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Chesapeake Times, Vol 8 | January 2022Getting Started with SonarWiz If you are new to SonarWiz and purchase at least one new SonarWiz license, we want to make you and your team comfortable using it. New for 2022, we offer a…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 8 | January 2022 One of the most powerful tools in the sidescan post processing arsenal of SonarWiz is the contact, an item which location and characteristics can be captured and saved. After these contacts are created…
Chesapeake Times, vol 8 | January 2022 New in SonarWiz 7.09, we are introducing binary support for Kongsberg NavLab BIN files to SonarWiz. Kongsberg uses NavLab post-processing software to calculate optimal position estimates for the HUGIN family of Autonomous Underwater…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 8 | January 2022 Some of you may have noticed that we have gone a while without a new SonarWiz release. SonarWiz V7.08.01 was released in September. Development on SonarWiz V7.09.00 was started in the spring of 2021. During this…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 4 | January 2021This month some of CTI’s development resources have been focused on updating our Side Scan drawing routines to more accurately map samples to pixels in the display. These drawing routines and their accuracy become more…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 4 | January 2021 During the first quarter of this year we are rolling out several improvements to the SonarWiz Magnetometer module. Here, I would like to highlight some of the more interesting changes. The first group…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 4 | January 2021 ZEdit is Chesapeake’s utility program for editing series data in CSF, CMF (magnetometer) and XTF files. A common operation there is smoothing and removing anomalies from one-dimensional data, via its bottom “graph” view. We’ve…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 3 | October 2020 The structure and nature of SonarWiz projects require various connections from items created and images or databases in your project folder. Our support team frequently hears from customers saying they are missing contacts,…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 3 | October 2020 In the next version of SonarWiz, we added a few options to help folks with large files. We have seen the ever-increasing file sizes, as folks collect higher resolution data or just more…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 3 | October 2020 SonarWiz 7.7 will be the first release of SonarWiz to be officially supported on Amazon AWS. As we prepare to release this new version of the program, we have been working to develop…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 3 | October 2020 Recently we’ve seen a good deal of interest in cloud platform services and related inquiries into how SonarWiz would run in their environments. Companies stand to see a lot of benefits from these…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 7 | October 2021 Some of our legacy users can remember 20+ years ago when contacting the support team for then “SonarWeb” (the long-ago predecessor of SonarWiz) was simply giving John Gann a ring on his personal…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 7 | October 2021 The traditional sidescan system with port and starboard channel have the inherent “space” between the channels when viewing the data. Once bottom tracked, the two sides get stretched to form a filled area….
Chesapeake Times, Vol 7 | October 2021 What is a Vertical GeoTIFF?? GeoTIFF is a public domain metadata standard which allows geo-referencing information to be embedded within a TIFF file (Wikipedia). Normally, the GeoTIFF format is used for geo-referenced images,…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 7 | October 2021 There are a handful of tools in SonarWiz, that, together, can help you make quick work of putting together a survey time estimate. After creating a project in the intended location/zone, create or…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 7 | October 2021 SonarWiz contains many individual capabilities. This alone makes it powerful software. These capabilities can be combined in various ways to extend that functionality. In this article I will go over one such use where I…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 6 | July 2021 In version 7.07.05 of SonarWiz, we added the ability for sidescan users to track the far-field of their data in post processing in order to remove erroneous data that was captured during the…
In the latest version of SonarWiz, processing bathymetry just got a little easier. (In my opinion, of course). Editing data is relatively straightforward, finding those soundings that are “flyers” or “anomalies”, which as hydrographers, we determined are invalid and need…
Chesapeake Times, Vol 6 | July 2021 When real-time kinematic (RTK) corrections are available in the survey area, it is possible to achieve sub-decimeter vertical positioning of the sonar system without the need to apply tides or vessel squat measurements….
Chesapeake Times, Vol 6 | July 2021 New for SonarWiz 7.8.0 – we are adding the ability to utilize Tide data to correct Sub-Bottom sonar data. In addition to Tide data we are also adding a Starting Elevation value for each…