The New Snow Scope Web App
And Major Mobile App Updates…
We’ve just put out a major update for the Snow Scope App - with a focus on bringing our web app up to date and improving profile creation and editing flow - check out below for details on all the updates, and our learn page for a ton of videos detailing all of these new features and more.
Fully Functional Web Snowpit Recorder
The Snow Scope App was created as a mobile first application for recording snowpack data in the field, but we have heard an increasing number of you ask for that same functionality on the web. We’ve updated our web app to be a fully featured version of our mobile app, allowing you to fully record snow profiles on the larger screen and warmer environment of a computer based setup, or to edit profiles you started in the field back home on your computer.
The data from the mobile and web apps sync seamlessly, so you can always create, view, and edit data on either platform.
Get the full overview of the new web app here: https://youtu.be/kYnJiEuCk_w
New Export Formats
We’ve made the following updates to our export formats:
improved look of exports - more standard format that is easy to read with all SWAG/OGRS fields
White background for easier printing and better upload/viewing on Avy Center Obs sites
png option (mobile only) to allow easier direct upload to Avy Centers and databases that don’t support pdf.
Full overview of export functionality here: https://youtu.be/LAiIE48op0M
Quick Obs Recording
We’ve seen and heard increased interest for recording of “quick obs”, either weather obs or quick test results. Previously, we did not support this functionality and there was buggy behavior if you tried to save profiles without any layer data. We now have intentionally added support for this function, so you can now record quick geotagged test results or non layer based observations. Of course, you can always edit these quick obs to add a full profile later to them if you desire.
** on a side note, we are considering expanding this functionality to make quick test result recording even simpler, and possibly including options for other quick observations that could bring value in a geotagged format (ex: cracking and whumpfing) - please reach out to us if you have feedback on this use case.
Tabbed Profile Recorder
We’ve heard feedback from our users that the previous profile recording workflow did not always align with the order in which data is typically recorded in pits. As a result, we’ve made changes to support adding pit info in whatever order you would like, switching to a “tabbed” view in the profile recording page.
We’ve also added a new “Submit/Save”/”Edit” paradigm so that you can be more confident that data will not be edited unless you intentionally choose to edit it.
Another change we’ve made is added protections against accidentally deleting profile data that you are in progress of recording - including not allowing accidental swiping out of profile recording views, and warnings on hitting the “X” (exit) button.
Finally, if you haven’t noticed, we also now support all SWAG and OGRS fields for snow profile recording.
See videos on editing/saving profiles and the new profile creation workflow for more detail.
What’s Next
While these updates are great, we’re not nearly done working on improvements to the Snow Scope App and Probe. Here’s a quick list of things that are in the works…
Voice to Pit - we are deep in development of tools to allow direct conversion of your voice notes to a snowpit profile. Initial results are promising, and we’re super excited about this. If you want to help in the development of this, we really could use voice notes of snowpit details that any of you may be willing to share with us. Please reach out at contact@propagationlabs.com if you have any voice notes you could share with us!
SnowPilot Integration - we’re starting on a project to integrate data better with SnowPilot - stay tuned for more info on that front
Snow Scope Probe algorithm improvements - We’ve built out some more advanced data analysis tools and raw data processing tools this season that will allow us to improve the accuracy of the Snow Scope Probes even more!
General Improvements - We’re always fixing and improving little things - if you see something you don’t like, reach out and we’ll fix it/make it better! We love hearing feedback of all kinds!
