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ISIS SONAR® User’s Manual, Volume 1 Software documentation through v6.6 June 2004

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 5.2 SETTING UP A PLOTTER...

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 86If the test program fails, you will want to make another test that checks to see if your printer

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 87Status (radio buttons) Your choices are On or Off. On: If you are plotting to a non-standard Win

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 88Rectify (radio buttons) Pos and Neg: Prints both positive and negative polarity sonar data. Posit

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 89Width (text boxes) Width refers to the percent of the page you want this channel (listed to the l

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 90 Figure 5-2: Hardcopy Annotation dialog box Chapter 5: Printing in Isis

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 91Table 5-2. Groups of options available in hardcopy annotation Option Meaning and Comments Annota

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 92Don’t blank-out imagery behind annotation When Isis prints annotations associated with data image

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 93Chapter 6 Using the Configure Menu You use the Configure menu to tailor the Isis software for a

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 946.1 Playback Speed (Playback Mode Only) The Playback Speed command allows you to adjust the numb

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 956.2 Realtime Scrolling (Record Mode Only) When you are acquiring data, you can decide which of t

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 8.2 DEPTH DELAY AND DURATION ...

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 966.3 Audible Alarms You can set up Isis to alert you with three types of audible alarms: A shallow

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 976.3.2 Low Storage Space Alarm When enabled, the Low Storage Space Alarm (Figure 6-4) audibly ale

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 98because the position of the transducer is a constant, and therefore its depth is a constant. Fi

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 996.5 Ocean Tide (Record/Playback) With the Ocean Tide command, you can specify a tide level above

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 100 Figure 6-7: Speed of Sound dialog box In Record Mode, the value entered here is stored with the

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1016.8 Hypack DDE (Record Only) Hypack is an integrated software application for collecting naviga

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 102 Figure 6-9: Hypack’s Device Setup dialog box Hypack Hardware utility displays its Connect dialo

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 103 Figure 6-10: Hypack’s Connect dialog box b) Click OK. 6. From the main menu in Hypack Hardwa

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 104 Figure 6-11: Hypack Setup dialog boxes 2. Turn on or off any of the listed parameters that you

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 105Hypack send ft. You can browse for a default directory for saving. This directory will also be u

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 9.8.5 Parts of the Dialog Box Common to All Levels...

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 106 Figure 6-12: RAMP Support dialog box with Nav Uncertainty option If you press From registry, t

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 107As indicated in the sample shown in Figure 6-12, the Nav Uncertainty option of this dialog box d

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 108 Figure 6-13: ADDS Support dialog box 6.10.1 Directory for Cue Confidence files (CCD) This spec

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 109of ADDS cues that can be read from a single CCD file is 10,000. If there are more than 10,000 cu

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 110• number of channels originally recorded will be set for those same values on playback • all pri

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 111 Figure 6-14: Save Setup dialog box You can have Isis save the configuration automatically, or

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 112If you want to have multiple configurations, simply create multiple Isis shortcut icons. For eac

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 113 Figure 6-16: Typical security listing in the Security dialog boxChapter 6: Using the Configure

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1146.15 Reset to Factory Config (Record/Playback) Reset to Factory Config deletes all *.CFG files i

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 115Chapter 7 Using the Color Menu You use the Color menu to customize the colors the Isis software

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 10.6 GRAPH...

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1167.1 Palette The Palette option on the Color menu displays the Select Color Palette dialog box. I

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 117Table 7-1. Options in the Select Color Palette dialog box Side-Scan Colors Select one of the fiv

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1187.2 Grid Colors Wiggle, Signal and Graph windows all use the same color scheme for their backgro

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 119Chapter 8 Using the View Menu You use the View menu to determine how the Isis software will dis

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1208.1 Scale Lines The Scale Lines command allows you to apply scale lines to Waterfall imagery. Sc

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 121 Figure 8-3: Depth Delay and Duration dialog box Meanings of the options in the Depth Delay and

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 122Units (radio buttons) Choices are Off, Time (in milliseconds), or Distance. Time normally is use

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1238.3 Overlay If your imagery contains event marks, you can display them in the waterfall window o

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 124As can be seen in Figure 8-4, you can set up ADDS Support from the Set_up button of the Overlay

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1258.4 Downsample In Isis, downsampling techniques can be used to compress many across-track imager

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 12.3.3 Graphics Processor...

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 126monitors side-by-side, providing a horizontal display area approximately 5000 pixels wide. But f

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 127On computer systems having modest or perhaps marginal processing power, applying downsampling wi

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 128 Table 8-3. The six downsampling methods in Isis Method What It Does (if 20 samples were used)

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 129Min Of the 20 samples, Isis takes the minimum value to display. In the case of 16-bit data, the

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1308.5 Speed The Speed command allows you to specify Automatic towfish speed calculation by Isis or

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 131 If you’re in Record mode and you select Manual speed in the Towfish Speed dialog box, this manu

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 132Unless you are sending a true towfish position to Isis during data acquisition, you need to acco

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 133Definitions of terms used to describe the relationships of various distances depicted in Figure

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 134 Figure 8-9: Layback Correction dialog box — before new layback done In the example, Isis is ap

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 135 Figure 8-10: Layback entered manually changed current value In Record Mode the new, entered

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 1 Chapter 1 Isis Overview 1.1 Introduction to Isis Isis is a compact, low-cost, modular, shipboar

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 136To Calculate Layback from Cable Out and Other Parameters by entering values manually Clicking t

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 137In this example, all values have been entered manually. Note that the Cable Out and Depth checkb

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 138 Figure 8-12: Layback automatically computed; current value updated Chapter 8: Using the View

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 139Notes: • In the example shown in Figure 8-12, the values for Cable Out and Depth (arrowed), are

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 140 Figure 8-13: Layback as percent of cable out Chapter 8: Using the View Menu

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 141In the example shown in Figure 8-13, a percentage of 80 is being applied to an incoming value of

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 142 Figure 8-14: Trackpoint-enabled layback correction method The two methods of computing the towf

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 143 To use the Trackpoint option in Isis, the Trackpoint system must be interfaced to the vessel’

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1448.9 Mark Event This function is available only while you are recording data. During a recording

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1453. From the main menu of Isis, choose View→Saved Raw Serial Data. The system displays the Sa

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 2 Figure 1-1. Isis system by Triton Elics The Isis hardware and software system is modular. Isi

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 146Chapter 9 Using the Tools Menu You use the Tools menu to set up and run the Target utility, to

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1479.1 Target The Target command runs the Target utility for feature mensuration, logging and recal

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 148 Figure 9-2: Target Setup dialog box, with defaults shown In the Target Setup dialog box, Autom

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1499.3 Digitizing Lines and Polygons You use the Digitize Lines and Polygons function to define po

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 150 If you use (enable) slant range, make sure the seafloor bottom is being tracked correctly. Othe

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 151 Figure 9-3: Initial Digitize Lines and Polygons dialog (expanded to More Options) Chapter 9: U

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 152You are now ready to fill out a description list table for the data you will be recording or pla

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 153 Figure 9-4: A typical Edit Descriptions list, partially completed 4. Type your descriptive ent

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 154 the name of the feature or area that will be tagged and logged, and the file names that cont

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1559.3.4 Tracking Points Manually The manual method of tracking points gives you precise control ov

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 3 1.2 Theory of Isis Operation The early data acquisition and image processing efforts at Triton f

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 156If navigation data area present, they are listed also. A sample screen with a polygon tagged for

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 157you want to track points of just a portion of a linear feature (not the entire linear feature).

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 158Automatic tracking begins. As with semi-automatic tracking, Isis: • puts numbered markers at th

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1593. For the Description File text box, click Set and specify a file to contain the header and va

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 160To send the tracked points to Target and/or an ASCII file 1. After you collect all points and

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1614. For each feature’s set of points you have collected, be sure to click Log Now if you intend

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 162 Figure 9-6: Examples of points entered in the Digitize Lines and Polygons dialog Chapter 9: Us

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 163 Figure 9-7: Sample ASCII report generated by Digitize Lines and Polygons 9.4 Coverage Map an

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 164summarizes the older, traditional coverage method technique. You can still use the older method

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1652. Pick one of three available methods to use: • Coverage Map only — This is the default; it q

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 4 Figure 1-2. Imaginary seafloor as arbitrary reference point for sonar altitude Isis grew out o

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 166 3. When you are ready click Save so that Isis keeps these settings. 4. Press <SPACE> to

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 167 Figure 9-9: Unchecked ‘UseNav’ option in Delph Mosaic and DTM 4. Click Set Projection and Bound

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1685. When you are through with the Set Projection and Bounding Box, click OK to dismiss it. Crea

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 169Replay the data to extract the navigation data 1. Start Isis and open the Coverage Map and Mosa

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1704. Replay the line you wish to mosaic. The coverage map starts to fill, showing which line has

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 171 Do not click STOP in Isis! Create the empty matrix file 1. In the Delph Mosaic and DTM

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 172 You might want to position the Coverage Map and Delph Mosaic boxes so they are both visible

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 173saved in 8, 16, 24, and 32-bit modes, both in TIFF and DDS_VIF formats. To use this method you m

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 174 Figure 9-11: Preview Mosaic dialog box As the imagery scrolls in the Isis main window, the mosa

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 175To save a previewed mosaic 1. From the Coverage Window that contains the displayed preview mos

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 5 the same serial port. Alternatively, another serial port can be used. Custom interfaces can also

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1769.5 Real-Time BathyPro Map If your Sentinel dongle that supports your version of Isis has been

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 177 Figure 9-13: Bathypro Real Time dialog box Chapter 9: Using the Tools Menu

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 178To understand how to work with the BathyPro Real Time dialog box and create a DTM, please refer

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 179 off despecklefocus fill echoessmooth imagesuppress noiseFigure 9-14: Composite example of diff

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 180 Figure 9-15: Sweep and Run Continuously Spatial Filter dialog boxes For either filter mode you

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 181Table 9-1. Options for Sweep and Run Continuously Spatial Filter Apply Filter Choose Sweep Image

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 182Filter (continued) Focus: This is a convolution filter. It uses the kernel of the size that you

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 183Table 9-2. Median order for 3 filters in 2 pixel array sizes Filter 3 by 3 Kernel 5 by 5 Kern

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 184-1 0 1 -1 -2 1 2 1 -1 -2 0 2 1 -1 -1 0 1 1 Vertical Right 1 0 -1 2 1 -2 1 0 -1 1 1 0 -1 -1

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 185give you a wide range of flexibility over the effects you can impose on your imagery. Only one c

Copyright Notice This software is copyrighted and licensed for use on one computer per copy. Triton Elics International grants permission to the purch

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 6 1.2.5 Choice of Data Storage Formats and Media Isis is capable of storing data in one of three

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 186In the work area window you can do any of the following: • Specify a kernel size by using the u

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1879.8.1 Overview After sonar imagery has been corrected for slant-range distortion and the water c

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 188stored and read by Isis as beam patterns from which compensations are created while Isis is runn

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 189during the collection of statistics and during the entire survey for which grazing angle compens

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 190 Figure 9-17: Beam/grazing angle compensation dialog box (Full Level) In the figure, the green l

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 191angle compensation and what you will see in your imagery. Although the operational levels are no

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1929.8.4.2 Working at the Middle Level of Compensation Middle level gives you more control than ba

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1939.8.4.3 Working at the Full Level of Compensation Full level gives you the most control over an

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 194 Table 9-4. Options for Beam Angle Compensation Collect Statistics, Correct Image, and Off The

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 195Color Key The Color Key button displays a box indicating the color assignments for graph traces

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 7Chapter 2 Getting Started with Isis Software Your system comes to you with your Isis software alr

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1969.8.5.2 Status The Status box displays the current status of the BAC and GAC routine as well as

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 197 Figure 9-18: The initial ASCII Report dialog box To set up one or more report forms 1. In th

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 198 Figure 9-19: A typical Report Form dialog box before choices have been OK’d Chapter 9: Using

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 1993. Input selections. These are grouped under the Items to Print area on the left side of the bo

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 2009.10 Output Telemetry Isis can extract and output telemetry data from your imagery and put the e

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 201Table 9-5. Sample serial port output extracted from telemetry Record Record’s Contents 1 47.6

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 202 Table 9-6. Sample file output extracted from telemetry Record Record’s Contents 1 24 JUL 1

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 203{TELEMOUT} (Refer to Figure 4-6 for a full explanation of options available to you in that dialo

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 204 Figure 9-20: Output Telemetry dialog box 2. Choose SIS-1000 or SIS-7000 format if your telemetr

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 205directly from your data imagery to the application that can accept and use your output. • Outpu

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 8 Figure 2-1. Typical listing of TEI software installation folders TEI software is compatible wit

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 206 Figure 9-21: Output XYZ File dialog box To create an ASCII file for capturing XYZ coordinates a

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 207its name appears in the File field. Also, the number of points (pixels) that are currently being

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 208The first column of data lists your northings (the X vector), the second column your eastings (t

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 209Note: For this module to work correctly, you must correctly set two important parameters: • T

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 210 Figure 9-23: Pipe Tracking Setup dialog box 4. Using the - or + selector, select the Channel w

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 2119. At a minimum, the SPN file will always contain Time, Date, KP, and Fish Position. If additio

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 2129. Once all settings are correct, click Start Logging to begin writing the SPN file. The Shado

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 213 Figure 9-24: Typical Pipe Tracking output (on left) and dialog box (on right) 9.13.3 Understan

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 214 Figure 9-25: Typical contents of an SPN log file Various tokens can be associated with any of t

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 215 Table 9-7. Required tokens in an SPN file Token Meaning Valid Range or Units {DAY} Day [1,31

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 9• Each application is installed by browsing to the appropriate folder (for example, Isis5.50 Inst

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 2169.14 Subbottom Picking and Tracking With Isis version 2.17 (both 16- and 32-bit versions) or la

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 217 Figure 9-26: A typical Subbottom Picking and Tracking dialog box Chapter 9: Using the Tools Me

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 2183. Choose the following from the SBP dialog box: • Manual or Automatic • Reflector n (wher

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 2192. You can now begin picking another layer to track by CTRL left-clicking in the subbottom wind

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 220 Figure 9-27: Example of picked subbottom layers 9.14.3 Understanding the SBP Dialog Box All t

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 221Table 9-9. The Subbottom Picking and Tracking dialog box Function Name Possible Actions Effec

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 222Description • Click the Edit button –or– • Choose from drop-down box. For the Edit button: The

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 223Input File View Click or don’t click the button. For future release. Will allow viewing playbac

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 2249.14.4 Understanding the SBP Output Options You can select or deselect the kind of data that w

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 2252. Select or deselect the options you want and click OK. Table 9-10 describes the options found

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 10• The installations make two changes which are not restored when the programs are removed using

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 226Calculated from (mutually exclusive choices) Position Click to darken or clear a numbered radio

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 227Distance in Meters (m) Check or uncheck the box. Distance in meters (distance from sensor to ref

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 228 Figure 9-29: Typical ASCII file generated by Subbottom Picking and Tracking 9.14.6 Operational

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 229Chapter 10 Using the Window Menu You use the Window menu to display different views of your da

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 230Horizontal lines in the list of Window submenus separate groups of things: • The top section

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 231 Figure 10-2: Waterfall Display dialog box Table 10-1 lists and explains the parameters. Chapte

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 232 Table 10-1. Waterfall Display dialog box options Channel DisplaySpecify the channel or channel

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 233 If you use (enable) slant range, make sure the seafloor bottom is being tracked correctly. Oth

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 23410.2 Wiggle Wiggle windows display a single trace for each ping or pulse of a single channel of

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 235 Figure 10-3: Sample Wiggle 2-D waterfall window (left) and its dialog box (right) Chapter 10:

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 11You will need to remove the old version of the software before you will be permitted to install t

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 236The 2-D Wiggle Display dialog box displays the parameters you get when you have a common (non-w

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 23710.2.2 Wiggle in 3-D A 3-D Wiggle window displays horizontal traces of signal intensity with po

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 238All the parameters shown in the 2-D Wiggle Display dialog box also appear in the 3-D Wiggle Dis

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 239To adjust any of the display settings for this graph, press the right trackball button. The dis

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 240 Table 10-3 explains the options available to you in the Voltage Display dialog box. Table 10-

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 24110.4 Multibeam Bathymetry If you use multibeam type of sonar, you can use the Isis Multibeam Ba

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 242To adjust any of the display settings for this graph, right-click in this window. The system pr

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 24310.4.2 Scrolling 3D For a three-dimensional view of your multibeam’s image, choose Scrolling 3D

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 24410.4.3 True 3-D (Open GL) This is an alternative method of displaying your data in 3-D (Window

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 245 Figure 10-11: Bathymetry True 3-D Display Settings Select Channels: usually just one head fo

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 12Solution: You MUST reboot the system after finishing the installation. This is necessary so tha

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 246Checking Band downsizes the color palette to 10 colors from 32 (True Color). Two options for d

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 247Show Geo Cursor: Used to identify the beam, swath, depth, and quality of a specific beam. Val

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 248Also, in this window is a “Data Range” that shows the Min and Max depths that have been scrolle

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 249 Figure 10-13: Waterfall (Multibeam) Intensity example Chapter 10: Using the Window Menu

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 250Right-clicking in the Multibeam Intensity window summons the standard Waterfall Display dialog

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 25110.5 Echo Strength The Echo Strength display is not generally available to most Isis users. Ech

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 252 Figure 10-15: Typical EchoStrength Status Values The topmost part of the EchoStrength Display

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 253color-coded, with the color-code values also displayed in the right-click setup dialog box. 10

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 25410.6.2 Navigation A navigation graph helps you check to see if you are staying on (or straying

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 25510.6.3 Telemetry If you have a multibeam sonar, you can graph your telemetry data with Isis. Ch

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 13 The files must be unique on the system (that is, there must be only one instance throughout you

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 25610.6.4 Ship and Towfish When you need to graph your ship’s speed, your towfish’s speed, your sh

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 25710.6.5 Auxiliary Besides the built-in data-collecting functions of Isis, Isis can accept up to

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 25810.6.6 Magnetometer Magnetic anomalies are often present and are sometimes unavoidable in areas

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 25910.6.7 Computed CTD Because conductivity, turbidity, and density of water have such an importan

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 26010.6.8 Raw CTD Isis can, at any time during a playback session, get the raw CTD data from the f

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 26110.6.9 Set Scaling Ranges For any of the available graphs — main menu Window→Graph {Pitch, Roll

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 262Figure 10-24: Graph affected by setting graph scales manually Chapter 10: Using the Window Men

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 263 Figure 10-25: Graph Bounds dialog box for setting graph scales manually 10.6.10 Clear Graph

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 26410.7 Status and Control At any time during a recording or playback session, you can get inform

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 265 Table 10-4. Aspects of the Parameter Display dialog box Navigation (panel) The most recent n

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 14 Figure 2-3. Find License File dialog box 2.5 Keeping a Log In Record Mode, Isis appends text en

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 266Display Units(panel) Use this to specify whether your quantitative data will be displayed in me

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 Chapter 10: Using the Window Menu 267 Figure 10-27: Switch File dialog box To set up a switch fil

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 26810.7.2 Bottom Track and TVG Because Isis can track the bottom to determine the towfish altitud

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 269towfish altitude, is displayed in meters in the Parameter Display dialog box and as a vertical

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 270Options (button) Clicking Options displays a dialog box (Figure 10-28) where you can save re-tr

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 271Figure 10-29: TVG and Balance dialog box Time-varied gain is an increase in signal amplitude (

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 272Table 10-6. Options in the TVG and Balance dialog box Channel (slider bar) Moving the slider b

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 273DC Offset(slider bar) Use this if you want to offset your signal voltage by an amount in the ra

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 27410.7.4 Sensors The Sensors window gives you a snapshot of auxiliary sensor data for the file th

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 275 Figure 10-30: Sensor Display information window Chapter 10: Using the Window Menu

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 15begun or the file name changes. However, when the Klein 5000 server is running, all sonar setting

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 276Aspects of the Sensor Display information box are explained in Table 10-7. Table 10-7. Meaning

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 277 Figure 10-31: Towfish Status dialog box 10.7.6 Banner To help identify the nature of the data

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 278 Figure 10-32: Sample Banner Text box for labeling data runs 10.7.7 Clock Times This is a visua

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 27910.7.8 Bathymetry Confidence Bathymetry confidence provides a way to specify the limits of bath

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 280As the Bathymetry Confidence dialog box shows, you can specify the water depth being reported b

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 28110.9 Orientation The Orientation command has a child window that allows you to specify whether

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 282Once you have saved the layout, you can then recall it either manually or automatically for any

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 283Chapter 11 Using the Help Menu To get on-line help about Isis topics, use the Help menu. This

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 Chapter 11: Using the Help Menu 284Table 11-1. Get Info statistics box File Format Three possibi

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 Chapter 11: Using the Help Menu 28511.1 Get Info The Get Info command in the Isis Help menu suppl

Safety Precautions Please adhere to the hardware and software precautions mentioned below. In addition, observe all safety precautions mentioned

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 16Figure 2-4. Sample SURVEY.LOG created by Isis If the first line of the log file contains only t

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 Chapter 11: Using the Help Menu 28611.3 Contents Use the Contents command to see a listing of the

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 287Chapter 12 Maintenance and Troubleshooting The Isis modular data acquisition system is built

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 288• Frequently back up the hard disk. Your data and your time are precious. Should hard drive d

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 28912.3.2 DSP Board This diagnostic can check several aspects of the board’s working condition:

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 290The troubleshooting chart shown in Table 12-1 covers some problems you might encounter in Isi

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 291SCSI device is not recognized If hard drive is not recognized, system will not boot Possibly

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 29212.4 Emergency Boot Disk An Emergency Boot Disk comes with the Isis system. If the Isis syst

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 293Isis can easily interface to any towfish telemetry or navigation system through a serial port

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 294leave your name, ship, phone/Marisat number, location and urgency of the problem on the recor

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 295Warranty repair of complex boards and drives may require as long as two weeks. Triton Elics c

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 17to your Windows documentation for detailed instructions on using the Notepad editor. 2.6 Providin

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 296 Chapter 12: Maintenance and Troubleshooting

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 18 Table 2-1. Isis runtime switches Switch Name What the Switch Does /CFG={parm} parameter {parm}

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 19/GOTOTIME={parm}parameter {parm} to the right of the equal sign has the form dd/mm/yyyy_hh:mm:

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 20/GOTOPING=n The parameter n must be an integer representing a ping number in the file to be play

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 21/SESSION=n Isis runs and identifies this particular session of the Isis program with the number n

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 22Chapter 3 Using the File Menu You use the File menu to manage common tasks in Isis: record or pla

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 23 Figure 3-1. The File menu from the main menu If a choice is grayed out, that choice currently

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 24Note that if you are playing back a file and you save the configuration when exiting, the next ti

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 25Click the running man icon to speed up the playback Each click decreases or increases, respectiv

SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT By opening this package, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement, which include the software license and the

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 26of the file to the top of the file. This can be done with any XTF, TRA, DAT or SEG-Y file. The a

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 27 Figure 3-3. Disk or Tape playback dialog box. 3. Click Backwards Disk Playback. The system disp

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 284. Click OK or Cancel. If you click Cancel, Isis returns to the Disk or Tape dialog box (Figure 3

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 29Choose File→Goto→EndThe playback starts over again from the end of the file to the start. 3.1.3 P

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 30the batch file would repeat itself and continue to loop like this until the user took some action

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 31 Figure 3-5. Creating a RUN file from the DOS Prompt While still at the DOS prompt, you can visu

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 32You can, of course, use a text editor to inspect or modify a RUN file, such as changing the order

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 33Recording can resume by positioning the tape past a filemark before starting Record mode or befor

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 34To set up your tape for recording or playing back 1. From the Isis main menu, choose File→Tape

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 35• Click the tape drive radio button corresponding to the tape drive you will be using. For a sin

LIMITED WARRANTY TRITON ELICS warrants that (a) the SOFTWARE will perform substantially in accordance with the accompanying written materials for a

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 363. From the Isis main menu choose File→Start Recording→Record Data→Save As; supply a file na

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 373. Choose a playback option: Reset Drive (Load Tape), Play, Rewind to Start, Rewind 1 File, or A

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 38entire contents of the tape file to the temporary directory specified in the Options portion of t

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 39Advance to End Positions the tape at the end of the last recorded file (at the tape’s end of file

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 40 Figure 3-8. Switch File dialog box (from Parameter Display window) 3.2.8 Copying Files to and f

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 41FFigure 3-9. Tape Drive Control Options dialog box To copy files from disk to tape 1. From the

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 424. In the Copy Files area of the Tape Drive Control Options dialog box, click Tape to Disk, then

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 43Playback options(two text boxes and one button) Directory for temporary files created during play

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 44Utility (child button) Build directory from tape Clicking this button directs Isis to display a s

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 453.2.10.1 File: Record Setup: File Format: Log to tape When you choose Log to tape, the Tape Drive

Preface: Using This Manual This book is the first part of a two-part set from Triton Elics International, Inc.: Isis User’s Manual, Volume 1. It co

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 463.4 Pause The Pause option temporarily stops playback of data at the current ping. Selecting Paus

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 47 Figure 3-11. Isis Explorer with sample XTF files listed After the files are listed, the user ca

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 48searching for one or more XTF files. This is the same dialog box available from the main menu of

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 49 Figure 3-12. Time Range Settings dialog box A check mark in the time range disables the fields.

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 50 Figure 3-13. Example of a message identifying event status change 3.6.1.4 Isis Explorer Help Me

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 51connection, and yellow denotes an inactive connection. See Figure 3-11. • [End] key behavior un

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 52user chooses a file in the Isis Explorer tool and either double-clicks the filename or clicks the

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 533.7.4 Time Use the Go to Time option to go to the specified point either in the current file or a

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 54initiated from within ROVFlight with the Lookup Location in Isis button and from within Target wi

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 553.7.6 KP Go to kilometers of pipe. If your data file contains tracked pipe, Isis will go to that

Skills You’ll Need to Know Before Using Isis To use Isis, you should know basic Windows concepts, such as working with icons on the Windows deskto

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 563.7.9 Previous File in Time This option causes Isis to look for the next file in your current dir

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 57File menu to turn the feature on. Select it again to turn it off. When activated, the command has

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 58To stop saving imagery to a disk file Depending whether you told Isis to save a single window or

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 59Chapter 4 Setting Up Isis To Record Data Setting up Isis to record data involves working with th

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 604.1.1 Setting Up for a Sidescan or Subbottom Sonar Sidescan sonars and subbottom profilers are f

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 61 As Figure 4-1 shows, you can select from two general categories of sonars: sidescan (listed in

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 62Figure 4-2. Select Digital I/O Card choice dialog After you choose a sonar type (and, potential

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 63available text boxes. Table 4-1 explains the options. You can use the arrow keys on your keyboar

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 64Tilt down angle This is the direction you are aiming a given channel. The direction is expressed

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 65 Table 4-2. Setup Input Channel options Option Meaning and Comments Status The channel can be

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 Chapter 1 Isis Overview 1 1.1 Introduction to Isis 1 1.2 Theory of Isis O

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 66 Figure 4-5. Advanced Record Setup dialog box Here are two examples that show how this feature m

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 67confidence window can also be summoned from Windows→Status and Control→Bathymetry Confidence (Fi

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 68Figure 4-6: Serial Port Setup dialog box The panels in the Serial Port Setup dialog box have th

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 69 Baud Rate: 4800 and 9600 (commonly used by GPS receivers)  Data Bits: 8  Parity: NONE 

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 70• Convert Lat/Long to UTM (check box) — If a special navigation option is included and enabled

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 71Figure 4-7: Setup UTM dialog box • Filter Speed Input (check box) — When Isis is in Record mo

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 72Speed is filtered according to the following formula: 1. Speed is forced to be between the min

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 73 Figure 4-9: Partial view of COM Port Test box before ports are assigned 4.3 File Format Setup

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 74 Figure 4-10: File Format dialog box Here’s what the various parts of File Format dialog box mea

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 75 If 16-bit data are saved, only 8 of those 16 bits will be displayed. Use the Thresho

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 3.6 ISIS EXPLORER ...

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 76• Operator name: optional user-provided info goes here. The text from these three fields gets p

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 77 After recording has started you can monitor the current size of the file from the Switch File b

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 78Chapter 5 Printing in Isis You use the File→Print command to specify a hardcopy output device an

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 792. Select the device in Windows prior to running your application (Isis, in this case). 3. Run

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 802. Choose the printer icon from the taskbar or choose File→Print from the main menu. Isis displa

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 81Note: [1] If your plotter manufacturer’s instructions suggest other actions to the above general

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 82the device first be activated outside of the application where it will be used. At this point, y

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 83• Sweep: Forward • Contrast: 0 • Repeat Ln: 1 • Shades: 64 • Width: 2048 2. Make any othe

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 84See the procedure entitled ‘To print a single screen from Isis 2.11 or later’ for the related se

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume1 855. Press [Shift] [ONLINE] again to put the plotter on-line. To configure Isis for the 195 or 200