Gautoedit Actions

Actions (“action buttons” in autoedit panel) come in three categories:

1. green (benign): displays some information in the matlab console window

   • help - lists some clues about running gautoedit
   • find [blk,prf] - click on points in a new PG window to get block, profile, bin, dday, and date
   • show listed - shows time ranges of flagged data (from gautoedit) listed to disk. (files include “abadbin.asc”, “abadprf.asc”, “abottom.asc”, “abadtimes.asc”

2. red (active):

   • old edit - choose starting time and then go into waterfall editing. Behavior of waterfall editing dependes on whether you have used “-zapsetup” in quick_adcp.py or have otherwise edited “setup.m”. These profiles do not show the effect of the autoedit parameters: it is really like running the old editing independently. Using “list” saves ascii flag files, including “badbin.asc”, “badprf.asc”, and “bottom.asc”.

     THE FOLLOWING WRITE DIRECTLY TO ASCII FILES:

   • del Trange - choose a data type and a (resizeable) window will come up.You click twice (left, then right) to choose start time and end time to declare as bad profiles. Profiles immediately get written to “abadtimes.asc”.

   • rzap bins - choose your data type and a (resizeable) window will come up. Drag on a rectangle to zap a rectangle of bad data; all the bins in the rectangle will immediately get written to “abadbins.asc”

   • pzap bins - choose your data type and a (resizeable) window will come up. Each single click makes the corner of a polygon; double-click on the last point you want and it will join that to the point you started with to create a polygon enclosing bad data. All the bins in the rectangle will immediately get written to “abadbins.asc”

   • bottom - identify the bottom with a click, creates line segments with each additional click; double-click on the last point. These line segments should identify the BOTTOM (max amplitude) not the deepest good data: the program will throw away the bottom 15% of the data to account for side-lobe interference. All the bins along the lind segments will immediately get written to “abottom.asc”.

   • list to disk - apply the current parameters to the data and list the flags to the disk (“abadbin.asc”, “abadprf.asc”, “abottom.asc”)

3. blue (show data):

   • show now - display the currently loaded data with the currently editing parameters. NOTE: once the data are extracted for a given time range, they are not re-extracted before viewing. (It is recommended that you restart gautoedit if you change the database).
   • show next - step forward (take the currently visible start dday, add the “step”), extract the data, and show it.

“action buttons” in autoedit panel