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
Using SEQUENCER
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
and the ending view's name. It also contains the Preview, Edit Frames, and Del From Seq
commands.
1. pears
previewing an event, this message does not appear on the screen during sequence play.
2.
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s,
you
select CANCEL or until the preview is complete.
3. Evt
command at the bottom of the SEQUENCER panel to perform this same operation.
5.3 Working with Time-Lapse Events
There are several important points to remember when creating a time-lapse event:
erely pick from pre-
saved views. See Section 3.4.1 for information on creating views.
,
ge
n you look at this time lapse, you will be able to identify it for
future use or deletion.
e
at the lapse will cover. (The Log to File
command should be active, by default.)
by inserting a
NEXRAD product with more than one frame. See Section 5.6 for details.
Click Preview. As your system loads the zoom frames, the Loading Frames message ap
and remains during frame loading and the preview of the zoom frames. Unless you are
Click Edit Frames to display the event frame-by-frame.
The Loading Frame message appears. After loading, th
first frame displays and the Frame Editor menu open
asking if you want to delete the frame. This process
continues through the frame-by-frame display until
Click Del from Seq to delete the zoom from the sequence. You may also use the Del
You must create the view you wish to show before you create the time-lapse event. You
cannot create views from inside the time-lapse function. You can m
It is very important to use a meaningful naming convention when creating time lapses, so
that you can recognize and use them in the future. We recommend that you use the date
time frame, and map of the time lapse. For example, 2-26 4-6pm HSV 25 could be the
name for a time lapse on February 26, from 4 to 6 p.m., on a Huntsville map with a ran
of 25 miles. Later, whe
Before you can create a real-time time lapse, you must use the Radar > Log to Fil
command to log data during the period th
You can create a NEXRAD time-lapse that always displays the latest data
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