Teledyne PDS

Description

Teledyne PDS is of-the-shelf software and developed to solve the variety of challenges that arise from each specific task in the main business segments served by Teledyne Marine.

Specifications

General

• Year of initial development

  2008
• Year of latest version

  2015
• Operating System

  Windows Vista, Windows 7
• Minimum computer requirements

  4Gb mem, 500Gb HD
• Stand-alone

  Yes

Coupling to hardware

• Proprietairy data processing

  Y
• Supported sensor systems

  Multibeam sonar backscatter data
• Open to other data formats

  Y

Ground truthing

• Independent samples required

  N
• Ground truthing possible

  N

Usage

• Extracted parameters

  Backscatter, the intensity of the reflection from the seafloor; Impedance, the absorption in the seafloor; Roughness, the irregularity of the seafloor; Phi, the actual bottom classification; Volume, the volume backscatter, the intensity of the reflection in the seafloor; FLT factor, the fluid factor; Intercept
• Penetration

  0
• Timing of analysis

  Offline
• Pre-processing data and quality control

  Y

Employed signal characteristics

• Full wave-form

  N
• Derived depths

  Y
• Backscatter

  Y
• Other

  N

Applied principle

• Signal modeling

  N
• Segmentation

  N
• Feature extraction

  Y
• Feature detection methods

  Spike detection; contouring

Charting

• Contour creation

  Y
• Profile creation

  Y
• Reporting chart creation

  Y
• S-57 support

  Y

Other specifications

• Supported export formats

  PDS, Excel, Simrad EM, CSV, Multibeam points (ASCII), XTF, S7K, Sz, Magnetometer, FAU, GSF, Backscatter points (ASCII), UKOOA P1/90
• Typical application

  After a survey with a multibeam the backscatter data can be used to do a seafloor sediment classification.

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