SCANsat Resource Scanning

Contents

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• Home

• SCANsat Resource Scanning

  • Scanning Basics
  • Resource Scanners

• Differences From Stock Scanning

  • Stock Scanning
  • SCANsat Scanning
  • Information Display

🔝 SCANsat Resource Scanning

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After going over the tools provided by SCANsat for resource scanning and the display of resource abundance we can now move on the actual scanning process, how it differs from stock scanning, and why it differs.

🔝 Scanning Basics

Resource scanning follows all of the same basic rules as standard SCANsat scans.

• There are multiple instruments, each with its own parameters and purpose
• Scanners be placed in an orbit that meets the requirements of each scanner's parameters
• Regions of the planet's surface will be scanned as you orbit
• The standard methods for finding a good orbit apply

🔝 SCANsat Resource Scanners

Through Module Manager configs SCANsat adds SCANsat functionality to the stock orbital resource scanner parts.

• The M700 Survey Scanner uses a special SCANsat scanner type; it provides low accuracy data for all resources that can be displayed on SCANsat maps, the SCANsat planetary overlay, and by SCANsat resource abundance readouts
• The M4435 Narrow-Band Scanner provides high resolution Ore scanning data; this allows for fully accurate resource abundance to be displayed on SCANsat maps, the SCANsat planetary overlay, and by SCANsat resource abundance readouts
• When Disable Stock Scanning is selected in the setting menu SCANsat replaces the resource abundance readouts in the right-click context menu of the M4435 Narrow-Band Scanner and the Surface Scanning Module, and replaces the high-resolution map on the Narrow-Band Scanner
• SCANsat modules are also added to resource scanning parts from other addons and provide the same function for other resources

🔝 Differences From Stock Scanning

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🔝 Stock Scanning

Stock resource scanning, or prospecting, follows a basic pattern where low accuracy data leads to higher accuracy data through multiple scans from orbit and the surface using several instruments.

• The M700 Survey Scanner scans the planet from orbit; it requires only that you be in a nearly polar orbit and meet certain criteria; the entire planet is scanned right away, regardless of any other orbit parameters; it only provides low accuracy data by itself and is required for most subsequent scanning steps
• The Surface Scanning Module allows for surface data collection; it increases the accuracy of all other resource data
• The M4435 Narrow-Band Scanner provides high accuracy data; it scans from orbit, and provides the best method for determining the ideal resource drilling location

🔝 SCANsat Scanning

SCANsat resource scanning alters the basic scanning mechanism while seeking to preserve the multi-instrument requirement of the prospecting system.

• Orbital resource scans are not instant, but require the same scanning coverage techniques used for all other SCANsat scanners
• The low- and high-accuracy data of the stock M700 Survey Scanner and M4435 Narrow-Band Scanner is preserved by the SCANsat scanners used to replace them
• Data from scans by the M700 Survey Scanner will only give resource abundance values to the nearest whole number, which significantly reduces the accuracy of map overlays and abundance readouts
• Data from scans by the M4435 Narrow-Band Scanner will provide full resource abundance accuracy
• By default the biome scanning requirement using the Surface Scanning Module is not changed by SCANsat; without surface scans only the average resource value for each biome will be reported

🔝 Information Display

SCANsat provides multiple methods of displaying information recovered from resource scanning.

• SCANsat provides a planetary resource overlay control window that performs largely the same function as the stock resource overlay controls
  • The overlay quality settings for the SCANsat maps can be adjusted in-game, whereas the stock overlay settings must be adjusted in the config files
  • The SCANsat overlay lacks the different overlay types and in some ways has more limited color options
  • SCANsat overlay color and resource abundance cutoff levels can be adjusted from the SCANsat Color Management Window
• The SCANsat big map resource overlay uses the same quality settings and mostly matches the planetary overlay
• SCANsat zoom maps and Narrow-Band Scanner high-resolution replacement maps provide much higher accuracy resource overlays
• The SCANsat instruments window displays the resource concentration at the location of your current vessel
  • You can cycle through all available resource types
  • This provides the same data as that found in the right-click context menu of several resource scanning parts