You develop time series icons in the Map Window of the Setup module. Time series icon are used by the other modules to display data and information availability. The information can be time series data, images, web pages, webcams, scripts, and document files. You can link time series icons to data from DSS files. Time series icons provide you easy access to analyzing incoming data and for providing location specific information.

You can represent time series icons as symbols, thumbnail plots, or color-coded data quality bars. You should define and setup the time series icons early in the watershed development so data can be readily viewed. Occasionally, you may need to make changes to the time series icons to accommodate additional data development. Refer to Time Series Icons and Time Series Icons Layers for additional information describing time series icons.