Some users may desire to focus surveys in a small area of a lake or reservoir and may require higher precision in specific areas of interest (e.g., microhabitat areas, treatment or experimental areas). In these cases, users should tighten transect spacing or slow their boat speed to achieve the desired survey resolution. EcoSound produces map outputs only over areas the user covers.
For maximum resolution, users can change the trip buffer to 5 m and thus create 1 m grid cell estimates of data attributes. Starting and stopping files deliberately at sites of interest and renaming them with descriptive titles will create the most organized file management structure. Refer to the Trip reprocessing section and the Merge trips section described in this manual.