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Select the Transducer icon, then
Press F8
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Choose Transducer Properties from the Shortcut (right-click) menu
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Choose Transducer Properties from the Object menu
The Transducer Properties dialog box is used to enter the location and orientation and calibration settings for a transducer.
To display the Transducer Properties dialog box from the Dataflow window:
.The General page of the Transducer Properties dialog box is used for naming and recording information about the selected transducer.
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Settings |
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Name |
Displays the name that will used to identify this transducer in Echoview. |
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Notes |
Record extra information about transducer in this section, i.e. information that is not required by Echoview but may be important for other reasons. |
Note: A message will be displayed in red beneath the notes text box warning that changes to the transducer settings will affect variables!
The Location page of the Transducer Properties dialog box is used to define the location of the transducer in 3 dimensional space.
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Settings |
Description |
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X - alongship offset |
Define the location of the transducer in these three dimensions relative to a reference point (see About Transducer Geometry for more information). |
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Y - athwartship offset |
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Z - vertical offset |
A plan and elevation icon diagram illustrate the relative positions of:
The diagram illustrates:
The icons (boat or circle) are scaled such that the bounding rectangle encompasses all of the displayed items (origin, water level, GPS antenna, all transducers).
The Orientation page of the Transducer Properties dialog box is used to define the direction of the transducer beam and the rotation of the transducer face.
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Settings |
Description |
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Specify orientation using |
Choose the method you want to use to define the beam direction (see About Transducer Geometry for more information). This setting is only available if the Platform type has been set to Position determined by GPS on the Position_page of the Platform Properties dialog box. |
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Elevation |
The View from above diagram illustrates the azimuth angle and has an Azimuth slider. The View from transducer diagram illustrates the elevation angle and beam rotation. There is an associated Beam rotation slider and an Elevation slider. |
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Azimuth |
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Beam rotation |
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Alongship angle |
If the Athwartship & Alongship method is employed Echoview translates these values into elevation and azimuth values dynamically. Use the sliders on the plan icon diagram to adjust the angles and the beam rotation. Note: The Athwartship & Alongship method allows the definition of inconsistent settings - that is combination of athwartship and Alongship angles which are not physically feasible (see About Transducer Geometry for more information). The sliders in this mode will exhibit jumpy behaviour as inconsistent values are specified, and the values in the Alongship angle and Athwartship angle text boxes will be displayed in red. |
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Athwartship angle |
About Transducer Geometry
About setting variable properties
About calibration settings