STAR*NET V6 - Circe

Appendix A STAR*NET Tutorial
Note that instrument and target centering errors can be included to automatically
inflate the standard error values for distance and angle observations. Entering
horizontal centering errors causes angles with “short sights” to be less important in
an adjustment than those with “long sights.” Likewise, in 3D jobs, a vertical
centering error can also be included to cause zenith angles with short sights to be less
important in an adjustment than those with long sights.
6. Review the “Listing File” options dialog. These options allows you to control what
sections will be included in the output listing file when you run an adjustment. Note
that the Unadjusted Observations and Weighting item is checked. This causes an
organized review of all of your input observations, grouped by data type, to be
included in the listing – an important review of your input.
The Adjusted Observations and Residuals section is, of course, the most important
section since it shows you what changes STAR*NET made to your observations to
during the adjustment process – these are the residuals.
Note the Traverse Closures section is also checked. This creates a nicely formatted
and useful summary of your traverses and traverse closures in the listing. You’ll see
these and the other selected sections later in this tutorial project once you run the
adjustment and then view the listing.
The last part of this options page allows you so set some options that affect the
appearance of observations or results in the listing. Note that you can choose to have
your unadjusted and adjusted observation listing sections shown in the same order
the observations were found in your data, or sorted by station names.
You can also choose to have the adjusted observations listing section sorted by the
size of their residuals – sometimes helpful when debugging a network adjustment.
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