Plane view

The Plane view presents the echo data in a horizontal sector ("fan"). The sector direction can be changed in both vertical and horizontal directions.

  1. The current tilt is shown with dotted lines in the view. Two types of dotted lines are used to distinguish between port and starboard side of the sector.
  2. The current settings for range, gain and tilt are show in the lower left corner of the view.
  3. Range rings are a set of concentric circles labelled by distance from the vessel position.
  4. The distance and depth of the cursor's location is shown in the lower right corner of the view.

At the bottom of the display presentation, select a suitable presentation mode, and activate the Plane view.

Tip:

To fully understand how the beams behave in this view, use the Beam Visualization dialog box. This dialog box is opened from the Setup menu.

The Cosmetics menu controls which "cosmetic" features that used.

The Visual Objects menu controls which graphical elements that are shown in the different views.

Before you can change the settings related to a view, the view must be active. To activate a view, click in it. The active view is identified with a thicker border.

Although the presentation of the echoes is most important in this view, it also contains a number of other objects. These provide you with additional functionality, as well as information that is useful or important while using the ST90 sonar system.