MESA 5.7.0 synthetic test data packages for sensitivity mapping

Abstract

Description: Four synthetic data packages for testing MESA 5.7.0, the open-source tool for mapping environmental sensitivity. Each ZIP is one MESA project (config.ini plus input/ data), restored via Manage data → Restore data. The packages contain inputs only, no computed results: the recipient runs Process and gets this version's values. MESA 5.7.0 is delivered without data. These packages are the way to get started. After the restore, import the assets, load input/settings.xlsx under Parameters and build the geocodes, then run Process. mesa_5.7.0_demodata_guide.md gives the steps. All geometry in these packages is invented. The layer names sound real and the shapes sit in real parts of the world, but they describe nothing that exists there. They exist to exercise the software from end to end, and the asset layers deliberately overlap, which is what MESA's segmentation and classification need. They must never be cited as evidence about any place. Each package also carries its own docs/readme_demodata.txt with measured asset overlap, which MESA offers at the end of a restore. Changes in 5.7.0: each package's config.ini is generated from the released MESA 5.7.0 template (mesa_version = 5.7.0). The Backfill stage no longer exists in MESA, and its setting is gone from the configuration. Classification is switched off in the packages, as it is in MESA 5.7.0, and is turned on under Configure → Classification. MESA 5.7.0 names generated geocode grids with a two-digit level (H3_R07, QDGC_L06); the packages carry no computed grids. The package descriptions and the guide are rewritten for 5.7.0. Asset data and settings.xlsx are byte-identical to 5.6.0.