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
Overview
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
StormScan activates the Arrow Filter panel on the left side of the FasTrac display. See
Section 4.6, StormScan, for more details.
Street Spotter allows you to find and label the streets in your database. See Section 3.5.4
for details.
SpotterNet lets you display a network of eyewitnesses for weather activity. See Section
3.5.19 for details.
Main Status Area
The Main Status Area is the area in white, just to the right
of the hot buttons. This area displays the following:
• Latitude and longitude of the map pointer.
• Azimuth and range of the current pointer from its last selected position (reset this by
right-clicking on the view).
• Current system time in local time and in Greenwich Mean Time (ZULU). We equip our
systems with time keeping software to ensure that the system time remains accurate, but
you may use a different time keeping program if you wish.
• Azimuth and elevation of the live radar.
• Azimuth, range, and height of the your radar’s beam center at the cursor position.
Cursor Status Area
The gray bar located under the main status
area is the Cursor Status Area. This bar is
dual-purpose. First, it displays information about your last selected command. For instance, if
you place the cursor over the Lightning hot button, the words replay last hour’s lightning
appear. Secondly, this area displays various status messages relating to system activity.
Select Panel
The Select Panel options, described below, occupy the left column of your
screen.
Option
Description
VIEWS
Opens the View Main panel, which displays map radius, map center, and map
name. This is the default panel and displays upon system startup.
STORMS
Opens the Storm Track panel, which lets you control storm track settings.
SEQUENCES
Opens the SEQUENCER panel.
NEXRAD
Opens the NEXRAD Main panel, which lets you display NEXRAD products.
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