The Insights Sandbox lets you build an insight and try it on the layer you’re looking at right away — before committing it to your catalog. It’s the fast lane for experimentation: tweak an expression, apply it, see the result on the Globe, adjust, and only save the ones that earn their place.
Where it is #
The Sandbox is a collapsible Insights Sandbox section inside the workflow result panel — expand it once you have a Visual on the Globe. (It’s a Remote Miner feature.) A banner reminds you to have an active layer selected so the sandbox insight has something to apply to.
📷 Screenshot pending — the Insights Sandbox section expanded under a run card.
Building and testing #
- Pick an Insight type — the same types as the full builder (Band Ratios, Wavelength Analysis, PCA, Distance, Mixture, Matched Filtering, Scripted), filtered to what your instrument supports. On a thematic instrument the sandbox tells you to switch to a spectral instrument instead.
- A modal opens with that type’s editor; configure it and hit Create (or Update when editing one you already made).
- Your creations collect in the Sandbox insights list. Each shows a compatibility indicator — it flags (and disables) any insight that doesn’t fit the current instrument.
- Select one and hit Apply to render it over the active layer. Iterate as much as you like.
Saving the keepers #
A sandbox insight is temporary until you save it. On any item:
- Save Insight promotes it into your real catalog — a dialog asks for a Name (at least 3 characters), a Category, and an optional Description. Once saved, it shows a green “saved” check.
- Edit Insight reopens its editor; Delete Insight removes it. Deleting an unsaved sandbox insight just drops it from the list; deleting a saved one asks you to confirm, because it permanently removes the catalog insight.
When to use it #
- Dialing in a threshold or expression — apply, eyeball the map, adjust, repeat, without cluttering your catalog with half-baked attempts.
- Comparing a few candidate indices on the same scene before deciding which to keep.
- Teaching/testing — try an idea end-to-end in seconds, then save it as a proper insight (or a Stack) when it works.