how to setup a VADAR project file
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1. Mean Tide Value and Tide Time Lag parameters see the tide section for more information TIDES The tide values are shown both on the window title bar current tide value and on the information title dialog tide at time of observation VADAR will normally calculate the tide heights continuously based on the tide parameters for the job These parameters are determined for open ocean areas around the globe and are usually of sufficient accuracy needed for theodolite tracking These tide heights are computed as oscillations from mean sea level and therefore can be either a positive or negative value Tide charts usually have all tides shown as positive numbers Therefore VADAR adds a correction value mean tide value to the computed values so that they can be comparable to the values shown in tide charts But the correction value mean tide height may only be an estimated value and can be in error which may appear as a shift between the VADAR tide values and those displayed in tide charts but values used by VADAR will be correct Any small errorin the tide heights can be adjusted by changing the mean tide value A time lag value can also be entered if there is a time difference between the VADAR computed tide heights and the tide chart values This may occur in places where the survey area is some distance from open ocean waters The value of these two tide parameters can be deter mined by comparing the VADAR predicted tide heig2. Each row letter should characterize the behaviour such as B Blow Breach Back and Belly Up Each of the behaviours also has a Behaviour Activity Level BAL associated with it this is a score of O to 10 of the level of activity for each behaviour which can be used in later analysis VADAR also has a short cut list presently a total of 30 of the most commonly used behaviours These are arranged in groups of 10 1 to 10 in first group 11 to 20 in second etc refer to the User Manual Each group may be organised so that they are meaningful for example the first group may be behaviours for the species listedinlayer 1 and the third group may have behaviours for vessels etc The last 4 columns are the behaviours that are assigned to this short cut list 1 to 30 For example if you wish to assignthe3rd behaviour for row B Back to be the firstin the listthen puta 1 one in LIST 3 row B etc More information about editing behaviours can befound inthe VADAR User Manual VADAR DATA Fites VADAR Mar FILE NAME MAP Where NAME is the project name always 4 characters Background graphics data are found in the MAP file The file is a text file which can be edited using a program such as notepad The VADAR Map file is a graphics vector file containing background map data points lines polygons and text Vector files are loaded into memory when VADAR is started and therefore should improve the speed
3. Lag mT 12 000 2 000 322 000 000 Update button to make change Test 3 Test H4 Parity O none 1 odd 2 even Stop Bits 0 1 stop bit 2 2 stop bits 2011 07 01 M M Moving N M 0 0 JJ M0 2 iwN Use CAPITALS for Survey Vessels TRACKS Latitude Longitude format is DDD dddd If co ordinates for RO are not known then put Bearing in field can be Target AIS TA airgun Stat Height DIST East Ringl North Ring2 Only ONE Station for Survey Vessel and ONE Reference Object to be selected Use Marker as others 1 0 Systems 120 Service Default Group Port Scale Baud Data Bits Parity Stop Bits Time int FL1 Dist int 42 FL 2 PC keyboard ile Humpback S Bushnell 0 57300 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 2 PC keyboard file Humpback N Keyboard 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 s Aa AYTO gt uses om gt promo Jooooo ea Heke 0 Geode O O __ ___ e cme CESTO A Pe EIA LA tes ACP OOOO po po Jo A z IA POT L imot eo ooo A O O O C Get GPS fix before obs Press Update buttons to initiate changes before pressing Save _ as The Edit Project dialog box is broken into a number of sections Each section has its own Update button and should be pressed once any changes The Update button can also be used to re define some data once the field has been c
4. and in this case the serial comms port control will then have to be disabled in ActiveSync so VADAR can use it Another program may have control of the serial port and will have to be shutdown this may be shown inthe Windows System Properties see above Cannot get SET Comms Port State This means that the VADAR cannot take control of the Comms port This could mean that the Serial to USB driver is not working properly a yellowtriangle will be placed on the COM icon in Device Manager Caution Sometimes Comms Port numbers 1 and 2 may both be assigned to the one physical Comms port if there is only one serial port on the computer Only port 1 or 2 can be used not both Ports 1 and 2 should not be assigned to a USB to serial input 14
5. bservation will be assigned to an existing track Any incorrect labelling can be quickly fixed by editing the observed data The track name for any pod or vessel can be up to 10 characters including any prefix The name can be changed using the edit functions The names for track lines in other groups layers can havea prefix symbol at the front see below CHANGING PROJECT SETTINGS A vaar i EDIT PROJECT Edit PROJECT detail _ a MA awe a _ Type of Survey Licence eee 13 00 UTM Zon 56 2 Name B Magnetic Declination one DEMO SuveyiD 1 Land Station DEVELOPER Ediion 1 2 Tile VADAR Project Time Zone 10 0 To Update Data Clear data cell before pressing Update tie _ Station Vessel Target information Groups Layers Latitude Longitude Station Height Inst Height East Survey Station STATION 03256 4 412 151 4647 369 20 000 0 000 385928 65 635530743 J Reference Object 3283236 RO 0325555071 1514643814 0 000 o 38583300 6355594 03 Name Symbol Speed Course Track Behaviour Humba a0 Haber WI FE a oving East Sins fa oving West 00 oo oo ot Moving 0o MovingFast 0 tArchor _ _ po FelowraPod po frase 7 is multilevel NAME Symbol 4 14 24 1 Start at Level 1 14 24 Tide Data Mean Tide Value 2 000 280 000 000 00000 4 000 325 000 000 16 000 6 000 330 000 000 Tide Time
6. e below DETERMINING STATION HEIGHT The Station height can be calculated using a technique known as trigonometric levelling This uses a known distance and height of a target to calculate the station height using vertical angles measured to the target Corrections for tides earth curvature refraction and instrument height are all included The position of a target at sea level height 0 0m tide must be measured using GPS and you must insure that the VCIC has been determined for the instrument Select Station Height from the New Obs menu Type in the East and North co ordinates or latitude and longitude for the target in the first two fields Type the Face Left vertical reading just over 90 degrees as DDD MMSS in the Vertical Angle field Make sure the time for the observations is also correct and press OK The height of the survey station will be shownin the status bar This procedure should be repeated for a few different targets at different times of the day to account for differential refraction to obtain an accurate station height The project file can be edited to set the new value for the station height Changing Project Settings CHANGING BEHAVIOUR SETTINGS EDIT BEHAVIOUR LIST VADAR allows up to 104 26 x 4 behaviours to be pre defined The table lists all of these behaviours 26 rows A to Z by 4 columns 1 to 4 alternatives You can simply change the list to suit the behaviours for your project
7. hese may include compass binocular observations the scale of the reticules within the binoculars must be put in Scale field but this can be done by first picking the Model of the binoculars then clearing the Scale field and pressing the Update button The next 2 inputs 3 and 4 are reserved for serial inputs from electronic theodolites electronic compass GPS and AIS etc The communications port number must be entered into the Port field Once the Model name for the instrument is picked and the Baud and Data Bits etc fields are cleared then pressing the Update button will have VADAR fill in the default values for these The Test 3 and Test 4 buttons can be used to allow VADAR to try and determine which communication ports are available BUT the baud rate etc may still be incorrect and VADAR may report some ports available which in fact it may not be available for more detail see the Serial Import Device setup at the end of this document The fifth data time int for theodolites may be used as a horizontal offset if the bearing to the Reference Target is to be set to 0 0 in this case put the magnetic or true bearing to the Reference Target inthis spaceas well decimal degrees More I O systems are available for cameras etc TIDE DATA BOTTOM RIGHT The harmonic tide data is generated when a new VADAR project is created This data cannot be changed except for the
8. ht to that from local tide charts over a number of days Tide charts normally show the times for the low and high tides along with the tide height Dummy additional observations can be entered into VADAR changing the observation time to equal the times for the low and high tides Compare the VADAR tide values with that of the tide charts The mean tide value in the Project Edit Dialog can be adjusted so that there is a minimal difference between the tide chart values and the VADAR value adjust this value by the mean difference between the two The time lag value can also be adjusted by finding the exact time of low high tide in VADAR by entering a number of dummy additional observations at about 15 minute intervals either side of the low high tide time Add a time lag factor decimal hours if the time of the VADAR low high tide is different than the tide charts However for surveys donein areas where these tide parameters cannot be deter mined or in areas of unusual or very high tide fluctuations the tide heights can be input by means of tide charts This file must be built from information obtained from tide charts high and low tide times over the period of the survey Usually this information is available on the internet The tide times shown in the table must be on local time the same time system that is running on the computer running VADAR that is they should be both on daylight savings if required Refer to the Tide Chart fil
9. ing symbol on the USB to Serial port means that it will not function properly NOTE VADAR can only use communication ports 1 to 9 therefore if the USB to serial converter has assigned a port number higher than 9 you can try another USB socket or the COM number can be changed to another number usually 3 to 9 using the device manager 4 Setting up Serial Device in VADAR Start VADAR and open up the project file details Project gt Edit Project The 1 0 systems information box is atthe bottom left Devices 3 and 4 are reserved for serial input devices 13 14 5 Error Messages Cannot CONNECT to Comms Port This means that the Comms Port number does not exist has not been assigned by Windows This could mean that the Serial to USB converter is not plugged in or the incorrect port number is assigned in VADAR Cannot OPEN Comms Port This means that another program already has control of this Comms Port The program could be VADAR itself one of the previous devices is using the same port Windows or some other program Sometimes Windows may see a device such as a GPS as a mouse and take control of that devices serial port you may see the mouse moving randomly on the screen in this case It is better to start VADAR first so that it has control of the comms ports before the device is plugged in Programs such as ActiveSync will also take control of all serial ports and USB connections
10. j j j 4 k bg F Visual amp Acoustic Detection and Ranging at Sea PROJECT SETTINGS VERSION 2 0 0 Table of Contents VADAR PROJECT FILES AND FOWDERS cocoooocococococococccocconocococononononconononononononnonononananosoncnnonononananososcscoronocananosos 3 STARTING VADAR iia al 3 VADAR SURVEY FILES AND FOIDERS ooooocoooccoconocococococonnonoconoconononcnononononononononnonononononononononocononononosroronocononosos 4 VADAR TRACK NMAMOES 0 ooo cana a eee iaa atadas 4 CHANGING PROJEOT SETTINGS niena a a a aE E A 5 EDERE Torir aA A N N a A E A 5 A O E E ANT 7 DETERMINING STATION HECHA a a se MUMS a a E ST ESS 8 CHANGING BEHAVIOUR SETTINGS ooooooooioonosoonocococococononcncrononocononononcorononononononconoroconononononcccororonononononcccorononoss 8 Dis VC et ee en er 8 VADAR DATA FIUES lt 39470 lt c c0ccccscocososco o Ds o oeoo or conorcocororocsosooso QU sos cororsosoroonesornenenss 9 VADAROVIAP PLE acia O a 9 VADAR MDECHART Esso A MI A AA 11 SERIAL INPUT DEVICE OTI eee ee ee 12 VADAR PROJECT Files AND FOLDERS A unique set of project files must be created for each project VADAR cannot run without these files The Project files will contain all the data that is needed to undertake a surveysuchas the station position and height the reference target direction position the type of instru
11. leared Calculate Latitudes and Longitudes using Easting Northing and UTM zone Calculate Easting and Northing using Latitude Longitude and UTM zone Calculate the Magnetic Declination based on the Latitude and Longitude set to zero for true bearings Calculate Bearing to Reference Object in column from Eastings Northings and Magnetic Declination Load default Baud Data bits Parity and Stop Bits clear the Scale Baud column E E a Update the harmonic Tide parameters Insurethat the correct UTM zone is selected The Save button at the bottom should then be pressed to accept these changes PROJECT TITLE TOP Normally only the Title may have to be changed There should be no need to change the Magnetic Declination or Time Zone Note The time zone is only used as a check VADAR uses the Time Zone reported by Windows as the real time zone setting as this will also account for daylight savings It is most important that the time and Time Zone settings in Windows are correct otherwise tides and observations taken with GPS will have incorrect times STATION VESSEL TARGET INFORMATION TOP LEFT The station height or instrument height may have to be changed type the new values into these fields and press the Update button below The Survey Station and Reference Object names can also be changed Small changes to the station position can also be made type the new East North or Latitude Longitude position value
12. ment and settings the layoutof layers and associated behaviours tidal information vector data for displaying the map etc The main VADAR project file will be called NAME_01 VDR where NAME will be 4 characters for the name of your project The vector map file will be called NAME MAP All VADAR files need to be installed in one folder including any project files There will be one or more project files that have been created for your project Once VADAR has been started it will load the latest project files and display this information on the status bar at the bottom of the window You may wish to edit your project files before you start any surveys see below but this should only have to be done once One of the more important data that needs to be setup and also one of the more difficult things to be done is establishing the settings for your survey instrument VADAR will not be able to talk to your instrument until these settings are correct see Serial Input Device Setup It is most important that the time and Time Zone settings for your computer Windows are correct for your region otherwise tides and observations taken with GPS will have incorrect times STARTING VADAR Start VADAR by selecting it from the Programs menu or double click on the shortcut icon Once started VADAR will load the last project files that were used and display this in the status bar at the bottom of the window See the VADAR
13. of 2 48m at 3 50am on the 24 August 2012 11 12 SERIAL INPUT Device SETUP One of the more difficult tasks is to get a serial input device setup and communicating with VADAR Most devices such as theodolites GPS electronic compass and AIS use the old serial port 15 pin D plugs for communications This system has been replaced with USB Universal Serial Bus and now only a few computers have serial ports although most of the instruments still communicate with the old serial port system There are a number of steps that need to be carried outto get any serial communication device working properly 1 Setting up the instrument to use serial communications Theodolites GPS electronic compass and AIS devices must be setup for serial communications Different brands of theodolites and electronic compass will have their own standards for serial communications GPS and AIS will use standard protocols such as NEMA Use the instruments manual and setup procedures to insure the instrument is setup for serial communications and note down the default baud rate parity and data bits being used e g 4800 8 1 even 4800 baud 8 data bits 1 stop bitand even parity 2a Setting up the serial port connection Most old computers and some of the newer ones have a serial port connector 15 pin D shaped plugs These serial ports will be assigned ports 1 and 2 Most theodolites and GPS etc can be directly connected to the computer through this
14. of the graphics within the program It is an ASCII text file similar to a DXF file Data Exchange File The basic structure for the file is a header line followed by 2 or more lines of data then followed by the next header line etc The Header lines can be LINE CONTOUR POLYGON TEXT POINT ZONE The first line of data after the header is usually information describing the colour size and type for the header feature The next lines are normally a list of coordinates for each point located on the feature The data field can be separated with spaces tabs or commas The types of data can be IR red component of feature colour integer 0 to255 IG green component of feature colour integer O to 255 IB bluecomponent of feature colour integer O to 255 IT thickness or sizeof feature integer 1 or greater IS style of feature integer 1 or greater X X coordinate East m or Latitude decimal degrees real decimal number y Y coordinate North m or Longitude decimal degrees real decimal number h height coordinate metres real decimal number text text up to 40 characters The structure for each feature is LINE IR IG IB IT IS IT line thickness IS line style 1 continuous X y X y CONTOUR IR IG IB IT IS h IT line thickness IS line style 1 continuous X Y X y POLYGON IR IG IB IT IS IT line thickness S poly fill style 1 solid fill X y X
15. plug 2b Setting up serial communications on the computer using USB A Serial to USB converter can be used to get a serial comms port device connected via the computers USB plug This will involve setting up the converter using its install software A device driver will be installed on the windows system and each time the converter is plugged into the computers USB socket Windows will see the connection as a serial port device not a USB and a serial port number will be assigned to the connection Sometimes the driver software may report the port number assigned but usually not Different USB sockets will be assigned different serial port numbers 3 Determine the serial port number The serial port connection will be assigned a port number 1 to about 20 or more A serial port connection 2a will be assigned a number from 1 to 4 usually 1 and or 2 as most computers will only have one serial port if any But often if there is only one physical serial port connection if may be assigned as either port 1 or 2 which ever gets used first but it may appear as if there are 2 serial ports available when in fact there is only one A serial to USB converter 2b will be assigned a number from 1 onwards usually from 5 to about 16 as ports 1 to 4 may be reserved for serial ports on the PC BUT often there will be no direct indication of what the serial port number is assigned to each USB connection and therefore this port number must be dete
16. rmined 12 13 a Open the Windows System Properties menu by Click on Start on the Windows task bar and then click on Control Panel and then double click on System OF Right click on My Computer and then click on Properties b Open the device manager Click on the Hardware tab and then click on Device Manager Or justclick on Device Manager c Expand the Ports COM amp LPT item click onthe next to Ports COM amp LPT All the serial COMS ports should now be listed along with their port number COM1 to COM You can now also right click on each device and get its properties Find the port COM number to be used for your instrument but the Serial to USB converters will have to be already plugged in for this to work Also make sure the software driver for the port is working sometimes the port icon may have warning symbol yellow triangle on it indicating there is a problem E Network adapters E Portable Devices 4 Ports COM amp LPT 1 Communications Port COM1 17 ECP Printer Port LPT1 ed Prolific USB to Serial Comm Port COMS3 12 ZTE Mobile Broadband AT Interface COM3 1 ZTE Mobile Broadband Diagnostics Interface COMS5 a Processors 4 Smart card readers Sound video and game controllers In this example the USB to Serial connector has been assigned to COM3 but so has another device The yellow warn
17. s into their field delete the other values East North or Latitude Longitude VADAR will calculate the missing values and press Update The bearing to the Reference Object is shown in the field The bearing can be typed in if the co ordinates for the RO are not known or clear this filed and press the Update button to have VADAR calculate the bearing Always check these values to make sure they arecorrect GROUPS LAYERS TOP RIGHT Data can be entered into a number of different Groups or Layers Some Groups can be reserved for vessels or special types of input A symbol can also be added to the front of the names for track lines in any layer to help easily identify these tracks on the map If a symbol is used then there may be only 26 names available for this layer A to Z The star symbol should be used if no prefix symbol is required and this also allows for more track names Ato Z then 1A to 1Z etc A default speed and course can also be set for mammals vessels in each Group Use a course of 0 0 if no default is required but do not use 0 0 for northwards movement use 1 0 instead Default track behaviour for each group canalso beset Use the Update button to update these values I O SYSTEMS BOTTOM LEFT Each VADAR project can have 5 or more Input Output systems The number of I O systems shown will depend on the type of VADAR licence used The first 2 types are keyboard and or file input T
18. user manual on how to starta survey and take observations etc VADAR Survey FILES AND FOLDERS VADAR will create at least two data output files for each survey that has been started The main file has the survey observation data andis known as the Survey file The other contains the auxiliary data The name structure for the Survey and Auxiliary files are NAME_ss_yymmdd_ tt VSF and NAME_ss_yymmdd_ tt VAF Where NAME is the project name always 4 characters ss is the Survey number usually 01 except with networked projects yymmdd is the year month and day tt is the starttime nearest hour of the survey is always 01 with network surveys The VSF file is the survey file containing all records observations for the survey The VAF file is the auxiliary file containing other information such as weather start stop survey times etc All output survey files are stored ina folder called NAME whichis created under the main folder containing the VADAR program VADAR Track Mames Each observation to a pod or vessel will be assigned to a Track number and name VADAR will automatically name new tracks when they are observed Pod tracks are labelled A to Z prefix is a space then followed by 1A to 1Z then 2Ato 2Z etc Vessel Tracks arelabelled lt 1 to lt 999 If VADAR determines that a new observationis to a new track line it will give it the next available label otherwise the o
19. y TEXT IR IG IB IT IS IT character height IS 1 X Y text POINT IR IG IB IT IS IT symbol height IS symbol type 1 27x 370 4 Q etc X y h 10 10 11 ZONE IR IG IB IT IS IT line thickness IS poly fill style 1 solid fill X y X y VADAR TIDE CHART FILE NAME _TIDES CSV Where NAME is the project name always 4 characters The tide chart file contains the date and time for each high and low tide covering the period of the survey The tide times shown in the file must be on local time the same time system as on the computer running VADAR that is they should be both on daylight savings if required The file format is CSV comma separated variable which can be created in Excel but saved as a CSV There are 5 columns of data which should be separated by commas or spaces 1 Day 1 to 31 2 Month 1 to 12 3 Year 2012 etc 4 Time either decimal hours or DDMM in 24 hour format 5 High Low tide value in metres Example How the data may look in Excel 24 8 2012 350 2 48 K de 24 8 2012 940 6 4 CE n gt o 24 8 2012 1641 1 47 Paste Pa BZU E A A ESS ES 24 8 2012 2256 6 08 ipboard a Font aig 25 8 2012 437 3 1 e B 25 8 2012 1017 5 84 OI ee 25 8 2012 1735 1 89 pa 2 el de 26 8 2012 2 5 62 A E E E a In this case the timeis in HHMM so for example 350 is 3 50am and 1641 is 16 41 or 4 41 pm Therefore there is a lowtide
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