USGS MarFac YoNav Software Documentation

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Overview

Features: What YoNav Allows You to Do

• Planning a Survey
• Managing a Survey
• Recording Data from Navigation Sensors
• Integrate ALL navigational data received, including:
• View a Real-time Map-Based Display
• Steer your vessel along straight pre-planned tracklines
• Feed navigational data to third party systems
• Annotate Cruise and Log

Quick Start

• Step 1: Install Hardware and Software On Vessel
  • Software requirements
  • Hardware requirements
  • Hardware installation location issues
  • Installing YoNav
• Step 2: Connect All External Devices to YoNav
  • Make the electrical connections between the external sensors, computers and devices to the YoNav server.
  • DB-9 Pinout
  • DB-25 Pinout
• Step 3:
  • Start YoNav Server
    • YoNav Server
    • YoNav Client(s)
    • YoNav Sockets DLL
  • Configure Devices
    • Configure all external devices
    • Configure button
    • Test button
    • Configure Vessel Tracking Parameters
  • Exit Server
  • Troubleshooting the YoNav Server
• Step 4: Create a New Survey
  • Create a new survey
  • The YoNav Client Screen
  • Survey Line Status Bar
  • Nav Status Bar
  • Status Bar
  • Toolbar
  • Add a Map Layer
  • How to View Maps
  • How to Zoom Out Using the Keyboard
  • How to Zoom In Using the Keyboard
  • How to Zoom In Using the Mouse
  • Zoom In and Set Center
  • How to Set Center
  • How to Manually Add Range Measurements
  • How to change the scale of the view
  • Draw a Route
  • Edit Route Lines
  • Define a Region
  • Edit Region
  • Fill Region with Runlines
  • Edit Runlines
  • Delete a Region
  • Measure Routes
  • Use the LogBook
  • View Errors
  • Set Preferences
  • Set Tolerances
  • Pre-Cruise Considerations

Seismic Shot Control Version

• Configuring the seismic shot control feature

YoNav Data Formats

• .SHP files smoothed ASCII navigation
• .FSH files smoothed fish navigation
• .SHT files Seismic shot control navigation
• .XXX files raw sensor data
• .TXT Survey Lines Exported As Text
• .TXT LogBook Exported As Text

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URL: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/marfac/software.html
for more information, contact John Gann
maintained by Laura Zink Torresan
Last updated 7 November 2006 (lzt)