STAR*NET V6 - Circe

Appendix A STAR*NET Tutorial
13. To view the listing, choose Output>Listing, or press the Listing tool button.
The listing file shows the results for the entire adjustment. First, locate and size the
listing window large enough for your viewing convenience. This location and size
will be remembered. Take a few minutes to scroll through the listing and review its
contents. For quick navigation, use the tool buttons on the window frame to jump
forward or backward in the file one heading at a time, a whole section at a time, or to
the end or top of the file.
For direct navigation to any section in the file, right-click anywhere on the listing, or
press the Index Tree tool button to pop up a “Listing Index” (as shown above). Click
any section in this index to jump there. Click [+] and [-] in the index to open and
close sections as you would in Windows Explorer. Relocate the index window to a
convenient location where it will stay. Check the “Keep on Top” box on the index
window if you want it to always be present when the listing is active.
Using one of the navigation methods described above, go to the section named
“Summary of Unadjusted Input Observations.” Note that each observation has a
standard error assigned to it. These are the default values assigned by the program
using the project options instrument settings reviewed earlier in step 5.
Still in the listing, further on, look at the “Statistical Summary.” This important
section indicates the quality of the adjustment and how well each type of data such
as angles, distances, etc. fit into the overall adjusted network.
Always review the “Adjusted Observations and Residuals” section! It shows how
much STAR*NET had to change each observation to produce a best-fit solution. The
size of these residuals may pinpoint trouble spots in your network data. Chapter 8,
“Analysis of Adjustment Output,” discusses error analysis at length.
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