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Spectral Explorer overview

Spectral Explorer is a pane-based workspace for inspecting imagery, comparing layers, creating labels and masks, and running analysis tools against spectral data.

The workspace is organized as follows:

  • In Studio, the command bar leads with Explorer, followed by Files, Datasets, and Models. Research contains Studies and Workflows tabs; Files contains the Alpha Catalog tab. These five destinations stay directly accessible; when the toolbar has less room, they occupy a separate navigation row. The bar also provides Clarity search, the user guide, sharing, and Clarity AI when those features are available.
  • With Alpha access, the text toggle beside the logo switches between Studio and Story while an Explorer pane is active. It is hidden on other pages; phones use Story mode.
  • The project and workspace names in the center of the command bar open their respective switchers.
  • When other people are active in your workspace, their initials appear together in the command bar. Click the avatars to see their names. Each person appears once, even with multiple browser tabs; your own avatar stays in the account button. The collaborator indicator is hidden when you are working alone.
  • The left workflow rail contains Explore, Prepare, Label, Sites, Change, and Sources. Additional workflows may appear when preview features are enabled.
  • The center can contain one or more canvas panes. Use New canvas to add a canvas, then choose Map or Inspect for that canvas.
  • The right tool rail opens Inspector, Cube when a compatible cube is available, and Analysis.
  • The Analysis tray contains Spectral Signatures, Label Attributes, dynamic PCA · <name> tabs, and Operation Chain while an operation is staged.

In the 0.100 preview, editing a color-composite draft changes the Inspector panel title to RGB Explorer. Its controls belong to that draft; source metadata remains available by selecting the source.

Core concepts​

Sources​

A source is an image or remote item attached to the workspace. Source rows can represent uploaded HSI imagery, imported STAC items, shapefiles, overlay images, or other supported source types.

Select a source to inspect it. Double-click a source to focus a canvas on it. Right-click a source for actions supported by that source type.

Data layers and analysis layers​

Data layers are source products such as raw, radiance, reflectance, emissivity, or temperature data. The active data layer controls which product many analysis tools use.

Analysis layers are renderable results such as color composites, band math, PCA, matched-filter, MTMF, RX, endmember, model-inference, and imported raster outputs.

Use the search field in Explore to find layers by name, including children of collapsed analysis runs. The adjacent controls narrow the list to visible layers, pinned layers, or an analysis type. Filters combine; Clear restores the full list and your previous expansion state. Filtering the list does not change canvas visibility or drawing order. Layer drag reordering is available when filters are cleared.

Hover a layer row or focus its pin button to pin a useful result. Pins are saved in this browser for the workspace; they do not change other collaborators' layer lists. Multi-output analysis runs start collapsed, with their individual outputs available on expansion.

Correction versions are separate images, each with its own source and layers. Explorer groups related versions under N versions. See Image versions and corrections.

Workflows​

The same source tree remains available while the workflow changes which source content and controls are shown:

  • Explore shows analysis layers and reference spectra.
  • Prepare shows data layers and masks.
  • Label shows label sets and labeling controls.
  • Sources searches supported remote catalogs and adds imagery to the workspace.

Inspect and Map​

Inspect focuses on one reference source and displays its raster in image coordinates. It is useful for pixel inspection, labeling, and direct analysis.

Map places workspace sources and layers in geographic context. It is useful for comparing georeferenced imagery, reviewing remote-source search areas, and combining layers from multiple sources.