TDS SuperEASY User Manual

Summary of SuperEASY

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    Pocket supereasy™ user’s guide for operating systems: windows mobile 2003, 2003se (second edition) windows mobile 5.0 windows mobile 6.0 .Net ce v4.2 atterbury consultants, inc. 3800 sw cedar hills blvd. Suite 145 beaverton, oregon 97005 503-646-5393 phone 503-644-1683 fax www.Atterbury.Com.

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    Printed 6/2/2010 pocket supereasy™ system requirements operating systems: windows mobile 2003, 2003se (second edition), windows mobile 5.0, windows mobile 6.0, or .Net ce v4.2 minimum hardware requirements: 64 mb of memory 200 mhz processor recommended hardware requirements: 64 mb of memory 400 mhz ...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. Contents software installation .................................................................. 1 start pocket supereasy™ ........................................................... 3 create a cruise project ...............................................

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 1 software installation be sure you have access to superace™ before using pocket supereasy™ to collect cruise data. Pocket supereasy™ will only download cruise data to a pc or laptop computer that has a copy of superace™ installed. Pocket supereasy™ is n...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 2 11. Click deploy. The installation will begin. Wait until you see the message “successfully copied & ran the installer on your device” on the screen. 12. Click next. 13. The install is complete. Click finish. 14. The program is now loaded onto your mob...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 3 start pocket supereasy™ to start pocket supereasy™, tap start at the top of the screen, then programs near the bottom of the list, then tap on the pocketeasy™ icon. Pocket supereasy™ is referred to as pocketeasy™ in the software application. The follow...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 4 create a cruise project to create a new project tap on master at the bottom of the project screen. Then tap new from the menu. This will open the master screen below. Project screen master screen the cursor will be in the project cell. Type in the name...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 5 along the top of the keyboard in the master screen are tabs that will take you to other screens to enter values for age, prism factors (baf), plot radii, strip cruise factors, species site index and miscellaneous information (refer to previous screen)....

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 6 site index by species miscellaneous once all the master screen tabs have been filled in with the necessary values you can either tap save to save the information and return to the project screen, tap plots to save the entries and go directly to the plo...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 7 deleting an existing project 1. In the project screen, tap on the project name that is to be deleted so that it is highlighted in blue. Project screen 2. Tap on the del option at the bottom of the screen. 3. A delete verification screen will appear con...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 8 4. Tap yes or no 5. If you tap yes the selected type(s) will be deleted from the mobile unit. Note: you can not undelete a type once it has been deleted. Data storage it is recommended that you save your data to the mobile device’s storage card. This w...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 9 3. Next, tap new in order to add a new folder to store your data. You can give the folder any name you wish. After entering a folder name you will need to hide the keyboard and tap ok to create the folder. 4. You will see the new folder has been added ...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 10 transferring species, sort and grade tables from superace™ to pocket supereasy™ after creating the species, sort and grade tables in superace™ to be used on a cruise project, the tables can be transferred to pocket supereasy™ for use in the field. Tra...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 11 7. In pocket supereasy™ tap on the utl option at the bottom of the project screen and select receive tables (send from sa first). 8. Tap in the box next to the tables you wish to transfer to make a check mark appear. 9. Tap process. The tables are tra...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 12 entering plot data it is normal to tap on plots to go to the plots screen where you begin entering data for a cruise plot. The plot screen is shown below. Plot screen in the plot screen you enter the plot number, a required entry, and have the option ...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 13 pf – plot factor or prism factor (required). A two digit alphanumeric field. When a two digit number is entered, the field is a prism factor or basal area factor ( i.E. 20 equals a 20 baf). If a decimal value is used for a prism factor then a b1, b2, ...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 14 diameter at 16’ (i.E. 4 = 40%, 0 for total height) or as an alpha value for diameter (i.E. A=1”, b=2”, c=3”, d=4”, etc.). Bol ht – bole height (required for measure plots): a three digit numeric field. Bole height is the distance from the stump to the...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 15 p - numeric field left blank when using length or diameter deductions. A “1” is entered when percentage deductions for board foot and cubic feet are to be used. Percentages are entered as whole numbers (i.E. 5% board foot deduction would be entered wi...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 16 deleting a tree record a tree record can easily be deleted from the cruise screen. Only one tree record at a time can be deleted. 1. Select the record in the cruise screen by tapping in the grey cell to the left of the tree number. A (►) symbol will a...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 17 5. If you tap yes you will be asked if you wish the remaining trees to be renumbered sequentially or to leave the tree number as they exist. 6. After tapping yes or no the tree record will be deleted..

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 18 calculator the cruise screen has a calculator feature located under the calc selection at the bottom of the screen. With it you can calculate limiting distance, tree height, relaskop™ diameter and form factor. Input values for the black variables then...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 19 plot data edit routine after the plot data has been entered, tap the plot option at the bottom of the cruise screen. Before leaving the cruise screen you will be prompted by the following message: if you tap yes the tree segments will be checked again...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 20 entering site index tree data the site tree data screen can be opened from the plot or the cruise screens by tapping on the si option at the bottom of the screens. This screen stores site tree measurements. The measurements include species, dbh, total...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 21 down woody screen the down woody screen can be used to tally log decks or for collecting data on down woody material during a cruise. The screen is accessible from either the plot screen or the cruise screen by tapping on the dw option at the bottom o...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 22 accessing table files pocket supereasy™ stores five reference tables for data entry and plot tree editing. The tables are species, sort, grade, slope, aspect and defaults. Pocket supereasy™ comes preloaded with standard westside species, sort and grad...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 23 table screens examples species table sort table grade table.

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 24 table screens examples defaults defaults (general settings) (baf values) change y to an n to hide the with example values. Associated field in the cruise screen. Slope table aspect table with example values. With example values..

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 25 transferring plot data to superace™ after returning from the field the cruise data can be easily transferred to superace™ for editing and reporting. You can transfer an entire project and the associated types or you can transfer individual type(s) fro...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 26 5. Click copy data from device on the following screen. 6. You will be prompted when the transfer is complete. Click ok. 7. The following window will open allowing you to specify where the cruise data is to be stored on the pc. Click process after cho...

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    Pocket supereasy™ atterbury consultants, inc. 27 un-install pocket supereasy™ pocket supereasy™ will be un-install directly from the mobile device. 1. Make sure that pocket supereasy™ isn’t running on the mobile device. 2. On the mobile device tap start, then settings near the bottom of the screen. ...

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    Notes.