Part II. Using Debrief

Part II. Using Debrief

You're now ready to start using the more advanced features of DebriefNG, the following chapters will guide you through specific areas of Debrief's analysis capability. More specifically, these are:

Manipulating track data (Chapter 3, Manipulating track data)
Analysing data (Chapter 4, Analysing Data)
Exporting data (Chapter 5, Exporting Data)
Symbol sets (Chapter 6, Symbol sets)
External datasets (Chapter 7, External datasets)
Exercise planning (Chapter 8, Exercise planning)
Viewing narratives (Chapter 9, Viewing narratives)
Using chart backdrops (Chapter 10, Using chart backdrops)
Analysing sensor data (Section 11.2, “Analysing your data”)
Management of TMA and TUA solutions (Chapter 12, Management of TMA and TUA solutions)

Table of Contents

2. Moving around the view

2.1. Introduction
2.2. Mouse mode buttons
2.3. Click buttons
2.4. Chart Overview
2.5. Undo
2.6. Formatting the plot

3. Manipulating track data

3.1. Property editing

3.1.1. Edit track
3.1.2. Set label, symbol and arrow display intervals
3.1.3. Track shifting

3.2. Adding chart features

3.2.1. Chart features toolbar
3.2.2. Scale
3.2.3. Time Display (Absolute)
3.2.4. Time Display (Relative)
3.2.5. Grid
3.2.6. Local Grid
3.2.7. Coastline
3.2.8. ETOPO gridded bathy
3.2.9. Chart Library
3.2.10. Vectored data
3.2.11. Natural Earth

3.3. Adding drawing features

3.3.1. Label
3.3.2. Ellipse
3.3.3. Polygon
3.3.4. Rectangle, Circle, Line, Arc
3.3.5. General

3.4. Layer management

3.4.1. Outline View
3.4.2. Cut/Copy and Paste

3.5. Saving and re-opening plots

3.5.1. Save
3.5.2. Adding more data to a plot

3.6. Lightweight tracks

3.6.1. Introduction
3.6.2. Managing lightweight tracks

3.7. Grooming track data

3.7.1. Introduction
3.7.2. Resampling track and sensor data
3.7.3. Splitting track sections
3.7.4. Joining track sections
3.7.5. Combining track sections
3.7.6. Generating infill segments
3.7.7. Removing Jumps
3.7.8. Transferring a relative track to another host
3.7.9. Smoothing out back-tracking jumps

3.8. Using the Grid Editor

3.8.1. Introduction
3.8.2. Use of Grid Editor

4. Analysing Data

4.1. Assigning tracks as primary and secondary

4.1.1. Tote area
4.1.2. Assigning tracks
4.1.3. Notes

4.2. Controlling time

4.2.1. The Time Controller
4.2.2. Display modes
4.2.3. Plotting modes
4.2.4. Highlight modes
4.2.5. Time display
4.2.6. Time slider
4.2.7. Bookmarking
4.2.8. Manipulating according to time period
4.2.9. VCR controls
4.2.10. Other time operations

4.3. Measuring range and bearing

4.3.1. Range bearing tool
4.3.2. Earth Model

4.4. Show time-related variables

4.4.1. Time-Variable Plot Tracker-Bar
4.4.2. Analysing time-zero data in time-variable plot

5. Exporting Data

5.1. Exporting images

5.1.1. Resizing, ready for export
5.1.2. Exporting to WMF

5.2. Exporting engagements to PowerPoint

5.2.1. Introduction
5.2.2. Export process

6. Symbol sets

6.1. Introduction

6.1.1. Use in labels
6.1.2. Use in tracks

7. External datasets

7.1. Natural Earth data

7.1.1. Introduction
7.1.2. Using Natural Earth

7.2. VPF data

7.2.1. Introduction
7.2.2. Introduction to VMAP Level 0
7.2.3. Obtaining VPF data
7.2.4. Storing VPF data
7.2.5. Configuring Debrief to read VPF data
7.2.6. Thank heavens for Open Source

7.3. Viewing VPF data

7.3.1. Introduction
7.3.2. Creating VPF layers
7.3.3. Storing VPF settings
7.3.4. VPF best practice

7.4. Configuring VPF defaults

7.4.1. The problem
7.4.2. The solution
7.4.3. How to do it - 1
7.4.4. How to do it - 2
7.4.5. How to do it - 3
7.4.6. At last!

7.5. ETOPO Data

7.5.1. Configuring Debrief to read ETOPO data
7.5.2. Background to ETOPO data

8. Exercise planning

8.1. Introduction
8.2. Creating tracks
8.3. Manipulating tracks
8.4. XY plots of planning tracks

9. Viewing narratives

9.1. Introduction to narrative data

9.1.1. Introduction
9.1.2. Preparing the data
9.1.3. Loading the data
9.1.4. Viewing the data

10. Using chart backdrops

10.1. Introduction

10.1.1. File types

10.2. Loading data

11. Analysing sensor data

11.1. Getting your data in

11.1.1. Introduction
11.1.2. Viewing Sensor Data Time Period
11.1.3. Worm in the hole
11.1.4. Sensor offset lengths editor
11.1.5. Preparing Sensor Data
11.1.6. Relative Data

11.2. Analysing your data

11.2.1. Introduction
11.2.2. Managing high volumes of sensor data
11.2.3. View plot of sensor range to target
11.2.4. Managing ambiguous data
11.2.5. Exploiting doppler calculations
11.2.6. Multi tonal frequency analysis
11.2.7. Multipath analysis

12. Management of TMA and TUA solutions

12.1. TUA data

12.1.1. Introduction
12.1.2. Loading TUA data in bulk
12.1.3. Loading small amounts of TUA data
12.1.4. Relative data
12.1.5. Analysing TUA data

12.2. TMA Management

12.2.1. Introduction
12.2.2. Generating track segments
12.2.3. Dragging tracks
12.2.4. Combining tracks

12.3. Semi-Automated TMA generation

12.3.1. Bearings Only TMA
12.3.2. Glossary
12.3.3. Overview of SATC
12.3.4. User Interface

13. Support for DIS Protocol

13.1. Introduction

13.2. Configuring DIS

13.2.1. Network configuration
13.2.2. Configuring the launch of an external simulator
13.2.3. Giving Debrief an identity
13.2.4. Filtering DIS traffic

13.3. Monitoring a DIS simulation

13.3.1. Running a local simulator
13.3.2. Interacting with a DIS simulation
13.3.3. Other settings
13.3.4. Logging DIS messages
13.3.5. Performance graph

13.4. DIS Tips & Tricks

13.4.1. Specifying format parameters in advance
13.4.2. Running Debrief's DIS simulator
13.4.3. Track the simulator using the Console


1.5. Importing track data		Chapter 2. Moving around the view