are recognizable.
In the interest of good record keeping, you may want to define tags that will be applicable to
future surveys. Once tags are defined, you can filter by the tag and send only the contacts with
a certain tag to the staging table for reporting. You may assign more than one tag to contacts.
To get started tagging, define the tags in the database. This can be done with or without
concurrently assigning the newly defined tag to a selected contact.
In the thumbnail list, click the
Search
drop down menu and click
Create Tag
. Enter the
tag name and click
OK
. This adds the tag to the database.
Right-click on a thumbnail/tile, hover over
Tags
and click
Assign new tag
. Enter the tag
name and click
OK
. This adds the new tag to the contact and the database.
Then, apply the tags to relevant contacts. As you may have gathered, this can be performed
with or without concurrently defining a tag in the database.
Right-click on a thumbnail/contact, hover over
Tags
and click the checkbox next to any
tags to check it (Figure 66). Click anywhere outside the context menu to hide the menu.
