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3 filter boxcar settings – Triton Navigation User Manual

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Reset

- Overwrites processed navigation in cache with raw navigation data.

Exit

- Saves processing to cache file if not already done with the auto update option, exits

processing wizard.

2.1.3 Filter Boxcar Settings

Clicking on

Filter Setup

in the

Process Navigation

dialog will

open the boxcar filter setting
dialog shown to the right.

In this dialog it is possible to
set the size of the boxcar
filter, the source of the
navigation and heading data,
plus speed filter options.

Detailed descriptions of the
options available in the

Boxcar

Settings

dialog for setting

navigation processing
parameters are presented
below.

General

Window

- sets boxcar filter size

Number of Iterations - sets the number of times the navigation is smoothed (sidescan

navigation often needs several iterations!)

Navigation Source

Sensor

- uses the position found in the XTF sensor navigation

Ship

- uses the position found in the XTF ship navigation

Heading Source

Compute CMG -

computes a heading from the Course Made Good navigation. Very

important for sonars with no heading sensor; be careful using on lines with turns,
use small boxcar filter size to prevent curved lines from becoming straight!