Introduction to PBR Explorer

PBR Explorer is where your can track process-based restoration projects and share. Amalgamate data on your organization's projects and partnered projects to quantify impact over time. 

Create PBR Explorer Projects

1: Click 'Add a Project' on the top banner. 

2: Add your project's info. 

You can make yourself the Administrator on a project and add any organizations and their roles. To make an organization an Administrator, you'll need to be an Admin on the organization's Data Exchange profile. You can request to join your organizations or make a new organization on the Data Exchange. 

3: Add the project's location. You can upload a polygon extent, enter latitude and longitude, or select a point on the map. 

4. Update Project Progress. You must enter at least one date. 

5. Add Project Actions. You can include as many metrics as you'd like from the dropdown menu. 

6. Include the treatment length.

7. Add a restoration goals narrative and a description of construction elements to inform stakeholders and general audience about the project's context. Remember, you can always come back and add more! 

8. Convey scale of the project with an approximate budget. Use the dropdown menu to break the budget down into categories. 

9. Add related projects that are already in the PBR Explorer database. 

10. Publish your project. You can toggle it to private to make it visible only within your organization. You can also save a project as a draft if it's not ready to publish. 

11. After your project is published, come back to add photos and bring your information to life. 

Update PBR Explorer Projects

1: Sign in to your profile. PBR Explorer is connected with a Single Sign On to the rest of the Riverscapes suite, like the Data Exchange and Riverscapes Community. 

2: Find your organization's projects on your profile. 

3: Click your organization, and select the project you'd like to edit. 

4. Update with optional new features including:

- URL to share more info

- Add partner organizations and select their roles. The project will show up on partner organizations' pages. 

- Upload a polygon of the project's extent

- Track project progress with extensive new fields

- Add a variety of process-based restoration actions. Include one or more. 

- Specify a project budget breakdown to convey scale

- Connect to related projects

- Designate projects as private to protect sensitive projects as needed. Private projects still count towards public statistics, allowing you to count every impact your organization has made.

Using Your PBR Explorer Projects

Share

View your projects or your organization's projects and click share to generate a QR code and shareable URL. The project cards are also optimized to print. 

Quantify

See your organization's impact in one place. Total projects, length of treatment, and number of structures are prominently displayed, and graphed over time. We will keep updating these metrics to best suit our users. Let us know what other metrics would help you quantify your impacts.

Collaborate

Work with all of your project partners and stakeholders to assign credit where it's due. Projects and their stats are shared across contributing organizations.