Introduction
Seafloor lets you export Polygons, Points, Surfaces, Hill shades, Contours.
There is a wide range of export possibilities and formats such as, Shapefiles, ASCII-formats, GeoTiff, Irap-formats and VTK.
Exercises
Surfaces
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Export surfaces as Irap ASCII- In the Utilities tab in the Seafloor Main Menu, click Export Chart Data.
- Click the Surfaces tab.
- Select all the sub-charts.
- Select Irap ASCII as the Export Format.
- Click the browse icon and select a directory to save the files.
- Leave the File name blank. This will cause your files to be named "Seafloor_SubChart-1.ifgr" and so on.
- Click Execute.
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Export surfaces as points- In the Utilities tab in the Seafloor Main Menu, click Export Chart Data.
- Click the Points tab.
- Check the Seafloor surfaces as points box.
- Select all the sub-charts.
- Select ASCII Column as the Export Format.
- Click the browse icon and select a directory to save the files.
- Leave the File name blank. This will cause your files to be named "Seafloor_SubChart-1.asc" and so on.
- Click Execute.
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- Repeat the previous exercise, but this time use KML and/or Shape as export format.
- Try opening the files in another software that can read these files e.g. Google Earth, ArcGIS, QGIS etc.
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Geocap exports KML-files with default settings (yellow pin for points). If you want to change the visual settings for the KML file, you can use text editors like Emacs or Notepad ++. Read more about KML. |
Soundings
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Export all soundings- In the Utilities tab in the Seafloor Main Menu, click Export Chart Data.
- Click the Points tab.
- Check the boxes for Soundings, Soundings_Accepted and Soundings_Rejected.
- Select all the sub-charts.
- Select ASCII Column as the Export Format.
- Click the browse icon and select a directory to save the files.
- Leave the File name blank.
- Click Execute.
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Contours
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Export contour lines to ASCII- On the Utilities tab in the Seafloor Main Menu, click Export Contours.
- Check that the Export as: Contour Lines radio button is ticked.
- Select the Master Chart.
- Set Contouring method to Incerement.
- Set Increment (m) to 1.00.
- Also consider the parameters Use min level, Use max level, and Invert Z
- Check the Save to option File and project.
- Select ASCII Column as Export Format.
- Click the browse icon and select a directory to save the files.
- Enter 1m as a prefix for for the file names.
- Click Execute.
- Verify that the files are saved on the prefered folder on the disk.
- Verify that the selected chart now have a Contours dataset saved in the charts' folder.
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Export contour lines to KML- Repeat the exercise above, but this time select KML as the export format.
- Try to open the exported file in Google Earth
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Export contour areas- On the Utilities tab in the Seafloor Main Menu, click Export Contours.
- Check that the Export as: Contour Areas radio button is ticked.
- Select the Master Chart.
- Set Contouring method to Incerement.
- Set Increment (m) to 5.00.
- Check the Save to option File only.
- Select Shape as the Export Format.
- Click the browse icon and select a directory to save the files.
- Enter 5m as a prefix for for the file names.
- Click Execute.
- Verify that the files are saved on the prefered folder on the disk.
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Hillshade
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Export Hill Shade as GeoTiff- On the Utilities tab in the Seafloor Main Menu, click Export Chart Data.
- Click the Hill Shade tab.
- Set Altitude deg: to 45.
- Set Azimuth deg: to SouthWest.
- Set Z Scale: to 10.
- Select the Master Chart.
- Check the Save to option File and project.
- Select GeoTiff as the Export Format.
- Click the browse icon and select a directory to save the files.
- Enter 45deg_SoutWest_Zx10 as a prefix for for the file name.
- Click Execute.
- Verify that the file is saved on the prefered folder on the disk.
- Right-click the HillShade dataset in the Master Chart folder and select Display.
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