blog ideas

Purpose

• Getting started guidance for new users
• Improve skills for existing users
• Discuss what Debrief does, to bring potential users to the site/app (SEO)
• Encourage new users to commit to installing & running the tutorial

Superceded

The list of blog articles is now maintained in a G-Drive spreadsheet

Themes

1. Obtaining & preparing data
2. Formatting data
3. XY Plotting
4. Sensor analysis
5. Other analysis
6. Other maintenance

Obtaining & preparing data

• Where to get sample track data (more here)
• Where to get background GeoTiffs/World files
• How to transform a range of textual data types into REP format using MS Excel
  • worksheet functions
  • User Defined Function to transform whole row
  • Excel functions to dynamically enter data (like a narrative)
• Grooming sensor and position data with Grid Editor
• Manual & automatic jump removal
• using a simple rule in Excel to draw a sensor arc that changes as a function of RoT or speed

Formatting data

• Attractive use of labels, symbols, arrows
• Label placement for easy reading
• Annotating a plot - drawing on notams for example
• Use dynamic annotations to show show a dynamic exercise grid #1256

XY Plotting

• Waterfall bearing displays (incl time-sync)

Sensor Analysis

• Measured vs Observed track comparison

Other analysis

• Moving data to MS Excel
• Importing various types of GeoTiff
• display high volumes of narrative data from a model

Other maintenance

• Moving from easy install to normal install
• Shared installation software, plus user settings