Zoom to a level where you can clearly see your feature/s of interest.

From the top menu bar, click on the feature finder tool (shortcut 'F')

In the feature finder pop up, type in the names of features to look for - e.g. trees, buildings. Make sure you press enter after each feature type.

Click preview to view the results

Optionally adjust the polygon smoothing and confidence levels

Optionally further modify the results to remove unwanted polygons by holding alt and clicking on a sample.

If you are happy with the result, click save in the feature finder pop up, or press enter once again on your keyboard.

Your polygons will appear in your table of contents and on the map. You can then go ahead and edit these as normal.

F - open feature finder

Enter - press this after typing the name of a feature / category. Press again to run the preview, and once more to save the output to the table of contents.

Alt + click - remove a sample after the preview has been run

Esc - click once to reset the samples, and then click again to return to the pan hand to navigate

Space bar - hold to temporarily enact the pan hand

Left, right, up, down arrow keys - move the map in that direction

Pg up, pg dn, home, end - move the map in that direction by a full screen display

Plus and minus - zoom in, zoom out

Get used to using the keyboard short cuts - this will significantly reduce your time analyzing.

Don't worry if you can't get the automatic detection perfect - you can always edit the polygons after you commit them to the map and ToC. Delete what you don't need, and the union tool is helpful to merge overlapping shapes together.

Objects will only be detected on the visible area of the screen. So you may need to pan around your data and do multiple detections.

Objects will be detected on the visible data - this means that contrast enhancement and transparency will affect your result.

Zoom out to detect larger features (e.g. forest), zoom in to detect smaller features (e.g. trees).

While you can find multiple different types of features, we find that we get the best results when we do one feature at a time.

There are some model limitations to relatively 'common' map features, so if you are looking for something obscure, it might have difficulty. We recommend experimenting, and let us know how you go!

You can even run detections on the basemap!