Software
- AusSeabed
The following list of software is commonly used in the acquisition and processing of raw multibeam data, with QAX and MB-SYSTEMS considered useful for generating or supplementing metadata. The list may assist Data Acquirers, Contributing Hubs or Processors in identifying useful software used by the Marine community for bathymetry related data.
SIS - A real time software designed to be the user interface, the data acquisition and the real time data processing system for hydrographic instruments produced by Kongsberg systems.
Teledyne PDS - A multipurpose software platform to collect, process and deliver data for a wide range of tasks within Hydrography produced by Teledyne systems.
HYPACK - A software for Hydrographic data collection, processing and final products produced by any multibeam systems
QINSy - An integrated navigation system software package used extensively worldwide for acquiring and processing multibeam data produced by any multibeam systems
QAX is an open-source project, jointly steered by AusSeabed, the United States of America National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Coast Survey (NOAA OCS), and the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (UNH CCOM).
QAX facilitates quality assurance (QA) of multibeam echosounder (MBES) data. It provides an efficient workflow for checking MBES data. The tool standardises QA outputs and assists the technician to perform a robust QA of data.
AusTide is an official electronic product that is equivalent to paper Australian National Tide Tables (ANTTs). AusTides contains information for over 80 Primary (Standard) 1 and 600 Secondary 2 ports in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Antarctica and Timor-Leste. (https://www.hydro.gov.au/prodserv/publications/ausTides/tides.htm )
Sound Speed Manager provides three existing applications that process sound speed profiles (SSP) for underwater acoustic systems. (https://www.hydroffice.org/soundspeed/ )
Doris SVP is an application that displays and processes SVP data from sensors and climatology database. (https://www.doris-svp.org/ )
SVP Builder is an application that produces synthetic SVP for a given time and location from climatology database
MB-SYSTEMS - MB-System seafloor mapping software - MBARI
MB-System is an open source software package for the processing and display of bathymetry and backscatter imagery data derived from multibeam, interferometry, and sidescan sonars. MB-System is freely available for download (for free) in packaged distributions for Linux and OS-X, and by anonymous ftp.
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