Ag Leader SMS Mobile Operating Modes Quick Start Guide - Manual (Page 25)

SMS Mobile Operating Modes
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8. You will now be prompted to select the source area to use to generate your
observations from. You can either use your Field Level boundary, your current
selection on the map, or one of the reference layers you currently have mapped.
Press OK once you make your selection.
NOTE: If you are re-scouting previous observations, and you want to return to the same
observations, set the Scouting dataset that you want to re-scout as one of your reference
map layers. Then in this step select to use a reference layer to create new scouting
observations from. This is important because you do not want to edit the original
observations because you want to keep that as a historical record of previous scouting.
9. Now you will be prompted to select the method to use to create the observations. You
can select to create observation grids or polygon regions.
10. Now you will be prompted to select the parameters for generating the observations
grid if you selected that option or if you selected the option to generate polygon
regions go to step 12. Once you have entered the parameters you desire for the grid
press the OK button.
11. Now you get the opportunity to verify the observation regions that will be created and
adjust as needed. At this point you see a preview of the observations and can use the
provided Rotate Grid or Shift Grid tools to rotate and shift the sample grids to position
them as you choose. Press OK when you are satisfied with the zones that will be created.
12. You will now be prompted with an option to merge polygons that are small with other
larger polygons (if you selected the option to Create Sample Grids). If you want to
automatically merge the small polygons check the option and then select the
percentage of the area to merge by. This percentage is based on the original grid size
you selected.
13. The last step in this wizard, which is optional, is to auto-fill an attribute with
sequential values. You can cancel this step if you don't want to auto-fill values for an
attribute and finish the creation of your observations.
14. You will now be returned to the map and you should see the zones that you just
created, labeled by Feature ID.
NOTE: Additional observation regions can be added to the observations that are
created via the Create Scouting Observations wizard. Observations can also be
manually selected and deleted.