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The
floating spectrum window or
Floater
is one of TSG's most useful features.
It is a resizable floating spectrum display window that allows users to view the
spectrum of the 'active' or 'selected' sample from any TSG screen except the
Summary Screen. This means that while examining scatter plots containing
say
hundreds or thousands of samples showing geochemistry and other data users can still keep
track of the spectral characteristics of each sample. The Floater is
automatically updated as the cursor moves over and selects new data points or
spectra in the Scatter, Spectrum, Log and Stack screens (and in the Tray or Hole screen
in TSG Core). In this way, the Floater allows instant and random access
to any sample spectrum in your entire data set!
The Floater has a
number of alternative Modes, for example to display the results for the Aux
match function in TSG where you can match interpreted spectra from another TSG
file with new spectra from a project area and also to check the TSA (The
Spectral Assistant) results.
TSG Lite and Pro come with a single
Floater. In TSG Core, however, you have the added advantage of
two identical Floaters, which can be set to display
complementary data for comparison. In this way, you can
compare a sample's reflectance spectrum with its hull quotient
or second derivative spectrum, OR (in TSG Core) a sample's
spectrum with its core tray image, and many other combinations.
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The
two TSG
Core Floaters also have several TSG Core and HyLogging data specific Modes.
These are: Scratchpad, Linescan, Picture
(Virtual Tray picture), Mosaic Pic and Map
Pic. With a HyLogging data set, the Tray and Mosaic images are all linked to
the spectral data set and you can browse/click through them and go
immediately to the same sample interval in the active screen (such as
the Log screen) and also view the spectrum for that sample in the second
Floater window.
In TSG Core 7, the
Floater can also display data in co-occurrence mode and also the
results of statistical calculations on a data set.
As well as viewing
spectra in different Modes, users
can also export data, copy and print from the Floater simply by using
the appropriate options on the Mode and Edit menus.
Using the appropriate options from the View
menu mouse zoom can also be used within the Floater Window,
the displayed graphics can be saved to an image file (Save to file…)
and
the line colour and thickness (line style) can also be changed.
In Scratchpad mode multiple spectra from anywhere in your data
set can be stashed away for comparison (even with imported
spectra from another data set), viewed in a variety of ways and
then saved to an external file. The Scratchpad also offers
multiple sample averaging and a mixing tool for synthesising and
visualising spectral mixtures.
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