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HydroStar  Manual

Version 2.0

December 6, 1999

Carlson Software

102 West Second Street, Suite 200

Maysville, KY 41056

606-564-5028
617-254-5429

Summary of Contents for HydroStar

Page 1: ...HydroStar Manual Version 2 0 December 6 1999 Carlson Software 102 West Second Street Suite 200 Maysville KY 41056 606 564 5028 617 254 5429...

Page 2: ...Software assumes no responsibility to anyone for any special consequential collateral or incidental damages in connection with or arising from the use of this software I agree Carlson Software can ma...

Page 3: ...to the two GPS receivers mounted on the barge The two receivers on the barge are attached by serial cable to the computer running HydroStar HydroStar uses the centimeter accurate positions from the tw...

Page 4: ...tical points on the barge the two GPS antennas and the pile driver or depth sounder The barge must be drawn correctly in order to appear correctly in HydroStar The barge should be drawn so that GPS An...

Page 5: ...rees to radians multiply by 0 017453 The second measurement is the distance from GPS1 to the center of the pile placed by the pile driver This measurement should be in the same units your project is i...

Page 6: ...le All points are stored in the coordinate file Click on this button to change the current file or create a new one The coordinate file is stored in the Data directory RMS Tolerance RMS is a measureme...

Page 7: ...o Load Last Alignment With this set to Yes HydroStar will always use the last alignment points This saves you the trouble of re aligning every day but your base must be set up the same each time See t...

Page 8: ...y response from the receiver will be displayed Please refer to the GPS receiver docu mentation for descriptions of these additional receiver commands Simulation Mode To run HydroStar without being hoo...

Page 9: ...int alignment is useful for data collection on a new site In this case you can set the GPS base receiver up anywhere convenient Then position the rover GPS 1 over the first point and runAlign Local Co...

Page 10: ...Northing Easting Elev HRes VRes HV 5000 00 5000 00 993 50 0 0 0 0 YY 5324 52 4739 43 970 23 0 0 0 0 YY 1 Add 2 Del 3 View 4 On 5 Load X eXit LAT LON Elev HRMS VRMS HV 41 153943 83 031243 992 87 0 03...

Page 11: ...ELEV These are the local coordinates if a local alignment is defined Otherwise these are the state plane coordinates The Solution Status is one of the following Too Few Satellites The GPS receiver is...

Page 12: ...oad Actual Grid File This can be left with nothing selected Load Plan View File This is the drawing showing the plan view of the site It is used only as a visual aid for you HydroStar does not take an...

Page 13: ...g Easting and Elevation when prompted If the point you want already exists in your coordinate file pick By Point Number and enter the point number of this point To do By Station and Offset you must ha...

Page 14: ...ns and is calculating an accurate position If the status is FLOAT the reciever is picking up some information from the base but is not fully sure of its true position If the status is AUTONOMOUS the r...

Page 15: ...HydroStar to PCMCIA Card The routines apply to computers that have a PCMCIA drive The drive letter for the PCMCIA drive on the computer should be specified under the Options menu The program will dis...

Page 16: ...e depth reported by the sounder from the GPS elevation The Rod Height setting in General Options should show the height difference between the GPS1 antenna and the zero point for the depth sounder The...

Page 17: ...ht Gray 15 White Plan View Example POLYLINE 15 47639 82 74540 11 0 00 47670 49 74565 79 0 00 47701 08 74591 49 0 00 49375 61 76358 47 0 00 50066 86 76846 75 0 00 POLYLINE 15 47633 24 74547 97 0 00 476...

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