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1. Input Point Coordinates Planned Line Initial Line Center Line Left Toe Line User s Manual 45 Chapter 2 Preparation Steps 1 Enter the value of the Channel Width Line Spacing and Survey Width 2 Enter point name and X Y H coordinates in the Input Point Coordinates 3 Click Add to tell the program to add the point into the listing as an item 4 Optional Left click on the item and modify coordinates of the waypoint 5 Return to 2 until all waypoint is entered 6 Click OK to insure your decision Note 2 to 4 can be replaced by clicking Select to load point from X Y Library G Creating a Planned Line File from a DXF File The PROJECT IMPORT DXF program can create planned Line from DXF Files that meet certain requirements 1 DXF File Structure Requirements e All Planned Lines should be a standard AutoCAD 2000 Line file e All lines must be straight e All Planned Lines must occupy the same layer in the DXF File and there is no limit to the number of lines in the file 2 Import DXF Files to POWER NAV 1 Click PROJECT IMPORT DXF to bring up the Import CAD2000 dxf File dialog 2 Select a DXF file and then click Open VI Boat Shape Design A Boat Shape Editor The Boat Shape Editor is used to create a custom boat shape that matches your survey vessel You can start User s Manual 46 Chapter 2 Preparation from s
2. Chapter 3 Survey Point Lofting Dialog Point Lofting Lofting Foint Left click on the area map O Input lofting point information Nane Alarm Setting Min Distancelm Sound Alarm Max Distancelm a start Lofting _ End Lofting Start Lofting tells program to enter Point Lofting mode End Lofting tells program to exit Point Lofting mode A Selecting Point 1 Using Cursor Lofting Point Dialog Select Left click on the area map option and click Start Lofting At this time your cursor becomes a pane shape and you can select a single point which is required to lock up as a target and then a named Lofting Point dialog pops up and you click OK to make sure your decision You may find there is a red broken line between the selected target point and the GPS1 survey point and that means the target point is locked Lofting Point X Y H the X Y H coordinate of selected point User s Manual 76 Chapter 3 Survey Locked Point gt tE ee op T Pe Gor arc ec CECE CE EE ECEC AA pce 2 Entering Coordinates Select Input lofting point information option enter the information of the point you want to select and click Start Lofting At this time the program locks the point and there is a red broken line between the point and the GPS1 survey point and that means the point is locked B Alarm Settings When your vessel lays aboard the selected po
3. Batch Lines program b Coordinates Method You can define a borderline of the specified area via entering necessary information in the Batch Lines Dialog Batch Lines Dialog Direction Angle the angle from the Grid North to any line of the parallel lines in the specified area Line Spacing the spacing of the parallel lines in the specified area Draw borderline If this is selected the borderline of the specified area Batch Lines Parameters Setting o Direction Angle E d Line Spacing Border Description 10 m ClDraw borderline Enter the border waypoints position information According to a sequence Poi Northing 2574709 1526 2566066 6466 2662132 3714 2568710 9954 2577611 4868 2577224 5089 Easting 439425 6756 438006 7567 447358 7223 459742 0145 451873 4642 444649 8TT1 Height 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 will be drawn Up Down This is used to change Input Point Coordinates Name 4 sequence of items in the listing x 2577611 4868 y 451873 4642 Insert This function can insert a point as an item between the selected item and its frontal item Steps 1 Enter the value of the Direction Angle and the value of the Line Spacing 2 Enter point name and X Y H coordinates in the Input Point Coordinates 3 Click Add to tell the program to add the point into the listing as an item 4 Optional Left click o
4. Difference RTD Distance Increment Fixed RTE O Manual press space button Setting Dialog PSe2 Data Collecting Collect GPS2 s data v Keep same step with GPSl RAD Basis Event Basis Collecting Depth Instantaneous Depth O Max Depth O Min Depth O Average Depth About the settings in the dialog above the next will give the instruction of using Dredging Model for two ship based GPS units About the GPS1 the settings are same as using common model Before you set GPS2 you must make sure the GPS2 have been set to be usable in the Port Admeasurement dialog See to Hardware Setup in POWER NAV section or the settings about GPS2 are not accessed to Select the Collect GPS2 s data selection to tell program to collect and save the data coming from GPS2 If you require the GPS2 keeps same step with GPS1 that is GPS1 and GPS2 have the same settings on the RXD Basis and Event Basis you can select the Keep same step with GPS1 or else you make the selection unchecked and the RXD Basis and the Event Basis are accessed to so you can give your setting for each About collecting depth you may remember you have set it in the Guide The settings the Collecting Data Setting dialog show are same as the settings you give in the Guide If you find that you can t access to the Collecting Depth the reason may be that you forget set the echosounder to be usable in the User s Manual 61 Chapter
5. Easting a AT ane Ann EN 4nnwrenr 4 TrTaAr XTE L6 662m aw Angle dg 13 17 XTEZ R5 963m aw Angled 49 13 17 DTSP 14 449m DTEP 34 575m DTSP2 14 181m DTEP2 34 404m Delta X 55 045m Delta Y E4 351m Delta Xz N4 516m Delta Y2 W3 895m When a planned line is locked by manually automatically selecting the program will start lofting line From the window you can know the follows Current line name is 0 XTE Cross Track Error the distance from current GPS survey point to planned line e g R85 494m means that current GPS survey point is at the right side of the planned line and 85 494 meters far from it Yaw Angle the angle from boat course from planned line s start point to its end point DTSP Distance to Start Point the distance from current GPS survey point to start point of planned line DTEP Distance to End Point the distance from current GPS survey point to end point of planned line Delta X Y the difference between current GPS survey point X Y and the point X Y of current GPS survey point s projection on planned line or extended planned line Note XTE2 Yaw Angle2 DTSP2 DTEP2 Delta X Y2 and so on are associated with GPS2 the other GPS User s Manual 12 Lofting Point Echo sounder Chapter 1 Introduction Point ID Northing 20508358 O76 Easting 435112 852 Height 0 000 0 l Delta 1 N oe poate H W 259 531m Delta H i 30 000m Tgt Bearing 308d08
6. User s Manual POWER NAV STONEX Ltd www stonexsurveying com Info stonexsurveying com CONTENT 1 Introduction 1 I Welcome to POWER NAV ssssssssssessscceosssseceossssececosssseceossssececosssseeeosssseeeeosssses 1 II POWER NAV Minimum System Requirements s s ssessoseoecssossoscsecseosesecse 2 ML TS Cal At isiesscesasssctcecssscacsassaatcseuaiacesaasiedes EAEE ESE ERAS 2 TV POWER NAV Interface ssccasiiiceniiiesniinaidedkeennenaauiine 3 A POWER NAV Teoti Daiei a ai eenieeen ae 4 B POWER NAV Information List c c c ccccscsescscsescsssesssseceveveveveveseeees 7 C POWER NAV Depth Window cccccccccsscesesesesesescsescsteveveveveveees 212 D POWER NAV Information Tab with Information Window 12 E POWER NAV Information Bar c ccccccccsesesesesesssesesseveveveveseseees 13 2 Preparation 14 LNew Project Gunde erases a a 14 II Import Coordinates to X Y Library Optional sssssssecccccsssssceccocssssesesee 21 TED G COGCSY arida ssn dedassendeeees ees ness 24 A Geodetic Parameters Program ccccccsssscccccecccssccceceeeeeeeeeeeees 24 B Calculating Conversion Parameters cccccccccccccccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeees 26 FY Dehimine Work AV Ca ssi seesscsesecessss enea a a aaa 30 V Planned Survey lime ercran i a E r E A ii 31 A Common Patterns for Planned Lines ccc ccccccccccceseeeeeeeeeeeees 32 B Offset P
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8. for every tide gauges The tides in the list are optional and you can select them according to your need But you must select one at least when you select the Tide Correction selection to use tides Tide Correction Select Correction Items select Tide HAIWANG DOCK3 Dsnamic Sea Gauge Correction HATWANG DOCKA v Reference Frame Error Correction Depth system Error Correction Tide Correction 6 Depth Datum Plane You may survey at a high altitude area And the water bottom is above the Geoid the corrected depth may is User s Manual 104 Chapter 4 Processing negative according to the expression Corrected Depth Tide Correction Raw Depth Transducer Depth Offset Echosounder Correction Draft Correction That is because the corrected depth is relative to the geoid You can specify a Depth Datum Plane to let the corrected depth is relative to And you just need to enter the height of your Depth Datum Plane in the Depth Datum Plane text box Depth Datum Plane Correct Stop Correcting Depth Datum Plane m Special Condition Tide Staff D Correcting DEP Files Click Correction to tell the Correction program to perform all corrections you have selected in the Correction Items and to export corrected files according to your settings in the Data Format When User s Manual 105 Chapter 4 Processing all DEP files are dealt with a message box pops up to remember you
9. is average of xl x2 x3 B Calculating C User s Manual And then POWER NAV uses the dH to compute geographic height on the local datum onversion Parameters The CALCULATE CONVERSION PARAMETERS program calculates adjustment parameters or four parameters or interpolation parameters from coordinate information listings And you can calculate seven parameters via using Calculate Tool which can be found in the software CD These values translate your position data 26 Chapter 2 Preparation from the WGS 84 position to the corresponding position on your local datum The adjustment parameters calculation requires only one point described in each datum The four parameters calculation requires a minimum of two point pairs And interpolation parameters calculation requires a minimum of three point pairs The program will calculate conversion parameters basing on the number of the point pairs you input and offer to apply them in the Geodetic Parameters program Conversion Parameters Comparison Table Name Required Translated Target Application Points Seven More than two X Y Z The position translation between two Parameters different projection ellipsoids Four More than one The grid translation between two Parameters different local datum Interpolation More than two The height translation between two Pose Een ae Adjustment X Y H The coordinates translation between occas a apr at Set your ellipsoid a
10. 115 Tgt Dist 329 965m Tgt Time 00 00 32 When a point is locked by manually selecting the program will start lofting line From the window you can know the follows Current point name is 0 Northing Easting Height the current survey point s position information Delta X Y H the difference of X Y H between locked point and current GPS survey point Tgt Bearing Target Bearing the angle from grid north from current GPS survey point to current target point i e locked point Tgt Dist Target Distance the distance from current GPS survey point to target point Tet Time Target Time the time needed for boat arrive at target position be Information Tip ss Navigation Information Lofting Information ij Echosounder When the echo sounder is running after set the right COM port and other parameters for echo sounder in Power nav then when you choose echo sounder in Information Tab it will show the depth curve real time E POWER NAV Information Bar User s Manual The Information Bar displays the current cursor position in X Y Click the Azimuth and Distance icon and then drag your cursor across the Area Map and the distance and azimuth are displayed on the middle of the Information Bar The number of the data byte that POWER NAV receives from GPS and Echosounder is displayed on the right end of the Information Bar 13 Chapter 2 Preparation 2 Preparation I New Project Guide When the POWE
11. 8 aa Qe e Icon bar title bar Solution 10 45 39 2008 07 04 Taehcear lin E PE J t 10 45 40 2008 07 04 Software dog has been detec ores TEE be Information Tip gt Navi zation Information Pa Lofting Ir Informaation bar Coordinates x 56 800 y 98 533 POWER NAV User Interface Main Program All of the programs of POWER NAV can be accessed from the unified user interface Programs can be started from either the icon bar or from the menu bar Note If you launched POWER NAV without hardlock attached you can attach your hardlock then restart the software When POWER NAV detects the key the corresponding programs will be enabled Located along the top of the screen the menu bar selections are grouped into basic functional areas 3 Chapter 1 Introduction A POWER NAV Icon Bar The icon bar quickly starts programs with a click on the icon Ifyou leave the cursor on top of an icon for a second a text box will appear which describes the function of the icon o ws a ee es EE SA a 7 xX B K POWER NAV Icon Bar The Icon Bar enables you to quickly access various POWER NAV functions and programs As with all icon bars in POWER NAY the function of each icon can be displayed by moving the cursor over it File Operation New can bring up a New Open project dialog Open can bring up a New Open project dialog Save tells program to save all fig
12. Corrections The program will correct the files in the File List according to your selections in the Correction Items You d better to give right settings although incorrect settings can t destroy the previous data DEP file data or ORG file data Correction Items Select Correction Items Select Tide JEchosounder Correction C HAIWANG DOCKS Dynamic Sea Gauge Correction HAIWANG DOCKA Feference Frame Error Correction _ Depth syetem Error Correction Tide Correction Depth Datum Flane imi jo When you use the Tide Correction the expression of merging corrections Corrected Depth Depth Datum Plane Height Tide Correction Raw Depth Transducer Depth Offset Echosounder Correction Draft Correction Corrected Water Bottom Height Tide Correction Raw Depth Transducer Depth Offset Echosounder Correction Draft Correction Corrected Coordinates Raw Coordinates Reference Frame Correction Using Tides User s Manual 100 Chapter 4 Processing Tide Staff e Corrected Depth Water Bottom Height When you correct your survey data without the Tide Correction the expression of merging corrections Corrected Depth Depth Datum Plane Height Water Surface Height Raw Depth Transducer Depth Offset Echosounder Correction Draft Correction Corrected Water Bottom Height Water Surface Height Raw Depth Transducer Depth Offset Echosounder Correction
13. If your ellipsoid is not in the list click on the User defined choice and manually enter the a and 1 f values 2 Select your projection from the available projections In POWER NAV the following projections are supported Gauss Kruger UTM Transverse Mercator Oblique Stereographic and Equatorial Stereographic 3 The Central Meridian False Northing False Easting Scale Factor Projection Height and Reference Latitude pertinent to your chosen projection should be set Note The Central Meridian should be inputted because different central meridian correspond to different zone And you can get local central meridian from local longitude User s Manual 16 Chapter 2 Preparation Conversion Converzion Parameters Set seven parameter four parameters and adjustment parameter Use Four Parameters dX imi f Frojectiaf e dY im dY n Project Conversion Rotate az im Scale Equipnent Rotate Els fe Collecting Rotate Yia fe Rotate Tia jo a dy im Scale ppm a 4ngle Format dd mmesseee dhimi Conversion Parameters 1 Specifying No Datum Transformation If you do not want POWER NAV to perform a datum transformation make all selection boxes not pitched on This flags the program about your intent 2 Specifying a 4 Parameter Datum Transformation POWER NAV can perform a 4 parameter datum transformation The values dX and dY represent the separation between the geocentric
14. Project For example computing 4 parameter and adjustment parameters need some coordinates and creating planned User s Manual 21 Chapter 2 Preparation lines also need a lot of coordinates So importing your coordinates to X Y library may be necessary You can bring up the X Y Library dialog by clicking UTILITIES X Y LIBRARY X Y Library dialog ER ibrary Point Name Attribute Northing Easting K 0 o0000000 J22 96 TTS K 0 oo000000 322 96 TTS K 0 oo000000 ee 96 TTS agaaga aE 96 ooo00000 aada OOO00000 OOO00000 oo000000 oooo0000 oooo0000 Actions a Add Click Add to bring up the Add Point dialog and enter necessary information to the editable boxes Add Point dialog Add Point Enter a point name and X Y H of the point And the Code flags the point s sort b Edit User s Manual 29 Chapter 2 Preparation Select a point item in the listing and then click Edit to bring up the Edit Point dialog You can edit X Y H and the code of the point Edit Point dialog Add Point c Delete If you want to delete a point select the point item in the listing and then click Delete an ensured message box pops up and click OK to insure your decision d Clear If you want to clear all points in the listing click Clear an ensured message box pops up and click OK to insure your decision e Search The Search function can help you to find the wanted point from the
15. Value 5 Switch to the View Window Enter new Input Depth Value value of depth in the Input Depth Value Input Depth alue dialog and then click Modify to apply your decision 6 For each Course Point or Event Point repeat the steps 1 to 5 User s Manual 86 Chapter 4 Processing 2 Automatic Editing Data Select TOOLS AUTOMATISM or Automatism icon and wait the program automatically deals with all points depth in the opened data file Note It s fast It s easy Its DANGEROUS No computer program can replace human intelligence and common sense when it comes to editing data Use this feature with caution C Setting Selection Method 1 Description In order to specify which points you want to adopt you can neatly use the Selection Method to control the Sort Line When you click TOOLS SELECTION METHODS or Selection Methods a Selection Setting dialog pops up Selection Setting Dialog B Selection Setting selection Area Start Point area End Point Selection Methods Time Distance Mark Intervalls Selection Area All If you choose this option the Selection Method is applied to all points in the opened file Area If you choose this option the Start Point drop down list and the End Point drop down list are accessed to And you can specify the area to apply the Selection Method by specifying the number of the start point or the end point of the area It is
16. a team of items via inputting the content and clicking gt gt button Content You can left click on an item in the left list and then click gt gt button to add it into right list Display the contents in right list will be shown in Information List 1 Modify Only caption can be modified And you can select a caption in the Display list input new caption in the Caption edit box and then click Modify button to perform the action Up Down You can select an item in the right list and then change the order of items via clicking Up Down button Delete You can select an item in the right list and then delete the item Caption or Content via clicking Delete button Clear You can clear all items in the right list Font Settings You can respectively select the font type and font size of captions and contents from the two drop down boxes Color Settings The color buttons will display the current settings You can click the color button the color box pop up and then select a color from it When User s Manual Resume Default Chapter 1 Introduction Configuration Dialog Data Display Configuration Edit Information Display Caption Display Solution E Cont ent a Content Name Background Color Caption Name Table Color Chapter 1 Introduction cursor is on the
17. and modify coordinates of the waypoint 5 Return to 2 until all waypoint is entered 6 Click OK to insure your decision Note 2 to 4 can be replaced by clicking Select to load point from X Y Library 6 Center Line Offsets To create perpendicular lines at user defined spacing along the initial line select DESIGN PLANNED LINE PATTERNS CENTER LINE OFFSETS The Center Line Offsets dialog will appear And you can define an initial line and offset values via entering necessary information in the dialog User s Manual 39 Chapter 2 Preparation Center Line Offsets Line Spacing the spacing with meter unit between the parallel lines Distance Port Distance Starboard Imagine you are standing at the start of the initial line looking toward Center Line Offsets Parameters Setting B Distance Fort Distance Starboard Description Enter the waypoint of the initial line According to a sequence Northing 107 3220 455 4400 TAT 4240 121 4240 Easting 96 TT30 96 TT30 45 4240 T5 4240 Height 45 2090 45 2090 45 2090 45 2090 the end to determine which way is left or right port or starboard the distance Insert with meter unit far away Input Foint Coordinates fame e OO z 121 424 y 75 424 h 45 209 Add from port starboard select Draw the initial line If this is Selected the initial line is Cancel Down drawn Select you can load a
18. and point name by keyboard If you want to add the X Y H Add Point Enown Local Coord Input known local coordinate of the reference point Point Name from the X Y library you can click the icon at right top corner of the First Step Input Taek coordinate of the dialog to bring up the reference point P the button on the top right X Y library interface corner and then choose coordinate fk int ag ded 1 ees Pair ere eee and then select an item in the list and click OK User s Manual 28 Chapter 2 Preparation b Add Original Coordinate there are four methods to add original coordinate You can select one of them to add original coordinate Adding Method opie RTARTA Get from X Y library click this icon to bring up the X Y library interface and then select an item in the list and click OK Get from library Get current point coordinate Get base station coordinate Get current Point Coordinate click this icon to read the coordinate at the GPS antenna from the ship based GPS Imut geography coordinate receiver which is connected with POWER NAV So you eS ecent ie eb must insure right connection between POWER NAV and You can get the original coordinate of reference points through four ways above the ship based GPS receiver before you click this icon to get the coordinate Get Basestation Coordinate click this icon to read the coordinate at th
19. coordinate systems of the two data The 4 parameter transformation also contains values for rotation about Z axes and changes in scale between the two systems There are many sources for these values If you have 4 parameter you can select the Use Four Parameters the input boxes become accessed to and input parameters POWER NAV uses these parameters to compute geographic positions on the local datum If you don t have the 4 parameter and have a minimum of two point pairs you can set the parameters via clicking SETTINGS CALCULATE CONVERSION PARAMETERS menu to start Calculate Conversion Parameters program after finishing the guide 3 Specifying a 7 Parameter Datum Transformation POWER NAV can also perform a 7 parameter datum transformation In addition to dX dY and dZ the 7 parameter transformation also contains values for rotations about the X Y and Z axes and changes in scale between the two systems Seven parameter datum transformations can cover a larger area more accurately than 4 parameter transformations Certain countries have published 7 parameter transformation values that are to be used for the User s Manual 247 Chapter 2 Preparation User s Manual entire country If you have 7 parameter you can select the Use Seven Parameters the input boxes become accessed to and input parameters 4 Specifying Adjustment Parameters Datum Transformation Adjustment parameter datum transformations work well ove
20. is surveyed max or min depth and which file is opened B Editing Data in the Editor User s Manual Open an ORG file by clicking FILE OPEN or Open icon and choosing a file with ORG extension And the View Window displays profile of the file You may find some Event Points or Course Points are at wrong place when you compare the Primal Depth Graph to the Graphical Indication of graph data file which is created by the software of echosounder You can lay them at right place via correcting them one after another by cursor or using the Automatism function 1 Manual Editing Data This section gives you an example for editing data by cursor while using SDE 28 echosounder About the SDE 28 echosounder you can refer to its manual In deed it is easy to find those Event Points or Course Points at wrong place via viewing the trend of the Primal 83 Chapter 4 Processing Depth Graph because they are always protrudent and not congruent to the change of real landform The follows give you a example and you can learn by imitating When you view the Primal Depth Graph you may are doubtful of the section shown in the right hand figure because there are some very protrudent points And then you can get the end survey time of this section from the Information Bar via moving your cursor on the number 13 Event Point and the time is 11 48 19 In order to prove your guess you must find the graph data file the system of
21. ontime 1 If you can t find a right driver for your GPS receiver in the driver list you can create a driver 1 Create Your Driver e Enter name for your driver in the User defined Device e Click the center Add to add your driver s name into the Type of GPS drop down list as an item e In order to tell GPS receiver how to work enter communication command in the Order text box and click the bottom Add to add the character string into the Order List as an item If you enter command in hex format you must select the Hex e Modify command Select a row in the Order List and the content is copied to Order text box So you can edit the content and then click Modify to change the content of the row e Delete command select a row in the Order List and click the bottom Delete to delete the row User s Manual 56 Chapter 2 Preparation e Click Save to tell the program to save your driver into the project file And you can still select and use it when restarting POWER NAV 2 Delete Your Driver If you want to destroy your driver you can select your driver option in the Type of GPS drop down list and then click the center Delete to remove your driver After you create your diver and select your driver in the Type of GPS drop down list you may find there are three data formats in the Data Format drop down list And you can select a data format corresponding to the data you
22. or Beacon and HRMS and VRMS are out of the precision limit the solution is differential and if specifying the basic on Difference the collecting program will perform collecting and saving the data with difference Fixed RTK When the data coming from GPS receiver contain difference received from the Basestation and HRMS and VRMS are in the precision limit the solution is fixed and if specifying the basic on Fixed the collecting program will perform collecting and saving the data Note If you specify the basic on Single the collecting program will perform collecting and saving the data only just the solution is single or differential or fixed If you specify the basic on Difference the collecting program will perform User s Manual 20 Chapter 2 Preparation collecting and saving the data only just the solution is differential or fixed If you specify the basic on fixed the collecting program will perform collecting and saving the data only just the solution is fixed B Event The Event occurs at every specified value time interval or point spacing POWER NAV also supports controlling the event manually by pressing Space Key When an event occurs the collecting program will perform collecting and saving the current position data and sending a command to Echosounder to make event mark for getting the current position depth if echosounder is used and connected Note The GPS receiver only can output a set of d
23. red pane 2 Left click on the Event Point 248 and then left click on the Event Point 255 At this time the Selection Setting dialog pops up Selection Setting Dialog User s Manual 88 3 Enter a very larger value than the difference of Event Point 248 and 255 and then click OK For example choose Time method and enter 500 in the Interval 4 You may find there no Sort Line between Event Point 248 and 255 That means the program is told all points in the area will not be adopted And the program flags these points in the DEP file b More Points are adopted in an area You find the depth change is very evident between Event Point 118 and 131 So more points in the area are required to adopt for representing the bottom under water properly That means that more Sort Lines are required to draw 1 Click TOOLS SELECTION AREA or Selection Area icon And your cursor becomes a small red pane 2 Left click on the Event Point 118 and then left click on the Event Point 131 At this time the Selection Setting dialog pops up User s Manual Chapter 4 Processing Selection Setting Selection Area Start Point End Fount Selection Methods Distance Mark Interval fs Result Sort Line Previous Sort Line Selection Setting Dialog 89 Chapter 4 Processing 3 Enter a smaller value than the previous value and then click OK For example choose Distance me
24. remember is that the Tide Correction is going to be added to the sounding Tide Corrections relate soundings to the chart datum You only have to enter water level for each time slice in the TIDES program And the TIDES program can compute tide corrections for each sounding The time slice of each TDD file must contain the time slice of all sounding collected Tide Correction Water Level Tide Staff The resulting Tide files can be displayed by clicking on the Tide in the list of Tides Information dialog User s Manual 92 Tides Information Dialog Starting Time is the starting time of tide observation Ending Time is the ending time of tide observation Time Increment is the interval of two sequential observation times User s Manual Chapter 4 Processing A Tides Information The List of Tides AATWANG DOCK Tide Name HAIWANG DOCE HATWANG DOCKS HATWANG DOCKS ki 3163810 689 AG Hod 337 6 Tip In Adjust folder each tide has a tdd file with its name same as the tide s Tide Data Date ae l 0086 11 26 Date 2007 1 30 amp enone Starting Time H m 8 00 2006 11 26 Ending TimefH m 18 00 Water Level cm B38 Time Increment 30 mintes Create a Tide File You d better to create only tide file for each tide for preventing the confusion of same tide for different time slices and different tides for same time slice 1 Enter a name for new tide fi
25. the Collecting Data Setting dialog that says the program is recording survey data all right 2 Click UTILITIES WATCH RECORD to bring up the Watch Survey Coordinates dialog User s Manual 72 Chapter 3 Survey Watch Survey Coordinates Watch Survey Coordinates Dialog Point Name Time Northing Easting Height oo 16 20 51 28 334 499740 497 0 000 1 16 20 54 28 334 499743 503 0 000 2 16 20 57 28 334 499745 507 0 000 Ha 16 21 00 28 334 499748 512 0 000 16 21 03 28 334 499750 497 0 000 16 21 06 28 334 499753 503 0 000 16 21 09 28 334 499755 507 0 000 16 21 12 28 334 499758 613 0 000 16 21 15 28 334 499760 498 0 000 16 21 18 28 334 499763 504 0 000 16 21 21 28 334 499765 507 0 000 16 21 24 28 334 499768 613 0 000 16 21 27 28 334 499770 498 0 000 16 21 30 28 334 499773 504 0 000 z gt 4 Floating amp Difference 4 Single While you launch survey recorded points are added into the listing of the Watch Survey Coordinates dialog real time So the program is recording survey data all right if the points in the listing are becoming more and more How can you view recorded survey data Whether the program is surveying or not click Import in the Watch Survey Coordinates dialog and select a survey line file for loading into the listing via the pop up Open File dialog lll Survey Line A Selecting Line You can click SURVEY LOCK PLANNED LINE to bring up the Lockup L
26. the satellites are distributed in outer space For each received satellite the spreadsheet shows satellitic ID height angle azimuth angle and signal to noise In the Orientation Information it shows the position information of the antenna of the connected GPS unit If you think it is time to set the GPS unit on the base station You can click Stop and then click Set Basestation it is accessed to at this time to bring up the Base Station Setting dialog 2 About Base Station GPS You can get the Base Station Setting dialog like the instruction above and also can quickly bring up the dialog by clicking SETTINGS BASESTATION SETTINGS Base Station Setting Sifmmajeietoueisast Dialog Current Equipment Stonex 586 Coordinates Type O Y Y Coordinates Geographic Coordinate Haze Station ID E Base Station Fosition Base Station Parameters Difference Format RICA v Intervalfs H 0 000 i intenna Height im The input format of long and lat dd mmsssess Get Current Fosition The text label at the up top shows the type of GPS unit you are using And the selection in the Coordinates Type tells the program shows the position information in the format XYH or BLH Base Station ID shows the code name of the base station And the code name is used to differentiate the different base station so it is transmitted to tell ship based GPS receiver which base station the difference is coming from a Set Bas
27. your echosounder has saved Maybe you name the graph data file according to survey data So you can find the file in your computer via the date 2006 11 26 shown in the Information Bar Dblclick the file icon and the SDE 28 software will be started while opening the file Click Replay icon in the user interface of SDE 28 software and there is a wave moving from right to left In order to view static wave you can click Pause to stop the wave moving Click Jump icon to bring up the Index dialog You can find named 000013 2006 11 26 11 48 20 item in the listing Dblclick on the item or click OK while selecting the item And the program shows you the section of the graphical indication at 11 48 20 time before User s Manual U06 11 26 11 46 19 4 60m Graph Data File in Your Computer my wT 061126 2 p11 hes of 061126 3 p11 hag 0611271 p11 MA Ce im 7 KE ar A 1 30 PCE KB gia N hy r 3 I A KE gers WY bene ee a aS ite citer A SDE 28 Software gt u gt m coligh A amp Pause 2k 4X End Cyc Restore Jump Deep Shallow Depth 4 35Meter Replaying Index 000500 2006 11 26 11 47 26 000501 2006 11 26 11 47 30 000001 2006 11 26 11 47 34 000002 2006 11 26 11 47 38 000003 2006 11 26 11 47 42 000004 2006 11 26 11 47 46 000005 2006 11 26 11 47 50 000006 2006 11 26 11 47 54 000007 2006 11 26 11 47 58 000008 2006 11 26 11 48 02 000009 2006 11 26 11 48 05 000010 2006 11 26 11 4
28. 00 50 1000 60 2 1100 00 1200 T0 3 210 00 T amp O 50 4 400 00 A Delete Settings Line Type Line Width Color O l B Offset Patterns for Planned Lines Planned lines can be created in any one of several patterns included in the DESIGN PLANNED LINE PATTERNS Parallel Line ioe Parallel Line Offsets re tee The Initial Line Offsets create yf pep rom Point 2 parallel lines Parameters Setting on either side rf d Distance between lin s 25 0 f the ini tia l P F J P J f Lines right of center Lines left of center line Parallel Parallel Polyline Offsets bd pa Polyline i T Lines left of center 10 Line Spacing 5 Lines right of center 10 Draw the initial line Offsets create parallel Description Enter the waypoint of the initial line According to a sequence polylines on oder Northing Easting Height 1 100 0000 100 0000 10 0000 150 0000 140 0000 10 0000 e e y 2 either side of 3 180 0000 190 0000 10 0000 Dow 4 200 0000 210 0000 10 0000 Input Point Coordinates 200 y f210 Add the initial line User s Manual he Chapter 2 Preparation Center Line Pix tg Center Line Offsets Offsets create y Te y 7 Parameters Setting la Distance Port 10 Line Spacing perpendicular a 7 e Distance Starboard 10 lines at Description e Enter the waypoint of the initial line According to a sequence us er defi n ed Northing East
29. 2 Preparation Admeasurement dialog About the four types for depth you can refer to the instruction in the New Project Guide section B Storage Settings You may want to specify the name of event point track line or data file You can click SETTINGS STORAGE SETTING to bring up the Storage Setting dialog Slorage Seting Dialog Data file name File Name Ln Line ID jo Save Path Dr data Point Naming Standard Mode Series Mode C Line ID Point ID Line ID this is that ID of the first track line For example you enter number 0 into the Line ID text box the first track line ID is 0 and the second track line ID is 1 and SO ON File Name this is the first name of data file for the corresponding track line What must be mentioned 1s that each track line has an own data file for saving And the last name of data file is the corresponding track line ID For example you enter Ln into the File Name text box the data file for the first track line with 0 ID is named with Ln0 and the data file for the second line with 1 ID is named with Ln1 and so on Point Naming there are three modes for naming event point Standard Mode The point is named with its ID And the point ID is renumbered when the point is on new track line Series Mode The point is named with its ID And the point ID is numbered in series even if the point is on new track line Line I
30. 4 39 486 42 526 5 2666 11 26 3163944 423 594325 758 38 786 43 226 6 2666 11 26 3163951 652 594323 551 37 286 44 726 8 2666 11 26 3163957 861 594321 526 36 846 45 166 9 2666 11 26 3163964 869 594319 613 38 166 43 846 11 2666 11 26 3163971 689 594317 559 39 646 42 966 12 2666 11 26 3163977 886 594315 188 38 866 43 266 13 2666 11 26 3163983 736 594312 462 39 166 42 846 14 2666 11 26 3163989 194 594369 392 38 526 43 486 16 2666 11 26 3163994 673 594365 888 37 186 44 826 The depth is relative to your Depth Datum Plane About the relation between Depth Datum Plane and depth you can refer to the Corrections section below You must be clear at the Depth Datum Plane or the value of depth may be not you want If you want to export your files according to two different file formats you can select the Depth File selection and define the file format as the instruction above 5 Click OK to make sure your decision for your driver At this time you can find your driver in the File Format drop down list of the Correction dialog c Editing User defined Format You only be allowed to edit user defined format and you can t edit the DAT format User s Manual 98 Chapter 4 Processing File Format drop down list S User defined Fornat 1 Select your driver item from the File Format drop down list 2 Click Edit Format and then click OK for the brought mess
31. 8 08 000011 2006 11 26 11 48 12 000012 2006 11 26 11 48 16 000013 2006 11 26 11 48 20 NNNNI A INNAC 11 IC 11 40 94 5181 0 00 594368 3294 0 00 Include mark line v Include ruler line v Include settings 0 00 HF 5 34 3 163836 266 594373 LF 0 00 HF 3 03 3163888 736 594354 643 0 18 LF 0 00 HF 3 61 3163825 780 594376 11 47 54 LF 0 00 HF 5 16 3163947 052 594324 8404 0 00 11 46 22 LF 0 00 HF 4 34 3163831 0 1094374 11 46 38 LF 0 00 HF 4 72 3163852 276 6 11 46 54 LF 0 00 HF 4 01 3163873 483 594864 014 0 00 6 11 46 34 LF 0 00 HF 4 80 313846 930 594370 L1 26 11 47 50 LF 0 00 HF 4 46 3163941 824 594326 7174 0 00 L1 26 11 46 58 LF 0 00 HF 3 66 3163878 623 594358 L1 26 11 46 30 LF 0 00 HF 5 99 3163841 590 594371 L1 26 11 46 26 LF Li 26 11 46 L1 26 L1 26 11 47 06 11 2 11 26 Ll 2t L1 26 84 Chapter 4 Processing Area Points Edit Method In the View Graphical Indication Window click and drag your cursor from the Event Point 6 to 13 like the white line while comparing to the Graphical Indication And you will get the edited result so the previous graph 1s sorted as the Primal Depth Graph and shown with yellow broken line and your draggy line i e the white line is sorted Click and drag in View Window as the Resulting Depth Graph and shown with green polyline The advan
32. Beginning Angle Center Point User s Manual 41 Chapter 2 Preparation Steps 1 Enter the coordinates of the center point or Select a point from X Y Library 2 Enter the values in the Parameters Setting 3 Click OK to create planned lines D Creating Points and Text Remark 1 Creating Single Point To create a point select DESIGN DRAW LINE or click on the Draw Line icon The Select Drawing Mode dialog will appear and you can select a method a Cursor Method To specify the point left click in the Area Map And a single point is labeled with red cross And then you can create next point until you right click to exit the Create Point program b Coordinates Method You can define a point via entering necessary information in the Point Attribute Dialog Point Attribute Dialog Point Attribute X Y H X Y H coordinate of the point Select from library you can load a Foint Name Select from library 1500 36 T 1721 25 point coordinate from the X Y Library 3 52 Code 0000 2 Making Text Remark To make a text remark select DESIGN TEXT REMARK or click on the Text Remark icon The Select Drawing Mode dialog will appear and you can select a method a Cursor Method User s Manual 42 Chapter 2 Preparation To specify the position of the text remark left click in the Area Map And the Input Text Note dialog appears and you can enter the content of the Text Remark and set
33. Correcting DEP Piles a c5 0i2 cos corer eh denen nearer nian a 105 User s Manual Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Introduction Welcome to POWER NAV POWER NAV Project on the water Power Hav C Stonex Power Hav Survey Datak ie x Project E Settings S Desig D Survey C View V Utilities U Feacassingte Help H Interface De ueiQRQAQAAHle gt s e z9O Tlo w P Solution oo Status poor ses SSS Tine Hdg amp Speed Speed iin Point DS Spacing SS Position amp Depth a bv Frea Def Si Worthing SSS Easting SS Caie CS PTatitude CS ongitu SS res 10 45 39 2008 07 04 G4 10 45 40 2008 07 04 Software dog has been detected registration date 2008Year10Mor Information Tip Coordinates x 56 800 y 98 533 Welcome to POWER NAV This manual provides details regarding the modules of POWER NAV It contains the sections regarding e Survey Preparation e Final Products e Data Collection e Utility Functions e Single Beam Processing DREDGEPACK If you have purchased a POWER NAV license you will receive an additional manual specific for surveys POWER NAV is delivered with different modules depending on which package you ordered Different modules include Module Packages Included Survey Module Preparation and Data Collection User s Manual sal Chapter 1 Introduction Module Packages Included Processing Module Editi
34. D Point ID User s Manual 62 Chapter 2 Preparation The point is named with its ID added the ID of the track line which the point is on And the point ID is renumbered when the point is on new track line X RTK For RTK there are RTK capable base station base station for short and an RTK capable ship station A Base Station GPS Settings In order to tell the base station GPS how to transmit the difference via a radio telemetry link you must specify the coordinates of the base station transmission interval and the code name of base station 1 e base station ID 1 Satellitic Information After you complete the device connection and especially the connection is good between GPS receiver Here is the GPS unit on the base station and POWER NAV you may want to see the satellitic information before set the GPS unit on the base station You can click SETTINGS SATELLITIC INFORMATION to bring the Satellitic Information dialog Satellitic Information ea uhtatoetcde CEEA Dialog Satellitic Di splay me Orientation Information Latitude O235 07 25 S665 2iO18412 525 i Longitude 1135 21 56 6634 17560214 176 Ellipsoid Height 30 000 30 000 Status Fixed 06 09 25 00 Click Start to tell the program to read the position information and the satellitic information from the connected GPS receiver 1 e GPS1 The area at the User s Manual 63 Chapter 2 Preparation left top corner shows how
35. Draft Correction Corrected Position Coordinates Raw Position Coordinates Reference Frame Correction Corrected Depth User s Manual 101 Chapter 4 Processing 1 Echosounder Correction For some echo sounders the factory may offer a set of correction parameters for surveying different depth And you can click gt gt to bring up the Integrated System Error Parameter dialog and input these correction parameters into the spreadsheet Integrated System Error Parameter Dialog Integrated System Error Parameter Ab gt Depth tm Correction datalm Echosounder Integrated Error the depth value error at different depth 2 Dynamic Sea Gauge Correction The draft may change along with different velocity of your vessel And the change of the draft causes depth errors If your echosounder doesn t contain dynamic draft correction system and the change of vessel velocity is great you d better to use the Dynamic Sea Gauge Correction 1 e Draft Correction to correct your survey data You can click the gt gt to bring up the Dynamic Sea Gauge System Error Parameters dialog and enter the correction for each velocity User s Manual 102 Chapter 4 Processing Dynamic Sea Gauge System Error Parameters Dialog Dynamic Sea Gauge System Error Paras Velocity ikta Sea gauge correction datalm 2 0 03 lt lil gt Cada insert Deiere ier Cox In the process of surveying the s
36. NNEL DESIGN Before the program run the Select Drawing Mode dialog will appear and you can select a method All coordinates are XY grid coordinates You cannot enter Latitude Longitude pairs in the CHANNEL DESIGN program a Cursor Method To specify the waypoints of the initial line of the channel left click in series in the Area Map And right click to ensure the initial line and the Channel Design dialog pops up In the dialog you can modify the default value and edit the coordinates with end of clicking OK to apply your decision And then you can create planned lines in next channel until you right click to exit the Channel Design program b Coordinates Method User s Manual 44 Chapter 2 Preparation You can design a channel via entering necessary information in the Channel Design dialog Channel Design Dialog Channel Design Design Parameters Channel Width Line Spacing 5 Channel Wicth 20 Line Spacing Survey Width and Initial Line are Survey Width shown in the figure below Description Enter the waypoint of the initial line According to a sequence Note When you enter value of the icon ee ha Fatin Bese 163 6754 36 3206 0 0000 channel width and coordinates of 155 3897 102 4635 0 0000 3 oa 124 8183 155 3206 0 0000 the waypoints of the initial line the 81 9611 194 1778 0 0000 left right toe line can be created a 205 3206 0 0000 automatically by the program
37. POWER NAV User s Manual 78 Chapter 4 Processing 4 Processing I Previewing Your Data in the Main Window There is nothing worse than thinking your planned lines are finished with a survey packing up the boat and gear driving 1 000 miles back to the home office only to discover that line 13 was not surveyed To see if there are any problems it is usually a good practice to check your track data files and preview the track lines in the main view window The Main view window always displays files that are selected in the listing of Track Display dialog pops up by clicking VIEW TRACKS LIST Track Display Track Display Dialog Original Survey File Name User s Manual 79 Chapter 4 Processing Previewing in the Main View Window 499800E 500000E 500100E 500200E 500300E ll Sounding Editor A Instruction You can edit your soundings in the Sounding Editor and bring up it by clicking PROCESSING SOUNDING SELECTION For each track line you can specify which survey points 1 e the track points said in Survey are adopted and which survey points are not adopted and saved into resulting file and also can modify depth at each survey point When opening a track line file the instruction of the Sounding Editor interface is shown as the figure below User s Manual 80 Chapter 4 Processing Sounding Editor Dialog Sort File F Tools T View About A gt tel GaARQAQ Pri
38. R NAV is launched a new project guide dialog pops up And you can finish the project settings in the guide of the dialogs Note The guide only helps you finishing main survey factors And some factors such as GPS Offsets Antenna Height and Storage Setting can be set in the way of menu bar after you finish the guide Project Name Nev Open Project Create a project Please input the project folder name O Copy an existing project 7 Open a project Flease select a project from the list Other Position Double click to Pet as s a 12341612346 tak Create Project Select Create a project and input a folder name And there will be configuration files collected data files graphics files and resulting files and so on under the folder Copy Project Select Copy an existing project having inputted the folder name in the edit box and then click OK And the Select a User s Manual 14 Chapter 2 Preparation Project dialog pops up and you can select a project file with the tak pak spj extension Open Project Select Open a project and then select an item in the list You can open a project in manner of dblclick the item or clicking OK If the project file path does not exist in the list you can dblclick the item named Other Position and then select project file via the pop up Open Project dialog Bee mae x Project information Input project information project name company a
39. RG file to DEP file of the same track line This preserves the raw survey data so you may begin with the original data set at any time Resulting Depth Graph shows the profile of a track line file with DEP extension At unchanged positions the Resulting Depth Graph is superposed with the Primal Depth Graph It can be edited and indicated with green polyline 82 Survey Time 2006 11 26 11 48 37 18 36m Survey Date Chapter 4 Processing Event Point is corresponded to the event point in track line shown in the Area Map and is indicated with circle Course Point is corresponded to the track point in the track line shown in the Area Map You can find course points on the Primal Depth Graph or the Resulting Depth Graph and they are indicated with green small cross Sort Line is displayed basing on the method you select and indicated with blue broken line And the intersection points of Sort Lines and Resulting Depth Graph are sorted to display in Mapper Software e g Stonex format made by our company 3 Information Bar Max depth in the Resulting Depth Graph Path of opened file Max Depth 8 44m Min Depth 1 C Stonex Free Go Survey Datal66 Data Ln2 org Depth at cursor position Min depth inthe Resulting Depth Graph When you are moving cursor in the View Window you may find that the Survey Time and the depth at cursor position are changing From the Information Bar you also can know when the current track line
40. TILITIES WATCH CONVERSION to bring up a dialog And you can see your conversion parameters in the dialog by clicking associated tab User s Manual 70 Chapter 3 Survey Conversion Parameters View Dialog Seven Parameters Fitting Parameters Projection Parameters Correction Parameters Ellipsoid Hame Beijing D4 a BsTe245 OOO000 Lf 298 3000000000 Projection Parameters Central Meridian 114 00000000 False Northing 0 000 False Easting SO0000 000 Scale Factor 1 000000 Reference Latitude 0 OOO00000 Projection Height OU 000 How to enter the value of your compass into POWER NAV If your compass is electronic you can found connection between POWER NAV and your compass according to the introduction of the Hardware Notes section in the Preparation chapter If your compass is mechanical or can t be connected to POWER NAV you can enter the value of your compass into POWER NAV by hand Click SURVEY INPUT COMPASS VALUE to bring up the Input Compass Angle dialog select the Input Compass Angle selection and enter value with dd mmss angle format And then click OK to tell program the current direction of your vessel Input Compass Angle Dialog errata ale Input Compass Angle Compass Angletdd mms 90 oo0000 How to swap track line You may have known that each track line has itself file Swapping track line means using another file to record the survey data of new tra
41. accurate and you had better to read the depth from the Depth Scale along the right hand side The unit of Depth Scale is set to meter in the right figure so you can read the depth 4 5 meter 4 Read the depth at time 11 48 18 Because the time 11 48 18 is between the mark time 11 48 16 and 11 48 20 you can estimate the place of the time 11 48 18 3 0 00 nori D Oo 594320 To 00 T 11 48 16 LF 0 00 HF 4 42 3163976 6965 5943 15 1 48 12 LF 0 00 HF 4 31 31639071 Gases 1 ob 11 47 50 LF 0 00 HF 4 46 3163941 B2 1 47 54 LF 0 00 HF 5 16 HES947 052 594324 8404 0 00 Li 58 LF 0 00 HF 6 20 3163952 398 594323 125 0 Of L1 48 05 LF 0 00 HF 5 60 3163962 052 594320 3784 0 00 11 48 08 LF 0 00 HF 4 20 3163966 270 5948 19 2074 0 00 1 48 20 LF 0 00 HF 4 35 3163981 423 594313 57341 0 00 11 48 02 LF 0 00 HF 6 46 3163957 861 594321 5201 is at the red line station Shown in the right figure And you may read 4 81 meter from the Depth Scale If you think it is accepted error while comparing 4 59 meter to 4 81 OOO00S 2006 11 26 NOOO0G 2000 11 26 OOOOOY 2000 11 26 HOO008 2006 11 26 00000 2000 11 26 NOOO 1 2000 11 26 OOOO1L1 2006 11 26 NOOO 12 2000 11 26 000013 2000 11 26 meter it doesn t need to modify the depth at 11 48 18 Or else you must modify the depth from 4 59 to 4 81 in the Input Depth
42. age box to bring up the User defined Output File Data Format dialog 3 Modify the driver s name or extension or contents 4 Click OK to make sure you re the changes d Delete User defined Format You only be allowed to delete user defined format and you can t delete DAT format 1 Select your driver item from the File Format drop down list 2 Click Delete Format to remove it from the list B Importing DEP files You can click Open File to bring up the Open File dialog and then select a set of files with dep extension those you want to correct About selecting a set of files you can click and drag an area to select the files in the area or left click on file while pressing Shift key or Ctrl key At last click Open to tell program to add those files to the file list File List Input Fil status Result File Mame Lrnl dep haz not beer Lnz dep haz not been Lnb dep has not been Lnl amp dep haz not beer Ln dep haz not beer lt Ci Stonex Power Navy Survey Data data Note You can t add file to the file list one by one because the file list is cleared automatically before each time you add file via the Open File dialog And then you must select all files you require to correct via User s Manual 99 Chapter 4 Processing the Open File dialog at a time If the files are in different folders you must move them to the same folder in advance C
43. area shows a moving representation of the depth value coming from echo sounder The display moves from right to left And the horizontal ruler marks represent the distance in meter and the vertical ruler marks represent the depth in meter User s Manual Water Surface Height Depth Log Files Files ID Satellite Status 11 Chapter 1 Introduction D POWER NAV Information Tab with Information Window H 10 47 45 FOOR 12 19 k5uccessfully open GPS1 porte H 10 47 45 2006 12 19 e5ccesefully open sounder port kk H 10 49 27 2006 12 19 e e5uccessfully close Gpel port tkk H 10 49 28 2006 12 19 ee e 5uccessfully close sounder port You can get tip from the window know of the status or find out the reasons of errors OTffset mr 87 29 35 100 200 300 400 s500 From the window you can get the boat velocity and offset angle And The left right indicator shows the distance of your vessel left and right from a planned line Lofting nfo Lofting Information for Selected Line Vertical Foot Locked Ling Grid North SK Af YNN Ne Delta X2 UN P biOrthing Ra K7 i EN Z GPS1 Survey Position it Hdg Ve WX as EOS e a a O GPS2 Survey Position ae i o x r Delta Y2 Delta X f 2 Westing hii diii aiii we N gt The Course of Your Vessel p Wandlingia O GPS1 Antenna ail GPS2 Antenna itp Vertical Foot wen
44. ata into POWER NAV every one second So it is not available that the Time Increment is specified less than 1 second or the Dist Increment is specified too little 2 Specifying the Basic of Collecting Data from Echosounder if the Echosounder ts being used Usually the Collect Depth basic is specified on Instantaneous Depth In this case the depth value which is collected and saved by collecting program is real and not processed factitiously When the Collect Depth basic is specified on Max Min Depth for collecting and saving current position depth the collecting program will select a Max Min depth value from recent depth values those collecting program has obtained When the Collect Depth basic is specified on Average Depth for collecting and saving current position depth the collecting program will get a mean via computing recent depth values those collecting program has obtained 3 Specifying the File Name of Collecting Data The Name is the first name of the files of track lines and you can specify it Each file s last name is ID of its track line For example the Name is Ln and a track line s ID is 0 then the track line file s name is Ln0O When you complete above settings click OK to make your decision available and then continue to do other preparative work ll Import Coordinates to X Y Library Optional You may have many useful coordinates for the Project and some of them may be used in the
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46. bute Dialog Polyline Attribute Dialog Folyline Attribute a i Line Name 1 Enter line name Mawes serial Number Northing Easting 2 Click Add to tell the program to add an item into the listing Add 3 Left click on the item and enter coordinates of the waypoint into the Delete select spreadsheet settings 4 Returns to 2 until all waypoints arene Line Width of polyline are entered Color 5 Set the line type line width and color of polyline 6 Click OK to insure your decision Note 2 to 4 can be replaced by clicking Select to load point from X Y Library And you can change the sequence of the waypoints in the listing by selecting an item and clicking Up or Down to move it 3 Create Batch Lines To create a batch of parallel lines in a specified area select DESIGN PLANNED LINE PATTERNS BATCH LINES The Select Drawing Mode dialog will appear and you can select a method a Cursor Method To specify the waypoints of the borderline of the specified area left click in series in the Area Map And right click to ensure the borderline and the Batch Lines dialog pops up In the dialog you can modify the default value and edit the coordinates with end of clicking OK to apply your User s Manual 36 Chapter 2 Preparation decision And then you can create a batch of parallel lines in next specified area until you right click to exit the Create
47. cel Help About the introduction of Boat Shape Editor you can see the Boat Shape Design section in the Preparation chapter In the example above there are four anchors indicated with cake figure and four offset points indicated with cross figure User s Manual 67 Chapter 3 Survey GPS Offsets Settings Offset Seting GPS1 Offset Antenna Offset Survey Point Offset Opt GPs w Opt Point ka x 72 000 P 6 330 7 670 See amp 160 Survey Offset h 0 00u T h 0 O00 Antenna offset GPS2 Offset Antenna Offset Survey Point Offset Bricin t Opt GPS2 z 72 000 y 10 000 h 0 000 Sketch Map You can see the GPS Position Equipment section in the Preparation chapter and find introduction about GPS offset settings In the Offset Setting dialog above both Antenna Offset and Survey Point Offset use the offset points in the Boat Shape Editor Boat Displayed in the Area Map Anchor Survey Pointl 7 Survey Point2 PE lt a GPS2 Antenna GPS1 Antennal Anchor After you click the Connect Equipment icon the figure above shows your boat shape which you design in the Boat Shape Editor and set offset of antenna and survey point in GPS Offset Setting User s Manual 68 Chapter 3 Survey Information Displayed in the Point Station Guality Information List i fi Solution Fized otatus Received FLUP d UU vats Time Lalor Hdgtopee
48. ck Start and begin testing the connection If the connection is good the received data is displayed in the Connection Test text box and the the numeral displayed in the RXD Byte becomes bigger with the time lasted b Click OK to make the scheme efficient Click OK to make all schemes for your devices efficient In this way you only have to input a set of information once for a project and current settings will automatically be saved and will be reloaded by default when you reopen the project Note You can quickly bring up the scheme dialog for each device by the selections included in the SETTINGS DEVICES SETTING A Connection Information in POWER NAV For each device the connect information tells the SURVEY program where this piece of equipment is located and what its communication parameters are 1 Connecting to a Serial Port User s Manual The Serial connections Parity Baud Rate Data Bits and Stop Bits are required to be set It is enough to mention 50 Chapter 2 Preparation here that they must be set to match your equipment or SURVEY will not read the device data Port Setting Dialog Port Setting Port Deseription mo Port Parity Baud Rate 3600 Stop Bit Tata Bit Connection Test rer O OOo M RED Byte CIH _ Enter Wewline Fause Display Hex Display Computers used on multibeam and multi transducer boats require more communication ports COM1 COM2
49. ck line While you launch survey you User s Manual a 71 s Chapter 3 Survey can click SURVEY SWAP LINE to tell program to use another file to record the survey data You may be hazed why to do this In deed it can decrease the venture when serious errors occur in a track line And you only wipe off the track lines with errors and other track lines are not infected In order to avoid using data of track line files with errors you are advised to find them in the folder named Data in your project directory and remove them from your computer How to display the event points only Make VIEW DISPLAY TRACK unchecked and then zoom in or zoom out to refresh the view window via correlative tools How to display the track lines you require Click VIEW TRACK LIST to the Track Display dialog Track Display Dialog Track Display All Selected Make all items in the listing Sevev File Nane checked None Selected Make all items in the listing unchecked Load Import track line files from other folder Only make required track lines checked and click OK And the advantage to do this is that it can decrease the unwanted track lines to save memory of your computer while increasing the capability of the display program How do you know the program is recording survey data There are two ways as follows 1 Watch the track of your vessel and if recorded track point appears naturally basing your settings in
50. cratch or import a DGW file of your vessel to convert it to the SHP format used in POWER NAV There is a default boat shape appeared in the view window when the program is started Boat Shape Editor Dialog Boat Shape Editor Boat Shape Data describe the A NN Eee a exterior of your boat 24 Anchor Position Data the X Y position information for each anchor Offset Position Data In order to locate the GPS antenna and the Survey Point that are relative to the origin point on your survey 3233 bees 2 2 244 e a iC 12 8 4 0 4 8 12 boat you must specify offset point j 7 for each position About the GPS Boat Shape Data Anchor Position Data Offset Position Data Offsets please refer to the GPS 5 00 10 00 5 00 10 00 Offsets section l 5 00 10 00 5 00 10 00 Grid Snap If this is selected the 5 00 0 00 0 00 10 00 v program can snap nodes of the grid when drawing line by cursor aoco duowo EOCENE consol Hote Node Snap lf this is selected the program can snap points and nodes of lines when drawing line by cursor B Creating a Boat Shape 1 Establish an origin point on your survey boat 2 Open the Boat Shape Editor by clicking DESIGN BOAT SHAPE EDITOR 3 You can create boat shape by three methods Import SHP file Click Open and then select the SHP File of your vessel The coordinates will be loaded into the Boat Shape Editor By cursor D
51. create 2 dimensional lines e The DESIGN CHANNEL DESIGN program creates planned lines only in a center line pattern e The PROJECT IMPORT DXF option can be used to create Planned Line from DXF files that meet certain requirements User s Manual 31 Chapter 2 Preparation You also can create any planned line while underway Although it is possible to collect survey data without planned lines it will make the survey process more logical if you have referenced some kind of survey lines in your area A Common Patterns for Planned Lines The DESIGN DRAW LINE program can create single line and DESIGN DRAW POLYLINE program can create single polyline When you click DESIGN DRAW LINE or DESIGN DRAW POLYLINE the Select Drawing Mode dialog pops up and you can select cursor method or coordinates method You also can do these by clicking Draw Line icon or Draw Polyline icon in the Icon Bar Select Drawing Mode Select Drawing Node Dialog Select Drawing Method Cursor Method O Coordinates Method Draw Line Line Attribute create a line by Line Nane coordinates of actors start position to Start E 1600 Staats end position End X 60 End Y Settings Line Type Line Width v Color O User s Manual 392 Chapter 2 Preparation Draw Polyline Polyline Attribute create a line by Pa Line Nane coordinates of Factors waypoints Serial Mumber Worthing Easting l 10
52. d Hdg aro OO200 Speed 0 197m s Navigation Info Line Lng Point ID spacing PasitiongDepth Depth Northing 4500117 669 Fasting 499740 292 Height 30 000 Latitude 40 36 76 Ose Longitude 1123 59 48 94 Ellip Sa G00 The Information List shows the position information of the survey point and correlative information About the Information List you can see POWER NAV Interface section in the Instruction chapter ll Recording Survey Data A Description When you have clicked Connect Equipment icon and your boat shape is moving on screen the position information only tells you where your vessel is and is not recorded as survey data Clicking SURVEY START LOGGING or Start Logging icon can tell the program to start recording survey data At this time the track points of your vessel will be displayed on screen User s Manual 69 Chapter 3 Survey The track point is recorded basing the settings in the Collecting Data Setting dialog Introduced in Preparing for Collecting Data section in Preparation chapter The event point is the track point with event and marked with circle If an echosounder is connected the program will sent the Even Mark command to the echosounder at an event point You may find that track point represents the track of the GPS1 Survey Point and that is right because of your GPS offsets B Questions Where you can see the conversion parameters you are using You can click U
53. d computing Plane Surface Height Interpolation Parameters requires more than two point pairs and computing Plane Surface Height Interpolation Parameters requires more than five point pairs You may know that there are more points concerned with computing the Interpolation Parameters and the Interpolation Parameters become better 4 Save the coordinates in the listing by clicking Save A Save File dialog pop up and you can save the coordinates into a file with cot extension 5 Offer to apply all parameters in the Geodetic Parameters program by clicking On Off 6 Insure your decision by clicking OK Note When you use Calculating Conversion Parameters program you ensure that you have not used the four parameters and the adjustment parameters in the Geodetic Parameters Program namely the selections of the four parameters and the adjustment parameters are unchecked in the Geodetic Parameters dialog Or else the current coordinates is the result of transmitted original coordinates as using four parameters and adjustment parameters but not original coordinates and the error occur when you calculate conversion parameters and obtain original coordinates by the way of Get Current Point Coordinate or Get Base Station Coordinate IV Defining Work Area User s Manual You may work in a special area and make all your actions inside the area And defining a work area is very useful You can click VIEW WORK AREA to bring up the Se
54. d many other vendors The only requirement is that the vendor supplies a working Windows 2000 or Windows XP driver with the card USB is designed to give priority to Windows functions This can result in extreme and inconsistent latency issues for USB to Serial connectors You cannot rely on these for time critical data For desktop PCs we recommend PCI type boards like the ones from Comtrol to Digi For notebooks we recommend PCMCIA to serial cards like those from Quatech to Socket User s Manual 19 Chapter 2 Preparation Rolecnne x Collect data set the collecting basis and storage setting GPS Data Collecting Event Basis Time Increment 3000 5 C Difference RTD C Dist Increment B 000 m Project Frojectiat Conversion Fixed RIE Manual press space key Equipment Collect Depth Collecting Instantaneous Depth Max Depth Win Depth Average Depth Data File Name Ln Save Path D data Collecting Data Basic 1 Specifying the Basic of Collecting Data from GPS Receiver A Solution Status Single When the data coming from GPS receiver don t contain difference received from the Basestation or Beacon the solution is single and if specifying the basic on Single the collecting program will perform collecting and saving the data without difference Difference RTD When the data coming from GPS receiver contain difference received from the Basestation
55. e Basestation from the ship based GPS receiver Input geography Coordinate click this icon to bring up an input dialog and then input Latitude Longitude Height and click OK and then the program translates the Latitude Longitude Height into X Y H that is displayed in the pop up dialog 3 Optional operations Open coordinate file Click Open to bring up an Open File dialog and you can open a file with cot extension Edit an item Select an item in the list and then click Edit to bring up an edit dialog When you complete the edit click OK to apply it Edit Coordinate Edit Reference Point Dialog Point ID Known N Known Y 2 Enown H TT Original i 6937416 TTT Original 1619212 160 Criginal H 4 000 User s Manual 29 Chapter 2 Preparation Delete an item Select an item in the list and then click Delete A message box pop up you click OK to insure your decision Clear all items Click Clear And a message box pop up you click OK to insure your decision Set the number of points concerned with computing the Interpolation Parameters Click Set to bring up a dialog select number from two drop down box and click OK to insure your decision It is enough to mention here that there are Curved Surface Height Interpolation and Plane Surface Height Interpolation Indeed the Plane Surface Height Interpolation is a special instance of the Curved Surface Height Interpolation An
56. e start of data stream and you can enter its value in two ways with the selection of Character String and ASCII e Tail it flags the end of data stream e Position it points out the position of depth data in data stream e Length it points out the length of depth data e Miultiplier it points out that received depth real depth x Multiplier e Error Character it flags the data stream when the depth data has error e Error Bit it points the position of the Error Character in data stream e Code it is used to compute with value of the Error Bit by using AND arithmetic e Event character it is used to order your echosounder to make even marks by sending event character to the echosounder An event mark is a line User s Manual 59 Chapter 2 Preparation drawn across the echosounder chart at your specified intervals In POWER NAV these intervals can be based on Distance Increment based on the track line or Time Increment The event increment is specified in the SETTINGS COLLECTING BASIS menu If your echosounder has event mark capability the device driver will normally take care of these functions And event character is different for various echosounders So you must know of event character of your echosounder e Click the Add to add your driver s name into the Echosounder drop down list as an item 2 Delete Your Driver If you want to destroy your driver you can select your driver option in the Ec
57. e test by clicking Stop Note If you are unsuccessful at this point you probably have the wrong scheme for the device Contact us and ask for Technical Support 3 Repeat the test process for each device When all test correctly individually go on to the next step If every device is being properly interfaced you are ready to enter the SURVEY program 3 lf necessary Sending command to device You can send known command to device to order the device to transmit what you want About the commands for device you can find them in the Order drop down list box And some commands may don t exist in the list and you can enter command in the Order editable text box If the command you enter is of hex you must select Hex selection and if the command is end with the Newline you must select the Enter Newline selection Click Send to tell the program to send the command to corresponding device Explication for each command can be offered if you need B Disabling Devices in the POWER NAV User s Manual At times you may want to temporarily ignore one or more devices in your setup An easier way to accomplish the thing 1s to disable the device in the Port Admeasurement dialog Shown in the head of this chapter In the Port Admeasurement dialog you can disable the device by making corresponding Use selection unchecked When the device is disabled POWER NAV will not read data from that device When you are ready to includ
58. e that data again you just need to recheck the Use selection 52 Chapter 2 Preparation C Editing Device Settings in POWER NAV Hardware settings can be easily modified by changing the entries in associated dialogs The new settings will be saved when you completing the modification Vill Hardware Notes The following section provides additional details about working with different types of hardware You should examine any section which is pertinent to their survey system A GPS Positioning Equipment User s Manual This is a system of 24 satellites which provides accurate positioning services twenty four hours per day GPS equipment can trilaterate a position for the GPS antenna using the distances between four or more satellites and the exact position of each satellite at the time of measurement The accuracy of the position depends on several factors the most important being the mode of positioning 1 GPS Positioning Modes GPS can be operated in the following modes Mode Accuracy Approximate Single No Differential 1m 10m Difference 0 5m 3m Fixed Real Time Kinematic 1cm 10cm Note Maybe different devices have different accuracy so you d better to refer to technical specifications e Single is GPS at its most basic All you need is a GPS receiver on his boat Since the general public was given use of the P Code previously only available to the U S Department of Defense yo
59. ea gauge 12 different along with the change of boat speed and user can get error parameter through survering depth on the spot or lookuping table 3 Reference Frame Error Correction When you have finished survey you discover that there are errors with your reference frame You can use the Reference Frame Error Correction Corrected X Raw X dx Corrected Y Raw Y dy Corrected Water Surface Height Raw Water Surface Height dh Reference Frame Error fi Reference Frame Error Parameter Parameter Dialog pa Saai a Expressions Hh ATF dx TS CRSP eh H shits eal dx Northing System Error dv Easting System Error dh Height Swetem Error User s Manual 103 Chapter 4 Processing 4 Depth System Error Correction The transducer you are using may have depth offset So you can enter the offset parameters in the Depth System Error Parameter dialog Corrected Depth Raw Depth dMs ds Depth System Error Parameter Depth System Error Parameter Dialog Expression 5 5 ds 5 57x dls da Sounder Depth Addition Error dMs Sounder Depth Multiplicator Error 5 Tide Correction When you correct your survey data with tide correction you can use multiple tide gauges You just need to select the Tide Correction selection And the tides list at right hand side will show all tide files which you have created or loaded in the Tide Information dialog See to Tide File section above
60. ection method and specify an area to apply the method Clicking this icon can tell program to specify an area by cursor And you can specify the start and end point of the area by cursor on the Depth Graph and also can specify a method to apply to the area Clicking this icon can tell program to deal with the soundings automatically It is enough to mention that the Automatism function maybe can t forecast uncertain cases So you had better to view and check the graph carefully but not rely on the Automatism function Clicking this icon can tell program to refresh the display of Clicking this icon can tell program to zoom in the graph in vertical Clicking this icon can tell program to zoom out the graph in vertical Clicking this icon can bring up the Help dialog Maybe the instruction of the Help dialog is not identical to this Manual you had better to rely on the Manual 2 View Window User s Manual When a track line file is imported your cursor becomes cross in the View Window The soundings are shown in depth vs time mode the earliest sounding is always on the left Depth Scale is displayed along left hand side of the View Window and its unit is meter Primal Depth Graph shows the profile of a track line file i e original survey data with ORG extension At modified positions the Primal Depth Graph is displayed with yellow broken lines and cannot be edited because it is only used as a reference for comparing O
61. enough to mention that the numbers in the Start Point or the End Point drop down list are in time sequence In deed the area you specify is time slice because each point corresponds to one second For example you specify the Start Point at 15 point and the End Point at 100 User s Manual 87 Chapter 4 Processing point accordingly you specify a time area from 15 second to 100 second in fact a Selection Methods Time If you choose this option you can enter value of the Interval with second unit For example you enter 5 in the Interval and the program will draw a Sort Line every 5 second Distance If you choose this option you can enter value of the Spacing with meter unit For example you enter 5 in the Spacing and the program will draw a Sort Line every 5 meter Mark If you choose this option you can enter value of the Marks For example you enter 5 in the Marks and the program will draw a Sort Line every five Event Points 2 Useful Ways The follows will give you useful ways For each way there is an example introduced to you a No Point is adopted in an area You find there are too many errors Previous Sort Line between Event Point 248 and 255 So the data in the area is not credible and no point in the area is required to adopt That means that no Sort Line is required to draw in this area 1 Click TOOLS SELECTION AREA or Selection Area icon And your cursor becomes a small
62. estation GPS Click Get Current Position to tell the program to read the position information And Get Current Position is changed to Stop Click Stop and set the base station parameters In the Base Station Parameters you can User s Manual 64 Chapter 2 Preparation select the format of the transmitted difference in the Difference Format drop down list the transmission interval of the GPS unit can be entered in the Interval the Antenna Height is the height above the static water line Click Set to tell the program to write the setting information into the GPS unit Note If you want to set your base station on the known point you can enter the position information of the known point in the Base Station Position to replace clicking Get Current Position B Ship based GPS settings 1 Set Difference Format When you set the difference format for ship based GPS format you must insure the ship based GPS and correlative base station GPS are set to same in the difference format After the connection between your GPS unit and POWER NAV is good you can click the SURVEY CONNECT EQUIPMENT or Connect Equipment icon and then click SETTINGS DIFFERENCE DATA FORMAT to bring up the Rover Difference Format Setting dialog Rover Difference Format l l kover Difference Format Setting Fa Setting Dialog PS1 Difference Format Difference Format GPS2 Difference Format Difference Format 2 Adj
63. etc than are available on a standard PC Expansion cards are available from STONEX and many other vendors The only requirement is that the vendor supplies a working Windows 2000 or Windows XP driver with the card 2 Testing Serial Communication in POWER NAV 1 Make sure the equipment is turned on and actually sending information This can be confirmed by attaching a serial LED line tester to the end of your cable The Receive Data light should be flashing changing state from red to green at each measurement transmission If there are no lights flashing your equipment is not transmitting or your cable is grossly wrong A serial LED line tester is a great piece of equipment that can be picked up at an electronics store 2 Ifyou have verified the equipment is transmitting you can click Start in the Port Setting dialog to test the corresponding device You can suspend the display updates to allow you to view the received data more easily by selecting Pause Display Repeat the same selection to resume scrolling You can view received data in Hex format by User s Manual 51 Chapter 2 Preparation selecting Hex Display Repeat the same selection to resume displaying the received data in text format Clear the content in the text box of the Connecting Test by clicking Clear Save the content in the text box of the Connecting Test by clicking Save And a message box pops up to tell you the saving path Terminate th
64. g Editor as result and how to export the corrected result to the files according to the format you require The merging corrections contain Echosounder Correction Dynamic Sea Gauge Correction Reference Frame Error Correction Depth System Error Correction and Tide Correction These corrections can be chose according to your requirement You can bring up the Correction dialog by clicking PROCESSING CORRECTION Correction Dialog oe Tip a First choose the format of result file and then open file which 15 needed to deal with and select correction items finally start to correct it Stonex format I dat User defined Format Input File Status Result File Hame Select Tide LJ Dynamic Sea Gauge Correction LJ Reference Frame Error Correction gt gt C Depth System Error Correction Tide Correction Depth Datum Flane m lo User s Manual 95 Chapter 4 Processing A Setting Data Format of Exported Files 1 User defined Format Click User defined Format to bring up the User defined Output File Data Format dialog In the dialog you can create a driver For the driver you can specify the driver name file extensions and contents You also can specify different extensions and contents for two file formats at the same time For example you can define an X Y file format with XYH extension which contains Point Name Survey Date Easting Northing and Bottom Height and synchronously define a Dep
65. grid of Color Box the current point color is displayed on the left end corner of Color Box And you can click the button on the right end corner of Color Box the colors dialog EEE Er appears and then select the Custom colors new color and click OK Mm erererere You will see the results in EER eee the display at the right If Melia Daien Deluge you don t like them try again User s Manual Hue 142 Beet Sat 227 Green 37 CololSolid Lume fiz Blue B __ Sddto Custom Coles 10 C POWER NAV Depth Window Chapter 1 Introduction Usually the Depth Window is hidden behind the Information List and can be displayed via clicking Switch Displayed Information icon or VIEW DEPTH WINDOW Information Displayed in Depth Window Water Surface Height the height of current water surface Log File the name of the file which stores survey data of current track line including Latitude Longitude Northing Easting Depth and so no Point ID the ID of event point on the current track line HDOP horizontal dilution of precision VDOP vertical dilution of precision HRMS horizontal root mean square VRMS vertical root mean square Eyeable the number of satellites which are eyeable to GPS receiver Locked the number of satellites which are being used by GPS receiver Satellites Display the satellites will are displayed in the view i e cirque with cross in Depth Window Depth Curve This
66. hen click Add the program adds an item in the list and you can begin to enter the X Y for an anchor Enter your Offset Position data Click the Offset Position Data tab and then click Add the program adds an item in the list and you can begin to enter the Name and the X Y H for an offset point Save your File When you are finished click on Save As and name your Boat Shape file It will be saved with the SHP extension 5 Click OK to finish the boat design Vil Hardware Setup in POWER NAV Hardware is the term we use for your survey equipment In order for POWER NAV to work properly we need to know what kind of survey instruments you have how they User s Manual 48 Chapter 2 Preparation are connected how often you want to read them how often you want to record them etc Survey hardware is selected and configured in the SETTINGS PORT ADMEASUREMENT and SETTINGS DEVICES SETTING programs If your equipment does not change and you are satisfied with the communication between your equipment and the SURVEY programs you don t have to select and configure hardware again If you are constantly changing survey equipment you will have to reconfigure your hardware for each project 1 Select SETTINGS HARDWARE PORT ADMEASUREMENT The Port Admeasurement dialog will appear with configured communication ports and which devices are used The GPS1 is specified to be requisite device So if you
67. hosounder drop down list and then click Delete to remove your driver Note POWER NAV only support common echosounder data format If you can t find a right data format in the program to meet your require and if you can t understand how to get the driver s command and how to create your driver or other question you can contact with us IX Preparing for Collecting Data A Collecting Basis User s Manual You may remember you have done some settings about collecting in the Guide That only meets the requirement of using one ship based GPS receiver for collecting data It is enough to mention that when using two ship based GPS receivers one 1 e GPS1 is collected and saved and the other 1 e GPS2 is used to compute the course of your boat associating with GPS1 If you use Dredging Model if you have the requirement of Dredging Model you can contact with us and in order to let both GPS land GPS2 collect position information and if you want to change your collecting settings in the condition of using one ship based GPS or two ship based GPS collecting settings must be reset You can click SETTINGS COLLECTING BASIC to bring up the Collecting Data Setting dialog About the RXD 60 Chapter 2 Preparation Basis and Event Basis you can refer to the explication in the New Project Guide section Collecting Data Collecting Data Setting FSi Data Collecting RAD Basis Event Basis Single Time Increment
68. ine Setting dialog Lockup Line Setting Dialog Pekunglunesdciedime Lockup Line Method O Automatic Manual Control Gate tm 1 Manual Method Click the Manual Control option and then click OK to enter User s Manual 73 Chapter 3 Survey manual mode At this time your cursor becomes a pane shape and you can select a planned line which is required to lock up and a named Select Line dialog pops up and you click OK to make sure your decision You may find the locked line is displayed in high light Select Line Dialog Select Line Start X Y the X Y coordinate of start point of the selected line End X Y the X Y coordinate of end point of the selected line re wou sure to lock up this line Name Start H 27 405 Start Y 199744 556 Azimuth the angle of the selected a line direction from the Grid North End X End Y Length the length of the selected ee pate eae line Locked Line If you want to lock up another line you can click SURVEY SELECT PLANNED LINE or Select Line icon to enter line selection model And you can select another line It is enough to mention that the program only lock up the current line which you select 2 Automatic Method Click the Automatic option enter value into the Gate with meter unit and then click OK Automatically the program locks up the line when survey point on the boat breaks a circle of radius which equals to the Gate B Lofting I
69. information of connecting them form the Information Tip Window at bottom of the Area Map Start Logging tells POWER NAV to log correct data Pause Logging tells POWER NAV to pause Chapter 1 Introduction Alternating Planned Line Direction and Selecting Planned Line Adjusting Object User s Manual End Logging tells POWER NAV to stop logging data and cut the connection between the software and equipments Alternate Line Direction tells POWER NAV to alternate between the start point and end point of selected line Note the Alternate Line Direction maybe is not enabled when the Select Line is not enabled Select Line invokes the selection tool And the cursor becomes a small pane So you can left click on the target line an assured dialog is brought up and then click OK as you make sure it is right after viewing its attribute If the line is selected successfully the line is shown with high light Right clicking on the Area Map can exit the program Note the Select Line maybe is not enabled and you can click SURVEY LOCK PLANNED LINE and click OK to make it enabled Select Point invokes the selection tool And the cursor becomes a small pane So you can left click on the target point an assured dialog is brought up and then click OK as you make sure it is right after viewing its attribute Right clicking on the Area Map can exit the program Note 1 The point which is selected must be sing
70. ing Height 100 0000 100 0000 10 0000 spacing along ef Re 120 0000 130 0000 10 0000 150 0000 140 0000 10 0000 the initial line at 200 0000 210 0000 10 0000 Input Point Coordinates Name 4 x 200 y 210 Fan shaped Line Offsets Fan shaped 3 Center Point Coordinates Line Offsets 7 f x mw pivot your ne 3 Paraneters Setting planned lines Arc008 Inside Radius Angle Increnent 240 about the l Outside Radius Interval Angle 5 Center Point Additional Lines Batch Lines Batch Lines Parameters Setting Offsets create ae f p 0 Direction Angle 90 d e planned lines Lins Spacing oo n Draw borderline e in a closed Border Description area Enter the border waypoints position information According to a sequence Poia Northing Easting Height w 0 1033 5922 896 2384 0 0000 1 993 9646 864 9634 0 0000 2 935 8268 898 0633 0 0000 3 937 9125 971 3222 0 0000 4 991 0968 991 1359 0 0000 Input Point Coordinates x 1023 946 y 973 6685 h 0 aaa C Creating Planned Lines To create Planned Lines 1 Select a pattern for planned lines User s Manual 34 Chapter 2 Preparation 2 Define your Planned Lines using the coordinates or cursor method Input defined information 4 Save your Planned Line file by selecting FILE SAVE Your data will be saved with a SG extension to your project directory 1 Create Single Line To create
71. ing Mode dialog And you can select a drawing method basing the selected method and then draw the line on the Area Map by left clicking at start point and end point on the area or by inputting necessary information about the line When using cursor method you can right click on the Area Map to exit the program Draw Polyline can bring up a Select Drawing Mode dialog And you can select a drawing method basing the selected method and then draw the polyline on the Area Map by left clicking at waypoint on the area in series with end of clicking right button or by inputting necessary information about the polyline When using cursor method you can right click on the Area Map to exit the program Draw Arc can bring up Arc Attribute dialog And you can input the necessary information and then click OK to create a arc on the Area Map Text Remark can bring up a Select Drawing Mode dialog And you can select a drawing method basing the selected method and then add a text on the Area Map via clicking a point on the area or inputting necessary information about the arc Node Snap is switched on And the POWER NAV can snap points waypoints and nodes of other figure when drawing figures by cursor Note If the Node Snap function is of no use the reason maybe is that the function has not been perfect Connect Equipment tells POWER NAV to create the connection between the software and equipments And you can get the result
72. ings is not accessed to c Antenna Height Click SETTING ANTENNA HEIGHT to bring up the Antenna Height Setting dialog and enter the antenna height above the static water line Antenna Height Setting Antenna Height Setting Dialog GPSi Antenna Height Antenna Height GPS2 s Anterma Height nterna Height B Echosounder Echosounders are devices that measure depth They come in several varieties These include single beam systems dual frequency systems multiple transducer systems and multibeam systems 1 Echosounder Device Setup You can click SETTINGS DEVICES SETTING ECHOSOUNDER to bring up the Set Echosounder dialog and click the Echosounder tab to get the echosounder driver setting interface In the Echosounder drop down list there are ready echosounder drivers for some types User s Manual 58 Chapter 2 Preparation Echosounder Device Set EchoSounder Setup Dialog Echosounder Port Setting Echosounder Description Eetosounder Cvs Ral Format Type Name new Head Character String O ASCII Error Mark Te Error Character Fosition Length Code Tail Multiplier Event Mark Event character HEX 41 24 40 41 52 45 2C 2A OD Hex If you can t find a right driver for your echosounder in the driver list you can create a driver 1 Create Your Driver e Enter name for your driver in the Type Name e Define the data format e Head it flags th
73. int the program will give you alarm of sound and red circle according to the settings you give in the Alarm Setting of Point Lofting dialog Increment the increment of the radius of the alarm circles Gate when the distance between the GPS1 survey point and selected point is less than value of the Gate the program will give alarm If the Increment is 5 meter and Gate is 16 meter the alarm circles are displayed like the figure below when the distance between the GPS1 survey point and selected point is 11 06 meter less than value of the Gate User s Manual 277 Chapter 3 Survey Locked Point 2 tw oe re V Pausing and Resuming Pausing You can click SURVEY PAUSE LOGGING or Pause Surveying icon to tell program to stop recording survey data and the program still keeps connection with devices So the boat shape still moves without track points If you resume survey the track line is not changed and still on current track line Stopping You can click SURVEY STOP LOGGING or Stop Surveying icon to tell program to stop recording survey data and cut the connection between devices and POWER NAV And the current track line is end And if you resume survey the following survey data will be record into another file as a new track line Resume You can click SURVEY START LOGGING or Start Surveying icon to tell program to restart to record survey data and found connection between devices and
74. le in Tide Name 2 Enter the position information of the Tide in the X Y text box 3 Click New to tell program to create a tide file according to the information you enter The important thing to remember is that the program only creates a head for the tide file at this time and the body of the tide file is empty 4 Add tide observation information in the Tide Data list You can only use one of following methods or use them in turn a Add observation information one by one 1 Select tide observation date i e the tide observation date 2 Enter values of starting time ending time water level and time increment 3 You can click Add to tell program to add an item in the list or click Insert to add an item between selected item and its previous item You may find the Date of the item is the date you have selected 93 Chapter 4 Processing User s Manual 4 Left click on the item and you can modify Date Time and Water Level with centimeter 5 You can delete the selected item by clicking Delete and it can t be resumed b Add batch observation information 1 Select tide observation date 2 Enter values of starting time ending time water level and time increment 3 Click Auto Adding to tell program to add batch items of observation information during the starting time and ending time you enter 4 For each item left click on it and modify its content 5 You can delete all items in the
75. le point 2 The Select Point maybe is not enabled you can click SURVEY POINT LOFTING and click Start Lofting to make it enabled Azimuth and Distance changes cursor to cross And you can get distance between two point and angle from grid north from start point to end point via clicking and dragging a line The distance and angle is shown at the bottom of user interface Right clicking on the Area Map can exit the program Watch Attribute changes cursor to selection tool And the cursor becomes a small pane You can select an object and the object s attribute dialog is brought up And then you also can modify attribute of the object as you read the information about the attribute Right clicking on the Area Map can exit the program Note When the object is arc some information about its attribute maybe is only read and can t be modified Move Single Target changes cursor to selection tool And the cursor becomes a small pane You can left click on a single object and the object is shown with high light if the point you click on is not waypoint of the object and then move the cursor to target position and left click to complete the action of moving the object in parallel if the point you click on is waypoint of the About Current Software Chapter 1 Introduction object e g line and polyline the waypoint is locked with red rectangle and then move the cursor to target position and left click to complete the actio
76. library quickly Click Search to bring up the Search Point dialog Search Point dialog Search Point User s Manual 23 Chapter 2 Preparation You can enter portion of point name and then click Search and resulting point names are shown in the listing along left of the Search Point dialog And select the name of your wanted point from the listing and click OK And your wanted point item is selected in the X Y Library listing f Load You can click Load to add a batch of points from data file with ORG or DAT extension 2 Export You can export all the point coordinates in the listing to a file with DAT extension h OK You can click OK to insure your decision lll Geodesy Geodesy is the science of positioning objects on the earth s surface Even though you don t need to be a master of geodesy to run POWER NAV some basic geodetic knowledge can make the difference between obtaining a correct position and having your boat plot downtown Many surveys are now conducted using GPS for positioning Most GPS equipment outputs your position in WGS 84 DAH vos 34 PAH focatdatum XY Projection In other words POWER NAV receives the Latitude Longitude and Height information based on the WGS 84 ellipsoid and transforms it into a Latitude Longitude and Height on the Local Datum It then performs a Grid Conversion to calculate an X Easting and Y Northing on the specified projectio
77. list by clicking Clear and they can t be resumed 5 Click Save to save your tide observation information into Tide File Load a Tide File You can load an existed tide file into the List of Tides by clicking Load to bring up an Open File dialog and selecting a tide file to open it The load program supports Stonex tide file with TDD extension and EZHYDRO tide file with TXT extension The Correction program only uses the tide file which exists in the List of Tides so you must load the tide files those are required but do not exist in the List of Tide Modify a Tide File If the tide file you want to modify does not exist in the List of Tides you must load it first For each tide item in the List of Tides you can select it and view the information it contain And you can modify the position information and the observation information of the tide according to your requirement The important thing to remember is that you can t modify the name of tide file Until you click Save the program will save modified data into tide file Delete a Tide File You can delete a tide file by selecting it in List of Tides and clicking Delete Not only the tide file 1s 94 Chapter 4 Processing removed form the list but also it is removed form your computer So you must be careful when you delete a tide file IV Merging Corrections This section introduces how to correct the DEP files which you have edited in Soundin
78. mal Depth Graph 4 Resulting Depth Graph 3 7 Event Point Sort Line Depth Scale Information Bar s 2006 11 26 11 47 55 15 40m Max Depth 8 44m Min Depth 1 C South Free Go Survey Data 66 Data Ln2 org 1 Toolbar You can use shortcut icons in the Toolbar to go on your sorting For each icon function you can find a corresponding menu in the menu bar This section give introduce for each icon gH Zza RQA Open File icon Clicking this icon can bring up the Open File dialog and you can open a file i e track line file with ORG extension or a file i e resulting file for sorting survey data of a track line with DEP extension The default of the Open Path is your survey data saving path in current project Save as icon Clicking this icon tell program to save your sorted survey data as a result For example if you have opened a file named LnO with ORG extension and click this icon the program saves the sort result as a file named LnO with DEP extension or overlays the file with the sort result when it has existed and if you have opened a file with DEP extension and click this icon the program overlays the file with sort result User s Manual 81 Chapter 4 Processing Selection Methods icon Selection Area icon Automatism icon Refresh icon Zoom Out icon on Zoom In icon Clicking this icon can bring up the Selection Setting dialog And you can select sel
79. n A Geodetic Parameters Program To correctly determine your X Y position you must be able to define e The reference ellipsoid e Any necessary datum transformation parameters e The projection parameters User s Manual 94 Chapter 2 Preparation You may have finished these parameters in the Guide If wanting to see or redefine these parameters after finishing the Guide you can do as follows 1 Start the GEODETIC PARAMETERS program by clicking SETTINGS GEODETIC PARAMETERS The Geodetic Parameters dialog will appear And the displayed parameters are that you have set in Guide Geodetic Parameters Dialog Ellipsoid Description Projection Setting Projection Gauss Kruger Central Meridian booo False Northing oi Conversion Parameters False Easting Booo Four Parameters Scale Factor fi Seven Parameters Projection Height fo Latitude of Origin fo Interpolation Parameters gt Adjustment Parameters gt gt The input format of Central Meridian and Latitude of Origin dd mmzsssss cancel 2 Redefine Configuration if necessary by selecting new Ellipsoid and Projection and inputting new values e g Central Meridian Four Parameters Seven Parameters and Adjustment Parameters You can find only the Interpolation Parameters doesn t appear in the Guide And this section will explain it in detail As we know global positioning system GPS can be used to get precise relati
80. n of moving the waypoint Right clicking on the Area Map can exit the program Note There is a dashed between target position and point on the object when the object is selected with high light and the target position is valuable Delete Single Target changes cursor to selection tool And the cursor becomes a small pane You can left click on a single object the assured dialog is brought up and then click OK to make sure your decision of deleting the target Right clicking on the Area Map can exit the program Delete Area s Targets changes the cursor to cross You can click and drag an area on the Area Map an assured dialog is brought up and then select the types of objects which you want to delete in the area and click OK to be sure your decision Note The objects are looked as what you want to delete by the program even if the area you click and drag may only contain portion of the objects Delete All Targets brings up an assure dialog and then select the types of objects which you want to delete in the Area Map and click OK to be sure your decision About POWER NAV brings up an information box From the box you can get version number limit time website and e mail And the box is hidden after left clicking on it B POWER NAV Information List User s Manual Along the left hand side of the user interface you will see an information spreadsheet From here you can bring up the configuration dialog to c
81. n the item and modify coordinates of the waypoint 5 Return to 2 until all waypoint is entered 6 Click OK to insure your decision Note 2 to 4 can be replaced by clicking Select to load point from X Y Library 4 Parallel Line Offsets To create parallel lines on either side of the initial line select DESIGN PLANNED LINE PATTERNS PARALLEL LINE OFFSETS The Parallel User s Manual 537 Chapter 2 Preparation Line Offsets dialog will appear And you can define an initial line and offset values via entering necessary information in the dialog Parallel Line Offsets Parallel Line Offsets Point 1 Point 2 the node The Initial Line B Point 1 X 107 322 T 96 TT3 Pointo a g 107 323 Y a6 TT3 Parameters Setting Lines right of center of the initial line Select you can load a Distance between lines 10 j j Li left of center 15 the spacing with meter e o er unit between the parallel lines Lines right of center the number of lines at the right side of the initial line Lines left of center the number of lines at the left side of the initial line Draw the initial line If this is selected the initial line is drawn Steps 1 Enter the coordinates of the Point 1 Point2 or Select a point from X Y Library 2 Enter the values in the Parameters Setting 3 Click OK to create parallel lines 5 Parallel Polyline Offsets To create parallel polylines on either side
82. nd projection information in the GEODETIC PARAMETERS program if you have set them in the Guide this step is not necessary 1 Launch the CALCULATE CONVERSION PARAMETERS program by selecting SETTINGS CALCULATE CONVERSION PARAMETERS The dialog will appear for you to enter your coordinates Calculate Conversion Calculate Conversion Parameter fx Parameters Dialog Foi Known Northing Known Easting Known Height Original M Orig Md 11 22 TT 86941487 602 16 Md 55 4 49341449 025 46 gt gt oote User s Manual 27 Chapter 2 Preparation 2 Add each point or points with two sets of coordinates one based on your local datum 1 e known coordinate and the other in WGS84 1 e original coordinate Note Usually each country may have some standard coordinate systems and corresponding geodetic origins And your local datum may be one of these geodetic origins or your specifying origin And some position coordinate may be described in standard system by the government and you also can specify coordinate for some control points basing on your specifying origin and these coordinates are saw as the known coordinates GPS receiver uses WGS84 system and the coordinates exported from the receiver are saw as original coordinates a Add known coordinate by clicking Add And input known coordinate information Click OK to next step Add Known Coordinate X Y Library You can input the X Y H
83. nformation for Selected Line Click the Lofting Information tab in the interface of POWER NAV And the spreadsheet displays the information of selected line to your vessel You can control the course and speed of User s Manual 74 Chapter 3 Survey your vessel referring to the information The detail has been introduced in the POWER NAV Information Tab with Information Window section in Introduce chapter If you have some questions about these you can contact with us Vertical Foot Locked Line Grid North x gt De X2 rthing GPS1 Survey Position Delta Y2 Westing The Course of Your Vessel GPS1 Antenna _ glen names a GPS2 Antenna Vertical Foot os Easting XTE L6 662m Yaw Angle 49 13 17 XTE2 R5 963m aw Angled 49 13 17 DTSP 14 449m DTEP 34 575m DTSP2 14 181m DTEP2 34 404m Delta X S5 045m Delta Y E4 351m Delta X2 N4 516m Delta Y2 W3 895m C Changing Line Direction Sometimes you may find the direction of the line you select is opposite to the direction you require Click SURVEY ALTERNATE LINE DIRECTION or Alternate Line Direction icon to swap the direction of the selected line for its opposite direction and resume its direction by re click SURVEY ALTERNATE LINE DIRECTION or Alternate Line Direction icon IV Point Selection You can click SURVEY POINT LOFTING to bring up the Point Lofting dialog User s Manual 75
84. ng and Reduction of Side Scan Data DREDGEPACK Module Monitoring and data collection specialized for dredge operations ll POWER NAV Minimum System Requirements Operating System POWER NAV Windows 2000 Windows XP Pentium Coprocessor 500 MHz RAM 256Mb RAM Minimum Laptop PCMCIA to Serial een Desktop PCI to Serial Hard Drive 1 GB Monitor Resolution 800X600 Colors 32 bit POWER NAV Hardlock Key POWER NAV will run in demo mode Software Dog lll Installation User s Manual without a hardlock key Hardlock keys are made for USB POWER NAV is delivered on a CD ROM To install the package place the CD ROM in your CD ROM drive If you are using Windows XP or Windows 2000 you must be in administrative mode and have the password to proceed with the hardlock installation Double click the Setup exe file from the CD ROM Directory The installation program will begin Follow the on screen directions until the screen says the installation is complete Chapter 1 Introduction Note You cannot properly install the package by copying files from one computer to another Many of the programs need to be registered in the Windows Registry and will not operate unless they have been installed using the normal installation routine IV POWER NAV Interface User s Manual Project on the water Power Hav C Stonex Power Project P Settings Desig Survey C View Uti menu bar aD H
85. of the initial polyline select DESIGN PLANNED LINE PATTERNS PARALLEL POLYLINE OFFSETS The Parallel Polyline Offsets dialog will appear And you can define an initial polyline and offset values via entering necessary information in the dialog User s Manual 38 Chapter 2 Preparation Parallel Polyline Offsets Parallel Polyline Offsets Parallel Polyline Offsets pa Lines left of center 10 Line Spacing 5 Lines right of center 10 Line Spacing the spacing with meter unit between the parallel polylines Description Lines right of center the number Enter the waypoint of the initial line According to a sequence Poi Northing Easting Height U of polylines at the right side of the TET FETE ET initial polyline 107 3220 96 7730 45 2090 i 107 3220 96 TT30 45 2090 Lines left of center the number of lines at the left side of the initial polyline Insert Draw the initial line If this is E selected the initial polyline is Name 0 z 107 322 y 96 773 h 45 209 Add Cancel Select drawn Select you can load a point from the X Y Library Steps 1 Enter the number of the polylines at right left side of the initial polyline and the value of the Line Spacing 2 Enter point name and X Y H coordinates in the Input Point Coordinates 3 Click Add to tell the program to add the point into the listing as an item 4 Optional Left click on the item
86. ontrol which contents are displayed in the table via double left clicking on the list and to configure the list e g Font Size and Color Note If the Information List is not displayed along the left hand side of the user interface you can click Switch Displayed Information icon or VIEW INFORMATION LIST to bring it out Chapter 1 Introduction Information Displayed in List The contents the right figure shows is the default configuration Solution Single Difference Floating Fixed Status the state of signal coming from GPS receiver PDOP position dilution of precision Stas the number of satellites which are used Time the location time in 24 hour system Hdg the course of boat navigate Speed the velocity of boat navigate Line the current track line name ID Point ID ID of event point on current track line Spacing distance between current point and latest point Depth if echo sounder is connected current position water depth Northing Easting Height corrected grid coordinates of current survey point Latitude Longitude corrected geodetic coordinates of current survey point Ellip H height of projection ellipsoid User s Manual Point Station Quality Solution status FROT sats Time Hda speed Hdg Speed Navigation Into Point ID Positions Depth Depth Northing Easting Height Latitude Longitude Eliip H Data Display Configuration Caption You can define a caption of
87. point from the X Y Library Steps 1 Enter values of the Distance Port and Distance Starboard and the value of the Line Spacing 2 Enter point name and X Y H coordinates in the Input Point Coordinates 3 Click Add to tell the program to add the point into the listing as an item 4 Optional Left click on the item and modify coordinates of the waypoint 5 Return to 2 until all waypoint is entered 6 Click OK to insure your decision Note 2 to 4 can be replaced by clicking Select to load point from X Y Library 7 Fan shaped Line Offsets To pivot your planned lines about the Center Point select DESIGN PLANNED LINE PATTERNS FANSHAPED LINE OFFSETS The Fan shaped Line Offsets dialog will appear And you can define inside and outside border arcs and offset values via entering necessary information in the dialog User s Manual 40 Chapter 2 Preparation Fan shaped Line Offsets Fan shaped Line Offsets Center Point Coordinates X Y the coordinates of t 100000 the center point Select you can load a Parameters Setting point from the X Y Inside Radius oo Library Outside Radius jo Lai Additional Lines Draw Border Are If this is selected the arcs are drawn Center Point Inside Radius Outside Radius Angle Increment Beginning Angle and Border Arc are shown in the figure below Explanation Figure Grid North Planned Line Angle Increment N Amtega
88. r GPS receiver export Note POWER NAV only support common GPS data format If you can t find a right data format in the program to meet your require and if you can t understand how to get the driver s command and how to create your driver or other question you can contact with us we will do our best for you b GPS Offsets In order to locate the GPS antenna and the Survey Point that are relative to the origin point on your survey boat you may specify offset point for each position in the Boat Shape Design So you can click SETTINGS GPS OFFSETS to bring up the Offset Setting dialog and select offset point in drop down list for each Offset Setting Dialog TeiseteSetine p GPS1 Offset Antenna Offset locate the Adora Off eat GPS antenna to the origin Opt Offset 1 v Opt v 5 000 a x 0 000 Survey Point Offset point on your survey boat 10 000 20 000 y Survey Point Offset locate the Survey Point to the 0 000 h 0 000 Survey Offset Antenna offset GPS2 Offset Origin point on your SUTVEY Antenna Offset Survey Point Offset boat Origin Survey Point the position where you want to survey Sketch Map You also can select the User defined option and enter a set of X Y H ignoring your specifying offset points in the User s Manual 57 Chapter 2 Preparation Boat Shape Design If you use only GPS receiver and the GPS2 is not available GPS2 offsets sett
89. r a local area To perform these you must enter the offsets between the two survey data The values dX dY and dZ represent the separation between the geocentric coordinate systems of the two data If you know the X Y Z of a single point in the ellipsoid system that you have selected and the local datum that you specify temporarily you also can set the parameters via clicking SETTINGS CALCULATE CONVERSION PARAMETERS menu to start Calculate Conversion Parameters program after finishing the guide If you have adjustment parameters you can select the Use Adjustment Parameters the input boxes become accessed to and input parameters POWER NAV will use these parameters to transform your geographic position in real time Note The instruction of the Calculate Conversion Parameters program can be found in Geodesy section And you don t need to worry that some parameters can t be specified now because the POWER NAV support these parameters input after the guide is finished P lt Set equipments Select type of equipments and communication settings Project Type Frojectig ai Data Format BESTPOS Type STONER Teel pe eels Description Description Port com Port coma Convers Equipment Baud Rate ann Baud Rate feso zl Collecting Data Bit E Data Bit lz Stop Bit i Stop Bit fi F Farity Hone Parity None E Equipments Connection Information 1 Specifying Configuration of GPS Receiver A Specif
90. r must be integer Line at each Event Point in the area That means the program is told all Event Points in the area will be adopted And the program flags these points in the DEP file D Saving Edited Data When you have finished editing your data you must save your edited data by selecting FILE SAVE or the Save icon Your data will be saved to a DEP file of the same name in the project s Data directory E Questions This section provides solutions for some prevalent questions and you can tell us what problems you meet by e mail or other ways How to begin with the original data Click FILE OPEN or Open icon to bring up the Open File dialog and then select the org in the extension list box to open an ORG file How to continue the previous result Click FILE OPEN or Open icon to bring up the Open File dialog and then select the dep extension list box to open a DEP file User s Manual 91 Chapter 4 Processing How to exit the Select Area tool when you are using it When you click TOOLS SELECTION AREA or Selection Area icon your cursor becoming a small red pane is limited and only can move in the View Window You can right click anywhere in the View Window to exit the tool and your cursor becomes free lll Tide File The following sections will deal with creating Tide files from tide observations You can click PROCESSING TIDES to launch the TIDES program The important thing to
91. raw Boat Shape Tool Click this icon and then you can draw lines that describe the exterior of your vessel After you use this tool to draw a line in view window an X Y point pair is added into the Boat Shape Data list as an item You also can change the values of the item User s Manual 47 Chapter 2 Preparation Draw Anchor Point Tool Click this icon and then you can draw point located anchor After you use this tool to draw a point in view window an X Y point is added into the Anchor Position Data list as an item And you also can change the values of the item Draw Offset Point Tool Click this icon and then you can draw points that describe offset positions After you use this tool to draw a point in view window an X Y H point is added into the Offset Position Data list as an item And you also can change the values of X Y in the item And you must enter the value of the H for each point 4 a b c By entering coordinates Describe your Boat Shape Click the Boat Shape Data tab and then click Add the program adds an item in the list and you can begin to enter the X Y point pair for a line that describes the exterior of your vessel The XY units are meter and are relative to the origin point As you enter the Name and the X Y point pair for the next line the current boat shape will draw on the screen Enter your Anchor Position data Click the Anchor Position Data tab and t
92. res date surveyor Project Data Project Name Company Projecti irea Date Conversion SUrvVeyor Equipment aner Collecting Project File Name O708 tak Project Path De OTOS Foundation Date 2008 07 07 16 03 32 Revision Date 2008 07 07 16 03 32 Input Basic Information You can input information such as project name your company work area survey date and surveyor Notel You may receive a message box to tell you to input project name again when a same project name exists at the same path Note2 If you run Power nav on echo sounder you must save your data or set up software on Disk D instead of the default path C because the C disk is protected from data written that means when you reboot the echo sounder all the data you have saved or written to C will lost User s Manual 15 Chapter 2 Preparation Projection Projection Parameters set ellipsoid parameters and projection parameters Ellipsoid Projection Ellipsoid Projection Gauss Kruger mager Central Meridian a False totic False Easting 500000 scale Factor fi Collecting a e378137 Proj tein l Projection Conversion Equipment iff 298 257223563 Reference lat fa Note 4ngle Format dd mmsezezs Select Ellipsoids and Projection 1 Select your Ellipsoid from the choices in the ellipsoid list box As soon as you make your selection the Semi Major Axis a and Flattening 1 f values will change
93. rvey Data wacsicsssscsssss hcdecucectecessecccasssstcsaceeteccussesederesseccoaseestcnnseons 69 As DESPON sanoina raaa tees ocsaam a lactam als 69 BO O E E E N UEA EA 70 TE Survey Time sis ccscusacnceccoancachawstsedstesatstesesncasccesapanes escadcsaououseamess 73 Pix Selec ne CINE lt i cci cs ccnha ts vt ont r a a 73 B Lofting Information for Selected Line ccc cc ccccceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeees 74 C Chaneing Line Dire Cin accntiaricaatadeatsieueaeaceationatedatsneiet 75 EVs Point Selection sessies enaos a a a E 75 PCS Cl CUI OP QUIT eias ien an E E IE ET E E ENA 76 Bo AAP SCLIN OS oeseri a aaeoa aeaa 71 V Pausing and Resumint 6 sca cvessisicevscseacceesasevvenacecensesssceesocscacesecessesesseasesseseacesoeaes 78 4 Processing 19 I Previewing Your Data in the Main Window ccccccccssssssssscccccccssssssesees 79 IE SOUNGING Edit erior dieses tacwosswevecncssonornscenaasteseunis cesses veanees 80 As WASTE CH OD oria a 80 By Editing Data in the Editor nenene aaa n aa 83 C Seting Selecion Method 4 4 4 osteitis 87 De Savine Cited Daleen a ae etl 9 E OUCSUONS ea a eae aaa 9 ME Vide Tilen a E G 92 IV Mersing Correcti nS cesis nieee sasoien anaa a r aasa a asai 95 A Setting Data Format of Exported Files cceeeeeeeeeeees 96 Belimporting DEP Mlese E oi norton tian E 99 CC OE 0 1 eee nen ae ete ee ete ee ogre POSEN ee eee ee Pr 100 Ds
94. should be set to zero 3 GPS Messages Most GPS systems can be configured to output NMEA messages NMEA is a standard that defines how information is to be exchanged by different types of equipment Although many manufacturers have bent the standard most NMEA devices can communicate with POWER NAV For all GPS applications we prefer to receive the GGA messages The GGA message provides e UTC Time Information e Latitude e Longitude e Ellipsoid Height e PDOP Number of Satellites e GPS Mode Differential vs Stand alone vs Kinematic Some lower end equipment outputs the GLL message instead of the GGA This provides only the UTC time latitude and longitude information The main drawback is that this equipment does not notify the SURVEY program when the mode changes from Differential to Non Differential 4 GPS Settings a GPS Device Setup You can click SETTINGS DEVICES SETTING GPS1 to bring up the Set GPS1 dialog and click the GPS tab to get the GPS driver setting interface In the Type of GPS drop down list there are ready GPS drivers for some types In the Data Format drop down list there are output data formats supported by the GPS type you have selected Just 55 Chapter 2 Preparation make sure the data format correspond to the data your GPS receiver export GPS Device Setup Dialog GPS Port Setting GPS Description Type of GPS RAD Format Data Format Order List Loz gpeza
95. single line select DESIGN DRAW LINE or click on the Draw Line icon The Select Drawing Mode dialog will appear and you can select a method a Cursor Method To specify the start point and end point of planned line left click in the Area Map And a single line 1s created And then you can create next line until you right click to exit the Create Line program b Coordinates Method You can define a planned line via entering necessary information in the Line Attribute Dialog Line Attribute Dialog Line Attribute Start X Y X Y coordinate of start point of the planned Lima Nens PO Start End X Ys OE line eset ina start J End X Y X Y coordinate of end point of the planned line Select you can load a point coordinate from the X Y Settings Library Line Type Line Width 1 M Color 2 Create Single Polyline To create single polyline select DESIGN DRAW POLYLINE or click on the Draw Polyline icon The Select Drawing Mode dialog will appear and you can select a method a Cursor Method User s Manual 35 Chapter 2 Preparation To specify the waypoints of a polyline left click in series in the Area Map And right click to ensure to create the polyline And then you can create next polyline until you right click to exit the Create Polyline program b Coordinates Method You can define a planned line via entering necessary information in the Polyline Attri
96. t HDOP horizontal dilution of precision VDOP vertical dilution of precision Solution Single Difference Floating Fixed Original Depth the depth without merging corrections Enter newline b Design your file format 1 Enter driver name in the Name text box The name will be added to the File Format drop down list in the Correction dialog as an option 2 Optional Enter description for the driver in the Description 3 Enter separator in the List Separator The separator will be added to file format list with the content when you click Add to add selected item in the Item List to the file format list as content 4 Specify contents and extension for X Y File format or Depth File format 97 Chapter 4 Processing Ifyou want to specify only file format to contain all information you require you can make the Depth File selection unchecked For example you select the Point Name in the Item List and click Add and add Date Nothing Easting Bottom Height and Depth like this So the file format list shows Point Name Date Nothing Easting Bottom Height Depth when the Separator is And you specify TXT extension for it The TXT file data format is like the following figure For each Ln there is a set of survey information of a survey point 6 2666 11 26 3163919 783 594338 129 39 216 42 796 1 2666 11 26 3163925 671 594334 547 39 336 42 676 4 2666 11 26 3163937 958 594328 25
97. t Work Area dialog 30 Chapter 2 Preparation Set Work Area dialog Xs Yw the coordinates of the Set Fork Area Work Area oint on the left below corner P f Width my 80000 Scale the scale of displaying _ Height im your work area Xs 2558000 Yw 435000 is selected your work area will i be displayed with a frame Peine nee Spams Note The Scale is applied only when you click the Display 1 1 icon to tell POWER NAV to zoom according to the Scale Display Work Area Frame If it When you want to cover the Area Map with the Work Area in maximum or you can not find your Work Area you can click VIEW MAXIMIZE WORK AREA to tell POWER NAV to zoom to fit the Work Area into the view window V Planned Survey Lines Planned survey lines are used to define where you want the vessel to go Planned lines are most commonly created in the programs included in DESIGN PLANNED LINE PATTERNS or in the CHANNEL DESIGN program You may also import Planned Lines from a DXF file Planned Lines are saved with an SG extension and are normally saved in the project directory Planned lines can be created in a few programs each with its own advantages Use the program that best fits your needs for the project e The programs included in DESIGN PLANNED LINE PATTERNS create planned lines that contain only position coordinate information in Northing Easting Height format These programs only enable you to
98. tage for using the Area Points Edit Method is that it can help you to edit a batch of data quickly And the disadvantage for using the Area Points Edit Method is that it only helps you to edit data inaccurately In order to repair the disadvantage for using the Area Points Edit Method you can use the Result in View Window following Single Point Edit Method Single Point Edit Method Course Point in View Window Editing a Course Point Indicated with red circle in right figure between the Event Point 12 and 13 for example 1 Dblclick on the Course Point to bring up the Input Depth Value dialog You can get the depth on the point is 4 59 meter and the survey time on the point is 11 48 18 2 Switch to the SDE 28 software interface and check whether the depth 4 59 meter at time 11 48 18 is right User s Manual 85 Chapter 4 Processing 3 Read information from Event Mark For example 000013 2006 11 26 11 48 20 LF 0 00 HF 4 35 3163981 423 5943 13 573 000013 is the ID of the Event Mark 2006 11 26 is survey date 11 48 20 is the survey time LF 0 00 shows the depth with meter unit at low frequency SDE 28 echosounder is high frequency so it is zero LH 4 35 shows the depth with meter unit at high frequency 3163981 423 594313 573 is coordinates at the point Note You can get the depth 4 35 at time 11 48 20 But the depth 4 35 maybe is not
99. tellite By using an RTK capable base station with an RTK capable ship station you can position the GPS antenna to within 1 to 10cm The main drawback to RTK systems is that you must invest in and maintain their own base station The base station must also be within several kilometers say 10km for argument s sake of the ship and a high end radio telemetry link must be used to transfer higher data rates than normal GPS traffic 2 GPS Positions User s Manual A GPS system provides constant updates from the ship s GPS antenna This information is normally given as Latitude Longitude and Ellipsoid Height and is based upon WGS 84 There are a few systems that can be programmed to provide Latitude Longitude and Ellipsoid Height on another datum There are also a few GPS systems which can be programmed to provide X Y coordinate information on a user specified projection If your GPS provides WGS 84 based information and you are surveying on a datum other than 54 User s Manual Chapter 2 Preparation WGS 84 or other than GRS 80 NAD 83 you need to tell the SURVEY program it has to perform a datum transformation See the GEODSEY section of this manual to learn all about Datum Transformations e If your GPS provides a position based on the datum you are surveying on whether it is WGS 84 or any other ellipsoid you do not need to perform a datum transformation All of the Datum Conversion parameters
100. th file format with DPT extension which contains Point Name Easting Northing and Depth And you also can define only file format to contain all contents you require For example you can define the X Y file format with TXT extension which contains not only position information but also depth User define d Output pie paa A Dialog X Y File Extension Item List User defined Output File Data Format Longitude Ellip H Ant enna Heig Depth File Northing Tip Select an item in the list first and then add it to X Y file through pressing Add button If the result includes depth file please select Depth File check box and then edit the data format of depth file a Explanation for each item in the Item List Point Name the survey point ID User s Manual 96 User s Manual Chapter 4 Processing Date the survey date Time the survey time Latitude Longitude the geodetic coordinates of survey point Ellip H the ellipsoid height Antenna Height the GPS antenna height above the static water Northing Easting the grid coordinates of the survey point Height the collected water surface height Bottom Height the height of the water bottom Depth the corrected water depth being relative to the Depth Datum Plane PDOP position dilution of precision Satellite Number the number of satellite Grid Accuracy the accuracy for XY coordinates Height Accuracy the accuracy for heigh
101. the attribute of the text and then click OK to create a text remark in the Area Map And then you can create next text remark until you right click to exit the Create Point program Input Text Note Dialog Input Text Hote Text Input FP tote contents OOOO Text Setting Font Type Normal 7 Size ingle Color b Coordinates Method You can define a point via entering necessary information in the Text Attribute Dialog Text Attribute Dialog Text Attribute Content text Position ae 1000 T 1000 select from library settings Font L Y Type Normal size 12 M angle 0 Color User s Manual 43 Chapter 2 Preparation E Creating Arc To create an arc select DESIGN DRAW ARC or click on the Draw Arc icon And you can enter necessary information about the arc in the dialog which appears Arc Attribute Dialog Pee Center X Y the coordinates of ton ie EE center point of the arc Factors Center H 1456 89 Center Y 1890 89 Radius 10 Select from library Start Angle 180 End Angle 240 Select from library you can load a point from the X Y Library settings Line Type Line width koo m Color ae F Creating Planned Lines in Channel Design The CHANNEL DESIGN program can automatically create a planned line The channel information channel width initial line survey width line spacing etc 1s entered Start the program by clicking DESIGN CHA
102. thod and enter 2 in the Spacing Because GPS receiver sends position information to POWER NAV every 1 second the interval is 1 second between a point and its following point in track line It is enough to mention that the value you enter is no available if it is too small 4 You may find there more Sort Lines between Event Point 118 and 131 That means the program is told more points in the area will be adopted And the program flags these points in the DEP file Selection Setting Selection Area Start Point End Point Selection Methods Result Sort Line c Fewer Points are adopted in an area inconspicuous between Event Point 408 and 422 So fewer points in the area are required to adopt for reducing the survey data That means that fewer Sort Lines are required to draw 1 Click TOOLS SELECTION AREA or Selection Area icon And your cursor becomes a small Selection Setting Dialog User s Manual 90 Chapter 4 Processing red pane 2 Left click on the Event Peep as ate Point 408 and then left click on Start Point the Event Point 422 At this time the Selection Setting dialog pops up 3 Enter a larger value than the Selection Setting End Point Selection Methods Time Distance Mark Marks previous value and then click OK For example choose Mark To method and enter 1 in the Marks It is enough to mention that the value you ente
103. u can resolve a position to within 10m Stand alone GPS should only be used in hydrographic surveying if the errors represent less than 0 1mm on your plotting sheet For example if you are surveying at 1 100 000 a GPS positioning error of 100m would represent 0 1mm on your plotting sheet 53 Chapter 2 Preparation Difference DGPS uses error corrections generated by a based station over a known point to improve accuracy to less than 3 meters By placing a GPS unit ona known point the receiver can compare what the observed distances are to what the calculated distances are for each satellite The difference between these two distances can be attributed to atmospheric conditions dithering spoofing or pseudo range ambiguities The based GPS unit can calculate corrections for each satellite and transmit them to the ship based GPS unit via a radio telemetry link These corrections are called RTCM The ship based unit then corrects the observed distances from each satellite and computes an improved position The U S Government and many other nations have now established government run differential beacons that provide differential correction service anywhere on the nation s waterways Accuracy for GPS systems depends on the quality of the set the number of satellites being tracked and the geometry of the satellites being tracked Fixed RTK uses more information to determine the exact wavelength count between each sa
104. ures Zoom In tells POWER NAV to zoom in the screen center Adjusting the Area Map View Zoom Out tells POWER NAV to zoom out the screen center Zoom Window changes the cursor to cross You can then click and drag an area on the Area Map and POWER NAV will zoom in on the area Right clicking on the Area Map can exit the program Zoom Extents tells POWER NAV to zoom to fit all of the current files into the view window Zoom Scale tells POWER NAV to zoom according to the scale of the Work Area about the Work Area refer to the Defining Work Area section in the Prepare chapter Pan invokes the pan tool You can click and drag a line on the Area Map and POWER NAV will move to the end point of the line Switching Switch Displayed Information tells POWER NAV to switch Displayed displayed area along the left hand side from Information List Information to Depth Window or from Depth Window to Information List User s Manual 4 Drawing figures Node Snap Logging Control User s Manual Chapter 1 Introduction Draw Reference Point can bring up a Select Drawing Mode dialog And you can select a drawing method basing the selected method and then create the point on the Area Map by left clicking at the point on the area or by inputting necessary information about the point When using cursor method you can right click on the Area Map to exit the program Draw Line can bring up a Select Draw
105. use one GPS receiver you must specify it to be GPS1 device And if you use two GPS receivers you can specify one of them to be GPS1 device and the other to be GPS2 device Port Admeasurement Port Adpeasurement Dialog eS 2 nrete GPS Port Echozounder Fort COMS E _ Use Compass Fort com Use Fixbox Port COMS w Use 2 Select communication port and Use selection for each used device Each device corresponds to a port If the Use selection is not selected the device it corresponds to will not be connected to POWER NAV 3 For each device click corresponding Set to configure a scheme POWER NAV offers up to five devices User s Manual 49 Chapter 2 Preparation GPS1 is the first ship based GPS which provides the position information GPS2 is the second ship based GPS which provides the position information Referring to the positions information coming from GPS1 and GPS2 POWER NAV can compute the course of your boat Echosounder provides depth Compass provides course of the boat Fixbox receives commands coming from POWER NAV 4 For each device in your survey Click the tab named device in the scheme dialog select its device type and data format obtained from the device Make sure the use selection is checked Click the Port Setting tab in the scheme dialog you can set the connection information e g Port Baud Rate Parity Data Bits and Stop Bits and then cli
106. ustment Wizard You may remember the instruction of Calculating Conversion Parameters in the Geodesy section And in that section you are told how to obtain a set of parameters by using Calculate Conversion Parameter program Here offers another method to obtain adjustment parameters or four User s Manual 65 Chapter 2 Preparation parameters by using adjustment wizard After the connection between your GPS unit and POWER NAV is good you can click the SURVEY CONNECT EQUIPMENT or Connect Equipment icon and then click ADJUSTMENT WIZARD to start the program Adjustment Wizard Select Adjustment Node Adjustment mode Basestation on the unknown point If not receiving available coordinate of basestation the mode of setting it on known point can t be used and advise uzing the mode of setting it on unknown point or exiting program to run again User s Manual 66 Chapter 3 Survey 3 Survey I Boat Shape When you have completed prepared work you can click SURVEY CONNECT EQUIPMENT or Connect Equipment icon to tell program to found relationship with connected devices At this time if GPS1 is connected all right the boat shape which you have designed in the Boat Shape Editor will be shown in the Area Map Boat Designed in Sees Boat Shape Editor ANS S AQAA 9 X 24 66 Y 24 83 Units neter Name GPS 2 00 GPS1 2 00 Point z0 83 rid Snap ClHNode snap open Save As Clear Add OK Can
107. ve position in a three dimensional system The results of many field test and applied projects have already shown that GPS survey method can take the place of classical horizontal terrain survey method But how to interpolate the abnormal height of GPS leveling so as to take the place of classical leveling survey method has attracted many geodesists in the past ten years Up to now a lot of methods have been discussed and applied According to the development of GPS height abnormal height interpolation system GANHIS POWER NAV uses the Polynomial Curved Surface Interpolation method User s Manual 25 Chapter 2 Preparation Abnormal Height Interpolation System Parameters Dialog Altitude fitting parameters For getting precise height it is needed to compute the height separation 1 e dH between the geocentric coordinate systems of the two data If you know the Latitude Longitude Height of more than two point pairs in WGS 84 and the local datum you can get a set of the Interpolation Parameters i e AO Al A2 A3 A4 A5 XO Y0 by running POWER NAV Calculate Conversion Parameters program to calculate the necessary values And POWER NAV uses the following Abnormal Height Interpolation System formulas to compute the height offset dH AO A1 X dx A2 X dy A3 X dx A4 X dy A5 X dx X dy and dx x X0 dy y Y0 and X0 AVG x1 x2 x3 YO AVG yl y2 y3 Note AVG x1 x2 x3
108. ying Type and Data Format Select the type of GPS receiver you are using from Type drop down list and then from Data Format drop down list select the data format which the receiver output data in In 18 Chapter 2 Preparation POWER NAV the following GPS receivers are supported Stonex S86 Astech Receiver Novatel Receiver South S82 South S80 South 9800 South 9300 South 9700 Javad Receiver and other receiver B Serial Port Configurations The Serial connections Baud Rate Data Bits Stop Bits and Parity maybe are explained in detail in your GPS device manual Itis enough to mention here that they must be set to match your equipment or POWER NAV survey system can t read the device data 2 Specifying Configuration of Echosounder Optional If echosounder is used select the Use selection and can access to the edit boxes A Specifying Type Select the type of the echosounder you are using from the drop down list In POWER NAV the following echo sounders are supported WuX1 SDH 13D WuXi HY1600 WuXi ECHOTRAC ODOM Single Frequency ODOM Double Frequencies Stonex echo Sounder DESO25 NMEA0183 DBT NMEA0183 DBS WuXi SDE 88I and WuXi SDE 88II B Serial Port Configurations About the Serial connections you can refer to the instruction in your device manual Note Computers require more communication ports COM1 COM2 etc than are available on a standard PC Expansion cards are available from STONEX an

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