Thread: Interpreting sideimaging

Thats excellent information guys. I am now starting to get the hang of it after your examples. I was just reading too much into it....tilting me head left and right....etc. Basically what you all have said is to just look at it as it is...like a bird looking down on a dry lake bed and looking left and right. This makes sense...and to be honest, the way I WAS looking at it would make a waypoint impossible to mark because I was imagining the water column as being a horizon out to the right and left (tilting my head). Its been one of those deals for me like one of those drawings that look like 6 little dolphins but then they tell you to look again and see if you can see the 2 people making love. LOL.

I'm with canepole, and if I'm not mistaken, so is the humminbird 797 manual. I'm pretty sure it explains this, but not using the paper method.

One quick question guys, and one funny story. Where is the boat in relation to the stump with curser at. is it already gone past the stump where the little boat symbol is, or is it actually directly beside the stump. After reading about the explanation of the water collum, i decided to ask the salesman at BPS who was trying to sell me a 997, what was the dark line down the middle. he said "oh thats the creek channel", i laughed and said man thats the straightest creek i have ever seen! lol.

The cursor is 16.8 feet behind the boats gps antenna, give or take a few feet for gps error.

I have posted this SI shot on several other forums. Some have said that it helped them understand how to interpret SI. Hope it helps..

The creek channel in this pic almost forms a box. There is very good detail of the fallen timber on the edge of the creek channel. (look in the creek for the "shadows" of the fallen timber)

Yes the "folded paper" exercise is exactly how you should think of the image.

Great Pic!! As im seeing it the creek actually made a bend and you crossed it twice. Correct?

Originally Posted by CarpPoop

Great Pic!! As im seeing it you the creek actually made a bend and you crossed it twice. Correct?

Exactly!..

Got it. The final thing im hazy about is the "water column" I hear this term alot for the black strip down the middle. Would this be the space under the boat that the side image beam doesnt cover since it shoots outward? But yet In this picture above, I see things in the water column...trees mainly. Can you elaborate on the "water column"? I've got the rest of it understood.