Running the SMPG
Completing the SMPG form
Complete the SMPG form with the following information:
Read rainfall time series (table) resulted from extract statistics
Select file with parameters, if exists.
Select the period to calculate climatology
Select period for seasonal monitoring
Select years. There are two criteria for selecting years:
Similar seasons (disaster management/response). The tool ranks all the years by comparing the development of the current season with the same period in each of the previous years.
Select a group of years (i.e., analog years). See figure below.
Analysis preferences: Indicate if there is forecast in the data.
Output Preferences: There are four outputs:
Export web report
Export image reports
Export statistics table
Export current parameters
The Output Preferences section also includes the option to set Mapping Preferences. For more information, see the instructions below.
Output Mapping Preferences
The Mapping Preferences button opens a form allowing the selection of one or multiple output maps.
Complete the form with the following information, then click Save:
Select a vector layer to use: Click Load Shapefile to select the shapefile used to extract statistics.
Attribute Selection: Select the maps to be produced by moving them to the Include for mapping column.
Join Target Field: Select the same field used in the extract statistics step.
Results
After completing the SMPG form, click Process to execute the program.
Follow the below instructions to create an output folder.
The output folder contains the following, shown in the figure below:
Dynamic_Web_Report folder
Static_Image_Reports folder
Statistics folder
Parameters JSON file
The folder Dynamic_Web_Report contains a set of web-based results for each polygon in the analysis. The content of the folder includes:
A css folder
A data folder
A js folder
An index link
Double-click on the index link to open the web-based reports. Click the menu icon in the upper left to select a region of interest from the Places dropdown list.
The Static Image Report folder contains the PNG files for each of the reports.
The Statistics folder contains a set of Excel tables with the statistical results using the climatological period and the selected years.