A User's Guide to Sonarview 1.0: A Sidescan Sonar Post-Processing System

Abstract

This document provides a user manual and reference for the sidescan sonar post-processing and visualisation program Sonarview. Sonarview was developed to support Route Surveillance and Mine Warfare activities. The software allows the inspection of raw sidescan sonar data and georeferencing of the data to produce sidescan mosaics. Features appearing in both the raw sidescan sonar data and the mosaics may be marked and their images stored, along with details about their dimensions, characteristics and classification. Such data is suitable for inclusion in a Route Survey Database. Sonarview provides limited GIS functionality, allowing retrieval of information about previously marked contacts, and showing the progress of the survey against a backdrop of nautical charts, mosaics, bathymetry and other information when it is available. Exercises are included for the instruction of new users, and can provide the basis for a 2-5 day training course. Detailed formats for input and output file formats are provided in a number of Appendices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA391004

Entities

People

  • Amy Young
  • Stuart Anstee

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

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  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

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  • Abstracts
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  • Algorithms
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  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Engineering
  • Grids
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Information Exchange
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Sonar
  • Standards

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