COMPASS TOUR - With Images and Descriptions

To give you a better idea of how COMPASS works, I have included detailed description and screen images showing all of the features, options and operations in COMPASS.

I. Organizing And Editing Cave Surveys

• The Compass Project Manager
• Manipulating Surveys with the Project Manager
• The Survey Editor

II. Processing Data

• Compiling and Statistics
• Loop Closure
• Blunder Detection and Location

III. Viewing Cave Data

• Overview of Survey Viewer
• The Compass Print Preview Screen
• Using Bitmaps Images As A Background
• Setting Exact Scale, Rotation and Magnification
• Color-By-Distance Options
• Complex Plotting Options
• Survey Location Tools and Options
• Quad Maps
• Stereo Images
• Passage Morphology
• Rotational Compass Control
• 2D Passage Wall Modeling
• 3D Passage Wall Modeling
• Coloring By Cave Section
• Depth Bars
• Shadow Box Images

IV. Special Features

• Cartography Tools
• Sketch Map Editor
• SVG Export and Round Tripping.
• Surface Terrain Modeling
• Rose Diagrams and Histograms
• 3D Rose Diagrams
• High-speed Real-time Full 3D Passage Images
• Database and Inventory Features
• 3D Exporting - DXF, VRML, Shapefiles
• ArcView COMPASS Import Tools
• VRML files