Analysis page

The Analysis page of the Variable Properties dialog box is used to enter settings relating to analyses and integration.

Exclusion

The Exclusion section allows you to choose:

Click the link (in this section) Read more about samples and integration in the Help file to go to About samples and echo integration.

Settings

Description

Exclude above line

Select a line above which the sample data is excluded from analysis.

Note: This setting can be used by Echoview integram analysis and the integram detection feature.

Exclude below line

Select a line below which the sample data is excluded from analysis.

Note: This setting can be used by Echoview integram analysis and the integram detection feature.

Exclude pings with bad line status on the exclude below line

If selected, this option will exclude from analyses those samples in pings where the line status of the exclude-below line is bad.

Exclude bad data regions

If selected, this option excludes samples within bad data regions from analyses. This setting is selected by default.

Whole excluded or no-data pings removed from ping count

If selected, this option identifies whole pings that consist entirely of excluded samples and/or no-data samples and removes those pings from the ping count.

For rectangular analysis domains, analysis calculations (under this setting) do not reduce the Thickness mean.

Generally this setting helps you to you to set up the conditions where NASC can be represent the water volume you intended. However, there is one case where this settings' behaviour may not be desirable.

Refer to About samples and echo integration for more information.

Integration

The Integration section is only available for Sv variables.

The Background noise setting can affect specific analysis variables and the Graph ping: Constant-Power Curve Value

Setting

Description

Background noise Sv at 1m

Specify the background noise level that will be used in calculating background noise in an analysis domain.

Note: You can use the Ping graph Constant-Power Curve to visually estimate this value for an Sv echogram.

Frequency distribution

The Frequency distribution section is used to control the display of Frequency distribution graphs.

Settings

Description

Minimum value

These settings apply to the display of frequency distribution graphs for the selected variable.

When a single target variable is selected, these settings will also affect the output when exporting frequency distributions.

Maximum value

Number of bins

Link acoustic variable

The Link acoustic variable section is available for a position variables (i.e. position GPS fixes). Select a variable from the Linked acoustic variable list to be the source of data for the integration of regions on the cruise track window.

Note: The Along track window is by definition linked to an acoustic variable and therefore does not require the selection of an Linked acoustic variable.

See also

About analysis domains
Variable Properties dialog box
About integration
About samples and echo integration
About no data
Thickness mean and Height mean
ABC and NASC