User's Guide

ScanBrick® W User Manual
Doc: ARE-016631
Issue: 7.2
Date: Sept 2022
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- Process Average Window: Set temporal windows length (expressed in seconds) used by the
level meter processing to carry out some internal averages. This factor does not affect
measure update frequency (i.e. the frequency for the level measure refresh).
- Statistics Window: Set the width (expressed in seconds) of the window for statistics purpose.
Statistics is used by level meter processing and its strictly related to the computation of the
standard deviation of the measured level.
Finally, by accessing the Displayed Level panel some display configurations can be set:
- Level Type: this drop-down menu allows to select the type of returned level measure (both
saved in the results file and displayed in the data visualization panel, Fig.15). It is possible to
select FIRST RETURN (the level value corresponding to the 90% statistic percentile,
computed from the maximum range distance), PEAK (the level value corresponding to the
statistics mode) and MEAN (the level value corresponding to the statistics mean).
- Threshold: this is a constant target level value, drawn in Fig.15, to have a baseline against
which to compare the real-time measured value.
Acquisition Management
Click the button Start Acquisition in the Acquisition Panel to start data acquisition and processing.
This button can be clicked if and only if the Acquisition State of the application (see Fig.14) is
CONFIGURED. If the starting operation succeeds, this state becomes ACQUIRING and new data
and results will be saved in the folder set in the Results Folder text box (see Fig.8) and displayed in
the Data Visualization panel (see Fig.15).
Fig.13 Acquisition Commands Panel
By clicking the Stop Acquisition button, the radar acquisition is stopped and the Acquisition State of
the application (Fig.14) goes back to CONFIGURED.