User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1.Overview
- 2. Setting Up Your System
- 2.1Setting Up Map Layers
- 2.2Setting Up Display Levels (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.3Adding Water-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.4Fixing Floods with Anti-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.5Editing the Places Database
- 2.6Adjusting the Color Palette
- 2.7Using the Baron Chart
- 2.8Editing Colors for 256-Color Palettes
- 2.9Customizing Font Displays
- 2.10Manipulating the Automatic Legend
- 2.11Using Overlays
- 2.12Setting Up Icons
- 2.13Points to Remember
- 3.Adjusting Views
- 3.1Using the View Main Panel
- 3.2Setting Map Parameters
- 3.3Editing Topographical Data
- 3.4Saving and Organizing Views
- 3.5Using the View Options
- 3.5.1Adding Text to a View
- 3.5.2Zooming In and Out From a View
- 3.5.3Pointing to Features on a View
- 3.5.4Panning on a View
- 3.5.5Labeling Streets with Street Spotter
- 3.5.6Controlling Display of Radar Data
- 3.5.7Utilizing TeleTrac
- 3.5.8Displaying Lightning Strikes on a View
- 3.5.9Displaying Storm Spotter( Van data
- 3.5.10Toggling High-Definition Data Processing
- 3.5.11Displaying NEXRAD forecast data
- 3.5.12Displaying Neighborhood Weather Net( Sensor Data
- 3.5.13Zooming to a Specific City
- 3.5.14Adding Fronts and Pressure Markers
- 3.5.15Creating Temporary Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.16Creating Fixed Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.17Displaying Precipitation Type Maps
- 3.5.18Saving the Current View as a Bitmap
- 3.5.19Printing the Current View
- 3.5.20Highlighting Your Spotter Network On-Air
- 3.5.21Displaying National Weather Service Warnings
- 3.5.22Displaying Wind Speed and Direction
- 3.6Points to Remember
- 4.Managing Storm Tracks
- 5.Using SEQUENCER
- 6.Controlling Your Radar
- Glossary
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
Overview
Temporary Text opens the Temporary Text dialog box, which lets you key in text that
displays when you click OK and click on the text location.
Lightning replays the lightning in the past hour. Right-click on this hot button to
disable Lightning. Note that the button changes to the button shown on the right.
This button blinks when the connection to the TCP/IP lightning server is down.
Sweep displays real-time radar data. Left-click on the Sweep hot button to display
intensity, and right-click on it to display velocity. If you are viewing NEXRAD data, left-
clicking on the icon refreshes the display with the current NEXRAD product. (This icon
blinks when the RDAC connection is inoperable.)
Storm Spotter Van displays the current location of your Storm Spotter Van. The button
blinks when Van data is being received. See Section 3.5.8 for more information.
Radar Lapse lets you display time-lapse frames. If you have real-time radar, seven
minutes of radar data displays. If you have NEXRAD data, the number of frames
specified for the Lapse parameter on the NEXRAD Main panel displays.
Weather Wire Data lets you set up and edit Weather Wire warning features. This icon
blinks when the National Weather Service data feed is not operational. See section 3.5.20
for more information.
Telestrator lets you do free-form drawing on your weather display. Right-click on this
icon to open the Telestrator Pen Information menu, which lets you specify the width,
color, and type of drawing.
Zoom closes in on the area defined by your cursor. Right-clicking on this icon zooms out
to double the current range.
NEXRAD activates the NEXRAD Main Panel on the left side of the FasTrac display.
This icon blinks when the NEXRAD connection is not operational.
Show View displays the saved view corresponding to the number on the hot button.
Fronts/Hi/Low lets you draw weather fronts with the cursor, as well as create high and
low pressure markers. See section 3.5.13 for details.
Map Pointer activates the Map Pointer. When you select this hot button, Telestrator
drawings disappear. Left-clicking on a road causes its name to appear in the Cursor Status
Area. Right-click on this button to enter Pixel Query mode, which indicates the radar data
(this works for all data products) and level at your cursor position.
Map Pan enables Pan mode, letting you set a different center point for the current view.
Neighborhood Weather Net lets you edit and manipulate live weather data that can then
be displayed on map views. See Section 3.5.11 for more information.
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