Key Features

• Quickly and easily configure sonar, sensors, and other hardware with the 3D Vessel Editor. Users can specify the type and positioning of all sensors in relation to a reference position.
• Automatically calibrate sensor installation with the Patch Test Calibration utility. The utility corrects for roll, pitch, heading, position, and time offsets.
• Create Whole-survey backscatter normalization for better looking mosaics.
• Prepare to accept input from a wide range of sources including magnetometers, interferometers, sidescan sonars, sub-bottom profilers, and multibeam echo sounders.
• Quantify the total vertical uncertainty (TVU) in your bathymetry survey using CUBE modeling and see it graphically presented. Also complies with NOAA requirements for IHO S-44 compliant surveys.

Sophisticated Real-Time Capabilities

• Review and repair bathymetric navigation and attitude data. The Bathy Navigation and Attitude Editor allows users to accept or reject specific data collected in noisy environments.
• Import, view, and edit tide and sound-velocity data. The Tide and Sound Velocity Editors allow for easy integration of complex data sets for Bathy computations.
• Review and process potential anomalies in such categories as lasso/edit spikes and noise data based on visual choices. The 2D/3D Editor allows for recomputation with successive batches of unwanted data removed.
• View, combine, and export co-located, sidescan, and bathy data.
• Leverage modern survey calibration tools.
• Take advantage of full support for wide-swath systems including interferometers and dual-headed multibeams.
• Use whole-survey backscatter normalization for better looking mosaics.
• Export data to more than a dozen GIS, CAD and image formats.
• Integrate bathymetry with sidescan, subbottom and magnetometer data sets for complete geophysical analysis.

Real-time Data Acquisition

Sonar Vendors Supported:

• EdgeTech 2200, 2205, 2400, 4600, 6205
• Klein 5900 SS/Bathy
• Kongsberg GeoSwath 4/Plus
• Kongsberg Mesotech M3
• LiDAR  Velodyne VLP-16
• NORBIT  iWBMS support
• PingDSP 3DSS-DX/SX-450
• R2Sonic 2020, 2022, 2024
• Teledyne RESON Seabat S7K

Post-Processing File Compatibility

SonarWiz is compatible with the following bathy file formats:

• ALL, FBT, FLS, GSF, HSX, HS2, HS2X, JSF, KMALL, NWSF, R2S, RDF,  RFF, S7K, SDF, SL3, SWF8, SXI, SXP, TIL, XTF, 7K, D1P, 83P, WMBF

SINGLE BEAM

• Cost effective single beam software
• Can be used as stand alone or added to any SonarWiz module
• Wide variety of Single Beam sonars supported in SonarWiz 7.0+
• NMEA-0183 DBT and DPT compliant
• Runs off the familiar SonarWiz GUI – easy to learn and use
• Supports Impact Subsea, SenbonDenki PDR1200, Teledyne Odom E20 and more

Key Features

• Cost effective software providing an upgrade path to multiple sensor types
• 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
• Odom SBT, E20 depth, E20 Echogram
• Senbon Denki PDR

Supported Vendors

• All NMEA-0183 compliant SBES
• CEE HydroSystems
• Garmin
• InnerSpace 400 Series (meters)
• Klein
• Knudsen Engineering
• Kongsberg
• Navico B&G
• Navico Lowrance
• Navico Simrad
• Raymarine
• Seafloor Systems
• SenbonDenki PDR
• SyQwest
• Teledyne Odom

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

MAGNETOMETRY

Help dive teams and recover personnel locate underwater artifacts, treasures and pipelines you seek to find, map or recover.

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SUPPORTED VENDOR MODELS

SonarWiz for Magnetometry supports data logged as raw text and from serial port recording, whereby a channel of magnetometry data feeds into and is recorded as an embedded data channel in the sonar top-side unit in parallel with the sidescan sonar data (such as for EdgeTech and Klein models).

• AquaScan AX2000
• GEM 19M, 19T
• Geometrics 881 & 882
• Marine Magnetics Standard and with Depth

Other models can be supported – just contact us at [email protected].

MAGNETOMETRY POST-PROCESSING OPTIONS

Import your magnetometry data as a text file or as an embedded channel from a sonar file. As text file magnetometry data is template-based, use any of our existing 20+ templates or ask us to create one. Templates are currently available for the following types of pre-recorded magnetometry data and many more.

• Define boat specs and sensor positions relative to the vessel reference position with the Vessel Editor
• Create a new project & import your bathymetric data files
• Load and merge raw bathymetry data (range/angle) with attitude
  data (roll/pitch/heading), sound velocity casts, tide files, and auxiliary navigation data

Magnetometry real-time acquisition is no longer automatically included with SonarWiz sidescan or sub-bottom real-time acquisition license purchases. Magnetometer data collection and/or post-processing can be added to existing licenses or sold in standalone electronic or hard dongle licenses.

DATA VIEWS

Upon data import, see the navigation plot or magnetometer amplitude in the Main Map View, alongside co-located sonar data.

PLAN VIEW DRAWING METHOD

Choose between two rendering options to display your magnetometer data in the Plan View.

Navigation Only

• A basic navigation trace of the magnetometry data Color Coded Amplitude Segments
• Color-coded segment lengths represent magnetometer amplitudes
• 12 color palettes are available to display the color-coded data

Ambient Soothing Constant

• Size of Moving Box Car Filter used to smooth the Ambient Magnetometer trace. Higher values correspond to more smoothing with 500 being the default value

Observed Smoothing Constant

• Size of Moving Box Car Filter used to smooth the Observed Magnetometer trace. Higher values correspond to more smoothing with 20 being the default value.

IMPORT DOWN SAMPLING

This option allows the default (1Hz) sampling or removal of down sampling. Removing down sampling provides your data in full resolution.

NAVIGATION CONTROLS

Magnetometer post-processing supports the full range of navigation, filtering, smoothing, and repair that SonarWiz offers for sidescan and sub-bottom post-processing, using an import time-constant for source smoothing, ZEdit, and NavInjectorPro.

MAGNETOMETER DATA REPAIR

The ZEdit utility presents a graphical representation of magnetometer amplitude presented as a function of position. It allows repair, interpolation, or smoothing to any degree in order to digitally-filter your data.

MAGNETOMETRY EDITING AND REPORTING

Magnetometer data can be presented in an editor with color-coded raw, smoothed, and ambient magnetometer field strength data graphed. Anomalies may be manually or automatically detected and exported in a report. The anomaly report can be edited or sorted within SonarWiz or exported as a CSV text file for further editing.

REAL-TIME DATA ACQUISITION OPTIONS

In real-time, SonarWiz automatically builds a CMF file, loads it into your project, and displays the navigation of the magnetometer in the Map Window behind the vessel.