Side scan Sonar and Magnetometer How to do it Manual
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1. 42 D Ce N p AR N N Oo amp Go N LR S Oo amp N ON n N H Ge QN ES ES ea EE Ea Pn P P E E offal all oo SIE Os I SA f Oli XO 00 OS l SA f 4 021 1 J CA gt QN www Go Go CA 43 22 LN I Oo ON O2 ON Ge BOB Software BOB is a new Marine Magnetics magnetometer software that I have not yet tried Watch this space SonarWiz SonarWiz is a software program that allows for integrating side scan magnetometer fathometer and GPS It is probably the main software package we would use as it integrates all the aspects and is quite user friendly It only works with a dongle To start with read the software manual SonarWiz_UserGuide pdf You will have to insert the dongle before starting the SonarWiz LAPTOPS ensure that you have none of the COMS ports connected If you are starting a new survey set the COMs Ports to the correct settings LAPTOPS do this before connecting the USBs as before insert GPS first then Side scan this is not a COMs connector simply a USB cable then the Magnetometer COMs connectors Then you know that GPS is COM3 Mag is COM4 and if you connect a fathometer that will be COM5 for PCs the COMs ports are set and fixed and you do not have to worry about settings apart from knowing what device is connected to what COMs port When the p2. Power and Comm see below arine agnetics E ITTEIT E a TD a When connected to the power supply the Power LED is illuminated when it is communicating with the fish the Comm LED flashes There are a few issues with the magnetometer Start up the SeaLINK software and see if the magnetometer is working You may be asked for registration details which are Name Registered User Company Western Australian Museum and Serial Number 25220604 You should locate the towfish far away from any big iron objects cars etc and away from any non ferrous metal c 1 m On a pole is OK or on a plastic crate on the grass somewhere Open SeaLINK and set Port 1 to 6 for the computer or 4 for a laptop because the Magnetometer will have taken following the navigation that has COM3 check the SeaSpy ITB and uncheck Read Depth Port 2 should be set to a large number 10 and ITB and Depth unchecked and the Baud rate 9600 Do not enable NMEA GPS if you are operating the Explorer by itself in the case of a laptop the COMs Port will be and baud 9600 OK that and you should see a brief identification message in the message window the bottom window in SeaLINK Check everything is working by sending a Command D from the Command Menu This gives signal current in the first column which should be between 0 and 255 nominally less than 10 in operating environment The second column is battery voltage and the third the te
3. aberi Tar ae FO Comm da Ter n pie AE fee Doy cem camem The first step is top configure the Navigation input In the main window under the Data Acquisition Tab there is the Navigation button Press this and you will get the screen above Enable Nav IO Input source NMEA NMEA Record Types should be GGA and set the Serial Port to the correct port number and Serial Port Configuration to 9600 baud 8 Data Bits 1 Stop Bit Parity None Miscellaneous check Formatted Navigation File which will store incoming navigation data in a file Do not check Use SonarWiz Computed Speed Check Compute Towfish Position OK that Now configure the Side scan In the main window under Data Acquisition select the Side scan button and you should get the Select Sonar Interface window shown below 12 V Pis Sarees _ ce The Current Side scan Server should be LOCAL Marine Sonic HDS and the SubBottom should be blank because we are not using one The Local Server window AutoStart sould be selected and Marine Sonic HDS Server Ver 5 00 002 should be selected Ignore the rest Select Start Configure in the Side scan and you should get the following window Wer Hamm Imom irti ihal Fic LE EL E at bere c m Piz EFE edie Gents XU Deme 7 WA S ie This shows the MSTL STU V1 0 selected and various other boxes and windows showing stat
4. Note on occasions the STU towfish fuse has blown so there is no power Check the fuse with a multimeter in the yellow case and replace if necessary 250mA fuses Sea Scan Survey HDS In Sea Scan Survey program make sure the waterfall screen is visible see below The interface can be quite muddled with 9 different screens in the View menu you can close everything except the Menu Bar that you will need If by accident the Menu Bar has disappeared too this can be restored by putting cursor on Sea Scan Survey bar at the top of screen that is blue and pressing Alt PC or Option Mac key This should bring back the Menu Bar with File View Tools and Help Now do the following Right click the waterfall see below ML dil dei You now need to do the following 1 In the box that appears Click Sonar Interface Select Standard Topside Unit If button says Start click it if it says Stop then its already connected Atbottom rightofscreen SONAR Status should change from Red to Yellow to Green and read Sonar Connected The system is now connected Now activate the navigation right click the waterfall and select the NMEA Data input Click on Navigation and Fathometer and you will see NMEA Data Input and Plotter Click on NMEA and the screen will show Available Ports and Open Ports If it is in the Open it is best to reconfigure it just in case Select it and click the Remove button It now should be in
5. USB Serial Port COM3 and other Keyspan Ports if they are connected the Printer Port is irrelevant If the Keyspan USB is not there try unplugging the USB connector from the computer and plugging it in again after a few seconds the Ports list should refresh and you should see the USB Keyspan If this does not happen you have a driver problem Go to the Universal Serial Bus controllers in the Device Manager and you should see a Keyspan USB Serial Adapter If it is not there then you will need to reinstall the Keyspan driver Look for USA 19HS application that installs the driver and install the Keyspan driver Sometimes there is an exclamation mark or symbol next to the serial adapter icon indicating the driver has a problem You can open the Keyspan USB Serial Adapter and in Driver tab select Update Driver That should resolve the problem On the Mac side all of the above are options apply but first in VMFusion Menu bar select Virtual Machine and scroll down to USB and Bluetooth and check that the Keyspan is connected to the PC side It should say Disconnect Keyspan USA 19H meaning it is connected to the PC side if it says Connect Keyspan USA 19 H it means that the Keyspan is connected to the Mac side and need to be connected to the PC side so click that Plugging in the Keyspan USB connector usually defaults to the PC side but on occasions it will ask if you want to connect to the Mac or Windows or occasionally it will automatically connect to Mac s
6. the Available Select it set Baud Rate to 9600 if it is the Trimble or 4800 if its Garmin and click Add Press the Test button and you should see the Test Communications screen with Latitudes appearing in the strings 7 Click on File menu and select New from the drop down menu Enter the name of the survey in the Enter Name for This should be the place then entre the data file prefix asa YYYMMDD You can add a description if you wish 8 Open the Sonar Control Window from the View Menu 9 Select the frequency you wish to use 300 KHz or 900 KHz and press the Sonar Power ON button 10 Carry out a rub test for both high and low frequencies To close down turn power OFF in the Sonar Control Window In File Menu select Close which will save all the data Turn off STU and disconnect power cable from battery DO NOT UNPLUG ANYTHING BETWEEN THE TOWFISH AND STU WHILE CONNECTED TO 12 VOLT BATTERY Marine Magnetics Explorer The Marine Magnetics Explorer consists of a towfish 30 m cable SeaLINK software and isolation transceiver box IT B which has 3 connections for the battery Power see below COMS Port COM and towfish cable FISH To start the magnetometer connect the towfish to cable the cable to the interface box the ITB to 24 volt battery supply 2 small 12 volt gel cells and the COMs cable to the computer Read the Explorer Operation Manual v121R pdf To set this up connect all the above The ITB box has two LEDs
7. Side scan Sonar and Magnetometer How to do it Manual Jeremy Green Shim Pin Halpin Tow Connector y Transducer Aft Safety Cable Shackle Keel parer the body Ring Fin Report Department of Maritime Archaeology Western Australian Museum No 206 2013 Introduction The system consists of four hardware components and a suite of software This manual is intended a guide to setting the system up and working it on Seaspray or any other vessel Hardware components 1 Computer thatcan be the PC desktop mounted in the remote sensing consol or a laptop of PC or Mac version 2 Marine Sonic Sea Scan HDS High Definition Sonar consisting of a dual frequency 300 900 KHz tow fish a tow weight 2 two cables 30 m and 100 m a Standard Topside Unit STU interface box power cable and the software to run the Sea Scan is Sea Scan Survey 3 Marine Magnetic Explorer overhauser magnetometer consisting of a tow fish 50 m cable electronics box and Sea Link software 4 Trimbel OmniStar Omnilight 132 with antenna power supply and control box 5 Computer either a desktop PC the usula boat configuration a Mac with VMFusion or a PC Laptop all loaded with necessary software which includes 1 Sea Scan Survey 2 SeaLink 3 SonarWiz 4 AgRemote 5 HyperTeminal COMs Port Issues If you are using the desktop PC it has four COMs ports 3 4 5 amp 6 on two additional plug in cards and an array o
8. eis im A MERI jme 118 B 709 a aret ir B mm pron a hh eee uU Til d TIERA Es c i eg I vh l i neve Ina pi b 1 sre purs up y Pri vee Ree TRE kee ea ed sert Fur a yu og i TIT Or Y grita iB Hr 115 4 me LETT m Speer IRE OT 87 BOR M qus si we TY i TUE 9 ee Pek ae ism 5 xn Note this has the GGA and the VTG with the E 2 meaning you have DGPS If you have garbage funny symbols or no real text that makes any sense then the OmniLight is configured incorrectly so go back and follow the instructions for setting up OmniLight with AgRemote Garmin Setup This is pretty simple the hand held instrument has an external antenna and a communications cable Mount the antenna on the roof or a high point Switch the machine on press Page button to navigate to page that has Settings icon Select settings and press Enter and navigate to Interface and press the Enter button The Serial Data Format should be NMEA In NMEA Out if it is not then change to that setting Note baud rate is 4800 and can NOT be changed so Navigation interface on software packages should be changed accordingl
9. et the COMs port for each program every time you start up To do this remove all USBs from the hub and connect the hub to the computer Then connect the USB coming from the OmniLite KeySpan This will then allocate COMS to the Keyspan COMs Port 1 amp 2 sometimes already taken in hardware do not really exist and are thus irrelevant The next COMs hardware item you connect to the Hub via a Keyspan will then be allocated COM 4 and so on So to ensure you know what the COMs port is for each piece of equipment make sure that you connect in the sequence OmniLite COM3 Magnetometer etc in that order We do this because the software programs remember which COMs Port it was last connected to so by doing it this way we always know that the same hardware will always be connected to the same COMs Port Because the side scan does not use a COMs port but connects directly via a USB connection it does not come into this Keyspan Issues Keyspan can be a bit of a problem at times usually it is to do with the computer not recognising the Keyspan This can happen on a PC or on a Mac on the PC side If you are having problems on a PC with the COMs port not recognising the Keyspan go to the Start menu Right Click Computer and select Manage In the Computer Management List select Device Manager Click on box against Ports COM amp LPT and you will see a list of ports usually Communications Ports COM 1 COM2 and you should have Keyspan
10. f USB ports In general the GPS OmniStar Data port A is in COMs Port 3 Data Port B will be COMs 4 Garmin GPS is COMs 5 and the Magnetometer is in COMs 6 If you are going to use a fathometer this will have to plug into a COMs port probably remove the Garmin from COMs 5 The Sea Scan HDS plugs into a USB port There really should not be a problem as long as you know which peripheral is plugged into which port If you are using a laptop they generally do not have COMs ports so read Laptops below Laptops Because most modern laptop computers do not have COMs ports a Keyspan adapter is needed convert COMs port connections to USB so that it can then be connected to a USB port on a laptop Also because laptop and computers usually only have two USB ports a USB Hub may also be needed that will allow up to four USB connections to connect to a single USB port on the computer In general the only requirement is that there is a Keyspan connector to convert COMs ports for the GPS magnetometer and fathometer into USB connections and an additional USB port for the side scan The Keyspan connections are a little tricky because each COMs connector via a Keyspan is allocated a new COMs port number on the computer in no particular order so when everything is connected to the hub there is generally no way of knowing what COMs Port number is allocated to what device It is useful to allocate the same port number to each software program rather than having to res
11. g like this Home screen 2519 File Help Trimble e e ESC nter Up Down Right Left Pd Keys The D 3D on the Home screen means that you have differential signal Remember buildings can screen the OmniStar satellite so ensure that you have a clear view of the sky when doing this The gives number of satellites If that is OK you can close AgRemote and continue the set up of the side scan However before setting side scan it is worth checking that the system is using the correct protocol You can do this in AgRemote but it is advisable not to because of the danger of resetting the OmniLight The simplest is to go to HyperTeminal and check the data is coming through correctly you should see text rather than lots of funny symbols For HyperTerminal see below If it is not working correctly OmniLight needs to be reconfigured see below In the worst case scenario if for some reason the OmniLite fails to work it is always useful to carry a backup which is a Garmin GPS see Garmin Setup below Configuration of communication protocol on OmniLight In order to set the correct communications protocol the baud rate parity and stop bits must match the normal operating settings To do this remove the COMs connector from Port A and plug it into Port B This allows us to change the settings on Port A and to be sure the settings are properly saved Select Connect from the File Menu and in the Settings se
12. he Control Panel Appearance and Personalization Display Screen Resolution as shown below qc BB Contre Panel Appearance and Personalzason Digia Sereen Resolunen n erd eae Change the appearance el your displays Hee Mane i4 deplayr Extend these depay Thun a riam enr our ron aiT Arce sert Connect t a prageectee ores the I oes and tas bake text and other Geers langer or smaller fat Ga eee piu moe Screen 2 should be moved to above screen 1 as shown below The DGPS The GPS DGPS is the essential part of the operation Currently we are using a Trimble OmniLite which is a simple unit providing position data coming in NMEA sentences but can be a real pain to configure if you dont know how to do it The NMEA sentences give position and course and are accepted by the software programs to provide position information It is worth remembering that there are lots of different NMEA sentences but the ones we need are GGA and VTG do not select any others as they are not necessary The OmniLite can be setup using the program AgRemote The system is mains powered and is turned on by pressing the On Off button on the front of the unit See below 311i S TR COrrnndLiftse T2 On the rear of the unit is the power input socket the aerial socket and two data ports A amp B always use A The reason for two ports is that yo
13. ide depending if someone has checked the button to always connect to the Mac Monitor issues The desktop computer and laptops have an option to connect to a second screen which is a great advantage when dealing with multiple windows that most of the programs you will be dealing with have Sometimes there are slight problems with this On the desktop PC it is pretty straightforward having two separate screens see PC screens below For laptops on the Mac go to VMFusion on the Mac side and in the VMFusion menu View menu there is an option for a single screen which means you can have the PC side open on one screen and other Mac programs open on the second screen In Full Screen the PC is on both screens and there is no Mac side visible In this situation on Seaspray where the laptop is below the second screen it is useful that the cursor moves upwards off the laptop onto the second screen and not appear out of some other side of the screen which can be really confusing The configuration setup for the position of the screens has to be done on the Mac side using System Preferences Displays Arrangement Here you can move the screens around to this configuration Also when you are back on the PC side in VM Fusion remember if you should need to access the Mac side you can do this by moving the cursor to where the dock is and the dock will appear It is useful to keep the dock at bottom of the main laptop screen and the second screen above In a PC computer t
14. lect Auto Port Configuration and ensure you have correct COMs port number note it is set to look at what is connected to COMs port 3 This will allow AgRemote to communicate with the OmniLite no matter what the communication settings are Note in the figure below shows what the settings should look like Settings Use Serial Link v Auto Port Configuration Fort Baud 5600 z Connection Parity None z Connect at start up Diagnostic Logging Lag amp g1 32 Enable Options Pretix ja Directory Browse OK that and you should get the AgRemote screen press the lt button you should get to the Configuration X Use CanBus Link Cancel Can Fort Por 0 Bus 5peed 250 Bps screen shown below By pressing the v button first to Enter Configuration and then the button until you get to you will get to the screen shown below which allows the configuration of Port A Remember you are working through Port B Press the v button and you will get the following screen with the correct settings If the screen is different in any way it needs to be edited to match Agirr 1 AL alzi xj Fie Fe Note I means Input that is data coming FROM the computer to the OmniLite and usually this is irrelevant By using the and buttons you can scroll around the screen to the place where you want to make a change and change for example what is af
15. mperature of the electronics Once deployed send Command 1 which will give fastest sampling rate of 4 Hz Occasionally the magnetometer gets a bit lost and asks you to set the Julian day This can be obtained from table below It is usually formatted 2013jjj where JJJ is Julian Day given in 3 figures thus 001 or 012 or 234 10 2 9 12 Julian Day Calendar Julian Day Calendar Leap years Regular years 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 anfFebiMarfApriViay un juifAugSeplOct Nov Dee_ Tan Feb Miar a priMfay_fun FullAuglSep Oct Nov Dec 33 1630733 3 3 e2 93 123 154 184 215 46276 307 537 a a 35 64 95 125 156 186 217 p48 78 309 53 79 310 34 e e 37 66 97 127 58 188219 250080 311 54 JEE 80131334 9 40 69 100 130 I61 191 222 253083 314 I SIS 851316 86 317 87 318 8 319 89320 90 321 91 322 35 92323 93324135 94325 25132633 96 327 97 328 35 os 329 99 330 TENE 011332136 02333 03 334 1 119 149 180 210 24112721302 333 363 30 90 I21 151 182212 243 274 04 335 89 120 150 81 211 24212731303 34 364 ips i eaa bol Bebi 1 9o isi poel Bod 65 N N Oo 2 N O H El o2 N uA m est ISl ots Sl elsel sea nl Go Oo Qo Go Go Go Go Go
16. rogram starts up you will see checking licenses window If not it will get an evaluation request that means it has not recognised the dongle If this happens it will be necessary to check the USB Controllers in the Device manager see above 11 V dus me Ooh terre umm a ersaat sings Chr rata yeh Liane irs So Cokes FP aliene naa iets bald Pone oue Meer Cart Mesas ITHE You can either open an existing project or start a completely new project by clicking on New in the File drop down Menu You will get the above window Fill in the vessel s name and the Project Name with prefix YYYYMMDD and nominate the folder where this will reside Ihe Approximate Project Position can either be filled in manually obtained from Get From File from the GPS if it is connected or from Select from World Cities Coordinate source should be Auto and smoothing 300 and Coordinate System Auto selected In the main window under Data Acquisition there should be three flashing icons in the bottom bar showing that recording sonar and Navigation are not configured as per below am lt 4 P sar rw e rem Dark 8 la weder iT xm Lari Posi Celia rer uacuum ur iis uacuum EAT let Data mu Fea a ju Fe 7 Tcv Fi la sa f Dii nn di sae opm Sins Min nid T orari Carm ml ni ris rada Ei
17. ter the I to TSIP The communication protocol is 8N1 and finally the O Output is NMEA and 9600 By using the and v buttons to change the setting so they match the screen above Now press the lt and that will enter the settings Next press the v button and you will see the following NMEAI screen AgRemate 11 DPJ 1 li xi Pie Help Ensure that GGA is in uppercase activated and all rest are lowercase deactivated Now press the and that will enter the settings Next press the v button and you will see the following NMEA2 screen 1 Bose Pile Ensure VTG is uppercase and rest are lower case Press the and exit the screen Close AgRemote return the data cable to Port A You should now have the OmniStar set up to the right configuration and ready to work via Port A HyperTerminal You can check if the OmniLight is working properly by using HyperTerminal a simple communication package Open the program you will see following screens Connection Description Enter a name and choose an icon for the connection Name Give the connection a random name OK and the next screen is the protocol screen Select connection COMG and in Settings set 9600 8 None 1 OK and you now should see the data stream from the OmniLite as shown below IE EN Bi 1 seas 17 iia vom NA Y irs LI Li Bw 57 8 8 8 wr m
18. u can configure it with Port B and this does not disrupt or effect Port A until the settings are saved So do all AgRemote configuration with data cable plugged into Port B and then connect to Port A There is a OmniLite instruction manual OmniLite132 doc user manual pdf The system should be set so that the communications interface is 9600 N 1 meaning 9600 baud No Parity and one stop bit In general the other software packages are set up with the same protocol that will ensure that they can all communicate correctly Once the protocol is configured it should in theory always remain the same There is an AgRemote Software instruction manual AgRemote pdf Unless something odd happens to the unit or you have to set up a new unit these settings should remain the same Ihe only problem I have found is that occasionally there seems to be a bad connection in the power socket and it needs to be wiggled and occasionally it resets itself and thus does not communicate properly If the unit is not responding properly you need to reset the PortA configuration see below To start operations the antenna must be connected the communications cable connected to Data A via the Keyspan if you are using a laptop as described in COMs Port Issues above and the OmniLite powered up The Data Port A light should then start flashing showing the system is working Open AgRemote select Connect from the File Menu select the COMs port and check that the screen shows somethin
19. us of Side scan Press the Connect button and this should fire up the system Note this is where you set the resolution set 12 bit as preferred option sonar range set depending on High or Low Frequency Low frequency set maximum range to no more that 400 m and on High Frequency about 50 m Occasionally screens do not appear for one reason or another the screens are to be found in View Data Acquisition Views where there is a list On occasions when opening a particular View it does not appear In this case use the Help Restore Window Locations so the open windows will all appear and you can move them around Magnetometer set up The Magnetometer is set up by selecting the Magnetometer button in the Data Acquisition menu The following window will appear 13 Check the enable Serial IO and set COMs Port The type is Marine Magnetics Standard and set the Serial Port configuration as discussed earlier Check Record magnetometer data box and click File Format Default Fathometer set up This is a bit more complicated because the data has to come from the Furuno GP 18070F plotter echo sounder or equivalent In this case it is necessary to find out what the Baud Rate is of echosounder set COMs Port and select NMEA DBS You will have to play with this one a bit to get it to work 14
20. y The Marine Sonic HDS Side Scan Sonar The side scan comes with a tow fish 2 cables 30 m and 100 a tow weight a Standard Topside Unit STU a USB pig tail a power cable and the Sea Scan Survey software It is recommended that before using the side scan you read the manuals Sea Scan HDS Quick Start Manual pdf Sea Scan Survey Software Manual v2 5 0 pdf Standard Topside Unit Operators Manual v2 0 1 pdf Standard Towfish Operators Manual v1 2 0 pdf and Towed System Operators Manual v1 1 0 pdf Probably the Software Manual is the most useful but the Quick Start manual is useful for an equipment overview REMEMBER DO NOT PLUG OR UNPLUG ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TOWFISH AND THE STU WHEN THE STU POWER IS ON Follow the connection instructions in the Sea Scan HDS Quick Start Manual The yellow Power Cable connects to a 12 volt battery The sequence from the start should be 1 Plug the towfish cable into towfish tighten with spanner and connect tow point on the fish to the cable 2 Connect the STU to the computer with the STU s USB cable Plug the pigtail cable into the STU Plug the towfish cable into the pigtail Connect the yellow power cable to the 12 volt battery Plug the yellow power cable into the STU Open Sea Scan Survey program Turn ON the STU However if the system has been used before and is all connected up simply attach the towfish cable to the towfish as in 1 above Connect yellow cable to battery and turn on the STU
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