C. Create a New Seafloor Project

Introduction

Geocap provide empty folder structure for various types of projects. This will give you a starting point to get organized with your own project. A project template either gives you a ready made folder structure, or it gives you a suite of folders to choose from.

An empty project structure may be used for communicating relevant data to colleagues, or for analysis and trouble shooting by us. To send parts of a project to us in Geocap Support, even only a single dataset, you may copy the dataset (or a folder) from your main project and paste it into this empty project. Then zip and send the disk folder projectname.zip to support@geocap.no

Exercises

The Seafloor project template

Geocap can provide an empty folder structure for Seafloor projects. This will give you a starting point to get organized with your own Seafloor project. The default folder structure holds empty folders for most of the data types you will need. If you do not find a suitable folder you can create a new folder for that data. It is also a good idea to create sub-folders if you have a lot of data, for instance a sub-folder for each survey or for each region.

Exercise

Generate a new and empty Seafloor project

In the main menu of Geocap, click Seafloor > Seafloor Main Menu.
In the Seafloor Main Menu click File > New > Project. A new dialog will pop up.
Select the Seafloor project template.
Type in the name of your project in the Name field. The name may consist of letters, numbers and spaces, but special characters like [, æ,ø, å, &, /, % ... should be avoided.
Click the Browse button, and select where you want to store your project on your hard disk.
Click Finish.

You will now be prompted with a window asking you if you want to define the geodetic setting of the project.

Click Yes.
Check the Use geodetic settings for project box and select WGS84 as datum and UTM Zone 32 N as coordinate system.
Click OK.

When enabling geodetic settings all data will be converted to these settings on import.

An empty Seafloor project

Your project will now look like the image above. The idea is that this basic structure is kept. Folders may be added and data imported, but the original folders should not be renamed or moved, and their schemas should not be changed. This is because this folder structure is used when new datasets are generated. If an original folder is not present, it will be recreated.

Exercise

Explore the project settings

Click the icon on the project toolbar to look at the settings. Pay particular attention to Geodetics. You can see that the settings you previously entered are stored here. You can also access these from the Seafloor main menu Edit > Geodetic Settings.

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