User interface familiarization
By default, the display presentation covers the entire screen. The visual elements provide you with the echo information you need, they help you to control the functionality needed to understand this information, and finally, they allow you to control the operational parameters.
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This screen capture shows you a typical data replay situation. You can see several rectangular sonar views presenting sonar echo data in different ways. The top bar shows you navigational information as well as buttons for key functions and operating system features. The menu system on the right side gives you easy access to all the functionality offered by the ME70.
A Top bar
The top bar is located at the top of the display presentation and stretches from the far left to the far right. The top bar gives you fast access to key functionality and navigational information. It provides buttons for hiding and showing the menu, making screen captures, opening the Messages dialog box, and opening context-sensitive help. And more importantly, from the top bar you can see when data recording is active.
B Channel views
The ME70 presentation provides five Channel views. There are three views next to each other in the top row, and one on each side of the Swath view. Each Channel view presents the echogram for the chosen beam, as well as related information. All information in a selected field can be hidden from view with the Hide View function. If you click in a Channel view, the echogram is selected to be “active”. The "active" echogram view is identified with a thick red border. The choice you make is by default only applied to the currently selected (active) view.
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You can click and drag the border of each individual field to change its size. The size of the other fields are reduced accordingly.
Each channel view can provide five additional fields, Colour Scale, Depth, Single Target Position, Single Target Histogram, Scope and Numerical information field. These fields can be enabled in the Configure Window dialog box, and opened by dragging the border lines in vertical or horizontally.
C Main menu
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The Main menu is located at the top of the menu structure. It offers the most common functions for efficient use of the ME70 system. By default, the Main menu is open. It is placed on the right side of the display presentation. On the top bar, use the Menu button to hide or show the menu.
D Swath View
You have one swath for the entire multibeam transducer. The swath consists of a number of beams which spread out like a fan in the water and over the seafloor. The Swath view provides an overview of the acoustic data from all the beams making up the fan. Two coloured lines within the swath show the section of beams that are presented individually in the channel views.
E Replay bar
During replay, the dedicated replay bar is shown immediately under the top bar. The replay bar allows you to retrieve saved files, and to control the playback.
F Secondary menus
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Below the Main menu you find the icons for opening (and closing) the secondary menus. Select an icon to open the relevant menu, and reselect the icon to close the menu.