Chesapeake Times

Chesapeake Times, Vol 21 | April 2025 Ten years ago, dark mode began sweeping across the internet. Almost every web app and program eventually embraced it, and even Microsoft adopted it as the default with Windows 11. Now, with SonarWiz…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 21 | April 2025 Chesapeake Technologies has made many improvements to the latest version of SonarWiz 8.3. If you look around in the newest version, you will notice several changes to the GUI and new features added….

Chesapeake Times, Vol 21 | April 2025 SonarWiz has been able to import laser data and process it with its bathymetry engine for some time now. Additionally, SonarWiz has been able to export files that it treats as bathymetry in…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 21 | April 2025 In SonarWiz V8.3.0 we are introducing a new magnetometer interface and some new capabilities for magnetometer data collection and import.    SonarWiz has had support for real time and post processing of Magnetometer data…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 20 | January 2025 In the recent 8.2 version of SonarWiz, we’ve added the ability to export cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs, or COGs. These are tiled GeoTIFFs with downsampled overview levels, all arranged in such a way as to…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 20 | January 2025 As I work at the support desk, I encounter service tickets where users might be able to help themselves out of a jam by using the Output Log at the bottom of the…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 20 | January 2025 SonarWiz is a powerful software in the field of sonar mapping, and among its many tools is ZEdit, an essential utility for post-processing CSF files. ZEdit is specifically designed to allow for editing,…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 20 | January 2025 In SonarWiz, there are many displays that are used among the different sensors. In this article, I will use the Digitizer View – but not as a sidescan view, but to display bathymetry…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 20 | January 2025 Marine drill cores are indispensable tools across industries, providing direct samples from beneath the seafloor. These cylindrical sections of sediment or rock are vital for collecting geological and environmental data, supporting activities such…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 20 | January 2025 In sonar data processing units, whether meters, feet, nautical miles, etc., define the scale and context of sensor values and spatial measurements.  Without clear labeling of the displayed data values and user inputs…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 19 | October 2024 In the last CTI Times Newsletter, my colleague Jonathan Fleetwood wrote about the Faster Tiling Output he was working on for the SonarWiz V8.01.00 release.   Many CTI users use the Tiled GeoImage…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 19 | October 2024 Our Chesapeake Times Quarterly Newsletter or blog is a tradition that provides insight and news about SonarWiz and new features that have been added to the interface. Many articles are highlights about new…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 19 | October 2024 SonarWiz 8.1 introduces automatic target recognition (ATR) for sidescan data. The SonarWiz ATR engine uses a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) combined with computer vision algorithms to automatically detect and measure objects in sidescan…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 19 | October 2024 When conducting sonar surveys, one of the key tasks for marine surveyors is to identify and catalog points of interest on the seafloor. These points, known as Contacts in SonarWiz, represent specific features…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 19 | October 2024 The latest version of SonarWiz, 8.1, due to be released in a handful of days, contains a lot of improvements and fixes. I’m looking at a development board with 126 improvements, and expect…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 19 | October 2024 In the latest version of SonarWiz, a few updates have been added to the Swath Editor program. The old saying is that if it’s not broken, don’t touch it. Probably worthwhile, but I…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 18 | July 2024 Sometimes an improvement in SonarWiz takes a few releases to be fully realized.  One such instance is the upgrade to the displayed range for SBP (sub-bottom) data.   One of the areas of…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 18 | July 2024 Despite covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, over 80% of our oceans remain unexplored and unmapped. This vast, uncharted territory presents both challenges and opportunities for marine research and exploration. To…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 18 | July 2024 Geoimage exports are a standard deliverable for many surveys. One or a set of georeferenced images with varying annotation of the full survey area can provide an easy-to-understand overview of the survey findings…

Chesapeake Times, Vol 18 | July 2024 With the summer field season in full swing, our support team has seen an uptick in questions about how how towfish navigation in SonarWiz works. That is, given the position and orientation of…