Figure 1 highlights the Create a radial grid button in the main toolbar.
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Figure 1. Create a radial grid.
In the The Radial Grid form the user can select the start, stop angle, angle increament, the min, max radius, and aspect ratio. The user can also select UTM zone (Universal Transverse Mercator ) from 1 to 60 and Location of Focal Point with longitude and latitude coordinate (degree). Figure 3 presented the generated radial gridis shown in Figure 2.
- Start Angle: the angle in degrees where the grid cell begins
- Stop Angle: the angle in degrees where the grid cell finishes
- Angle Increment: the increasing angle in each step
- Min. Radius: the radius of the curve inside in meters
- Max. Radius: the radius of the curve outside in meters
- Aspect Ratio:
- UTM Zone: this is the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zone, the user can enter the zone number, from 1 to 60. When the user enters the location of the focal point the UTM zone can be updated automatically
- Location of Focal Point: the longitude and latitude of the center point in the geographic coordinate system
Figure 3 presented the generated radial grid. When the grid layer in the layer control is selected, the user can hold the focal point to move the grid cell. The side point is used to expand or narrow the grid cell along the side.Figure 4 shows the grid cell after expanding, cells are added have the same size as the previous cells.
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Figure 2. Radial grid form.
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Figure 3. Radial grid.
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Figure 4. Radial grid after expanding.