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Surface Filter (Subset of a Reference Surface)

 

Menu

Tools > Editors > Subset > Surface Filter

Tool

Subset Editor toolbar

You can load a surface and apply filtering to the full subset or to the part of the surface within the subset 2D slice.

 

See also Filter Processed Depths

Interface

Options for surface filtering are set in the Filter Processed Depths dialog box.

Option

Description

Common Options

Enable Protective Radius

1. Select the check box to turn on a protective radius around critical soundings. Neighbouring soundings inside the protected area will not be filtered.

2. Select the type of critical soundings to be protected: one or all of Designated, Examined or Outstanding.

Radius

Set the size of the radius

Filter Type

Set Surface to filter the area of the selected surface

Set Polygon to filter the area within the bounding polygon.

Surface Filter

Select Layer

Select the surface layer to be filtered.

Threshold Type

Set the type of surface used as input: Static Value (a specific number) or Standard Deviation.

Threshold Value

Set the value to reject all soundings that fall outside the specified threshold.

Include data previously rejected by Surface Filter

Select check box to accept previously rejected data that falls within the selected threshold values.

Reject soundings that do not fall on the surface

Select Check box to reject soundings not on the selected surface.

Polygon Filter

Select Geometry

Select the hob or feature layer that contains the cvrage objects to filter by.

Extract Type

Set type to Inclusive to filter all data inside the polygon, including data that touches the polygon.

Set to Exclusive to filter all data outside the polygon.

Accept Data

By default this is disabled, and all filtered data will be rejected. Select check box to set data to Accepted.

Procedure

1. Open a surface.

2. From the Active Track Lines window, select a line included in the surface.

 

3. Open Subset Editor and define a subset over the surface. (See Open Subset Editor.)

4. Load the subset.

5. Select the Reference Surface layer in the Subset Control window.

The surface name is displayed in the Properties section of the Subset Control dialog box.

6. Expand the surface tree in the Properties window and select the Depth layer.

7. Click Load in the Subset Control window.

When the surface is loaded, the Surface Filter button on the Subset Editor toolbar and the command on the menu are activated.

8. Select the Surface Filter command.

9. In the Surface Filter dialog box, select the layer to be filtered.

10. Set options for the area to be filtered:

Filter Slice: select to only filter the surface area inside the 2D slice

Filter Full Subset: (default setting) select to filter the surface area that is within the subset bounding box.

11. . Set other options.

12. Click OK to apply the filter.