SonarWiz 7 Field & Office Single Beam
Single Beam collection and processing
Cost effective software providing an upgrade path to multiple sensor types for future projects
Description
KEY FEATURES
- Cost effective software providing an upgrade path to multiple sensor types for future projects
- Easy to use interface for creating surfaces for analysis
- Compliant with any single beam outputting NMEA-0183 DBT/DPT
- Free single beam acquisition license with any current acquisition license
DATA ACQUISITION
- View single beam data in real time.
- NMEA-0183 compliant single beam sonars
- ISA500 $ISADS – $ISADA
POST-PROCESSING
- Integrate single beam with sidescan, sub-bottom, bathy and mag data sets for complete geophysical analysis.
- Provides a number of editing methods to develop a clear understanding of the bottom
POST-PROCESSING FILES
SonarWiz is compatible with the following file formats:
- HYPACK *.RAW
- HYPACK ISA500-M39
- MLG-EASYNAV
- TXT
SUPPORTED VENDORS
- All NMEA-0183 compliant SBES
- CEE HydroSystems
- Garmin
- Klein
- Knudsen Engineering
- Kongsberg
- Navico B&G
- Navico Lowrance
- Navico Simrad
- Raymarine
- Seafloor Systems
- SyQwest
- Teledyne Odom
Specifications
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Hardware/software requirements
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RAM [MB]
4000
HD{GB}
500
Use of GPU
Y
Processor
["32-bit"]
Stereo Display
Y
Field of Use
- Pipeline survey - Hydrographic survey - Commercial survey - Marine archaeological survey - Educational hydrography
Languages Supported
English
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General
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Year of last update
2016
Year of initial introduction
1995
Modules
SonarWiz Office 7 Data Acquisition Suite includes single beam, sidescan, sub-bottom, bathymetry and magnetometry. Modules are sold separately or as a complete Suite - only pay for the software that you will use.
Supported Systems (SB, MB, SSS, Lidar etc.)
SonarWiz 7 is compatible with many different sonar manufacturers and file formats for Single Beam, Sidescan, Sub-Bottom Profilers, Magnetometer & Bathmetry including GPS, fathometer, heave sensor, MRU input via COM port or UDP. For a complete list, visit:http://www.chesapeaketech.com/docs/SonarWiz5_Interfaces_and_FileFormats.pdfPlease contact our technical support online, by email or phone and we will answer any questions you may have within 24 hours.
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Processing
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Sound velocity correction
Single profile support
Sound velocity correction type
Other
Tidal reduction
Tide
Support tidal reduction network
N
Gridding/Interpolation techniques
Altitude, Cable Out, Mag, Reflectivity, & others
Grid attributes {Std., Mean, Max, etc.}
Weighted Average,Average, Density, Minimum, Maximum, Median,Amplitude, Standard Deviation
Lay-back correction
Y
Siant range correction
Y
Mosaic creation
Y
Mosaic creation algorithms
Proprietary
SSS Targeting
Yes
Video integration
N
Number of video channels
0
Assessment of bathymetry IHO Cat S-44
N
Type of automatic cleaning algorithm(s)
All: automated smoothing and manual editing option for navigation data, with digital filtering specific to each category. Sidescan specific: bottom-tracking, beam-angle correction, speed correction,AGC, TVG, UGC, EGN, downsampling optionsSub-bottom specific: bottom-tracking, band-pass filter, swell filter, heave correction, stacking, datum alignment, downsampling options, with AGC, TVG, UGC.Bathymetry specific: downsampling options, amplitude filter, range filter, cutoff angle filter, box filter, density filter, median filter, sound velocity/tide adjustments, manual swath and area editing, supervised/auto support - swath editing.
Multibeam water column imaging support
Y
Multibeam Backscatter Processing Functionality
Yes - RESON, R2Sonic, Kongsberg
Mulitbeam Calibration mehods
Automatic and Manual
Manual editing capability
Y
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Geodetic Functionality
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Supported coordinate systems
Predefined such as WGS84, LL, all UTM, NAD27, NAD83, state planes (US), most predefined International coordinate systems, and user-defined coordinate system options with customized datum, ellipsoid, and projections.
Geographical Coordinates {Lat, Long}
Y
Ground Coordinates {E,N}
Y
Seven Parameter shift supported
Y
Separation model for vertical datum shift support
Y
Local datum support
Y
Ellipsoidal reference support (GRS80)
Y
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Product Generation
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Automatic top of pipe calculation
N
Dynamic event numbering
Y
Volume calculation
Y
Contouring
Y
Export/Exchange options
BMP, JPG, TIFF, Geo Image, 3D PDF, Google Earth, Sonar Coverage Report, Capture Screen Image
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Visualisation and Editing
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2D Editing
Y
2D Visualization
Y
Fly-throughs support
Y
3D fly-through movies {*.mov etc}
Y
Area based 3D editing
Y
Area based 3D View
Yes
3D View max number points
10,000
3D Integrated models
None
Sounding cleaning algorithms
Automatic, supervised filtering, & manual tools.
4D fly through movies {*.mov etc.}
NA
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Files and Registering
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Input Formates {XTF, XYZ, GSF etc}
- C-Max (*.CM2) - CODA (*.COD) - EdgeTech (*.JSF) - eXtended Triton Format (*.XTF) - GeoAcoustics (*.GCF, *.RDF) - Humminbird (*.SON,, *.DAT) - HYPACK (*.HSX) - Imagenex SportScan (*.81S) - Imagenex Yellow Fin (*.872) - Imagenex DeltaT Backscatter (*.83P) - Klein - Including K5000 V2 (*.SDF) - Kongsberg EM Backscatter (*.ALL) - Kongsberg (Simrad) EA400/EA600 Backscatter (*.RAW) - Marine Sonic (*.MST,, *.SDS) - ProSAS (*.IMG) - QMips (.DAT, .QMP) - R2Sonic TruePix (*.R2S, *.XTF) - Reson 7000 Series Backscatter (*.S7K) - SeaBeam2100 (*.MB41) - Sonardyne Solstice (*.SWF8) - SWATHPlus Raw/Processed/Parsed (*.SXR/*.SXP/*.SXI) - Swedish Geo Survey (*.SEG) - Tritech (*.V4Log, LogDoc) Mag: - AquaScan AXL - Arts GAVIA MAG - Balaswamy - C&C Magnetometers - CSF Magnetometers - FSL-MAG - HWTMA-2011-1 - HYPACK RAW File Magnetometer - Lat Lon Magnetometer Files - Lon Lat Magnetometer - Mag Log Type 4 - Mag Log Type 5 - Maglog GPS-POS w/Altitude - Maglog GPS-POS-Alt-MAG2-MAG3 - Mag Log Spencer - Maglog Standard Format - Maglog w/Altitude - PLR Magnetometer [feet] - PLR Magnetometer [meters] - SeaLink Magnetometer - SeaLink Wilhelm - SeaSpy Type 3 - SonarWiz MAG 882 - SonarWiz SEASPY - SonarWiz SEASPY_XY - TBSmith HYPACK MAG - TeslaOffshore-MAG-1 - XYZ MAG See our website for the latest list: http://www.chesapeaketech.com/docs/SonarWiz5_Interfaces_and_FileFormats.pdf
Max. Number of Soundings
Depends on file size, 500 per project is typical.
Supported Hydrographic Systems
CMAX, Edgetech, Geoacoustics,Geomag, Humminbird, Imagenex, Klein, Knudsen, Kongsberg, Marine Magnetics, Marine Sonic,Odom, PingDSP, R2Sonic, RESON, SyQwest, Teledyne-Benthos, and Teledyne-Hugin
Background format support {Google, Bing, OGC, CAD etc.}
SonarWiz works with all importable basemap file types supported by Global Mapper Software LLC, Olathe, KS. More information can be found at Global Mapper Software's website: http://www.globalmapper.com/