12 Adding comments and annotations to ADCP views

When you study ADCP data it can often be useful to add personal comments to it to identify specific occurrences at specific time intervals or distances. Several different annotation types may be added. The annotations are shown on the ADCP view if this feature has been enabled in the ADCP View Settings dialog box.

Context

Use the Annotations page to type comments and insert annotations into views. Comments can be used to identify specific events such as specific echoes, unusual bottom conditions, or simply for keeping track of time or distance. The Annotations page is located in the Installation dialog box.

The Lines page in the ADCP View Settings dialog box allows you to enable or disable annotations in the ADCP views. Annotations can only be added to views while in Normal operational mode.

When you save raw data, the annotations you have defined are stored as annotation datagrams.

Procedure

Open the Setup menu.

On the Setup menu, select Installation.

Observe that the Installation dialog box opens. This dialog box contains a number of pages selected from the menu on the left side.

On the left side of the Installation dialog box, select Annotations.

Specify the annotations you wish to use, and how you wish to trigger them.

Select Apply and then Close to save all the parameters and close the Installation dialog box.

Click once in the view that you wish to change.

The view is activated. It is identified with a thick border.

Open the Active menu.

Select ADCP View Settings to open the dialog box.

The Lines page in the ADCP View Settings dialog box allows you to enable or disable annotations in the ADCP views.

Select the type of annotation you wish to use.

Apply the change(s) you have made.

Select Apply to apply the chosen setting only to the currently active view.

Select Apply To All Channels to use the chosen settings on all the views in the ADCP presentation.

Close the dialog box.