1.3 - Set-up Plan
A Plan defines the specific objective and timeframe of your project. You can create multiple plans for a single site to track different metrics (e.g. a BNG habitat assessment or a bioacoustics survey). Plans also allow you to separate data annually (e.g., "Habitats 2026") to track environmental changes over time.
1.3.1 - Create a Plan
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Select your Site and click the Setup icon on the site management page.
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Click "Create new plan."
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Name your plan (e.g. Habitat Survey 2026)
1.3.2 - Defining Your Features
Features are the "map layers" (e.g. plant plots, habitat polygons or linear hedgerows) that inform your ground-truth sampling strategy and allow the ecologist a good starting point during analysis.
To add features either:
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Upload your existing habitat features (in either geojson or zipped shapefile format / WGS84 only).
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Draw habitat features directly on the map using the suite of mapping tools to create polygons or linestrings
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Generate (on request) Mozaic Earth can automatically generate your habitat map using our intuitive AI tools, email Johanna@mozaic.earth to explore this option
How to create a plan, upload features and assign properties
How to draw features and assign properties
1.3.3 - Advanced Editing Tools
The Mozaic Earth platform includes built-in map editing tools to ensure your data is precise and ecologist ready from day one. Once your features are on the map, you can refine them using the mapping tools.
To learn more on the tools available:
Click the 
button on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
Click this link here to learn more via the learning suite in the tips and tricks section 👉 https://resources.mozaic.earth/docs/tips-and-tricks/5.1---map-editing-tools
1.3.4 - Context layers
You can add various context layers to help set up features or inform sampling.
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We can upload Satellite imagery, drone imagery, and open-source map layers.
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If you would like a context layer to be uploaded, contact Johanna@mozaic.earth.