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You may zoom this plot by drawing a square from upper left to lower right (click and hold left
mouse button) that defines the zoom region. To zoom completely out, attempt to draw a
square from lower right to upper left. Right click on the plot for options such as copy and
print. The plot can be scrolled with the mouse while the Control key is held depressed.
Copies of the plot can be obtained by right clicking on the plot and selecting Copy from the
pop-up menu.
Different DATA Folders can be selected during one session of the program. In this case the
software produces multiple plots. Unfortunately, the plots are presented exactly on top of
one other and so when a new plot appears it is not obvious that the old plot is still there. It is.
Just move the new plot to see previous plots.
The program can be re-run at any time. If an already processed DATA Folder is selected,
then the progrm simply reads the miniDOT Logger’s measurement files again.
End the miniDOTPlot program by closing the window.
Special note: plotting of sample sets of more than 200K samples may consume all the
memory available to the JRE. The miniDOTPlot program will present a partial plot and
freeze in this case. A simple solution is to separate the files into multiple folders and plot
each folder individually. A special miniDOTPlot that sub-samples can be provided by PME.
Please contact PME in this case.
2.4 miniDOTConcatenate
Begin the program operation by clicking “miniDOTConcatenate.jar”. The program presents
the screen shown below.
The miniDOTConcatenate program reads and concatenates the files recorded by the
miniDOT Logger. This program produces a CAT.txt file in the same folder as selected for the
data. The CAT.txt file contains all the original measurements and contains two additional
statements of time and air saturation. To compute saturation, the program must know the air
pressure and salinity. It calculates air pressure based on elevation of the water surface
above sea level or uses the barometric pressure you entered if the Barometric Pressure was
