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Name – name of transect (as it appears in the Recorded Data tab)
Arrow – indicates which direction the transect moves (left to right bank [ ] or
right to left bank [ ])
Track Reference – indicates whether System [ ], Bottom Track [ ], GGA [ ],
or VTG [ ] is used as a track reference
Depth Reference – indicates whether the vertical beam [ ]or bottom track [ ]
is used as a depth reference
Coordinate System – indicates what coordinate system is chosen (ENU [ ], XYZ
[ ], or Beam [ ])
Start Time – Start time of the transect
Duration – duration of the transect
The bottom four rows of the Discharge Summary are reserved for certain statistics:
Mean – the mean (average) of the checked transects for a particular parameter
Std Dev – the standard deviation of the checked transects for a particular
parameter
COV – the covariance of the checked transects for a particular parameter
Totals – the total of the checked transects for a particular parameter (currently
only for the Duration)
Any parameter not highlighted in Figure 78 can be selected for display by the user by
right-clicking anywhere within the Discharge Summary. Right-clicking activates a menu
shown in Figure 80. From the parameter list in the lower portion of this menu, the user
can select or deselect what parameter is shown in the Discharge Summary. These
options will be remembered the next time a new instance of RSQ is opened. Additional
options include:
Copy Table to Clipboard – copies everything displayed in the Discharge
Summary to the computer clipboard to be pasted how the user wishes
Extract Subsection to New Transect – this functionality allows the user to
create subsections from the current transect. Details on this functionality are
described in Section 8.11.
Reset to field settings – this functionality is mainly used in post-processing, and
resets any changes to what was originally set during data collection