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📍 Creating a Site

A site represents either a monitored ecosystem or a restoration facility (nursery/lab). Site geometry is required, but facilities can use a point instead of a boundary.

Step 1) Site Category & Info

  1. Select your Project.
  2. Go to Sites → Create Site (https://marimap.com/app/sites/new (opens in a new tab)).
  3. Choose Site category:
    • Ecosystem → pick Site Type (Mangrove / Coral Reef / Seagrass / etc.).
    • Facility → pick Facility type (Coral nursery / Coral lab) and Water context (In water / On land).
    • Facilities are tracked separately from ecosystem hectares and do not contribute to ecosystem‑area rollups.
  4. Fill Name and Country (defaults to your org country).
  5. (Optional) Set Site ID — use Generate to auto-build an ID from organisation, project, site name, and ecosystem code.
  6. Add an optional Description.

Step 2) Draw or Upload Geometry

  1. In Site Area, choose Draw or Upload/manual.
  2. Ecosystem sites: draw a polygon or upload GeoJSON/KML / paste coordinates.
  3. Facility sites: add a point or a small boundary (polygon). A point is enough for labs; nurseries can use a boundary if available.
  4. Confirm the area shown (minimum ~100 m²; very large polygons are rejected).
  5. Use the Layers button to toggle ecosystem layers for context.

Geometry is required to move past this step. Facilities can proceed with a point.

After creating a facility site, use the Facility workspace switcher in the Site view to open Restoration and set up profile, structures, fragments, and monitoring. Surveys and survey plans are not used for facilities.

Draw or upload site boundary Screenshot: Site area step with draw/upload options

Step 3) Settings & Advanced (optional)

  • Governance / Tenure / Protection: management recognition, protection status, governance arrangement, land tenure, budget adequacy, enforcement capacity, formal management area name.
  • Baseline (ecosystem-specific):
    • Mangrove: historical presence, year lost, natural regeneration state, species present, species composition table (must sum to 100%).
    • Coral: reef zones, dominant substrates.
    • Seagrass: species present, continuity, min/max depth.
  • Cost & Privacy: total cost value + currency and Data privacy override (defaults to your organisation’s setting).

Good Practice

  • Keep geometry stable across time so trends stay comparable.
  • Store helpful context (access notes, tidal info, substrate) in the description.
  • If you change data privacy at the site level, all surveys created under it inherit that value unless a protocol overrides it.
  • In‑water facilities can receive satellite environmental context; on‑land labs use manual/logger readings.
  • Facilities are best managed in the Restoration Workspace (no survey plans required).
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