BoundarySeer organizes your work into projects, comprising multiple data sets, boundaries, and results. When you save a project, BoundarySeer creates a *.bsr file that contains all project components except spatial features. Spatial feature information is saved in a file with a *.pip extension.
All project data sets should be associated with the same spatial location, although each may contain different types of observations or different variables. For example, you may wish to create a project comprised of two data sets for the same study area, one with measurements on soil variables and another with measurements on vegetation.
BoundarySeer uses projects for three reasons:
Projects simplify calculations that cross data sets, such as boundary overlap.
Because BoundarySeer retains and stores information calculated from data sets, the software avoids recalculating information such as spatial networks and boundary likelihood values each time you delineate boundaries or compute statistics, thereby improving efficiency.
Projects help organize and maintain data sets associated with your analysis. For example, BoundarySeer automatically keeps track of which variables came from which source data files. You may view file associations by viewing data set properties.
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