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
Using SEQUENCER
5.3.1 Creating Real-Time Radar Time-Lapses
1. Open SEQUENCER, and click Ins Evt to open the selection menu.
2. Double-click on the TIME LAPSE listing to open the Event List,
which lists the available time lapses. If no time lapses are in the
system, the list will be blank.
w time.
3. Click Create New to open the
Radar Type menu.
4. Select REALTIME
RADAR to open the
Radar menu, which lets
you define the radar
parameters for a time
lapse. In the Event Type
area, click Time Lapse.
5. Key in the time-lapse name in the Name text box.
6. Select the base view that the time lapse will use. To keep
the current view, do not change Base View.
7. Set the Beginning Time and Ending Time parameters to
fit your needs. The default times create a lapse for the last
hour according to the system clock. These times are in
military time. To change them, click in the appropriate time
text box and key in the ne
8. Change the following parameters to fit your needs:
Iterations specifies the number of times that the entire time lapse will appear when
viewing the lapse event.
Pause specifies the time, in milliseconds, between time-lapse frames. 1000
milliseconds=1 second.
Interval specifies the number of sweeps composed in each frame. For example, an
interval of 1 (the default value) records a frame after each sweep. An interval of 2
records a frame every other sweep.
9. Click Add to Seq. The system will then create the time lapse and insert it into the current
sequence. This data will remain on your system until you choose to delete it.
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