1. RUN "PointCount FOR CORAL
REEFS" BY DOUBLE-CLICKING ON THE ICON OR ON EPA_CRAP.EXE (EPA CORAL REEF
ASSESSMENT PROGRAM) IN ITS RESIDENT DIRECTORY.
2. "POINTCOUNT" IS A WINDOWS
PROGRAM, SO THAT MENUS MAY BE NEGOTIATED AT ANY TIME. THE FOLLOWING IS
THE USUAL PROCEDURE FOR ANALYZING AN IMAGE IN A TRANSECT THAT HAS BEEN
WRITTEN TO CD WITH AN ACCOMPANYING CD.DAT INFORMATION FILE.
3. WHEN PROMPTED, LOG IN WITH
YOUR USER NAME: FIRST LETTER OF THE FIRST NAME PLUS COMPLETE LAST NAME,
ALL IN LOWER CASE WITH NO SPACES.
4. YOU MAY WANT TO MINIMIZE
NON-"POINTCOUNT" WINDOWS (E.G., PROGRAM AND FILE MANAGERS) FOR A CLEARER
SCREEN-DESK SPACE.
5. UNDER THE OPTIONS MENU, SELECT
"INSTITUTION" AND CHECK TO SEE THAT YOUR INSTITUTION (FMRI, UGA, OR UCSC)
IS LISTED.
6. UNDER THE OPTIONS MENU, SELECT
"NUMBER OF POINTS" AND ENTER THE STANDARD NUMBER OF POINTS PER FRAME TO
ANALYZE AS DETERMINED BY THE POWER ANALYSIS.
7. UNDER THE OPTIONS MENU, "AUTOMATICALLY
TAG IMAGES" AND "AUTOMATICALLY SAVE DATA" ARE ENABLED (CHECKED) BY DEFAULT.
LOOK AT THE MENU TO BE SURE THIS IS STILL THE CASE.
8. UNDER THE FILE MENU, CHOOSE
"OPEN SITE IMAGE." NEGOTIATE THROUGH DRIVES AND DIRECTORIES TO THE TRANSECT
SET AND FILE YOU WANT TO ANALYZE. FILENAMES AND DIRECTORIES FOLLOW THE
NAMING PROTOCOL OUTLINED IN SOP 8.1.1 IMAGE CONVERSION.
9. AFTER THE IMAGE FILENAME
IS SELECTED, THE PROGRAM WILL AUTOMATICALLY LOAD "IMAGE-PRO PLUS," DISPLAY
THE IMAGE, AND OVERLAY THE SPECIFIED NUMBER OF RANDOM POINTS.
10. FILE INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY
APPEARS IN THE "POINT TAG" IDENTIFICATION BOX, AND THE CURSOR BY DEFAULT
APPEARS IN THE BLANK SPACE FOR POINT NUMBER ONE (AND WILL ADVANCE AUTOMATICALLY
AS SUBSEQUENT IDENTIFICATIONS ARE MADE).
11. CLICK ON LABELLED BUTTONS
IN THE "IDENTIFICATION" TOOL TO ASSIGN IDENTIFICATIONS FOR POINT NUMBER
ONE, THEN POINT NUMBER TWO, ETC.
12. MULTIPLE IDENTIFICATIONS
MAY BE MADE BY HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT BUTTON (FOR SEQUENTIAL CHOICES) OR
THE CONTROL BUTTON (FOR NON-SEQUENTIAL CHOICES) AND CLICKING ON POINT NUMBERS
OF YOUR SELECTION IN THE "POINT TAG" IDENTIFICATION BOX.
13. WHEN ALL IDENTIFICATIONS
FOR A FRAME HAVE BEEN MADE, DATA IS AUTOMATICALLY SAVED WHEN EITHER A NEW
FRAME IS CALLED UP OR THE PROGRAM IS EXITED. DATA FILES MAY ALSO BE SAVED
AT ANY POINT BY SELECTING EITHER "SAVE DATA FILE" OR "SAVE DATA FILE AS"
UNDER THE FILE MENU. UNDER THE NORMAL TRANSECT IDENTIFICATION PROCESS,
THE "SAVE DATA" PROCESS WILL ONLY BE NECESSARY FOR THE FIRST FILE IN A
NEW STATION. SUBSEQUENT IDENTIFICATIONS DURING THE SESSION WILL THEN BE
SAVED AUTOMATICALLY TO THAT DATA FILE.
14. WHEN A SESSION IS FINISHED,
CHOOSE "EXIT" FROM THE FILE MENU. IF A STATION HAS NOT BEEN COMPLETED IN
A SESSION, IN A SUBSEQUENT SESSION THE TRANSECT IMAGES FOR THAT STATION
WILL STILL HAVE THEIR DATA AUTOMATICALLY APPENDED TO THE APPROPRIATE DATA
FILES.
15. WHEN IMAGES FOR AN ENTIRE
STATION HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AND SAVED, CHOOSE "CREATE CSV FILE" UNDER
THE UTILITIES MENU. THIS CSV FILE APPEARS IN THE "OUTDATA" SUBDIRECTORY
OF THE MAIN IMAGE ANALYSIS DIRECTORY. IT CONTAINS ALL OF THE INFORMATION
FOR THE ENTIRE STATION, AND CAN BE CALLED UP IN ANY SPREADSHEET PROGRAM.
