Displaying the Chart View
You can display the location and trajectory of the trawl behind the vessel if you receive GPS data and have door positioning sensors.
Before you begin
- You must be in Customize mode to do this task.
You must have:
- Incoming GPS data and heading data.
- Spread or Slant Range sensors with bearing measurement
- Warp lengths or Slant Range sensors giving distance to vessel
Procedure
- Open the customization panel, then go to Geographic.
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Click + drag Chart to the page.
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Drop it in a yellow area.
The chart view is displayed.
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Click the arrow on the right side of the view to show the
display options.
View
- White Background: change the chart background to white instead of black.
- Center on Ownship: center the view on the vessel only.
- Center on Ownship and
Trawl:
center the view on both vessel and trawl.Tip: If the view looks empty it might be because the view is not centered on the vessel. Select one of these last two options.
Ownship - Draw Ownship track: displays the path of the vessel, based on the GPS position.
- Draw GPS positions: displays points corresponding to the raw GPS positions.
Trawl - Display Door Tracks: displays the path of the doors, according to the door positionning data. Green track is starboard door, red track is port.
- Display Net
Tracks:
displays the path of the headline. Tip: For a more accurate position of the headline, complete the trawl measurements in .
- Display Positionning Filter Data: used for development only.
- Display Positionning Sensors Data: displays raw data used to get the trawl position.