A New Speed Limit
Chesapeake Times, Vol 18 | July 2024 A new filter has been added in SonarWiz 8.1 to the bathymetry processing, to both the Navigation and Attitude editor and into the Merge option. It allows you to remove spikes in the…
No looking back! Backwards compatibility in SonarWiz 8
Chesapeake Times, Vol 17 | April 2024 Given the new SonarWiz 8 release you might be wondering if you can open and work with your SonarWiz 7 projects in SonarWiz 8. SonarWiz 8 is fully compatible with SonarWiz 7…
Removing WGS84 Assumptions & Dependencies
Chesapeake Times, Vol 17 | April 2024 SonarWiz has traditionally relied, in a number of ways, on translations between coordinates in the “projet output” system (the X/Y coordinates reprented in the plan view, in the projection system chosen at the…
Simplification Is In The Details
Chesapeake Times, Vol 17 | April 2024 One of our main goals with SonarWiz is to simplify the UI (User Interface) and to make it more intuitive to use. This is mainly to reduce the number of operations the…
Multiple Suppression Filter
Chesapeake Times, Vol 17 | April 2024 SonarWiz 8 introduces a new Reflection Filter to the Sub-Bottom Module that automatically detects secondary reflections SBP data and suppresses them. The filter works in four steps: The algorithm uses image processing techniques…
Let’s Count the Ways – Bathy Data Exports
Chesapeake Times, Vol 17 | April 2024 The traditional XYZ file from a bathymetry file can be done a few ways in SonarWiz once the survey data has been processed. Most of these exports can be found in the Post…
Bigger Needs Faster and Better
Chesapeake Times, Vol 16 | January 2024 As we move into the future it is clear that the underwater survey industry is quickly moving towards acquiring much larger amounts of data each and every year. Earlier this year one of…
Performance Improvements, New Project Explorer
Chesapeake Times, Vol 16 | January 2024 SonarWiz 8, scheduled for release early in March, will come with some nice performance and functionality enhancements around the digitizer windows, contacts, and project management. For a while now, opening the bottom tracker/digitizer…
New Color Options in SonarWiz 8.0
Chesapeake Times, Vol 16 | January 2024 In the early days of SonarWiz, side scan backscatter was converted to 8-bit pixel values on import. The actual intensity values were lost and only an 8-bit color map of the data remained….
Finding the Difference
Chesapeake Times, Vol 16 | January 2024 A few tools in SonarWiz – both old and new, will provide the user with a simple way for analyzing change differences, both visually and in numerical form. Whether you want to monitor…
Resources You’d Like To See For Support in 2024?
Chesapeake Times, Vol 16 | January 2024 Here at CTI we pride ourselves on our top of the industry customer support, our team not only is willing and able to assist with your SonarWiz projects but we have a wide…
Sub-bottom 2 Layer Sound Velocity Model
Chesapeake Times, Vol 15 | October 2023 We are currently in the process of making some big changes in the sub-bottom sonar features in SonarWiz. These changes implement a 2 layer sound velocity model. Currently, the SonarWiz sub-bottom digitizer window…
Property Grid Enhancement
Chesapeake Times, Vol 15 | October 2023 The upcoming SonarWiz 7.12 release will include a nice, oft-requested change to the property grid interface to simplify its operation and speed up batches of settings changes. The property grid interface in SonarWiz…
Far Field Tracking Supported in Seabed Characterization
Chesapeake Times, Vol 15 | October 2023 The seabed characterization utility in SonarWiz is a valuable tool for studying underwater features. It is used to delineate seafloor topography and substrate composition from side-scan and multibeam backscatter data. The GIS layers…
A Better Default
Chesapeake Times, Vol 15 | October 2023 A few places in the program, you will run across some value, set by default, to start the process. Overriding these values is easy, simply put in the number you wish to use. …
Auditing Progress in SonarWiz
Chesapeake Times, Vol 15 | October 2023 Our primary goal for new development in SonarWiz continues to be to make the job of a processor more efficient. In the early 2000s the program relied on managers built into SonarWiz and…
Battling SEGY Once Again!
Chesapeake Times, Vol 14 | July 2023 Over the past few years, we have spent considerable development time on addressing the needs of our sub bottom processor geos. We have made great improvements to the available tools and workflow. We…
Sidescan Gain: Updates to the Empirical Gain Normalization
Chesapeake Times, Vol 14 | July 2023 Empirical Gain Normalization (EGN) The EGN algorithm is a black-box statistical approach to normalizing the backscatter intensity of mapping sonars. It is black-box, because the algorithm works with the observed amplitude values exclusively…
The Side Scan Sonar 10% Rule
Chesapeake Times, Vol 14 | July 2023 Recently the question came up, “What is the best height to tow my Side Scan Sonar off of the bottom?” The general answer is the altitude should be 10% to 20% of the…
Contacts: An Update
Chesapeake Times, Vol 14 | July 2023 In the latest release of SonarWiz, we added a new way of real time target marking. Called the “Waypoint Contact”, it is a single check box to enable this function. The hardest part…