快速开始

您的第一次调查

本页面完整走一遍从安装到导出的流程：打开应用、下载您将要工作的区域、选择记录协议、在野外录入观察记录、复查所采集的内容，以及把数据导出。每一步都链接到一个包含完整细节的专门页面。

首次打开应用

When you open EarthCape for the first time, no sign-up is required. The app creates a project for you automatically, named after your device, selects it, and assigns the Casual / incidental protocol. The project is empty — it contains no sample data, no demonstration observations, and no pre-loaded species lists. Use it as it is, or rename it before you begin.

The home screen carries the Record button, quick actions for a new observation or locality (camera, gallery or blank form), and the weather card. Everything else — the map, your data lists, protocols, projects and Admin — is reached from the Menu button at the bottom left.

1. 打开应用。主屏幕加载后，自动创建的项目已被选中。
2. If you want to rename it, open Menu → Projects, tap the project and edit its name.
3. Take note of the protocol shown — it is Casual / incidental by default. You can change it before you start recording; see Setting the protocol below.

下载地图区域

底图通过我们自有基础设施提供的矢量瓦片覆盖整个星球——无需 API 密钥，没有使用上限。出野外之前，请下载您将要工作的区域，这样地图、地形和 3D 起伏在关闭无线电时都能正常工作。完整细节参见地图与瓦片服务器和离线地图。

下载一个区域

1. Open the map (Menu → Map).
2. 导航到您的野外样地，并在视口中框出所需的区域。
3. Tap Tools in the toolbar at the bottom of the map screen, then tap Offline.
4. The panel shows "Download current view". A region name is suggested automatically while you are online — for example, "Bostanlik district, Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan"; otherwise type one.
5. Check the coordinates and size estimate. The estimate depends on the area and terrain — the district-sized example in the screenshot is about 11 MB at z6–14 — and includes the map and the 3D terrain model.
6. 点按“下载此区域”，并在离开网络覆盖之前等待下载完成。

添加世界总览

The world overview (z0–5, approximately 80 MB) gives you a rendered basemap at all zoom levels, so the map is never blank when you zoom out beyond your downloaded region. It only needs downloading once.

1. In the same Offline panel, scroll down to World map. The detail line reads "Detail: z0–5 · ~80 MB"; the slider lets you change the depth (z0–7).
2. 点按“下载世界地图”。

设置协议和表单

A survey protocol defines the structure of a recording session: what a visit is, which fields appear on the observation form, and how the data is organised for export. Every observation in a project is recorded under the project's active protocol. Seven protocols ship with the app, including Casual / incidental, which is assigned automatically to new projects. You can change the protocol, clone a built-in one to edit it, or write a new one in the Protocols Studio — all on the device.

The Form builder lets you control the field layout for each entity type: show or hide fields, reorder them, group them under headings, and add custom fields. Custom fields defined before the season starts travel with the project, so the whole team's form looks the same from the first day.

1. Open Menu → Protocols. The list shows all seven built-in protocols and any you have created.
2. Tap a protocol to view it. To assign it, open Menu → Projects, tap your project and under Survey protocol tap Assign a protocol (or Change).
3. To add a custom field, open the protocol in Protocols, switch to the Form builder tab, choose the Entity type (for example Observation) and tap Add custom field. Set the caption, key, data type and section, and whether the field is Required and Show in list.
4. To share the configuration with colleagues, open the project under Menu → Projects and tap Share; the app writes a .ecsurvey setup file with the project, protocol, forms, custom fields, sites and vocabulary. Colleagues open the file on their device, or use Import under Menu → Projects. To move the records as well, export a Frictionless Data Package from Menu → Admin → File Import & Export.

在野外记录

Recording a session means starting a GPS track, which creates a visit for the session, and entering observations as you work through the site. The Recording observations page covers all of this in detail.

1. Open Record from the home screen or the Record tile in the Menu.
2. Check the GPS status fields before you start: Latitude, Longitude, Accuracy, V-Accuracy, Altitude, Speed, Bearing, Satellites and Timestamp are all shown. Wait until Accuracy reaches an acceptable value for your work — ±5 m or better is typical in open terrain.
3. 屏幕上显示“记录到哪个项目”以及当前项目名称。请确认无误。
4. Tap Start recording. A visit is created for the session automatically, and observations you add while recording are linked to it.
5. 在样地中移动时随时添加观察记录。每条观察记录都会打开协议对应的表单；填写分类单元和各项协议字段，也可以附加一张照片。
6. When the session is finished, tap Stop & save. The track and all observations are saved to the on-device database.

检查采集到的内容

The data lists give you access to every record in the project as a filterable list. After a day in the field, use them to check completeness, find entry errors and open records for correction.

1. Open Menu → Observations (or Visits, Localities, Taxa, or Files depending on what you want to review).
2. The list opens with the default column set. Tap the columns icon (Choose columns) to add, remove or reorder columns — for example, add Accuracy or Altitude to check GPS quality.
3. Type in the Filter… box to narrow the list; it matches text in any shown column. In the wide (tablet) grid each column has its own filter cell, and tapping a column header sorts by it.
4. 点按任意一行即可打开完整记录并进行编辑。

把数据取出来

EarthCape exports to twelve formats. The right choice depends on your destination: Darwin Core Archive for a biodiversity repository, GeoPackage for a GIS, Excel for spreadsheet work. If several people are collecting data on the same survey, Google Drive lets you push each person's contribution to a shared folder and merge them — without an EarthCape account or a server (a Google account is needed for Drive). See Export formats and Google Drive collaboration for the full procedure.

1. Open Menu → Admin → File Import & Export.
2. 选择与目标相符的格式。导出界面上列出了这十二种格式。
3. Tap the format to generate the file. The filename is set automatically from the project name, its id and a timestamp.
4. 通过 Android 分享面板分享文件（Quick Share、Drive、Messages、Bluetooth、Gmail 或任何其他已安装的目标），或直接发送到已配置的云端目标位置。
5. Alternatively, open Menu → Admin → Integrations and tap Export to Google Drive to push the current project — setup, your contributions, photos and an analysis-ready merge — to a shared Drive folder.

接下来读什么

本演练涉及的每个主题都有一个提供完整细节的专门参考页面。