Detect Fish Tracks dialog box

The Detect Fish Tracks dialog box is used to detect fish tracks in the active single target echogram.

To display the Detect Fish Tracks dialog box:

  1. On the Echogram menu, click Detect Fish Tracks (to detect fish tracks in the entire echogram).

- OR -

  1. Make a selection (to detect fish tracks in a selection).
  2. On the Shortcut menu (right-click), click Detect Fish Tracks.

Settings

Description

Assign class

Specify the region class to be assigned to detected fish tracks.

Edit Region Classes...

Click Edit Region Classes... to open the Classes page of the EV File Properties dialog box, where you can create or edit region classes.

Delete existing fish tracks with the assigned class first

When selected, all fish track regions with the assigned region class are deleted from the selection or echogram before fish track detection begins.

Note: For a selection, this applies to fish tracks whose final target falls within the selection.

Detection configuration

Select the fish track detection configuration to use.

See also: About region detection configurations: Preferred detection configuration.

Edit Region Detection Configurations...

Opens the Region Detection page of the EV File Properties dialog box, where you can create and manage fish track detection configurations.

Set as preferred detection configuration for this variable

Select to set the selected Detection configuration as the preferred fish track detection configuration for this variable. This updates the preferred configuration on the Regions page of the Variable Properties dialog box. A variable-level preference overrides the EV-file-level preferred configuration.

  • Detect

Click to start the fish track detection process.

Note: The following settings also affect fish track detection:

See also

About fish track detection
Detecting fish tracks
About region detection configurations
Fish track analysis variables
Fish track editing
About beam geometry