RSpeed Options

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The main Options screen provides a way to customise the display and calculation method in RealSpeed.

 

The following is a brief discussion of each display option and how it affects the screens in RealSpeed.

Show Top "N" Rows - This controls how many of each division is displayed in the Results Pane. It does not affect results that are an average of a number of results.
Speed Units - this controls what units are displayed in the Results Pane and Track Point Pane.
Smoothing Count - This option determines over how many points the track point smoothing is performed in the Speed Graph when viewing the Smoothed graph option (see the Graph Fields for details). This option does not affect any other data displayed in the Speed Graph. The more points chosen the smoother the speed curve. This is useful for results produced from the Garmin GPS units that are very irregular.
Speed, Time, Distance and Lat/Long Precision - This options determine the number of decimal points displayed in the appropriate  fields of Results and Track Point Panes.
Timezone Adjust - Set here the number of hours to adjust from UTC time. Sydney is +10 hours. This affects the times displayed in the Results and Track Points Panes, as well as the time scale in the Speed Graph.
Zoom - this affected the speed of the zoom on the mouse track-wheel. Each click ofthe mouse track wheel will zoom in or out by this amount. It also affect the zoom when the Zoom Out or Zoom In is selected on the context menu for the Map View or Speed Graph.
Capture focus on mouse move - Standard Windows behavior is to lock mouse movements to the window that has the focus. However RealSpeed has 4 interactive screens that the user switched between rapidly including the Map View, the Speed Graph, the Results and the Track Points Panes. It is very inconvenient to have to click into each window manually before applying mouse actions to each screen. So selecting this option means that RealSpeed will monitor the mouse movements and apply the actions to the screen that lies under the mouse. This is done by automatically changing focus to the window that lies under the mouse whenever the mouse is moved. 

 

The following options affect the way RealSpeed performs calculations. Note that these work in conjunction with the settings for each Division.

Time Threshold - If a gap in time is found between track points that is greater than the value set here, it is assumed that this gap is a break in the trackpoints. Any distances between the points is not included in the total distance and any speed achieved is ignored. The default value is 200 seconds which means that any break between track points greater than 200 seconds is not a part of any results. 
Speed Threshold - Any speed value that exceeds this value will be flagged as invalid. See below for more information of what an Invalid track point is.
Acc and Decc Threshold - This is an acceleration threshold that helps to determine a spike in the track data. This is not a particular issue for the Locosys GT11 GPS using doppler data because the data is so accurate and has data quality information to identify bad data, but for older units like the Garmin it is very important. The value specified is actually a maximum allowed variance from the average value of its neighboring points, in Display Units per second. This means that if set to 5 and the display units is knots, then if a track point is found with a speed over 5 knots/second greater than the average of its neighboring points, then it is flagged as Invalid. The Decc threshold is the same as the acceleration threshold but limits the amount of deceleration accepted. Generally a higher deceleration than acceleration is acceptable. 
Max HDOP - HDOP is Horizontal Dilution of Precision, a measure of the ability to triangulate a location from the satellite data. If the satellites are well spread around the sky and there are lots of satellites, then this value will be small (good) around 1. If there are not many satellites or they are all in the same area of the sky then the calculation of the latitude and longitude will contain higher error sothe HDOp value will be high (over 4 and up to 50 for a total loss of accuracy). RealSpeed uses this specified value as a threshold so that any track point with a a HDOP greater than this specified value will be flagged as invalid.
Min Sats - this is teh minimum number of satellites that make a good track. If the satellite count gets below this threshold then the track point will be marked as Invalid
Stop Run Speed and Stop Run Angle - these options control how RealSpeed determines a run. This is used with the One Result per Run setting in the Divisions Options. To determine the end of a run, set the threshold stop run speed that you consider to be the end of a run. Likewise, you can set the maximum deviation of direction to determine the end of a run, such as 90 degrees that would indicate a reversing of direction.
Doppler and Track Point Error - These settings control how RealSpeed determines the error in the track point data for calculating Claimed Speed. Enter the error values as specified by the GPS maker. 

 

 

  

 

 
 
 
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Last modified: August 11, 2007