What is a Saved Filter?

A Saved Filter enables you to quickly apply your preferred monitoring settings to an Area of Interest without needing to remember or manually reset filters. The Saved Filter feature can use any filtering options from the Events tab and the Filter tab (vessel information and vessel detection filters).

Once a filter is saved, simply go to the area and click “Apply” to view the relevant events on the map.

What is an Alert?

You can set up Alerts from any saved filter to be notified of situations needing immediate attention.

All email alerts are sent to email associated with the Skylight account that created the Alert. The email alerts include an overview of the event (or satellite frame) that triggered the alert, as well as a link to view the relevant data.

Each area can have multiple alerts.

Using filters

Creating a Saved Filter

All Saved Filters are based on an Area of Interest. If you do not have an Area(s) where you want, you will need create one before saving a filter. 

To create a Saved Filter, select the specific Area from the Areas menu for which you would like to create the filter. Then, open the third tab labeled as “Saved Filters and Alerts” and click on “Add a new filter”.

Follow the steps as instructed :

1. Assign a name to the Saved Filter. We recommend choosing a clear, descriptive name that allows you to quickly understand the monitoring conditions applied. Example: Filter_FishingActivity_Foreign.

2. Select the type of Skylight events you want this Saved Filter to highlight.               

3. Apply any additional filters as needed, including vessel information filters or vessel detection filters.

4. Choose whether to configure the Saved Filter as an Alert. If enabled, you will receive an email notification whenever Skylight detects an event that matches the conditions defined in this Saved Filter.

Recommendation: Create separate saved filters for “dark vessel” detection and for AIS-based events (such as Fishing or Rendezvous events involving vessels from Spain). This is because dark vessel detections do not have any associated identifying AIS data. In other words, any applies filters will result in no “dark vessel” detections.

Applying a Saved Filter

Click "Apply” on the Saved Filter. The map, including the Event and Filter tabs will reflect those settings.

Saved Filter & Alerts for Vessel Detection Alerts

There are two options for saved filters and alerts applying to vessel detections. With the “Vessel Detections” Event Type box is checked, you must select one of the two options:

• Vessel detections - Alert generated only when a vessel detection occurs within the Area of Interest. Any configured filters apply.
• Frame - Alert generated when any satellite frame overlaps/touches the Area of Interest. This option can be helpful if knowing whether or not activity has been detected.

Reminder: Vessel detections capabilities are not able to capture all vessel activity --sometimes due to weather/environmental conditions, sometimes due to vessel characteristics (e.g., size, material, use of light).

Managing Alerts - Editing, Deleting

Edit/Updating

Under the Saved Filters And Alerts tab, choose a filter and select “Edit” (top right of the tab) to reopen the window to edit the saved filter. You can also enable and disable alerts from there.

Note that using the “Update with map Filters” will override any existing previous filters. 

Delete

Under the Saved Filters And Alerts tab, choose a filter and then select “Delete” (top right of the tab). You will then be promoted to confirm that you would like to delete the Saved Filter.

Filtering the whole map from a Saved Filter

Should you wish to filter your entire map by a saved filter, start by clicking “Apply” from one of your saved filters. Then, click on the map outside of the area of interest and those same filters will apply to the entire map.