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CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF THE SOFTWARE 1 1.1 SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE 1 1.1.1 What is TargetPro? 1 1.1.2 What File Types Can TargetPro Read? 1 1.1.3 What File Types Can TargetPro Write? 2 1.1.4 What Formats Are Best for Exporting? 2 1.2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 3 1.3 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 3 1.3.1 Installing a Hardware Dongle 6 1.3.2 Installing TargetPro 6 1.4 UPGRADING TO A NEW RELEASE OF SOFTWARE 6 CHAPTER 2: USING TARGETPRO 8 2.1 RUNNING TARGETPRO 8 2.2 OPENING A FILE 9 2.
3.1.3 Beam Width 24 3.1.4 Number of Pings 24 3.2 WIDTH 25 3.2.1 Width Adjust 25 3.2.2 Width Rotation 25 3.3 HEIGHT 26 3.4 GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR OBJECT MENSURATION 27 3.4.1 Measure Distance 28 3.4.2 Measure Object Echo-Shadow (Tied) 28 3.4.3 Measure Object Length 29 3.4.4 Measure Object Echo 30 3.4.5 Measure Object Shadow 30 3.5 OBJECT DETECTION 3.5.1 Configuring Object Measurement 31 32 CHAPTER 4: OBJECT MODIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION 33 4.1 THE ELECTRONIC LIGHT TABLE 33 4.1.
4.4.1 Setting a Contact Number 47 CHAPTER 5: TARGETPRO MENU 49 5.1 THE FILE MENU 49 5.2 THE EDIT MENU 54 5.3 THE TOOLS MENU 54 5.3.1 Configuring to Display Data 55 5.3.2 RAMP Support 59 5.3.3 Inspecting TAG 270 Information 60 5.4 THE WINDOW MENU 63 5.5 THE VIEW MENU 63 5.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Chapter 1: Overview of the Software 1.1 Software Architecture 1.1.1 What is TargetPro? TargetPro is a software module included with Isis sonar from Triton Elics International, Inc. TargetPro is also sold as a separate, standalone utility. If you have the Isis Sonar software (also from Triton Elics International), you can use TargetPro to take snapshots of selective areas of your data imagery that may be of interest to you.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual • • • • Microsoft Windows Paint (*.PCX files, which support color as well as black and white) Microsoft Windows Bitmap (*.BMP files) Microsoft Windows Metafile (*.WMF files) Enhanced Metafile (*.EMF files) 1.1.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual 1.2 System Requirements You need the following: • A Pentium-class personal computer running Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP. • At least 32 MB of RAM. • A software license from Triton Elics International to use the product. (The license comes with TargetPro when you buy it.) • A hardware dongle that has been programmed to recognize TargetPro. • A computer monitor capable of displaying true 24-bit color images (potentially 16,777,216 colors.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 1. Typical listing of TEI software installation folders. TEI software is compatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. The following notes will help you achieve a smooth installation of the software. • Please exit from all other applications before running any of the installation programs. • You will not be able to complete the installation on an NT4.0 or Windows 2000 system if you do not have administrator’s rights.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual • Each application is installed by browsing to the appropriate folder (for example, Isis5.50 Install) on the CD and double-clicking on the SETUP.EXE file found in that folder. • TEI recommends that if you have more than one hard drive, you install the software on the second (usually the D:) drive, using the default folder names on the CD. You will be given the option to select any drive during the setup process, select the Custom option and change the drive letter.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual The addition of a folder called [TEIdlls] in the Windows, Win95 or WINNT folder, and a modification to the PATH environment variable which adds the [‘TEIdlls] folder to the PATH. The [TEIdlls] folder can be safely deleted after all TEI software has been removed. 1.3.1 Installing a Hardware Dongle A hardware dongle comes with TargetPro. The dongle permits TargetPro to run after the software is installed.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 2. Modify, Repair, Remove choices during installation. You will need to remove the old version of the software before you will be permitted to install the new version. To do so, enable the Remove button in the dialog box and click Next. You can then install the new version by rerunning setup.exe As noted above, some items are deliberately not removed during the uninstall process; doing so can cause problems.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Chapter 2: Using TargetPro If you’ve installed the TargetPro software and have it running, you can use it to open CON (contact) or TGT (target) fields, enhance them, and save the changed files. This chapter explains how to do that. You can then save these small images as files independent of the original data imagery.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 3. Initial screen (empty) after first running TargetPro. Because you have not yet opened a file for TargetPro to display, the Main Working Area of the initial TargetPro screen, as well as any smaller child windows that may be present, are empty of information. See ‘Understanding TargetPro’s Windows’ for an explanation of the various parts of the application’s overall window. 2.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual • PCM Image (*.PCM, which are compressed ESC image files) • Joint Photographic Experts Group (*.JPEG and *.JPG files) • CompuServe Portable Network Graphic (*.PNG files) • Microsoft Windows Paint (*.PCX files, which support color as well as black and white) • Microsoft Windows Bitmap (*.BMP files) • Microsoft Windows Metafile (*.WMF files) • Enhanced Metafile (*.EMF files) Those are the only file types that can be opened in TargetPro.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 4. Typical file opened in TargetPro After a file has been opened, the original list of menu items (File, Edit, Tools, View and Help) expands to include two additional menu choices: Object and Window. 2.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual • the Cursor Status window • taskbar icons • Status Bar In the taskbar area, all icons except for the Open icon and the About icon are grayed out and unavailable until you open a file in TargetPro. All icons are explained in “Icons on the Taskbar”. If you double-click on any of the windows (except for the main display area), the system displays the windows’ title bars and reveals their identities (Figure 3).
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual and threshold. See ‘Pan and Display-Only Properties Windows’ for more detailed information on this window. Cursor Status Area. The rightmost area contains three panels of attribute fields that may show information when you open a file in TargetPro, depending on the type of navigation data and other attributes that may have been present in the opened file prior to opening.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Distance: This is the distance between the end-points of the rubber-band line drawn from one contact to another. Pixel: This displays the x (x-axis coordinate), y (y-axis coordinate), and z data (intensity) of any pixel in the displayed image. Latitude: Degrees north or south of the equator. This changes Target – to Northings if the data were recorded that way Debris (or Target – Not Longitude: Degrees east or west of the meridian.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Towfish Range: This is the range from the towfish to the current point, either the cursor or the object being measured. Speed: This is the towfish’s speed. Altitude: This is the vertical distance the towfish is from the seafloor at nadir. Depth: This is the vertical distance the towfish is from the sea surface.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual For space reasons, the icons appear in this book in two rows. In the TargetPro program, the icons are laid out in a single row. Most icons are grayed out until a contact image is opened. All icons become visible when an image is opened and as long as the Cursor Tool icon remains clicked. (The Paste icon will be grayed out if there is nothing in the Windows Clipboard.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual TABLE 3. Group Three: Zoom and Pan Icons Fit to Window. Fills the current display area, out to the nearest border, with the contents of the image. The aspect ratio of the image is preserved. Zoom In. Enlarges the size of the displayed image by some amount. The aspect ratio of the image is preserved. Zoom Out. Reduces the size of the displayed image by some amount. The aspect ratio of the image is preserved. Zoom Rectangle.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual TABLE 4. Group Four: Image Management Icons Measurement Tool. When selected, this icon enables five more icons specific to mensuration when you select Measurement Tool (see Table 4, ‘Group Four: Measurement Pointer Icons,’ on page 24.) Display ELT. Summons the Electronic Light Table dialog box where you can modify (enhance) several aspects of the existing contact image. Menu equivalent: Tools →ELT (see ‘The Electronic Light Table’ on page 37.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual TABLE 5. Group Five: Measurement Pointer Icons Note: The Measurement Tool (see Table 3, ‘Group Three: Image Management Icons’) must first be selected before you can choose a measurement type. Rightclicking in imagery reveals a menu of equivalents. Measure Distance: When this measurement pointer type is selected, you can draw a straight line in any direction across the image.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual 2.5.1 The Pan Window The small, redockable Pan window acts as a visual aid to show you what part of the total image is being displayed in the larger main display window, rather like being able to see the forest from the trees, as the saying goes. Figure 3 shows an example of this. Initially, the area indicated in the Pan window is the same as the area covered in the main display window, and the Pan window has a thin red line around the Pan window.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual deviation between the dark and light parts of an image. Sliding the contrast indicator to the left along the bar decreases the image’s contrast. This results in a smaller standard deviation between dark and light parts of an image. The midpoint position represents no applied contrast, which is the default. • Gamma, which is a way of logarithmically compensating for low intensity pixels that may be present in some images. Only low intensity pixels are affected.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Chapter 3: Measuring a Contact You can measure, or mensurate, any part of a displayed contact. After a contact is mensurated, you can read the values for measured distance in the Target – Debris fields of the Cursor Status window. Mensuration occurs in three dimensions: length, width and height. You use TargetPro’s Measurement Tool icon on the toolbar (shown here at the side of the page) to get a contact’s measurements.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 7. Length Adjust concept and relationship to length and line 3.1.2 Length Rotation (L Rot.) is the rotation angle of the drawn line. This angle is relative to the horizontal line of the across-track vector. As indicated in Figure 8, angles above the imaginary horizontal line are positive (>0); angles below the imaginary horizontal line are negative (<0).
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 8. Length Rotation angle sign conventions 3.1.3 Beam Width (Beam W.) is the width of the beam in ground distance at a specific range. Figure 9 demonstrates the concept. Figure 9. Top view of four beam widths at four arbitrary ranges 3.1.4 Number of Pings (Pings) Number of pings in the Cursor Status Area) traversed by the drawn line.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual 3.2 Width Width is the across-track ground distance between the start and end points of a drawn line. The Measurement Tool’s Object Echo function (shown here at the side of the page is sued to draw the line. Two secondary aspects of contact measurement are associated with Width: Width Adjust and Width Rotation. Fields for these secondary aspects are found in TargetPro’s Cursor Status Area. 3.2.1 Width Adjust (W.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual 3.3 Height Height is the magnitude to which an object stands above the seabed. The Measurement Tool’s Object Shadow function (shown here at the side of the page) is used to draw a line in imagery. Such objects cast an acoustic shadow on the side facing away from the towfish. The length (or across-track width) of this shadow can be used in combination with the fish altitude and horizontal distance from the fish to derive height information.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual 3.4 General Directions for Object Mensuration 1. Activate Measurement Tool (choose Tools→Measure from the main menu or the Measurement Tool icon, pictured on Table 4, ‘Group Four: Image Management Icons,’ from the taskbar of icons). 2. The system displays a set of mensuration icons on the taskbar, and your pointer changes to a canted arrow with tick marks (hash marks) under it. 3.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual 3.4.1 Measure Distance Use this method to mensurate a distance in your imagery. A distance can cover any part or all of your imagery in any direction and does not have to start and stop at the boundaries of objects. To measure distance in your imagery, do the following: 1. Activate the Measurement Tool (choose Tools→ Measure from the main menu or the Measurement Tool icon from the taskbar of icons). 2. Choose the Measure Distance method of mensuration. 3.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 13. Measure Object Echo-Shadow (Tied) Example with Data In the example, the green line is the object’s width (reported as 9.15m in the Width field), and the blue line is the object’s shadow (4.42m in the Height field). 3.4.3 Measure Object Length Use this mensuration function to measure a contact’s length. To measure an object’s length, do the following: 1.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual A drawn, magenta line is completed. This is the object’s length. TargetPro also quantitatively states the contact’s length in the Length field of the Target-Debris fields of the Cursor Status window. 3.4.4 Measure Object Echo Use this mensuration function to measure a contact’s width. To measure a contact’s width, do the following: 1. Activate the Measurement Tool (choose Tools→Measure from the main menu or the Measurement Tool icon from the taskbar of icons). 2.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 14. Mensuration lines on a contact image with data. 3.5 Object Detection TargetPro can automatically measure and display objects that may be present in a contact image. To TargetPro, anything with a definable shadow is an object. Measured objects can be displayed but not saved. The automatic aspect of target measurement and region growing is controlled through the Object Measurement on Image Load area of the TargetPro Configuration dialog box.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual As part of the object/region growing measurement process, TargetPro can be configured to control the degree of sensitivity that you wish TargetPro to use in its search. Finally, after objects have been measured (with or without growing regions), you can have TargetPro display a list summarizing statistical data of the measured objects. You can also use the choices in this menu to resize (fit) your TargetPro image with respect to the main display area it occupies.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 15. Object Detection Window, settings and activation (Go). Figure 16. Object Detection Window results and list of individual object properties. TargetPro displays all the objects at their locations in the contact image.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual more red lines connect the centers of mass of the objects to their shadows. Numbers in the image field indicate the ranking of the objects in the field according to their coefficients of correlation for the measured objects — 1 being the item having the highest coefficient of correlation, and therefore the most likely item in the field to be deemed an object. As the numbers get bigger, the coefficients of correlation decrease.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Chapter 4: Object Modification and Classification 4.1 The Electronic Light Table TargetPro’s Electronic Light Table (ELT, for short) is a dialog box where you can make a wide range of sophisticated modifications (enhancements) to images.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 17. Typical contact copied into the Electronic Light Table. 4.1.1 The Histogram Window The Histogram window (bottom left window shown in Figure 17) graphs the dynamic range distribution of the image’s colors for the preview image (enhanced or not). Thereafter, each instance of a modified image is graphically superimposed as an information layer in the Histogram window. Below the Histogram window are two rows labeled Original File and Preview.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual mutually exclusive from RGB, which indicates a non-monochromatic image.) You can deselect or reselect the colors (or Gray) by clicking to put check marks in the boxes, or you can click in a checked box to remove a check mark. Your changes will be reflected in the Histogram window. 4.1.2 The Statistics Area The ELT also keeps track of certain properties for the Preview image and Original File. These appear in the Statistics area of the ELT.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual • Top (slider bar): Crops the image p pixels at a time from the top; moving the slider bar to the right increases the number of pixels to be cropped from the image. • Bottom (slider bar): Crops the image p pixels at a time from the bottom; moving the slider bar to the right increases the number of pixels to be cropped from the image. • Resize with rotation (check box): If this is checked, you can combine resizing an image at the same time you are rotating it. 4.1.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Below the slider bars in this area are five buttons. They are Vignette, Adapt. Norm, Sliding Window, Despeckle, and Equalize, explained next. • Vignette (button): Vignette lighting compensates for large variations of light (or lack of light) in the background of the image. When vignette is applied, points furthest from the center of the image are darkest, and points closest to the center are lightest. • Adapt. Norm (button): This stands for “Adaptive Normalization.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Bell: All values are distributed evenly around the center of the scale. This produces a high-contrast image, but one with a more limited dynamic range than an image enhanced by linear equalization. Exponential: Favors (skews) the values toward the high end of the scale, effectively making the image lighter with less contrast. As with Logarithmic, the dynamic range of the colors is compressed. Inverse Bell: The opposite of Bell equalization.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual is the neutral point, meaning the colors are not shifted one way or the other from their values. • Saturation (slider bar): Saturation affects how deep a given color is. Sliding the bar to the right increases saturation; sliding it to the left decreases saturation. • Invert (button): When clicked, this button reverses the values of all colors: White becomes black, black becomes white, etc. 4.1.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual original file unless you save the file from TargetPro’s main menu using File→Save As. 4.1.8 Annotate This function can be accessed from Tools→Annotate, or from the Annotate icon, as shown in Table 4, Group Four, Image Management Icons. The annotate function summons a dialog box where you can inspect text that may have been typed at an earlier time. An example is shown in Figure 18. Figure 18.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual 1. From the main menu choose Tools→Classify. The system displays a dialog box (Figure 17) where you can inspect, add, delete, change or assign a classification to a contact. 2. For a new contact or target image, use the radio buttons to assign a sub classification to the image. Ten ready-made subclasses (the leftmost column) are initially available for you to use. 3.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 20. New classification added to list of available classes. 2. Click Apply to associate the assignment to the image. (You can always change the assignment to something else later, if you want.) The currently displayed contact image is now classified according to your criterion. The classification gets stored with the contact or target image when it’s saved.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 21. Classification dialog box (From Tools→Classify) As the Rank area of the dialog box shows, you can classify your image as a Contact or Target. Normally, any feature that is logged is initially ranged as a contact. When a positive identification is made, the Rank of the feature should be changed to Target. 4.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual TargetPro’s geocorrecting function can compensate for this distortion in contact (CON) or target (TGT) files by adjusting the image. In addition, if you conducted your data survey in a direction other than a northerly heading, you can force the orientation of your contact to display in a northerly orientation, in keeping with the convention of “north points up” for displaying charts and maps.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 22. Geometrical Correction Parameters dialog box An explanation of the geocorrecting choices available to you in the Geometrical Correction Parameters dialog box follows in Table 6. TABLE 6. Geometrical correction parameters meanings Parameter Group Parameters and Their Meanings Image Orientation Ave.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 23. Example of a distorted image before geocorrection In Figure 23, the image appears greatly squashed in the vertical domain (top to bottom). As indicated by the Heading value in the Towfish portion of the Cursor Status window, the direction of the survey proceeded in a southeasterly direction (approximately 144 degrees). For the purposes of the displayed image, the heading points straight up and down, so that the image runs vertically through the window.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 24. Example of a geocorrected image as a TIFF file Figure 24 shows a geocorrected rendition of the CON image displayed in Figure 23. The image in Figure 24 has been re-oriented with the Geocorrecting function so that north points up. Furthermore, note that the main object in the figure no longer appears as squashed as it did in the first example; it is now less distorted and more closely resembles the actual object on the seafloor.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual 1. From the main menu choose Tools→Set Contact Number. The system displays the Set Contact Number dialog box (Figure 25). Figure 25. Set Contact Number dialog box 2. Type a number to use as the initial starting contact number and click OK. From this point on, all contacts that you save will begin with the number you specified and increment thereafter by one integer for each saved contact.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Chapter 5: TargetPro Menu 5.1 The File Menu The File menu consolidates all the basic functions of TargetPro. In addition, TargetPro keeps track of the file names of previously opened files and appends them to the bottom of the File menu. Figure 26 shows the File menu with a list of some sample files appended. Figure 26.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Table 7 explains these menu choices. TABLE 7. File menu choices described Task Choice Meaning or Action Performed Set Working Directory Use this to specify the directory in which TargetPro saves contact and target files. TargetPro first looks in this directory for saved contacts to recall. The definition of the specified directory persists from session to session. The default is to have the directory from which you load TargetPro be the working directory.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Save As Instead of (or in addition to) saving your Target images as CON or TGT files, you can save them in a wide range of formats. For a complete list of file types, see ‘What File Types Can TargetPro Write?’. Note: When saving an image, the original image is saved unaltered along with the audit trail of all operations that were applied to the image the last time the image was saved. There is no equivalent icon for the Save As menu choice.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 27.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 28. Contact Search Criteria dialog box (from File→Find) The Contact Search Criteria dialog box is modeless, meaning you can perform other tasks in TargetPro without needing to close this dialog box. Modeless operation is advantageous for searching because you can then inspect, and update if desired, the classification criteria currently in effect for the contacts being searched. See ‘Classifying a Target’.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual is internal to the system; the user gets no visual feedback when the reset is performed. • All: All contact or targets files that are currently open will be searched according to the criteria shown in the Contact Search Criteria dialog box. • Find Next: Search the next contact or target that matches the specified criteria. 5.2 The Edit Menu The Edit menu has two functions in it: Copy and Paste.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual identify a contact description. The Classify function, the Geocorrect function, the Cursor, Pan Image, Zoom, and Measure functions were explained in the section called ‘Icons on the Taskbar’. Set Contact Number is explained in ‘Setting a Contact Number’. The Tools menu also has these selectable items: Cross Hair, Bull’s-Eye, Gun Scope, or Dot. Your • Cursor Symbol: pointer assumes the shape of the specified cursor. • Cursor Color: Red, Yellow, Black, or White.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual FIGURE 30. TargetPro Configuration dialog box and default settings Table 8 explains the available parameters in the TargetPro Configuration dialog box. TABLE 8. Tools→Configuration settings for displayed nav data Parameter Block Meaning / Comments Speed (radio buttons) This affects the way the recorded speed of the towfish or survey vessel for the logged contact is reported in the Cursor Status window.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Layback (radio buttons) You can specify a layback of a recording towfish’s position from a survey vessel in terms of an Auto setting (the default) or a Manual setting you type here to override the Auto setting. Horizontal Beam Width (radio buttons) You can specify a horizontal beam width used by the recording sonar in terms of an Auto setting (the default) or a Manual setting you type here.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Speed Display Units (radio buttons) These are the different units you can specify for the speed of survey vessel or towfish of a displayed image from the data; speed is set as meters/sec (the default), kts (knots per hour), or kph (kilometers per hour). Object Detection on None: Object detection is done when images are opened in TargetPro. None is the default.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual 5.3.2 RAMP Support Support for RAMP (Rapid Access Mission Profile) is available from the Tools menu for those customers who use RAMP. Figure 31 shows the dialog box. Figure 31. Ramp Support dialog box In Tools→RAMP Support, you can specify the source platform for numeric data. The source platform can originate From Registry or you can specify a RAMP file, if you have one, from Select. You can also specify the start and stop times.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual If you choose From Registry, the system registry is inspected to determine the current location of the RAMP file, wherever it may be, and puts the RAMP file name in the text box of the Ramp Support dialog box. Use Select if you wish to select a file other than the current RAMP file. 5.3.3 Inspecting TAG 270 Information Some TIFF images carry Tag 270 information.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 32.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual All information that may be present in the Tag 270 will be populated in the appropriate fields shown in Figure 30. Moreover, you can manually edit the text information that appears in the Full Contents of TAG270 at the bottom of the dialog box. (Figure 30 shows an example of this; the modified area has been identified by a rectangle around it.) However, manually editing this area does not modify the TAG270 file, even if it’s resaved in TargetPro.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Figure 33. Example TAG270 Audit Trail information window. 5.4 The Window Menu If you have more than one file open in TargetPro, you can use the Window menu to position your TargetPro windows in ways you want. The Tile function arranges your open files in non-overlapping windows, with the active window topmost. The Cascade function stacks and overlaps your windows in staircase fashion, with the active window foremost in the stack.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Toolbar, Status Bar, Pan Window, Display Control (governing the display of the Display-Only Properties window), and Cursor Status. By default, all of these objects are initially displayed. 5.6 The Help Menu From Help→About TargetPro, TargetPro displays the name of the program (TargetPro), the version number, the date and time it was compiled, the copyright date and the copyright holder (Triton Elics International, Inc.).
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Chapter 6: Troubleshooting Problem: Solution: Problem: Solution: Problem: Solution: Problem: Solution: Problem: Solution: Problem: After about five minutes the installation does not complete and the Windows desktop does not return. Try again after using ++ to shut the system down and restart. The problem can be caused by applications running in the background or not being shut down before running the installation.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Solution: This message alerts you that CFG files created with versions of Isis earlier than this version of Isis are incompatible. Click OK during your current Isis session. In future Isis sessions, the incompatibility message will no longer appear. Problem: Your receive error messages such as ‘the procedure entry point xxxxxxxxx could not be located in the dynamic link library yyyyyy.dll when trying to start one of the TEI applications.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User's Manual Problem: Solution: You receive an error message during installation of TEI software. For example, you may see this message: Error – Unable to write to temporary location You may see that message if you are running certain anti-virus software, such as Norton (or other brands too). Check to see that you have disabled your anti-virus software. The solution is to temporarily turn off Norton Auto-Protect: 1.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User’s Manual The effect of speed correction on images from TargetPro and Target. By default, in both applications, speed correction is OFF. This results in a distorted image, which is compressed in the along track direction.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User’s Manual Sample images from Target Pro: Not speed corrected (note the dimensions 256x256 pixels) Speed corrected (note the dimensions 1922x1922 pixels!) Addendum: The Effect of Speed Correction on Images from TargetPro and Target 69
June 2004 TargetPro™ User’s Manual Sample images from Target: Not speed corrected.
June 2004 TargetPro™ User’s Manual All images are from a Klein 3000 sonar, High Frequency channel operating at range of 100m and are from Lake Champlain, recorded by Middlebury College VT. Why is the TargetPro image so big? Modern side-scan sonars have higher resolution than older types, in this example the Klein 3000 is recording 3200 samples per channel, each channel is 100m which gives a theoretical across track resolution of 100/3200 = .
June 2004 TargetPro™ User’s Manual TargetPro image saved as a .
