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1. Classification v Classificatio Add Move Up Moves the selected layer above the Contacts previous file within the Neural Nets heading Remove All Move Down Moves the selected layer below KM D I 99 poy the succeeding file with the Neural Nets heading Add Adds an existing neural net to the project and Map View 13 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Remove Removes the selected layer from the project Remove All Removes all sub layers from the current tree node Basic colors Rename Allows users to rename an existing neural net that is in the file tree Edit Text WEN d S S L EERE BEER E EEEN EEE EEANN BEERS ILR Edit Color Opens color dialog for changing the color of the neural net class Right clicking on the Classification layer or any of its sub layers will give the following options Classification ClassificationGnid1 Color Settings Contacts Export Remove Background Info GeoTiff Data Weatt_POM2 Zoom to Extents Encode Demo Version Color Settings Opens following window for changing background color opacity and line drawing settings Color Attributes Opacity e J z Line Drawing 1 Pixel m Sold Move to Top Moves the selected layer to the first position within the Classification heading 14 Page February 2011 yp TRITON
2. D S IR bk LE E Dn R E 8 kd Oh A ki Ne 6 10 Waterfall Tools 6 10 1 Bottom Tracking Before a sidescan mosaic can be made the sonar altitude must be known to properly remove the water column data from the results MosaicOne comes with a bottom tracking tool that allows a user to automatically generate the bottom track and save it for use during data processing The following image shows a sidescan waterfall window with data that is not yet bottom tracked The bottom track will show up in two ways First there will be a red line following the water bottom in the waterfall image which is not seen above Also there will be altitude data 151 Page February 2011 Vy TRITON displayed in the Sensor Data information Shown below is a 0 0 value for Altitude indicating there is no bottom tracking information in the file Sensor Data Sonar Range To start the bottom tracking tool select the toolbar button _ or the menu option as shown below Heading Speed At End of File Go To Depth Altitude Scroll Forward Page Up Scroll Back Page Down Bottom Track This launches the Bottom Track Tool window as shown below Zi 7 ee 5 ie Bias 5 CECR ai ot Si AE Wa SE Standard Color Bottom Tracking bel ShowB ottomT rack Method Of Lei Level 0 V Compress i 7 Overlap Channel 1 Haldoff Delta J C Auto Update XTF Delta Sensitivity Filter
3. ars S A z i D re t lt A e KE H Se Ze e 8 R E a gt K i a Yr we by the operator selecting areas in the mosaic of differing bottom type e g sand rock mud etc Training of the classifier neural network then proceeds thru an automated statistical analysis of the selected samples and a characterization of each type The following classification stage is a completely automated process where the entire mosaic image is segmented into the different classes Results of the classification are displayed overlain on the mosaic image with each area colored or optionally with vector line boundaries around each area Output from SeaClass can be the DXF boundary vectors or a GeoTIFF mosaic image with the displayed color coded areas iv Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC TABLE OF CONTENTS PERSPECTIVE sirsiran 1 TRITON IMAGING INC siscssscecscscsvuesceuasscinsactvoawienstudssavexeuwsanasedsrersenewceusdosssassbeaviseadataceuesveyouedverniestceeseenetaees l WELCOME TO TRITON PERSPECTIVE eegene II TABLE ee ei RE KC V 1 SOFTWARE INTERFACE aacisvvegceccsyes cnatnwunspaaneeseneunasseses E eas enevencaseccress coune pea teaguedeenaaumuaseeees 1 BB IVA leie e E 1 11 1 Main WIRGOW LOY EE 1 L2 Man ee Et 2 Aides ee Ree ee 4 12 TINFORIMIATIONNONS E 6 Le CUS Ee 6 TF COSC TO EE 6 EE 7 DEE te IG cara crestor E DA T E E E A nasi A E E E E E AA A A T 7 PETR ee 8 EE 8 Le EE 9 EE EE ee 12 Dy Cs Ee 15 EE EE
4. 0 8 lt E 625290 od 62527800 This image shows the line relocated to the northeast by 245 24 meters The display also shows the horizontal X displacement and the vertical Y displacement The line Opacity can also be adjusted to see through the selected line in order to better align the line to features in the adjacent sidescan lines Toolbar buttons are available to zoom in and zoom out of the window view Select OK when finished with moving the line This will force the regeneration of the mosaic incorporating the new line position into the mosaic 6 7 Remove Line This option is only available at the sidescan data line file tree level as shown below and allows the user to remove a line from inclusion in the sidescan mosaic layer Imagery E Sidescan dE 06 09 1999 6101 mosaic BROGOO 3 BROGOOS BROGOOY BROGOO BROGOO BROGOOS Geo Reference GDL Settings Force Regeneration View Waterfall ES ES ES SES ES ES SE Move line ral Selecting this option will only remove the line from the mosaic and not remove the line from the project The following dialog box will appear after selecting this option asking if the user is sure about doing this 138 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Perspective Has A Question Are you Sure you want to remove Reference Line BAD GUUS from Mosaic Layer 8101 mosaic Do not ask me again Selecting Ye
5. Edit GSF Using Upon selecting this option the Bathy Wizard opens so that the user can apply any edits flags made to the GSF file For more information about the Edit GSF tool visit Section 5 4 24 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Re merge DTM Applies user corrections and line changes to the DTM For more information about the Re Merge DTM tool visit Section 5 5 Batch Export to GeoTiff Allows the user to export all bathymetry DTM s in the file tree to GeoTiff imagery files Export KML Exports a KML file of the selected bathymetry DTM file s Export XYZ Allows the user to export the selected bathymetry DTM in the file tree to an ASCII XYZ file A B Subtracts co registered DTMs to look for changes to bathymetry This algorithm does a direct pixel to pixel comparison at each grid node For more information about the Bathy A B tool visit Section 5 10 2 Blink Comparator Toggles a sidescan layer on and off at a set cycle rate to get a visual comparison of the same location in two different sidescan layers or mapping events Blink Comparator tJ LayerOn LayerOff Cycle J 1000 ms Change Detection Subtracts co registered DTMs to look for changes to bathymetry This algorithm differs slightly from the A B algorithm in that it also includes a statistical neighborhood approach to account for mis registration between layers Operating the Change Detection tool is the same as the A B tool Statisti
6. Geo Reference GRL Settings Opens the Force Regeneration Mosaic Wizard and allows changes to be View Waterfall made to the Line Settings page Move line Remove 22 Page T TRITON IMAGING INC Force Regeneration Rebuilds the mosaic using the current settings View Waterfall This option is available on the XTF layer level and will open a waterfall viewer Move Line This option allows the user to move an individual line of sidescan data to align features on adjacent lines in the mosaic Remove Allows the user to remove the data file from the DTM Perspective will prompt the user to confirm before removing the selected file 1 3 7 2 Bathymetry TIN amp TPE The bathymetry imagery file tree layer is where the DTM files that are imported or created from raw data are managed Ain Bathymetry Node The options shown in this image are Color Settings available by right clicking on the Bathymetry node Histogram Color Settings Allows the user to change the color characteristics of the bathymetry imagery Changing the settings at this level affects the color settings for all s ort by bathymetry layers Rebuild using Histogram This is the graphical representation of the Re merge DTM imagery signal level in dB versus the occurrence of that dB within the image Changing the settings at this Batch Export GeoTiff level affects the histogram for all bathymetry layers
7. IMAGING INC GZ Le O EE VE 128 6 2 2 MOSQICONE Wizard Overview 129 6 2 3 Choose Create Mosaic Loyer 129 624 CHOOSE IVIOSGIC SEUNG CN 130 6 2 5 Select Order Input Les 132 6 2 6 Choose Te ee E 133 o TRE VERGE VOC ee 135 Eege 135 Gro FORCE REGENERATION a etenassantcinepotentednoasacentosettqaaneakeasesbeosebadeetdmatoiali nano gatcunnetaetiodanasuteasansdenenasetemneanandarmonpntecnch 136 oo e Eege eebe eege 137 e REMOVE Meet 138 Os VIS UA AN Tel e aa ce eeee steers cnesacenseet aaa sceteesecavenc ened oiene este sae eceetecee ta cane eae N seer scweccwincenscueeces 139 EENEG EEE 139 G62 Mosaik Ee eer EE 140 EM 142 Fe Wateral MOGUC seniii enii naea EENE AA E EATE coun aan sae va nt A A aAA e 142 6 9 2 Waterfall e TEEN 144 6 9 3 Waterfall Menu Options sooosnaneossneneessenneessernessreressserressserressreresssreresssreressrereesseeresssrrressrerresseereee 145 EELER 147 6 9 5 Waterfall Information Displays cccccsseesecccssesseccenneesecescsussecescausecessaueecsssauseeesssaunsecsssaueeecsssaaseeseas 147 EE EE ee 148 eyes ee E ET 150 MO WATERFALL Ve KE 151 6 10 1 Bottom Trackin cerren ranri neinna AOE NOE E EEAO AE EO 151 6 10 2 Slant Range get el E 155 ER Tel E 156 6 104 Waterfall FISTOGIOIM vriccccasoxsecasiavicnarsinaGeasenorssarueat soe siuaieccacesdeesanevynetstentesaabousuasntes eedaaeaiessenenseeeabiaicee 156 TEE E E 158 OO eer EE 159 OVE I GU ee 162 EATER PRETATION OPTION sates aceoicteieicresctracenorteerjeicn AER
8. February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Selection Color Allows the user to identify the color which the selected line will change to in order to identify it as being successfully selected in the map directory Collapse to Roots Quickly collapse the tree to the major headings A plus sign will be assigned in front of those headings which have additional data in their hierarchy Expand All Allows the user to quickly expand all directories within the map root A negative sign will be assigned in front of those headings which are fully expanded Open Project Allows the user to open a project from the tree diagram This has the same functionality as the File gt Open Project pathway New Project Allows the user to create a new project from the tree diagram This has the same functionality as the File gt New Project pathway Info Gives the user a Window on the Project File contents The project file has the file extension proj xml and is an XML file Advanced users could edit this file directly using any XML file editor 1 3 2 The Annotation Tree This layer includes information that is user defined in the Map View The annotation layer has three sub layers Regions Grid and User The Regions layer provides one click access to different preset map zoom levels that are commonly used for quickly navigating around the Map View The Grid layer provides options for changing the projection grid color and
9. Mf Multibeam Fa lm 06 09 2 11 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC the User heading Move Up Moves the corresponding annotation above the previous annotation within the User heading Move Down Moves the corresponding annotation below the successive annotation within the User heading Remove Allows the user to remove the annotation from the Map View and Tree View Info Provides the projected position of the annotation 1 3 3 SeaClass Tree The SeaClass layer contains three sub layers as shown in the image below SeaLlass Manual Training Manual Training where training data points are stored H Training Set 1 Sand Neural Nets for displaying the neural nets generated sil from the training data Classification includes the results of the classification process Right clicking on the Manual Training layer or any of its sub layers will give the following options IRIN NIRS fs ch LD OO d OOS whe amp 0 a Neural Nets Manual Training I Neural Net 1 Training Set 1 Sand EEE Vis SECH Silt Train Neural Net vie on Classification Edit Training Set ClassificationGrid1 Resample Remove Remove All Export IIIS SIE I SIs fs b 0D OO 0 OT a Gu MN ek amp 0 Neural Nets Neural Net 1 kel 7 Sand r mmm rie 12 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Color Available at the class file tree level O
10. Snippets If the data contains this information then leaving the box checked will generate both a DTM and imagery from the FTS data in the GSF file 911Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC This type of data requires a great deal of processing and the size of the XTF files can be very large Unless there is a requirement for snippet imagery the box should be unchecked HTF Generate HTF Check this box and hit Settings to save an HTF file Available settings are shown in the window below HTF Settings Classification of Data Hydrographic Data Survey Title Demo Data Data Custodian Triton Survey Plathorm Reson 8101 Logging System Isis DUupv eupt Bob Data Volume 100 Survey Date ff 172010 kd Total olumes 10 Scale 1 1 Survey Identification 12345 Density 1 pikel meter General Locality Australia Coordinate System UTM one 565 Sounding Datum WoS D Enter the requested information and select OK when finished Hit Next to continue to the Raw Processing dialog 5 2 7 Raw Processing This page of the processing wizard as shown below includes POS navigation and TPE processing plus options for transducer selection and attitude correction thresholds 921Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC BathyOne Wizard Raw Processing Precise Timing Architecture Attitude Correction Thresholds On must have POSRAW packets Fitch deg 0 500 On 0 500 Navigation Processing Roll deg i E M
11. T TRITON IMAGING INC The difference DTM created from this process will automatically load into the project and can be found in the Imagery Bathymetry file tree layer Shown below is an example of the area selected for A B calculation The top image shows they are selected and the selection bounding box is in light blue The lower image shows the difference between the top layer which is visible and the layer beneath collected on a previous day i mme oe ae Ao am e m ain e ED fe K o ie sg E ps e 7 TAR sbb et Tes hen s AA fe LE x e T EE e hm qo en en mp wn o De me GE em r a e e yh Kn TH KE km EE b s we n Shown in the image above in red are the only differences identified between 0 3 and 3 0 meters in the area selected as defined by the dashed blue line in the upper image Please note that this requires good co registration between layers and very good motion compensation to limit noise artifacts from appearing in the difference calculation 122 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC 5 10 3 Bathy Change Detection The difference between two layers can be calculated with the Change Detection tool and output as a separate DTM This tool can be used to determine the differences between entire DTM layers and uses the same as dialog as the A B tool This algorithm differs slightly from the A B algorithm in that it also includ
12. Add Allows the user to add data files Remove Allows the user to remove all navigation for a particular line from the Map View It will remove the navigation line from the Multibeam Sidescan and Vessel nodes Info Access XML settings file for viewing the projection file path directory of the vector file ping range in viewer window and other information Zoom to Extents Quick zoom option which zooms to the full extent of the navigation data for Multibeam Sidescan and Vessel nodes 1 3 6 1 Color Settings Selecting this will open the following window Color Attributes E Opacity J 1 0 Line Drawing 1 Pixel w Sold EI 18 Page February 2011 q7 TRITON IMAGING INC Options include e Color click on colored box and select new color from Color window e Opacity slider bar for changing transparency level e Line Drawing line thickness can be changed by selecting left drop down menu line style can be changed be selecting the right drop down menu Line style options include Solid Dash DashDat DashDotDot Dot Color Settings are available for all navigation sub layers 1 3 6 2 Show BeamLines This is only available for sidescan data by right clicking on the individual lines By selecting this option the swath lines for each ping are displayed in the Map View as shown below The line selected is highlighted in light blue and the individual swath lines indicate the swath coverage for that
13. IMAGING INC Move Up Moves the selected layer above the previous file within the Classification heading Move Down Moves the selected layer below the succeeding file with the Classification heading Export This will export the classification results to an AutoCAD DXF file Add Adds an existing classification grid to the project and Map View Remove Removes the selected layer from the project Info Allows the user to view XML info for the selected file Zoom to Extents Quick zoom option to zoom to full extent of selected mosaic 1 3 4 Contacts Tree The Contacts layer contains the contacts and targets identified and saved with TargetOne Contacts classified as targets show up as a different color which can be defined by the user Right clicking on the Contacts layer will give the following options Contacts Sort Ascending Sorts the Contacts in the project by name in ascending order in the file tree E v Sort din S r T Ha SS G Sort Descending Sorts the Contacts in the project by ort Vecendin s e e v i name in descending order in the file tree v Add Add Adds a saved contact to the project and Map View Info Allows the user to view the file location Info datum projection and coordinates of the contact file Right clicking on the region name gives the following options A Contacts Add Adds a saved contact to the project and Map View LR BRDGOO1_10 LR B
14. Move Line Allows the user to move a line in the mosaic to correct for misalignments due to towfish position errors When finished this process automatically rebuilds the mosaic file using the new line location Remove line Allows the user to remove a line from a mosaic in the project Waterfall Viewer Options and Tools Waterfall Viewer This tool allows the user to see the waterfall data from an individual sidescan data file Details of the Waterfall Viewer are discussed in Section 6 9 Playback Contols Used to control the playback of the raw sidescan data in the waterfall viewer Details of the Playback Control options are discussed in Section 6 9 6 Bottom Tracking Necessary to properly remove the water column data from the results Details of the Bottom Tracking options are discussed in Section 6 10 1 Slant Range Corrections Corrects for altitude of the sonar using the bottom tracking results Details of the Slant Range Correction options are discussed in Section 6 10 2 Speed Corrections Necessary to adjust waterfall playback for variations in survey speed Details of the Speed Correction options are discussed in Section 6 10 3 126 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Waterfall TVG Applies a user defined TVG function to the waterfall display Details of the TVG options are discussed in Section 6 10 6 Visualization Options Color Settings Allows the user to change the color characteristics of the sidescan
15. saved file paths must be different Contact Usage The contact enerated from Perspective 8 P Contact Usage Threshold can either be sent to TargetOne Use TargetOne setting Calculate from data TargetOne or to an XML Mosaic file EE sent to paces AE TargetOne will have the Triton Imaging Inc CON file format A contact generated as XML Reset contains the parameters required to queue external programs to areas of interest within the mosaic Included in the XML structure is a link to a geo referenced TIFF file tif tfw that is the snapshot from the Perspective Mosaic XML contacts can contain links to other types of imagery such as AUV mounted optical cameras Threshold Use Target One setting Set the default display threshold using the TargetOne settings Calculate from data Set the display threshold by calculating the value from the data file 74 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Current Contact Number Indicates the contact number that will be given to the next contact generated 3 7 Database Settings On Check this box to turn on the auto load database option Database Path Sets the file path to the project database folder Date Selection Options Recent The user can select the number of days back from the current date by using the Days Back number list Since Date The user can select a range of time using the Start Date field to enter a start date and using the curren
16. the navigation data types available in the navigation file tree section The navigation File Tree structure has several options for changing the way the navigation lines appear in the Map View and several ways to change processing and zoom options For Navigation Tree details see Section 1 3 6 In addition to importing raw data files from the methods described in the Import Methods section navigation data can be added directly from the File Tree by right clicking on any of the navigation layer nodes and selecting Add An example is shown below Navigation D Multibeam gm 06 09 1999 BRDGOO2 mm 06 09 1993 BRDGO01 __ B Sidescan Color Settings 06 03 1333 BRDGOOS 06 03 1993 BRDGOO1 Process Navigation Vessel Reset Navigation SS 06 03 1933 BRDGOO2 m 06 09 1999 BROGOO1 View 33 51 12 12 5 151 12 11 04 E Custom Cursor Selecting this option will bring in all the data from the selected raw file including the navigation data and launch the processing wizard Selecting a navigation line in the File Tree will also highlight that navigation line in the Map View display as a thicker light blue line as shown on the next page 771Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC The image above shows two multibeam navigation lines the thicker blue line is currently selected in the navigation file tree layer and the red line is currently not selected When importing raw data fi
17. 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 10 Depth Scale Mode The cursor modes are described in detail in the following sections 1 5 2 1 Select Mode This option is available when the pointer toolbar button is selected It is the default mode and is used for selecting items in the map view 1 5 2 2 Measure Mode Selecting the Measure toolbar button IR in Perspective map will switch the cursor to the Measure mode for making measurements of features seen in the Map View When using the Measure tool select a starting point on the map by left clicking on the spot and hold the button down while the distance to measure is spanned Once the end point is reached release the mouse button The following window shows how the measured line appears in the map window with the distance annotated on the line Also shown are the results of the measurements in the Measure information tab For Measure Tab details go to Section 1 2 2 Measure Offset Contact Horiz Dist 19 09 m Vert Dist 136 48 m Distance 137 81 m el User LI o Contacts BRDGOOI_10 ha E RDG00IL_11 Jl o zl Navigation lo Tel o Imagery 8 gt Bathymetry o Sidescan dB kel 04 21 1999 k500f zl 06 09 1999 6101_ t H ke ull 36 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 1 5 2 3 Pan Mode This mode allows the user to center the screen over a particular object for using the Zoom In
18. 9 Visualization Options 5 9 1 Color Settings The imagery color settings for bathymetry layers can be changed for individual DTMs on a layer by layer basis or globally for all DTMs depending on which tree node the color settings are selected from Right click on the DTM layer or root bathymetry file tree node and select the Color Settings option as shown below 108 Page February 2011 TRITON IMAGING INC lt Je o Lontacts Color Settings ll Navigation Histograrn Imagery ER Bathymetry 07 01 2010 Sydney Harbor Selecting Color Settings will open the following window Layer Sydney Harbor Settings Transparent Color Opacity y 1 0 Gamma 1 00 Brightness Contrast g SS i Invert A Options available in the Color Settings window are e Transparent Color Checking this box will make the imagery transparent e Opacity Allows the user to change the opacity of the image from O to 1 0 with 1 0 being full opaqueness e Gamma The gamma of an image is a measure of its contrast and brightness By correcting the gamma you can adjust these two elements in unison e Brightness The user can change the brightness of the image A positive number will correspond to a brighter image and a negative number will correspond to a darker image e Contrast Allows the user to change the contrast of the image The contrast of an image is the difference in brightness between due adjace
19. Activate Measure Must be selected to use image measurement tools Toolbar View Menu Advanced Cursor Status Toggle on off the advanced cursor status window indow Toggle on off the image scale bar Polygon Points Toggle on off the polygon points when available 171 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Window Menu Overlaps all contact image windows Tiles all open contact images in main image display window Allows the user to arrange contact images Help Menu About TargetOne Show the about dialog box Show the help table of contents 7 3 3 TargetOne Toolbars Main Toolbar ah Banz 5 Open an existing contact file con tgt tif pcm H Save active contact file asks what file types to save to a Copy 5 Paste amp Print B Hop Zoom Toolbar 172 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Zom to Fit to Window 8 poom in one level 5 Pen out on level 2 Zoom to area e Zom to Fit to Width Cy Zoom to Fit to Height E Lu Zoom Cubic Zoom 8 pan Image Utility Toolbar RE Measurement Tool A oae 3H fadd commentsto TAG270 E Revese Palee 173 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Measurement Toolbar est 7 4 TargetOne Window 7 4 1 TargetOne Window Regions TargetOne has five main regions for displaying imagery and information as described below Image
20. Export KML Export x2 Relief Shading This tool simulates the illumination A B of the sun on the bathymetry data This is a global DEE Change Detection setting and can only be changed at this node level Statistics Move to Top Allows the user to move the Bathymetry imagery to the top of the tree within the Add Lines Imagery node Remove Move Up Allows the user to move the Bathymetry Reset Date imagery to above the previous imagery within the Rename Imagery node Delete Move Down Allows the user to move the Bathymetry F s imagery to below the successive imagery within the Eod Dama iain Imagery node Zoom to Extents ww Sort by Allows the user to sort Bathymetry layers by either Name or Date 23 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Export to GeoTiff Allows the user to export the imagery to a geotiff imagery file Batch Export to GeoTiff Allows the user to export all bathymetry DTM s in the file tree to geotiff imagery files Export KML Allows the user to export a Google Earth KML file Create Allows the user to create a new DTM layer using any of the existing raw data files in the project A new layer name 1s specified then the parameters for the new layer are processed and finally the user can choose which lines to include Add Allows the user to add other mosaic files to an existing project Info Access XML settings file for viewi
21. Restarts the playback from the beginning Go to Next File in Time Starts playback of the next file in time that is in the project Stop Stops playback and pauses at the end of the file Go To Options for how to proceed with the file playback once the end of the file 1s reached The image below shows the available settings File At End of File H Start Home Scroll Forward Page Up End End Scroll Back Page Down Ping Time Bottom Track Next File in Time Alt Page Up Previous File in Time Alt Page Down Start Moves waterfall view to start of file End Moves waterfall view to end of file Ping Moves waterfall view to a ping number entered as shown below 145 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Enter Ping Number Time Moves waterfall view to a selected time as shown below the window indicates time range to select within Time Search Pick Time Mmmum Time Maxinum Time Next File in Time Starts playback of the next file in time that is in the project Previous File in Time Starts the playback of the previous file in time with the project Scroll Forward Starts the waterfall scrolling forward Scroll Back Starts the waterfall scrolling backward Bottom Tracking Opens Bottom Tracking tool Contact Menu Contacts Clear All Bookmarks Sectings Clear All Bookmarks Removes all the target bookmarks from the XTF file Settings Opens the con
22. T TRITON IMAGING INC AR e ng a Projection Definition Projection Azimuthal E quidistant yl To WOS584 Elipse WGS 84 C Define towGS84 PEED Scaling Factor delta x Standard Parallel delta Central Meridian delta Z False Easting rotation 3 False Northing rotation Y Units M eter rotation Z scaling M Enter the appropriate information for the projection to be defined Below is an example with random test data ei Projection Definition Projection Mercator i ToWGS84 Ellipse A ntemational 1909 Hayford C Define to wGS84 Scaling Factor D 999999 delta x Standard Parallel 11 0 delta Y Central Meridian 110 delta Z False Easting 0 rotation False Northing 0 rotation Y Units M eter E rotation Z proj mere lat_0 110 lon_0 110 k 0 999999 x DI scaling M au Us ellps intl units m no_defs To generate the information in the lower left window select the Generate String button Select Done once the projection string has been generated This returns the user to the original window with the projection string generated in the previous window now entered automatically in the Projection String box 69 Page February 2011 KR TRITON IMAGING INC Projection String proj merc tlat_0 110 lon_0 110 k 0 999999 x_0 0 y_0 0 ellps intl units m no_defs EPSG Database _hito spatial reference oa SaveAs Cu
23. TRITON IMAGING INC O LayerOn Lauer On Gi Cycle 1000 ms The options available in the Blink Comparator include Layer On This will turn the selected layer on in the file tree so the layer is displayed in the map view Layer Off This will turn the selected layer off m the file tree so the layer 1s not displayed in the map view Cycle This will turn cycle the layer on and off in the map view at the user set frequency using the slider bar to the right of the Cycle option An example of the use of this tool is presented below The top image is with the selected layer off so the user can see the layer underneath The next image shows the selected layer cycled on showing an object on the bottom surface that was not present in the previously collected data 124 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 5 10 5 Bathy Statistics The statistics that can be calculated from a DTM layer include the following e Allocated Coverage This is the number of square nautical miles which the tiles used to store the data in the DTM layer represent e Actual Coverage This is the number of square meters of the actual ensonified area e Total Lines This is the number of lines included and used in the creation of the DIM layer e Along Track Distance This is the combined along track distance of all lines included and used in the creation of the DTM layer e Depth Range This is the range of depth values in the selected DTM
24. The image above shows three profile lines corresponding to the three DTM layers in the project The user has the option to uncheck the box next to the listed bathy layers in order to turn an individual profile line off from the display The window comes with a display of the cursor position and depth and the option to view continuous lines or discreet points only The cursor display can be customized to show the location in any coordinate system supported by Perspective Map by clicking on the button to the right of the position information and selecting the desired projection and datum This button functions the same as the Custom Cursor options Another feature of the Bathy Profile tool is the connection between the cursor position in the profile view and the cursor position in the map view Shown in the following image is this relationship between profile and map cursor positions which 1s useful for identifying the locations in the map view of features seen in the profile 119 Page February 2011 17 TRITON IMAGING INC Cursor Measure Offset Unprojected Longitude Latitude Age 76 0 cm p North 6252852 03m N East 333924 48mE La 33251 05 65 S B T Lon 151212 17 49 E 33 02m el User E al o Bathy Profile Unprojected Longitude Latitude o DTMs VG DA 4 06 09 1999 8101 Lat mnems ion aE Custom Cursor Depth 44 98
25. View This consists of two parts the main view of the captured target and an overview window showing where on the image the main view is zoomed into Thumbnail View Shows thumbnail images of the contacts saved in the current Perspective project Image Display Controls Controls the display options of the captured image Status Windows Primary display of image information Status Bar In addition to the primary information display there is a status bar of information at the base of the image view window 174 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC SeaClass 8 1 SeaClass Module SeaClass is an add on to MosaicOne which allows users to classify sediment types based on a neural net training set created from bottom sample information and select points or other ground truth methods Supported Formats e TMAP_MOZ Perspective Sidescan mosaic e DDS_VIF Triton Map Visual Information File e TIF GeoTIFF The procedure works with the above file formats and is the same for any of these file types Classification Process Create Training Set Using known bottom types at discreet locations the user can create the training set Details of the Create Training Set process are described in Section 8 2 Neural Net Training This process uses the training set created in the previous step to train the neural net Details of the Neural Net Training process are described in Section 8 4 Classify The neural net is used to deter
26. all layers loaded into Perspective Each layer type has its own right click menu for changing specific settings Data in the Tree View is rendered in the map by compositing the data from bottom to top Custom Cursor This allows the user to display cursor locations using a custom projection February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 1 1 2 Main Window Menus File Menu New Project Open Project Save Project Save Project As Import Export Page Setup Modality Menu Select Measure Pan Zoom Contact Generation SB Interpretation Classification Traini Quick Classification Edit Classification Annotation Bathy Profile Bathy Edit 2 Page Create a new Perspective Project Open an existing Project proj_xml Save your current project proj_ xml Save project with new name proj_xml Primary import menu for recognized types Can also be accessed through standard windows drag and drop Export Geo TIFF and KML files Page setup for printing Print the current project Quit Perspective Map Selection mode Map Measure mode Map Pan mode Map Zoom mode TargetOne or XML Contact Mode Sub bottom Interpretation mode not implemented yet ng SeaClass Classification mode Quick Classification mode Edit Classification mode Annotation mode Bathymetry Profiling mode 3D Area Editor mode not implemented yet February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING A B Digitize Lines and Polygons Display
27. an import projection wizard will launch 3 5 1 Import Projection Settings The import projection wizard is identical for the XTF GeoTiff XYZ and Contact projection settings The default import projection is un projected latitude and longitude in WGS84 When the first file is loaded into a new project the import projection wizard will launch and the projection can be set at that time Alternatively the user can preset the import projection using the Program Settings option described below Selecting Change under any of the top four options in the Projections tab of the Program Settings will launch the import projection wizard shown below Select Import Projection Select Projection ZE Projection Unprojected Longitude Latitude State Plane Universal Transverse Mercator Mercator Transverse Mercator Maramara Cancel On this page select the projection to use If a custom projection is needed select the 64lPage February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Custom button For Custom Projection details see Section 3 5 3 Press the Next button to select additional projection information For this example the correct UTM zone hemisphere and units need to be specified Projection Wizard Select Zone Hemisphere O Noth South Zone 45 DA to 90 Zone 46 96 Zone 47 96 102 Zone 48 102 108 Zone 49 108 114 Zone 50 120 Zone 51 126 Zone 52 132 Zone 53 138 Zone 54 144 Zone 55 14 i 150 Zo
28. and Save In this example we set the Custom Cursor to a Transverse Mercator projection To enter a custom projection select the Custom button in the window to launch the Custom Projection Tool For Custom Projection details go to Section 3 5 3 The projection parameters can be entered here Central Meridian degs 00000000 Ier Ow Standard Parallel degs 0 00000000 GON OS False Easting m oO 0 False Northing m 00 Scaling at Central Meridian 9996 31 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Select the datum here or the Custom button to setup a custom datum Projection Wizard Choose Datum GGRS8 Greek_Geodetic_Reference_System_1987 NADSS North American_Datum_1983 NAD2 North American _Datum_192 potsdam Potsdam Rauenberg 1950 DHDN carthage Carthage 1934 Tunisia hermannskogel Hermannskogel ire65 Ireland 1965 nzgd49 New Zealand Geodetic Datum 1949 OSGB36 Airy 1830 Gauss Boaga AGDEE Australasia Australia and PNG AGDS4 Australia WGS72 Aratu Aratu Datum For Custom Datum details go to Section 3 5 4 1 5 Map View 1 5 1 Moving Around the Map View There are two methods for navigating the Map View These are 1 Zoom Tools 2 Pan Tool Zoom There are several available zoom options including e Zoom Mode e Zoom In e Zoom Out e Zoom 1 1 Zoom Home 32 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC e Zoom
29. can be selected for classification and saving in TargetOne Details on how to collect targets from the waterfall view are described in Section 7 2 1 Map Targets From the Perspective map view targets can be selected from features identified in the mosaics for classification and saving in TargetOne Details on how to collect targets from the map view are described in Section 7 2 2 7 2 Target Selection 7 2 1 Waterfall Targets To select a target from the sidescan waterfall view open a sidescan line in the waterfall viewer Before selecting a target make sure the Contact settings are set either in the main Perspective window settings or from the settings tab in the waterfall window Targets can be selected from the waterfall window while the window is scrolling or while it is paused To enter the target selection mode select the Contact Generation toolbar button This will launch TargetOne and will set the cursor to target mode for acquiring targets from the waterfall window To acquire a target double click in the waterfall window on the feature of interest This will capture an image of the selected target and transfer that image into the TargetOne window 7 2 2 Map View Targets To select a target from a sidescan mosaic in the map view move the mosaic to the top of the file tree layer by using the Move Up or Move to Top options in the Imagery Sidescan file tree layer as described in Section 1 3 7 1 Before sele
30. flags Suppress Beams Outside Angle Suppress beams that fall outside an angle that the user may choose allows potentially noisy outer beams to be rejected Suppress Beams Using Depth Range Suppress beams that fall outside the expected depth range for the survey Suppress Beams Using Gradient Suppress beams that exceed a predetermined value for gradient between adjacent beams Suppress Beams Inside Angle Sonars that use the phase comparison method have very poor data directly below the transducer this option allows that area to be suppressed Suppress Beams Using Slant Range Suppress beams that exceed a predetermined value for slant range For example the sonar range slant range may be set to 100m but all data beyond 80m is noisy Suppress using checksum Suppress beams that do not have the correct number of characters in the ping record Used mainly for serial data where data can be dropped or lost Use with care as some sonar manufacturers do not support this type of error checking and all your data may be flagged as bad Suppress By Beam Number Must check the On box to activate Can select individual beams with a mouse click Selected beams will turn red in the display as shown above and will be flagged as bad for processing If a beam was selected by mistake or if the user wishes to clear the selected beams in this window select the Reser button to deselect all beams The other tab available here is called Attitude Sup
31. have a different data assigned to the DTM such as the processing date there is a tool to accomplish this Right click on the DTM and select Reser Daa as shown below v o Imagery Create i Add Lines ls Bathymetry Add GD 06 09 1999 5101_0TM Remove Ki Reset Date The following window will pop up Date Picker Thursday UU D 200 ae Enter the desired date and select OK when done This will revise the file tree display of the DTM to reflect the new date as shown below Imagery a B athymety Tel 07 01 2010 e107 OTM RI 5 8 Rename The file tree display name for a DTM contains the date in parentheses followed by the file name chosen when it was created as shown in the image below ER Imagery E Bathymetry l t o 0 01 2070 8101_DTM If a user would like to change the file tree display name for a DTM there is a tool to accomplish this 107 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Right click on the DTM and select Rename as shown below Imagery Create Add Lines E Bathymetry dd of oo 07 01 2070 010 D IM oe Je Reset Date Rename The following window will pop up Edit Text Sydney Harbor Enter the desired name and select OK when done This will revise the file tree display of the DTM to reflect the new date as shown below E Imagery d kel o Bathyrnetry o 07 01 2010 Sydney Harbor Kaka 5
32. layer Histogram This is the graphical representation of the imagery signal level in dB versus the occurrence of that dB within the image Interpretation Options Blink Comparator Visual comparison of two overlapping layers is made easy with this tool The Blink Comparator allows the user to quickly turn on off a layer or can be set to cycle a layer on off to help identify differences in the layers The options available in the Blink Comparator are described in detail at Section 6 11 1 Statistics This gives an overview of the data used to create the image including coverage and line statistics Details of the statistics tool and the results displayed are presented in Section 6 11 2 Targeting TargetOne An extensive targeting module for extracting targets from waterfall data and mosaics Options available with TargetOne are presented in Section 6 11 3 Classify SeaClass Extensive classification module for determining bottom types from sidescan mosaic files and from GeoTiffs Options available with SeaClass are presented in Section 8 3 127 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC 6 2 Create Mosaic 6 2 1 Sidescan Processing Wizard Sidescan data can be processed in Perspective Map using the MosaicOne Wizard Presented below are a few ways to launch the sidescan processing wizard During the raw data import process the navigation data loads into the project first If the raw data files contain sidescan data the
33. layer To use the Statistics tool right click on the DTM you wish to extract the statistics from and select Statistics from the menu options as shown below magery pT Blink Comparator link Bathymetry vu kl o 06 09 1999 8101_DTM Eer E ve a Selecting the Statistics menu option will calculate the statistics discussed above and display them as shown in the following window Bathymetry Statistics 3101 DTM Demo Allocated Coverage 1 53 square nautical miles Actual Coverage 958790 square meters Total Lines 18 Along Track Distance 11 62 nautical miles Depth Range 3 9 to 47 4 meters 125 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 MosaicOne 6 1 MosaicOne Module MosaicOne is an add on to Perspective Map which allows users to create digital mosaics of their raw sidescan data and includes tools for viewing and interpolating the processed data Options available in the MosaicOne module are presented below and details of their options and settings are in the following sections Mosaic Options Create Mosaic MosaicOne provides a few methods for the creation of sidescan mosaics Re merge Mosaic Will re create the mosaic based on any changes to the processing parameters made since the mosaic was created Add Lines Allows the user to add other raw data files in the project to the mosaic Force Regeneration Forces the rebuild of the mosaic file used after making changes to individual lines
34. layer node or on an individual DTM as shown 48 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Batch Geotiff Export Cores 2 Cores Detected Core Stage Progress There are no settings to change in this window and default export options are automatically applied To complete the export select the green Play button in the upper left corner of the window The files are exported to the default project folder and the results are shown in the output window as seen in the image below Batch Geotiff Export Exported C Documents and Settings T onySMy Documents Cores TritonT raining New ersions Perspective D emoProjects 2 Cores Detected SydneyH arbor D athy81 01 TF48101_ss tmap_moz to C Documents and Settings T onySMy Documents Triton Core Stage Progress Trainina NewYersions Perspective D emoProjects SydneyH arbor DP athy 81 O1TF8101_ ss tif Exported C Documents and Settings T onys My Documents TritonT raining N ew ersions Perspective D emoProjects SydneyH arbor K5000_ TFK5S000mos tmap_moz to C Documents and Settings TonySMy Documents Triton Training NewYersions Perspective D emoProjects SydneyH arbor K5000_ TFKS000mos tif ea Batch GeoT iff Export 2 3 4 KML File Export Sidescan and bathymetry data can be exported from an existing project from the File Tree to a Google Earth KML file For sidescan and bathymetry data the KML Exporter is launched from either the sidescan bathymetry roo
35. load part E L On of the GeoTiff when needed rather Reset Factory Settings than the whole GeoTiff file Number of Cores This is where the user tells Perspective how many if any of the cores the host computer is utilizing This helps to optimize Perspective processing 601 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Options Ask before removing layers This allows the user to turn on or off the message Are you sure you want to remove that pops up when Remove is selected in the File Tree Show Mosaic Tiles This lets the user see the tiles that the mosaic 1s divided into Load Zoom Out Selecting this option will automatically zoom to the full extent of an imported layer Relative Paths Allows the project to be relocated to a new hard drive without losing track of the relative file paths of imported files Hide Mouse Over ToolTips Hides the display of the cursor when over pop up tooltips Auto Update Checking this box will allow Perspective to look for any updates to the Perspective software on the Triton Imaging Inc website each time Perspective is opened Auto Save Perspective will automatically save the project every user defined interval while it s running Cache Options Force Cache Rebuild When a survey file is opened in Perspective it 1s cached or indexed and an xtf_idx file is created This allows Perspective to access an XTF file in a non linear fashion which significantly speeds up the proce
36. opens the Gradient Manager shown below Gradient Manager Grayscale EE Linear se C Invert In this dialog the user can change the Lutz table applied and the algorithm used in the application of the color spectrum The user may also invert the application of the color tables by checking the box next to Invert within this dialog 6 8 2 Mosaic Histogram The histogram window is a graphical representation of the imagery signal level in dB versus the occurrence of that dB within the image To open the histogram window right click on the mosaic layer in the sidescan file tree node and select the Histogram option as shown below Imagery Sidescan dB 06 09 1999 5101 mosaic 04 21 1999 k5000mosaic Color Settings o Background Ia 140 Page February 2011 q7 TRITON IMAGING INC ee Histogram Color Legend Auto Contrast Original Histogram A Modified Histogram H Threshold 1 0 L Bias DIS This window shows two overlapping histograms one is the original histogram and the other represents the modified histogram based on the adjustments the user makes here Options in the histogram window include Window Options The two square boxes along the bottom of the window act as nodes for manually adjusting the portion of the spectrum to be displayed The lower and upper dB bounds can be set by left clicking on
37. process can be exported through the following methods 1 Composite Export This will export all layers turned on in the file tree including the SeaClass results as a composite GeoTiff file 2 Manual Training Export This exports the training sets to an XML file and is launched by right clicking on the Training Set file tree layer and selecting Export as shown below SeaLlass o Manual Training gt Training Set 1 o Neural Nets Neural Net 1 Train Neural Net a SC Edit Training Set o Classification Resample ClassificationGr 3 Contacts Remove Remove All kl kl bel ell kl bel This opens the file save dialog window shown below Save SeaClass Training File Save in O SeaClassDemo EI O 2 Ce E o m demo training_xml s test training_xml Recent File name T Lammg et EI 6 My Network Save as type SeaClass Training Session training_xml 52 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 3 Classification Export This exports the classification grid to an AutoCAD DXF file which is launched by right clicking on the classification grid tree layer and selecting Export as shown below SeaClass EN Manual Training ES Training Set 1 Neural Nets Neural Net 1 kel 7 Sand kel E Silt 9 Classification ClassificationGrid1 Contacts Le Color Settings bel bel kel bel bel y ec Remove E Background In
38. resolution settings Text and drawing annotations made by the user are stored in the User layer 1 3 2 1 Regions Annotation Regions are predefined zoom extents that amp Regions are useful for quickly moving around in m SS EN fi the map window i Heer l Planned To add a region zoom the map window mm Debris to the area that is to be considered a region right click on Regions and Contacts f d e select Add Viewport as shown below NEE 2 kel Multibeam This is will give a user dialog window to wm 06 09 m 06 09 7 Info 9 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC name the selected region Debris A dashed outline will appear in the Map View delineating the area as being selected The region name will appear as a node under the Regions layer node Right clicking on the region name gives the following options Annotation 5 Regions kl Data m ae Color Settings y ri E User Rename Planned Move To T LJ Debris ove lo lop Move Up Contacts Navigation 3 ME Multibeam v WIER Remove AL Mes Info v 06 09 d Color Settings The user can change the color and characteristics of the outline as well as color opacity thickness and character of the line Color Attributes WW Opacity lt 1 Line Drawing Rename The name of the region can be changed by selecting Rename Edit Text K Move To Top Move Up Move Down Allows the used
39. the data begins e Delimiters This is where the data delimiters are defined In the example above the data is separated by spaces and therefore the Space box is checked e Parsed Field Displays data elements available for mapping to predefined field types e Field Predefined field types to assign data to e Format Set the units or format of the data value assigned to this field e Attribute Can attribute the defined field as a header or as a data value e Update The user must select this after the parsed field has been applied to a field and the format has been selected to complete the decoding process for that data type e Decoded Data Element Displays the results of data to field mapping e Decoded Header Element Displays the results of header to field mapping For this example the first data column is for Easting the second is for Northing and the third is for depth The parsing window shown on the previous page was captured after the data had been mapped to the appropriate fields with the decoded data elements indicating which Field and Format was applied to each element Select OK when finished This will launch the BathyOne Wizard to create a bathymetry layer ASCII Singlebeam File This will import singlebeam data from an XYZ or TXT file Selecting this option will launch the Singlebeam ASCII Parsing window identical to the XYZ Grid Parsing window Bathy DTM File Selecting this option will allow users to i
40. the export If the checkbox was selected then Google Earth will automatically launch and open the exported file Please note that Google Earth needs to be installed on your computer for the auto launch feature to work 501Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC 2 3 5 XYZ File Export Bathymetry data can be exported from an existing project from the File Tree to a text xyz file This can only be launched from right clicking the bathymetry DTM layer This will launch the Export XYZ wizard shown below Export XYZ Settings for Export Resolution 1 ines mpixel in m pixel Maintain 1 1 Aspect Unprojected Longitude Latitude WGS84 Cancel Options available in this window include e Resolution Sets the output file resolution in meters pixel The cell size can be set to maintain a 1 1 aspect or the X and Y size can be set individually e Projection Allows the user to set the export projection Information on the Projection Wizard and Projection Settings can be found in Section 3 5 Selecting the Save button will open the following window for saving the file Save XYZ Bathymetry File 8101xTF 8101 mb 23810 mb parti 8101_mb_part2 8101_ss 8101dtm 8101mos 8101mostemp O testasf File name Export My Network Save as type 51 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 2 3 6 SeaClass Export Results from the classification
41. the line drawn in Perspective Map 1 2 3 Offset Tab When a sidescan line is moved with the Move Line Cursor Measure Offset Contact function see topic for move line the amount the line was moved in order to align it with the rest of the Haer 312m mosaic 1s stored in the cache file Vert Dist 7 29m When a line is moved using the Move Line tool the Distance 7 93 m amount the line was moved will be displayed in the Offset information tab as shown in the image to the right For this line the total amount of displacement was 7 93m with the horizontal X displacement of 3 12m and vertical Y displacement of 7 29m C Contact 1 2 4 Contact Tab ursor Measure Offset Selecting the Contact Generation toolbar button in Size meters 20 0 x 20 0 Perspective map will switch the information display Contact Number ETT to the Contact tab Contacts Color Legend Size in meters indicates the size of the screen Ronkacts capture to be made when a target is selected from Targets Mosaic Contacts 71 Page T TRITON IMAGING INC the Map View Contact Number is the number to be assigned to the next target selected Also shown is the Contacts Color Legend to visually distinguish between the types of contacts displayed in the Map View 1 3 File Tree The file tree organizes project layers by grouping similar items The layers can be toggled on or off by clicking in the box nex
42. the line settings since the mosaic was created This process happens automatically and there are no user set options available 136 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 6 Move Line To accommodate for layback errors in data from towed sidescan sonars Perspective has a tool which allows the user to move a sidescan line to align features to known locations or to features on adjacent lines This tool is launched by right clicking on an individual data file within a sidescan mosaic as shown below Imagery Sidescan dE 06 09 1999 9101 mosaic DD GU BROGOOS Geo Reference ORL Settings BRDGOUS Force Regeneration BROGUUI BROGOO View Waterfall BRDGOOS SS Selecting the Move Line option will open a separate window which shows the mosaiced lines with the selected line not fixed and available for moving around the screen The image below is an example of the Move Line Tool window showing four lines of data Move Line Tool x Os gt EI Horiz Dist DUU m Vert Dist 0 00 m Distance 0 00 m Opacity J 0 8 6252800 gt The selected sidescan line can easily be moved around the screen by simply clicking anywhere in the window and moving the cursor around while holding the click button down The following image shows the results of a line move 137 Page February 2011 17 TRITON IMAGING INC Move Line Tool H A A L Horiz Dist 157 45 m Vert Dist 188 02 m Distance 245 24 m
43. the navigation data loads into the project first If the raw data files contain bathymetry data then the BathyOne Wizard will automatically launch and the bathymetry data can be processed as part of the import process However if the navigation data needs repeat processing the BathyOne Wizard can be canceled during the import process and re launched after the navigation data is properly processed For more information regarding Navigation Processing Workflows visit Section 4 3 There are two methods to launch the BathyOne Wizard manually from within Perspective Map from the File Tree and using the toolbar button 1 To launch the wizard from the File Tree right click on the Imagery Bathymetry node and select Create as shown below 84 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC lei Bathymetry Create add 2 The processing wizard also can be launch by selecting the Create DTM toolbar button Whether the processing wizard is automatically or manually launched as described above the same options are available Processing steps in the BathyOne Wizard are presented in the next Section 5 2 2 BathyOne Wizard Overview There are several steps the BathyOne Wizard guides the user through Brief descriptions of each step are presented below and details of their settings and options are in the following sections e Choose Create Bathy Layer options to create a new DTM file or append to an existing file e Select
44. the right increases the 1mage s contrast sliding it to the left decreases it When the bar is at the midpoint 0 the image has neutral contrast no change in contrast Range is 100 least contrast to 100 most contrast Viewing options in the lower right portion of the window allow the user to toggle on off the bottom tracking results compress the sidescan file to fit in the window or playback controls to move through the data file if not compressed Options include Show Bottom Track Toggles on and off the display of the bottom track line in the data view Compress If selected this will compress the entire sidescan data file to fit horizontally across the Bottom Tracking Tool window If this is not selected the window controls below the Compress check box become available for stepping through the data file as shown below Slider Bar Sets the amount of overlap between steps 3 ono Playback Controls Allows the user to move to the beginning of the file step forward step backwards or go to the end of the data file There are three final options in this window 154 Page February 2011 qp TRITON IMAGING INC Clear Removes bottom tracking results Apply Applies the bottom tracking results to the data file and writes the results to the cache file and if selected into the raw XTF file as well Selecting this option will close the Bottom Tracking Tool window after the results have been applied Cance
45. tide files to compare the graphs Double clicking the small graph window will display a large resizable version Tide Plot Ly E I Hh i Di il AN Jul gd ty Tht j NI M i Hi 1H H Note the survey time window is shown on the display as a vertical green band with the text Covers Survey Time indicating the tide files spans at least the duration of the survey data Squat Table If there is a vessel squat table available check the Use box and select the browse button to choose the file Note that squat files read by Perspective are XML files created from the Raw ASCII data by the XML Utilities program Hit Finish when done to generate the DTM and load it into Perspective Map 5 3 Rebuild Using This feature allows the user to change some of the grid processing parameters set in the bathy processing wizard To start the rebuild process right click on the DTM layer in the Bathymetry file tree node and select Rebuild using as shown in the image 101 l Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC o kl Imagery Pe M Rebuild using ly Edit G5F using kel o Bathyrnetry Po ome CB 06 09 1999 8101_0TM Re merge DTM dei CxPOrl GeO HT Selecting this will launch the BatyhOne Wizard After selecting the Rebuild using option a window will pop up and ask if you want to re apply the flags already in the GSF from the parameters set when the DTM was created as shown below G
46. to Region e Zoom to Extents Pan This mode allows the user to move around the screen by dragging the map 1 5 1 1 Zoom Mode Selecting the zoom toolbar button e puts the cursor in Zoom Mode This allows the user to select an area to zoom into by left clicking or right clicking on any point on the map and holding the button down while defining an area to zoom into 1 5 1 2 Zoom In This will zoom in one level and is accessed by the following options y e ToolBar Icon A e View menu option e Keyboard Page Down or key 1 5 1 3 Zoom Out This will zoom out one level and is accessed by the following options ToolBar Icon 4 e View menu option e Keyboard Page Up or key 1 5 1 4 Zoom 1 1 This will zoom such that 1 meter is equivalent to 1 pixel on the computer screen and is accessed by the following options 33 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC ym L 1 e ToolBar Icon A e View menu option e Keyboard End key 1 5 1 5 Zoom Home This will zoom to Home which by default is the full extent of the data but can be manually set to any zoom with the Save As Home option in the View menu Zoom Home is accessed by the following options A e ToolBar Icon e View menu option e Keyboard Home key 1 5 1 6 Zoom to Region This option is only available by selecting the desired Region in the Annotation file tree as shown in the example below File Modality View Help Unprojected Lon
47. 02 81mE Lat 332 50 55 18 5 The button beside Lat and Lon is used to change Lon 151212 44 10 E the format of latitude and longitude from degrees cursor position in the Map View It is updated as the cursor moves Depth 0 00 m minutes decimal seconds to degrees decimal minutes to decimal degrees The button beside Depth is used to change the depth value from meters to feet The slider button is used to change the Map View resolution from meter pixel to cm pixel Acts like a zoom 1 2 2 Measure Tab o Selecting the Measure toolbar button in Perspective map will switch the information 6 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC display to the Measure tab to show the results of measurements made in the map view When using the Measure tool select a starting point on the map by left clicking on the spot and holding the button down while the distance to measure is spanned Once the end point is reached release the mouse button The measurement results are displayed dynamically in the Measure tab Units are always in meters The following image shows the results of the most recent measurement Cursor Measure Offset Contact Horiz Dist the distance covered by the measurement in the horizontal or X direction Horiz Dist 405 06 m Vert Dist 84 44 m Vert Dist the distance covered by the Dt 413 77 m measurement in the vertical or Y direction Distance the direct distance along
48. 16 DOING VIGO OM EEN 17 Di Dic ee e 20 RRE deed ee 26 AE CUS TOWING EE 30 BE E ER 1 5 1 Moving Around the Map Miew ssasosnnnesennesseresseresseresseresserssseresserssseresseresseresseresseressereseeresrereseeresees 32 TD PS OF IVIO EE 35 L524 00m IV OG eeatacetcnsetoeatsaae decanceaedoaascaeseaaeonniacuasdedueataunicaaisuediecseonantavadsedanatautstendsuadacseeanibasecdauaeateaneneaers 37 SS DATA IVAN AGEIVIEINT ee 40 EN NINN OR TING rs as sericea etic seer asia ac aes R cease saeee ened anos use samen iene E setimenacaaeaseeates E A 40 Ee ATMO Menon S ered gs enana E eases ova dy eae ac EERE eae 40 Eelere DUO ER 41 D2 DATABASE REFRESH RE 44 EE 45 E WE WIC e EE 46 Z3 MOG CTY GEOL EXO OIG Ee eEg 47 2 3 3 Imagery Batch Geof ff Export 48 A ei 222 E 49 Vie oy ET a4 6 6 E 51 Se SS e E 52 DBT PUM e vac cesacateeas e E nee macdec de E EE E E E EN E EA AN 54 Papa ee get 54 LAL IOV e Te EE 54 PGA OCT PIO CCL EE 55 TE SOW ONC E 56 GEET 57 Bd Ee o WI e 57 viPage February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC ee BET 58 PT AQUI FOJCCE arna E EN A E AA A E E NA EA raaserseodkennenoes 59 3 el UC ET 60 SEENEN EE 60 EENEG 60 EE 62 EE EE 62 De ROLEC TION EE 63 3 3 1 INDOLE Projection SCUINGS serrin tras nrn E a R E ANOO E EEEO AA OERE eianaes 64 EE PONS ee 66 EE 68 De US CO I eet 71 eg EC RRE 74 IF DATAENE Eder 75 A NAVIGA MON E 76 Geral rage RK 76 e IMPORT NAVIGATION DATA E 77 4 3 NAVIGATION PROCESSING er e VE 7
49. 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM 253 Adding layer k5000mos 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM 254 Adding layer 8101_ss 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM An example of the Log Window 1S shown left 255 Adding layer 8101_mb 5 27 2010 1 44 16 4M 256 Adding layer 8101_mb_part1 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM 257 Adding layer 8101 dtm 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM 259 Adding layer Bathy Profile 5 27 2010 2 05 06 4M February 2011 qp TRITON IMAGING INC 2 4 6 Page Setup Page Setup options are available from the File menu as shown below File Modality view Help New Project Ctrl N Open Project Ctrl O Save Project Ctrl 5 Save Project As Ctrl Shift 5 Import Export Page Setup Ctrl P Ctrl Q Selecting this will open the Page Setup window as shown below Paper Size Source Automatically Select v Orientation Margins inches Portrait Left 0 Right 0 Landscape 0 Bottom 0 58 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 2 4 7 Quit Project When finished working on a project the project can be closed by selecting Quit from the File menu as shown below Modality View Help New Project Ctrl h Open Project Ctrl O Save Project Ctrl 5 Save Project As Ctrl Shift 5 Import Export Page Setup Print Ctrl P Ctrl Q Selecting this will prompt the user with the following dialog box Save Project 2 Do you want to save your project Cancel 59 Page February 2011 T
50. 9 AA NAVIGATION BOXCAR SETTING wccissicscvscizoasitdaesiad dnsievnnsintncleaansanbeiednsitdatiiwd EE O RE EE a an i 80 kI PROCE NAVIGATION E 82 SCENE 83 Se ATRL ONE MODULE essan E E E A E EE ee sdunaeecaear cenieeiaeseae ase 83 S CREATE OTN E 84 5 2 1 Bathymetry Processing Wizorgd 84 5 2 2 BathyOne Wizard OVervieW srsirieiiiissenni inae haien Enr AE A EEREN O REAREA ETR aa i 85 5 2 3 Choose Create Bathy Loyer 86 E TE EE 87 5 2 9 Griading Eege ee e CN 88 Ee EEE EEOAE E 89 TRO FOC S EE 92 EE 95 BZ OV POP OCs GIO Eege 97 52 10 TIGC SQUGE PIOCESSING E 100 Se ES ILD EE 101 SAET FU EE 103 EERE OTIN E 105 SEENEN 105 e RR Eissens aien geealuieasciinedennom unc E nea ER E E R ENORET 106 LORENA E oenn E E A E 107 SF VISUALIZA NON OPTIONS riarann aienea n E REE A E A E E E E 108 PNA G0 a gas e EE 108 5 9 2 Bathy HistOgrali csererrirrereriiins tentti nens iuan NA Eni KENET sheounsennnasiave EPEA NEENA REEERE EREE 110 593 Relef SIO OIG ceirreirenieeerr iieiea ead eur EENE ESE ENOAR A OEE O 113 SIAS e WEE 116 5 10 INTERPRETATION OPTIONS geegent ERENNERT 118 EE 118 EE Eege 120 510 BOTY Change e gl ot sausieis i cemsadensteieesuts cantaatanebucnnstcaninedancinvotsedaniebep di taie AEEA 123 2410 4 Baty BINK COMPOTION arria o e e r e OEE vines eersidian ransom TTE T O 123 Pi BO N O I ari E EE E E EE E E E E AOE ANE 125 IVI SIC ONE osisssa E E E EEEIEE E EE SOO S 126 CLEMO AC ONE MODDLE E 126 pae ORATE NIO EE 128 vilPage February 2011 T TRITON
51. BIVAN it We y HA H ts MI V th e D A 147 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC The Cursor information shows the cursor position wherever the mouse button is clicked on the screen Navigation This shows the navigation position recorded in the raw data file The position is given in Latitude and Longitude with the elongated button to the right for changing the format from DD MM SS DD MM MM DD DDDD Ship Shows the ships speed in knots and the Gyro compass heading Sensor Data Shows information related to the sensor including the following e Sonar Range in meters e Pitch e Roll e Heading e Speed e Depth e Altitude Cursor The Cursor display remains blank during file playback until the waterfall window is clicked with the mouse button The following information regarding the position selected will populate the Cursor information display bel Time e Date e Channel e Slant Range e Latitude e Longitude e Ping e Heading e Depth e Altitude e Layback 6 9 6 File Playback Options Viewing data in the sidescan waterfall viewer can be controlled by standard DVD player controls with the following control bar 148 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC VW A MNHM GA The four buttons on the left go backwards through the data file the four on the right go forward through the data file and the button in the middle pauses file playback Button details are described below Jump to beginn
52. Blink Comparator tool can be used The Blink Comparator allows the user to quickly turn on off a layer or can be set to cycle a layer on off to help identify differences in the layers To use the Blink Comparator tool right click on the mosaic you wish to Blink cycle on and off and select Blink Comparator from the menu options as shown below Imagery Export KML Sidescan dB a 07 27 2009 208 B Sea ES Statistics Selecting the Blink Comparator menu option the following window will open Blink Comparator E Lauer Dn Lauer ft Cycle J 1000 ms The options available in the Blink Comparator include Layer On This will turn the selected layer on in the file tree so the layer is displayed in the map view Layer Off This will turn the selected layer off in the file tree so the layer is not displayed in the map view Cycle This will turn the cycle the layer on and off in the map view at the user set frequency using the slider bar to the right the Cycle option An example of the use of this tool is presented on the following page The top image is with the selected layer off so the user can see the layer underneath The next image shows the selected layer cycled on showing an object on the bottom surface that was not present in the previously collected data 163 Page February 2011 T R DI IMAGING INC 6 11 2 Sidescan Statistics The statistics that can b
53. Bottom Track Compute mb The data is viewed horizontally at the top of the window with bottom tracking and viewing options below Shown in the image above are two tabs for adjusting settings The main tab is the Standard tab A brief discussion of the options available in the Standard tab is presented here 152 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Method Before making adjustments to the bottom tracking options a method must be selected from the drop down list Available options are shown here or Ton Amplitude Uses the sharp change in the signal amplitude to detect the water bottom and determine the sonar altitude Gradient Uses the sharp change in the signal gradient to detect the water bottom and determine the sonar altitude Manual The user manually selects the water bottom either by pressing the left mouse button and dragging while holding along the desired line or by holding the Alt key and single clicking along the desired track Channel Users can select which of the available channels to use for bottom tracking Auto Update XTF Selecting this will store the bottom tracking information directly in the raw data file instead of in the cache file Filter Bottom Track Removes noise in calculated bottom track and smooths results Level Only available for Amplitude bottom tracking Sets the percent change in amplitude to target as the bottom reflection Holdoff Sets the starting point
54. C When the process is complete the results are overlain on the image in the map view as shown 8 4 Neural Net Training The second step in the classification process is to use the training set already created to train the neural net To train the neural net for automated image classification right click on the training set node in the Sea lass file tree and select Train Neural Net as shown below SeaLlass Manual Training Training Set 1 Train Neural Net Edit Training Set 182 Page PT oO bg D p LA NO Kg Lasch Vy TRITON This will open the Train Neural Net window Existing Neural Nets Neural Net Name eat Once the neural net has been created select the layer you want to classify Mosaic layer or Image layer by right clicking on that node and choosing Classify Nest gt Finish To create a new neural net click the Create button which will open the following window af Nat Cila ea ass N Su i et rile enim OR EGF Recent Desktop My Documents My Computer File name Neural Net 1 v Save _ My Network Save as type SeaClass Neural Net Generation cnx_xml wi Cancel 183 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Enter a file name and select Save This will return you to the Tram Neural Net window shown below Triton SeaClass Train Neural Net Existing Neural Nets Neural Net Name Neural Net 1
55. CR D GI o be o EL JE LB S E Background i o GeoTiff Data o LJA GW o ENC Data Ld o USBRIZ2M Unprojected Longitude Latitude WGS84 Lat 412 36 27 17 N Lon 71223 01 51 W Custom Cursor ENC Data Node Options By right clicking on the ENC Data node the following options exist Add Allows the user to add other S57 ENC files to an existing project 29 Page GJ Map Root AUVFest Project proj_ Annotation o 04 15 2008 Snip26 Bathymetry 02 18 2010 Bathy o 296000n4611200213 II 05 12 2008 North Pit E 9 05 15 2008 South Pti 9 04 15 2008 Snip28 RI SR February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Info Access XML settings file for viewing information about the ENC s in the node ENC Options Right click on the imported ENC for the following option Info Access XML settings file for viewing information about the ENC k ml version 1 0 encoding utf 16 gt lt info FontGeoSize 10 Text US5RI22M Hehe CO Demos Naragansett US5RI22M 000 Persistable True NavUnits Degrees OffsetX 0 Offset Y 0 Checked True gt lt ImportProjection Projection String proj longlat datum WGS84 NavUnits Degrees gt lt Projection Wizard Settings Projld 0 Zoneld 31 ZoneNorth true Datumid 0 StatePlaneld 0 Unitsid 0 StatePlaneNAD amp 83 true ProjectionName Unprojected Longitude Latitude DatumName using default StatePlane CentralMeridian 0 StandardPa
56. DI O17 FSBROGO23 STE C SydreyH abor D athy eT OTST PSBRDGO22 TF C SydnevH arborBathy e1 OTT FABADGO 21 STE C SydreyH arbor D atb DI 017 FSBROGO2O TF C SydneyH arbor D aths HI OT STEVBRID GUTT C SydneyH abor D atb DI OTST FSBRDGO S287 F C SydnevH arbor B athy e1 OTT FABADGO 7 TF C SydneyH arbor B atb DI 01ST FSBRO GUTE STE Select All Deselect All 87 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC The user can select individual lines by clicking on the check box to the right of the line name or the user may choose Select All or Deselect All If a line is deselected it will not be included in the DTM that is being created Using the Add Lines tool it is possible to append the DTM with the lines not included at a later time When finished selecting the lines to include in the processing click the Next button to advance to the next processing step 5 2 5 Gridding of Soundings This page of the processing wizard as shown below gives the user the option to set output resolution encoding options fill and smoothing options and the option to constrain the DTM to the map extent BathyOne Wizard Gridding of Soundings Grid Resolution 1 00 Constrain to map view Depth Limit Encoding lt 2000m gt 2000m Fill Filter Type Filter Dimension On Median 3 e Mim Neighbors D OS Eastwest Size Inverse Distance F E Mesta ef a See Smooth Filter Type Filter Dimension On Medan 3 Min
57. Depth Scale View Menu Toolbar Zoom In Zoom Out Zoom 1 1 Zoom Home Save As Home Add Viewport Globe Settings Info Custom Cursor Log Window Help Menu Contents Licensing Sales About Check for Updates 3 Page A B mode Digitization mode not yet implemented Display Depth Scale mode Turn toolbar visibility on off Zoom in on map Zoom out on map Zoom to meter pixel Zoom to the extents of your survey area or saved home location Save current viewport as Home Add current viewport to Region node in the file tree Turn on ENC Globe rendering Show settings dialog box Change projection for custom cursor Show the log window Show help table of contents Show licensing dialog box Show sales dialog box Show about dialog box Check for Perspective version updates via web connection February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 1 1 3 Main Window Toolbars Main Toolbar EE MIAA E IEA Create a new Perspective project Open Perspective project Import raw data files Import data from folder Save current projection Print Application settings Help Utility Toolbar HPE oe ene Mosaic Wizard BathyPro Wizard Line Merge Spot Histogram Refresh from database 4 Page February 2011 d TRITON IMAGING INC Modality Toolbar BQ Ff te mh ee a Select Mode Pan Mode Zoom Mode Measure mode Draw Mode E N 7 ER Bathy Profile Mode Contact Mode Sub b
58. EE EEEE ENEA E TE E TE E EEE 163 6 11 e Eed BIINK ee ee TE 163 Bd eZ SIGS COTS ENEE 164 6 11 3 Sidescan Mosaic Targets rcisrrriereeriscieeirrnerinor ienten tner EEEREN ENTE EREEREER EEs 165 ILA Sidescan Class COT OI Aen tergin Cee aa ed 166 Te Oe 166 TTAR ETONE M ODOLE acca arcs tte O A E E sec es 166 Fad TARGET SELECTION ME 167 PLN TTT ee E 167 Pe MOOV WNT TE E a E E E A E E E E E EE T O 167 Tea TARCETONE APPLICATION E 168 EE eege 168 7 3 2 TargetOne Menu Options 169 Faa Tarde ONE TOODO igiri nori IERE nc OINONEN ec ev eves eam EE OEE ee 172 7 4 VARGETONE WINDOW scdensccnssinacmuiicnaesitessnnainaa ETR EO ETTEN OE RTE 174 7 4 1 TargetOne Window Regions 174 SEENEN 175 E eier ee E E E Cernianasacanuatacaatanasaeninattaadtaneensenesaedienidacetan 175 eZ CREATE Ke WE 175 So BOTTOM CIAS EATON eeii E E E E E EE E 180 6 4 NEURAL NET TRAINING e eiegeegee SERGE ENEE 182 EE Eege Eege 184 EECH 186 vill Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 1 Software Interface 1 1 Main Window Overview 1 1 1 Main Window Layout IlPage Main Window Layout Map View The map displays all loaded layers It renders a composite view of all the data according to the settings of each layer Information Tabs This is a four tab window that displays information based on the current modality The tabs include cursor position information measurement results moved line offsets and contact target information File Tree The Tree View displays
59. Filter Setup See Boxcar Settings in the previous section of this manual e Auto Update Cache Writes the processed navigation into the cache file important for repeat processing e Check Intersections Checks navigation at line intersections e Start Click after Boxcar Settings have been made to initiate processing This can be clicked as many times as the user wants to repeat the navigation processing Please note that to process the results from the previous navigation processing step the navigation source must be changed to Smoothed This will use the processed navigation in the cache file as the source allowing for multiple steps of processing e Cancel Processing Cancels the current processing step does not remove saved processed navigation from the cache file e Save and Exit Saves processing to cache file if not already done with the auto update option then exits processing wizard 821Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 5 BathyOne 5 1 BathyOne Module BathyOne is an add on to Perspective Map which allows users to create digital terrain models of their raw bathymetry data and includes tools for viewing and interpolating the gridded data Options available in the BathyOne module are presented below details of their options and settings are described later in this chapter Grid Options Create DTM BathyOne provides a few methods for the creation of digital terrain models DTM s Rebuild Using
60. GING INC 2 4 4 Projected Cursor The Project Cursor option is available from the View menu as shown below File Modality Toolbar Cursor Measure Zoom In Zoom Out Zoom 1 1 North Zoom Home E ast Save s Home Add viewport Lon Settings Info Ctrl I 337 50 59 15 5 Selecting this will add the Custom Cursor display to the main 151 12 16 52 E Custom Cursor window as shown to the right The Custom Cursor is discussed in detail in Section 1 4 2 4 5 Log Window DE File Modality To log the project activities select the Log e Se A LG oolbar Window option in the View menu as shown was Cursor Measure Zoom In right BN zoom Out Selecting this will open a new window with a aes Zoom 1 1 oe North record of the activities since the project was coon EANO SN East FER opened Additional actions will automatically SC Save Ae Home Lat 2 record in this window to document workflow Add viewport Lon 151 Steps Depth Settings Info Ctrl I Perspective Log Window gt Projected Cursor 245 Adding layer 316_1812 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM 246 Adding layer 312_1800 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM 247 Adding layer 314_1703 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM 248 Adding layer 067_1832 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM 249 Adding layer 070_1818 5 27 2010 1 44 16 AM 250 Adding layer 071_1809 5 27 2010 1 44 16 4M 251 Adding layer 012_1711 5 27 2010 1 44 16 4M 252 Adding layer 011_1703
61. Input Lines Choose which data files to process for the DTM e Ancillary Options Vessel geometry settings and GSF HTF options e Gridding of Soundings Grid settings including resolution encoding options fill and smoothing options and the option to constrain the DTM to the map extent e Raw Processing Includes POS navigation and TPE processing and options for transducer selection and attitude correction thresholds e Beam Suppression Several options for beam suppression with a separate tab for attitude suppressions e SVP Processing Includes options for selecting and applying sound velocity profile data e Tide Squat Processing Includes options for selecting and applying tides and vessel Squat 85 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 5 2 3 Choose Create Bathy Layer The first step of the BathyOne wizard is to create a new bathy layer or select an existing bathy layer to append to as shown in the image below BathyOne Wizard Choose Create Bathy Layer Selected Layer Selected Layer Format DTM TPE Cancel If a bathy layer already existed in the project it will appear in the upper window under Existing Layers The user can either select the existing layer if present or choose to create a new bathy layer by selecting the Create button Note that there are two types of bathy layers that can be created a DTM or a TPE e DTM This stands for digital terrain model and is th
62. NC Settings The way that ENC charts are displayed in Perspective can be controlled from the ENC tab on the Settings dialog Note that this tab will only appear if you have an S 57 license and corresponding dongle plugged in Paths These file paths need to be set in order to access the ENC data Color Scheme There are four options to select from for changing the ENC palette Lookup Table This setting controls of the amount of items that are included in the display of the ENC The simplified option yields an ENC with fewer items and less clutter The Advanced button will invoke the 62 Page Program Settings E et AE y e General Pens Projections Contact Database Intersection P Zoom Tool EA Background Measure Tool ES Profile Font A Program Settings SI Paths SENC Charts 7CB files C usrocal data S5 SENC SevenCs Presentation Library HU c usr ocal Color Scheme Day Bight Day Dak Dusk Night Lookup Table Traditional Simplified Advanced February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Advanced ENC Settings window Attributes From this window the attributes that Shallow Soundings Shallow Cortar are included in the display of the Deep Soundings Deep Contour Safety Contour Light Radius ENC can be selected and the Safety Labels parameters associated with each Lights attribute can be specified in meters Text The Color Intens
63. Neighbors D S Eastwest Size Inverse Distance D North South Size Resolution Enter the resolution of the DTM in meters per grid cell Note that the resolution chosen should be something appropriate with regard to the water depth number of beams etc This is also the bin size into which the raw bathy soundings will be gridded The resolution sets the grid cell size and therefore the smaller the number the larger the DTM file size of the final DTM file and the longer will be the processing time 88 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Encoding Choose from the following options using the drop down list Last The last value to fall in the bin being processed Max The deepest value to fall in the bin being processed Min The shallowest value to fall in the bin being processed First The first value to fall in the bin being processed Average The average of all the values that fall in the bin Constrain to map view Only process the data that falls inside the current map window This can be useful for quick previews of grid results or for generating small grid files that are quick to work with Depth limit Choose the correct range for the data If the data falls both deeper and shallower than 2000m choose gt 2000m Fill Filter Turn this on to fill gaps between data points the two settings allow either a Median or Inverse Distance filter to be used to compute the value of the depth being cre
64. Once the neural net has been created select the layer you want to classify Mosaic layer or Image layer by right clicking on that node and choosing Classify Options available include e Create Used to create a neural net for automated image classification e Back Allows users to return to previous pages of wizard to change values entered e Finish Select when done creating neural nets and setting parameters e Cancel Quits the Train Neural Net wizard without saving values entered 8 5 Edit Classification It is quite likely that as more work is done in a survey area more classes will need to be defined The user must employ the Edit Training Set option to add more classes to a project Right Click on the node Training Set 1 under Manual Training and select Edit Training Set 184 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Depth 0 00m Manual Training err Je Train Neural Net Edit Training Set d Resample Remove Remove All Export Click Add Class to add a new class name and color then click as before to define the new class Meister eecht ee x Training Classes and Samples Training Set 1 Add Class sand d ee Lal Click on the Record Button to begin recording samples North East The same CNX file can be updated or a new one created the classification can then be done with either of the available CNX fil
65. Perspective Copyright 2011 Triton Imaging Inc N TRITON IMAGING INC Triton Imaging Inc Engineering Office 2121 41 Avenue Suite 211 Capitola CA 95010 USA 831 722 7373 831 475 8446 sales tritonimaginginc com support tritonimaginginc com SC 2010 TRITON This user guide is provided as a means to understand features in TRITON s software The user interface presented in this guide is subject to change to accommodate software upgrades and revisions While every precaution has been taken to eliminate errors in this guide TRITON assumes no responsibility for errors in this document Users of this document are required to have a valid license and dongle for Perspective in order to activate the software TRITON hereby grants licensees of TRITON s software the right to reproduce this document for internal use only ilPage February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC Welcome to Triton Perspective Triton Perspective is a new product line from Triton Imaging that takes advantage of the latest in software technologies including multi core parallel processing indexed cache files workflow wizards XML project files multi resolution tiling and dB based rendering to develop products that are fast accurate efficient easy to use and that provide the tools necessary for a broad range of real world marine applications Perspective Map a GIS based mapping package forms the foundation of Per
66. ROGOOI_11 Remove This will remove a contact from the project 7 es Please note that this will not delete the contact from the Via hard drive only remove it from the project and Map View e y Proj D E Add Remove Viewer Selecting this option opens the contact in Viewer TargetOne Info Info Allows the user to view the file location datum projection and coordinates of the contact file 15 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 1 3 5 Vectors Tree Vector files can be imported in DXF format Autocad R12 DXF only Right clicking on Vector will give the user the following options Vectors Navigation Pen Settings Font Settings Rename Add pid Remove Move ta Top Move Up Move Down Info If no vector files are currently available the user can click on Add to insert a file This will open a browser window that will be searching for a file in the DXF file format Open Vector Files Look in 9 8101XTF 28101 mb CJ 8101_ss Recent 8101dtm 8101mos La Desktop My Documents E My Computer e File name Contour_5m D lt F 2 Sch My Network Files of type AutoCad Files dxf KA After selecting the DXF file to be imported into the Map View the user will define the projection and datum for the file Projection and Datum standards are available for selection or user defined projections can be set by selecting Cus
67. SF File Raw Data File Selecting this option from the File gt Import menu will open a window browser for selecting compatible raw data files for import into the project Currently XTF is the only raw data file type supported Selecting raw data for import will automatically launch the processing wizard for sidescan and or bathymetry depending on the contents of the imported file Mosaic File Selecting this option will allow users to import mosaic files previously generated in Perspective ENC S57 File Allows users to import S57 charts for background project imagery GeoTIFF File This option imports selected GeoTiff files into the project for use as background imagery Contact File Allows the user to import contacts or target files generated with TargetOne TritonMap File Mosaic files created with TritonMap can be imported using this option Vector File Supported AutoCAD DXF files can be imported with this option Neural Net This option allows users to import a neural net created in Triton s SeaClass module for sediment classification Classification File Sediment classification results can be imported using this option Symbol Selecting the Symbol option found in the File gt Import menu will open the following window 42 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Name Category Physical Size Transparent Color Cancel This window allows the user to set the name category
68. SF Flags Ey Do you want to use the GSF Flags that are already present in the GSF s that are associated with the current OTM Select Yes if you want to do further processing of the DTM or No to ignore the existing flags in the GSF and restart the processing from scratch Both options start the BathyOne Wizard the difference is in the options available on the beam suppression page If the user selected No in the GSF Flags window above then the Beam Suppression page of the BathyOne Wizard will look the same as during the create DTM process However selecting Yes above will limit the user s ability to change the beam suppression options as shown in the image below o BathyOne Wizard Beam Suppression GSF Beam Suppression Ori Suppress Using Beam Quality Suppress Beams Using Beam Flag Poor TT Low Bad Gi Yes No Cancel 102 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 5 4 Edit GSF Using This feature allows the user to change some of the grid processing parameters set in the bathy processing wizard during GSF File import To start the GSF editing process right click on the DTM layer in the Bathymetry file tree node and select Edit GSF using as shown in the image below Imagery Se Mowe Down ke Sort By S i o Bathymetry Sas LLL 06 08 1999 GSF02 PENA aa CHEN ei Re merge DTM J w After selecting the Edit GSF using option a limiter version the BathyOne Wizard will launch
69. SS Speed Lat 33 50 59 17 S Layback 0 0m Speed P Depth Lon 1512 12 25 76 E Gyro Altitude Lon 1512 12 27 95 E 09090900000 SE 6 10 3 Speed Corrections Speed corrections are designed to remove the distortions during file payback caused by fluctuations in survey speed during data acquisition To apply speed corrections to your data select the toolbar button O Applying speed corrections for data with large fluctuations in survey speed will greatly reduce along track smearing of data caused by incorrect beam spacing in the waterfall window 6 10 4 Waterfall Histogram The histogram window is a graphical representation of the imagery signal level in dB versus the occurrence of that dB within the image 156 Page February 2011 q7 TRITON IMAGING INC To open the histogram window for the waterfall viewer select the toolbar button Waterfall Histogram Histogram 3 0 Color Legend Auto Contrast Original Histogram iLL Modified Histogram RE Threshold 1 0 J 100 Bias 0 0 J 100 This window shows two overlapping histograms one is the original histogram and the other represents the modified histogram based on the adjustments the user makes here Options in the histogram window include Window Options The two square boxes along the bottom of the window act as nodes for manually adjusting the portion of the spectrum to be displayed The lower and upper dB bounds can be set
70. Sidescan imagery to above the previous imagery within the Imagery node Move Down Allows the user to move the Sidescan imagery to below the successive imagery within the Imagery node 20 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Export to GeoTiff Allows the user to export the imagery to a geotiff imagery file Batch Export to GeoTiff Allows the user to export all sidescan mosaics in the file tree to a geotiff imagery files Export KML Allows the user to export a Google Earth KML file Create Allows the user to create a new mosaic layer using any of the existing raw data files in the project A new layer name is specified then the parameters for the new layer are processed and finally the user can choose which lines to include Add Allows the user to add other mosaic files to an existing project Color Settings Info Access XML settings file for viewing the Histogram projection resolution file path directory of the sidescan data plus other information l i Move Down Mosaic Node The following options are available by right clicking on the individual mosaic layer under the Mosaic Settings sidescan node Re merge Mosaic Export Geotiff Color Settings Allows the user to change the color characteristics of the sidescan layer Export KML Histogram This is the graphical representation of the imagery signal level in dB versus the occurrence of that dB within the image Blin
71. T toolbar button EI This will open the following window 322_1821 Settings Options available in the Color Settings window are e Gamma The gamma of an image is a measure of its contrast and brightness By correcting the gamma you can adjust these Gamma two elements in unison e Brightness The user to change the Brightness brightness of the image A positive number will correspond to a brighter Contrast J image and a negative number will SESE hte correspond to a darker image Invert L_ Inver e Contrast Allows the user to change the trast of the image The contrast of an image is the difference in brightness between due adjacent pixels e Invert Checking the box next to invert will invert the color scheme that is applied The button next to the color bar opens the Gradient Manager shown below Gradient Manager Grayscale ESE Linear wl Invert In this dialog the user can change the Lutz table applied and the algorithm used in the application of the color spectrum The user may also invert the application of the color tables by checking the box next to Invert within this dialog 158 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 10 6 Waterfall TVG A time varying gain TVG function can be applied to the waterfall data by selecting the TVG toolbar button W This will open the following window WG Settings Apply to All Channels Set for Individual Channels All Cha
72. TFE Processing Transducer Selection O Head Head Gei Anp UTC Timing Use UTC delay 000 Precise Timing Architecture Check this option if the data you are processing was acquired with a Reson Sonar and POS RAW navigation attitude and heading data from an Applanix POS MV sensor This setting will take advantage of the precise timing link that exists between the Reson Multibeam Sonar and the POS sensor Navigation Processing This box is checked by default The standard setting will apply a boxcar filter using twelve navigation updates to create a running mean position TPE Processing If the TPE options was selected during the create bathy layer then the settings for the TPE results are entered by selecting the Settings button in the TPE Processing box TPE processing options are shown in the image on the following page 93 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Cube Parameters Setup Algorithm Parameters Motion Sensor IHO 5 44 4 th edition Survey Order Pitch i Heave Fall Heave Variation eae Pitch Stab IMU Offset Ge Disambiguation Likelihood Ve Gyro Minimum Contest F Maximum Context up Depth Range GPS Ausilliarn Sensors Minimum epth ra l Offset SDey 0 005 Cast SVP 0 52 Maximum Depth m 200 Latency SDey 0 03 Surface SYP 0 5 GAMS 2 Ground SYP 0 2 Vertical Reduction Draft Fatch Test Dynamic Draft RallPitch Align SDev Loading Heading Align SDev
73. TRITON IMAGING INC 3e Program Settings File Modality View Help Toolbar 3 1 Settings Overview Zoom In gs gts zoom Out Application settings can be accessed Zoom 1 1 End through the toolbar button we or by North 62531 Zoom Home Home selecting Settings Info from the View menu Fal 3334 SAA ENA 33 5 as shown below e Add viewport F12 Lon 151 1 There are up to six tabs available in the Program Settings window two of which SES require additional licensing S Map Re Projected Cursor z Log Window e General i We e Pen e ENC requires S57 license dongle e Projection e Contact e Database requires additional database license 3 2 General Settings See E a General Pens Projections Contact Database Scratch Path This is the directory TAS cratch Pa where temporary Perspective files are SES kept Select the button to the right of the C Optimize GeoTiffs file path to change to a new scratch Number of Cores Auto Save location 1 2 4 Ep C On Options Cache Options O timize GeoTiffs This will sp ee d Ask before removing layers C Force Cache Rebuild Optimize Geo 11ITs C Show Mosaic Tiles C Use Ensemble S SEG Y up viewing large GeoTitffs by Load zoom out SuppressW arnings indexing a copy of the file in the Relative Pathe scratch folder than accessing it from Hide Mouse Over ToolTips the scratch folder This indexing Auto Update Sync Views allows Perspective to only
74. Tide Measured Latency SDev OF Cancel Algorithm Parameters Indicates what IHO survey order the data is intended to meet Options include Special One Two and Three Disambiguation Methods include Prior Likelihood and Posterior The user can also set the maximum and minimum context to apply Depth Range Expected depth range for collected data Vertical Reduction Uncertainties with the vertical measurements are entered here for Draft Dynamic Draft Loading Tide Measured and Tide Predicted Motion Sensor Uncertainties in the motion data are entered here for Pitch Roll Pitch Stabilization Gyro Heave Heave Variability and IMU Offset SDev standard deviation GPS Uncertainties in the GPS data are entered here for Offset SDev Latency SDev and for DRMS Auxiliary Sensors Uncertainties in the sound velocity measurements are entered here for the Cast SVP Surface SVP and for the Ground SVP when applicable Patch Test Uncertainties in the patch test results are entered here for the Roll Pitch Align SDev Heading Align SDev and the Latency SDev 941 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Select OK when finished entering all parameters to return to the processing wizard Transducer Selection Users can select which head to process if multiple heads were used for data acquisition UTC Timing Del
75. Upon selecting this option the user is asked if they want to use the GSF flags already present in the GSF The BathyOne Wizard then opens to allow the user to make changes to bathymetry settings used to create the imagery and apply any edits flags made to the GSF file Edit GSF Using This option is only available if a GSF File was imported without a corresponding raw data file using the Import GSF File option Selecting this option will launch a limited version of the BathyOne Wizard to allow the user to change some of the processing parameters set during the GSF import process Swath Editor Not yet implemented Re merge DTM Will re create the DTM based on any changes to the processing parameters or edits to the data made since the DTM was created Add Lines Allows the user to add other raw data files in the project to the DTM Reset Date Provides the ability to change the date of the DTM file Rename Allows the user to rename the DTM name in the project This will not rename the file on the disc and only changes the display name in the Perspective Map project Visualization Options Color Settings Allows the user to change the color characteristics of the bathymetry layer Histogram This is the graphical representation of the imagery signal level in dB versus the occurrence of that dB within the image Relief Shading This tool simulates the illumination of the sun on the bathymetry data This is a global setting and can only be
76. Vessel vessel navigation imported from raw data files If multiple data types are available in one raw data file importing that one data file can populate multiple navigation data fields in the file tree If for example the data file comes from a Reson 8101 which collects both sidescan and multibeam data simultaneously importing one raw data file will populate the Sidescan navigation node the Multibeam navigation node and the Vessel navigation node as shown in the image below Navigation 4 BR Multibeam v 06 03 1993 BROGOOT v E Sidescan v E 06 09 1993 BROGOOT 2 v E Vessel m 06 09 1999 BRDGOO1 Note that importing one data file BRDGOO1 in this example populated the multibeam sidescan and vessel layer nodes in the navigation file tree Each navigation type has its own color so they can be distinguished in the map view These are kept separate since the user may wish to process the navigation differently for sidescan data than for multibeam 761Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 4 2 Import Navigation Data Navigation data that Perspective works with comes embedded in raw survey data files and do not exist as stand alone files Currently the only raw survey data format supported by Perspective is the XTF format and the navigation data must be stored within the XTF file for Perspective to read and process it Navigation data extracted from the raw data files are automatically separated and sorted into
77. a AGDE6 Australasia Australia and PNG AGD84 Australia WGS 2 Aratu Aratu Datum Select the new datum just created from the projection list and select Finish or Finish and Save to keep the custom datum for future projects Selecting Finish and Save will open the following window to save the datum Select Projection Name Enter a name for the datum and select OK 731Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 3 6 Contact Settings Size meters This is where the user selects the size of the contact to be saved in meters Bookmarks The user can select whether or not to show bookmarks in the Waterfall view Targeting Paths It is recommended that the user choose the same directory paths for Perspective and TargetOne If both programs use the same directory paths contacts that are saved in TargetOne will automatically be displayed in Perspective Temporary The user can select where to have TargetOne keep contacts until they are saved Saved The user can select SW where to have Tar getOne General Pens Projections f Contact Database save contacts once they have Size meters Bookmarks been temporarily saved in Width 20 Height 20 m Show Bookmarks in the TargetOne Note that this wadia needs to be different from Targeting Paths temp directory Temporary C GIS SydneyHarborT argets TempT argets masani Note that the temporary and Saved C GIS SydneyH arbor Targets e
78. a selected folder NOT YET IMPLEMENTED This button will use the database search function to remove all data in a project and load only the data that lies within a selected time range or a defined geographic area Currently the only raw survey data format supported by Perspective is the Triton XTF data format However there are several existing Triton file format converters to allow importing of additional data types In addition to raw data files Perspective can import a variety of data types including Triton mosaic and DTM files GeoTiffs XYZ files GSF files AutoCAD DXF files and a few various others Data types supported and methods for importing each data type are described in the following sections 2 1 2 Import Data Types All data types can be imported from the Import option in the File menu or directly from the File Tree by selecting Add from the right click menu e SeaClass layers e Contacts e Vectors e Navigation layers 41 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC e Imagery layers e Background layers The Import option found in the File menu allows the ability to import all compatible data types into Perspective The options available are shown in the menu window below Raw Data File Mosaic File GeoTIFF File Contact File TritonMap File vector File Neural Net Classification File Symbol Ascii XYZ Grid File Ascii SingleBearm File Bathy DTM File G
79. ack using the values found in the XTF file for Cable Out Towfish Depth Towpoint Height and Towpoint offset from the navigation antenna e Manual Enter a fixed layback value in meters Tow Point Offsets Applies the user defined values in crossbeam direction Time Delay Static time delay in seconds Offsets Applies user Defined value in X Y relative to position e X equals Starboard X equals Port Speed Filter Speed Turns the option on e Min Enter the minimum expected speed e Max Enter the maximum expected speed e Change Cutoff Cutoff value for speed filter in knots Compute e Never Use the speed from the XTF file e Always Ignore existing speed and re compute e When Zero Only computes speed if the value in the file is zero Mag Heading Deviation On Turns the option on 0 90 180 270 Enter the corrected heading for each of cardinal compass points The mosaic engine will generate a smoothed correction curve interpolating between these values 811Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 4 5 Process Navigation For processing navigation from the File Tree select the Process Navigation option available by right clicking on any tree level in the Navigation layer Selecting this will launch the Process Navigation window shown below Process Navigation Auto Update Cache Check Intersections Cancel Processing Save and Exit Options include e
80. aic file or append to an existing file e Choose Mosaic Settings Includes resolution line merging options and transducer offsets e Select Order Input Lines Choose which data files to process for the mosaic e Choose Line Settings Includes channel options swath clipping and navigation processing 6 2 3 Choose Create Mosaic Layer The first step of the MosaicOne wizard is to create a new mosaic layer or select an existing mosaic layer to append to as shown in the image below s Triton Mosaic Wizard Choose Create Mosaic Layer Existing Layers Existing Geo Reference Lines Selected Layer Cancel If a mosaic layer already existed in the project it will appear in the upper window under Existing Layers The user can either select the existing layer if present or choose to create a new mosaic layer by selecting the Create button Before moving to the next step of the MosaicOne processing wizard either an existing layer must be selected or a new layer created for the processing results If selecting Create to 129 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC generate a new mosaic layer the following window will appear to name the layer and to select the output directory Create Perspective Mosaic File Save in G Klein5000 b O emn Recent Desktop Mu Documents Ja Mu Computer File name KOU EM Save Mu Network Save as hype Mosaic Files triap_moz K Cancel Note
81. and Zoom Out options and also is good for following a pipeline or route while zoomed in where the full extent of the feature following does not fit entirely in the display Select the pan icon a and then click and drag the screen with the button depressed 1 5 2 4 Zoom Mode Selecting the zoom toolbar button 4 puts the cursor in Zoom Mode This allows the user to select an area to zoom into by left clicking or right clicking on any point on the map and holding the button down while defining an area to zoom to When the mouse button is released the map will zoom into the selected area To zoom back out use the toolbar buttons for zooming out or returning to the home zoom The image below is an example of the selection process When the mouse button is released the screen will redraw to the selected extents 37 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC Annotation Tools 1 5 2 5 User Annotation Mode Draw Mode Drawing tools are available under the Modality gt Annotation menu or by selecting the Pen toolbar button When selected an O D A annotations window will appear as shown below All user annotations placed in the Map View from this dialog A will appear as items under the Annotation gt User heading in the go file tree Various shapes and text options are available Attributes Options include O Ellipse Dimensions are determined by clicking and dragging to the desired size Rec
82. arts of the swath to be blanked out for example the outer ends of a sidescan swath may be noisy and contain no data likewise the area directly beneath the towfish is often not used Apply To The parameters set in Choose Mosaic Settings and Choose Line Settings will be applied to either All lines or only to a user specified line Click Finish to generate the mosaic 134 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 3 Re Merge Mosaic Selecting this option will apply any changes made to the processing parameters since the mosaic was created This feature is only available by right clicking on the mosaic in the sidescan layer node as shown below En Y j Imagery E sidescan dE 7 ER 06 09 1999 8101 mosaic BEE EI Bathymetry Export GeoTiff This process happens automatically and there are no user set options available 6 4 Add Lines During the Create Mosaic process it is possible to exclude some lines from being included in the mosaic This is done in the Select Order Input Lines page of the MosaicOne Wizard To add lines to an existing mosaic right click on the mosaic in the Sidescan file tree layer and select Add Lines as shown below Imagery Statistics Fy Sidescan dE SR a Oo Je Selecting this will open the following window containing a list of all the files added to the project but not included in the mosaic as shown below BathyOne Wizard Select I
83. ated Also the size number of bins East West and North South that will be used Smooth Filter A low pass filter that can be applied to the DTM The variables are similar to the Fill Filter Use this filter with care useful data can easily be removed Hit Next to continue to the Ancillary Options dialog 5 2 6 Ancillary Options This page of the processing wizard as shown below gives the user the option to indicate the vessel geometry whether to include FTS footprint time series data in the GSF file and whether to choose to generate an HTF file as well 89 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC BathyOne Wizard Ancillary Options Vessel Geometry Use vessel geometry from STE header View STE Geometry GSF HTF Include FTS when available Generate HTF Cancel Vessel Geometry There are two options for vessel geometry Generally vessel geometry is stored in the raw data file header and can be read directly from the XTF file By default the Use vessel geometry from XTF header option is checked and this information will be used for data processing Unchecking this option allows you to either Load an existing geometry file or Create to generate a different vessel geometry GEO file Selecting Load will open a window for selecting an existing geo_xml file Selecting Create will open a window to enter vessel geometry information and save a new geo_xml file as shown on the next page 901 Pa
84. ay Check this box if there is a known timing delay from using UTC timing Enter the delay in seconds Attitude Correction Thresholds Users can set the maximum amount of change between motion sensor updates Hit Next to continue to the Beam Suppression dialog 5 2 8 Beam Suppression There are two tabs for defining filters to suppress beam soundings The main tab is for Beam Suppression and has several options for suppressing beams as shown in the image below Beam Suppression Attitude Suppression On Suppress Using Beam Quality Suppress Beams Using Gradient Poor Low Bad On Max Gradient m 2 00 Suppress Beams Outside Angle Suppress Beams Inside Angle Max Port E Max Port op On lt Max Stbd 68 MaxStbd D M On Suppress Beams Using Depth Range Suppress Beams Using Slant Range Min Depth 4 a Min Range 10 t On Max Depth 50 Max Range w o To enable beam suppression the On check box in the upper left corner needs to be checked A brief description of each suppression filter is presented below 95 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Suppress Using Beam Quality The bathymetry data sent from the sonar will have some flags that have been set by the sonar these are the Beam Quality flags Poor Low Bad Note the default settings reject only beams that are flagged as Bad by the sonar but the user can choose to reject more data based on the Poor or Low sonar
85. by left clicking on the node and dragging it while the mouse button 1s depressed When the mouse button is released the color map of the mosaic layer in the map view will automatically update Color Legend The gray histogram is the spread of the actual data The green is the contrast stretched histogram of the data as defined by the user selected min max range of the data The green histogram will be the actual data within the user defined limits spread out over the entire graph range dB Auto Contrast During the construction of the mosaic the program uses the default settings to improve the initial appearance of the image program defaults are Bias 0 and Threshold 1 The threshold setting determines where the upper and lower limits of the histogram are located based on the threshold curve A higher Threshold setting will move the upper and lower limits closer together The Bias setting moves the upper and lower limits closer but allows the user to ignore the histogram curve The defaults of 0 and 1 therefore should include almost all values in the image with very little clipping Selecting Compute will apply the changes made to Bias and Threshold to the Histogram 157 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Reset Allows the user to return the histogram to the original spread that was set during creation of the image 6 10 5 Waterfall LUT The imagery color settings can be changed for the waterfall viewer by selecting the LU
86. changed at this node level View Swath This tool allows the user to see the swath data from an individual data file 831Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Interpretation Options Bathy Profile Selecting the Bathy Profile option from the toolbar button or Modality menu in Perspective Map will switch the cursor to the Profile mode for evaluating features seen in the Map View A B Subtracts co registered DTMs to look for changes to bathymetry This algorithm does a direct pixel to pixel comparison at each grid node Change Detection Subtracts co registered DTMs to look for changes to bathymetry This algorithm differs slightly from the A B algorithm in that it also includes a statistical neighborhood approach to account for mis registration between layers Operating the Change Detection tool is basically the same as the A B tool Blink Comparator Visual comparison of two overlapping layers is made easy with this tool The Blink Comparator allows the user to quickly turn on off a layer or can be set to cycle a layer on off to help identify differences in the layers Statistics This gives an overview of the data used to create the image including coverage and line statistics 5 2 Create DTM 5 2 1 Bathymetry Processing Wizard Bathymetry data can be processed in Perspective Map using the BathyOne Wizard Presented below are a few ways to launch the bathymetry processing wizard During the raw data import process
87. collected from ROVs or AUVs generally more processing is needed to create imagery which accurately reflects the true vessel position at the time of the ping transmission and reception Currently there are two primary workflows for processing navigation data 1 Process on import Upon importing raw survey data files the processing wizards each have a button for setting the navigation processing settings These settings are made and then applied when the data is being processed for creating mosaics or DTMs These settings are only applied once to the raw navigation data Towed sidescan often needs repeatable navigation smoothing and 1s not adequately processed with this method Navigation processing boxcar settings are described in detail in the next section of this manual Section 4 4 2 Process from File Tree Upon import of the raw survey data the processing wizards are skipped and only the navigation lines are imported Then the navigation can be processed using the Process Navigation window which allows for multiple passes over the navigation data This is often necessary for towed sonar or data collected from ROVs or AUVs To repeat the navigation processing first setup the Boxcar filter to use either Ship or Sensor as the source navigation Click Start in the Process Navigation window to initiate the processing When complete return to the Boxcar Settings and change the navigation source to Smoothed This is a critical
88. cs This gives an overview of the data used to create the image Included in the Statistics window are the following e Allocated Coverage This is the number of square nautical miles which the tiles used to store the data in the DTM file represent e Actual Coverage This is the number of square meters of the actual ensonified area e Total Lines This is the number of lines included and used in the creation of the mosaic file e Along Track Distance This is the combined along track distance of all lines included and used in the creation of the mosaic file Add Lines Allows the user to add other raw data files in the project to the DTM 25 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Remove Allows the user to remove the imagery from the Map View Perspective will prompt the user to confirm before removing the imagery Reset Date Provides the ability to change the date of the DTM file Delete This action removes the imagery file from the project and deletes the DTM file that was created on import Perspective will ask for confirmation before deleting the imagery from the disk Info Access XML settings file for viewing the projection resolution file path directory of the DTM file and other information Zoom to Extents Quick zoom option which zooms to the full extent of the selected DTM Bathy Data File The following options are available by right clicking on the individual bathymetry data files under the DTM nod
89. cted from the applied sun illumination affecting the brightness of the image e Scaling This applies a multiple factor to exaggerate or diminish the gridded data relative to itself It works as a vertical exaggeration to emphasize topographic relief in the shaded imagery Here is an example of bathymetry data without relief shading and then with relief shading turned on 114 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Selecting the color patch next to the On checkbox will open the Color window to select a color to use to shade the beam illumination as shown below Color Basic colors By selecting a color here and clicking OK the chosen color will appear in the Relief Shading window as shown below E ix D SS am SA z Sun Elevation g E Wi Sur Azimuth p 45 Custom colors mme Reflectivity J 1 50 BES ggg go Scaling 1 00 Define Custom Colors gt gt This will change the beam 115 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC illumination from white and will have the following results 5 9 4 Swath Viewer The Swath Viewer allows the user to see the swath of individual data lines This tool can be launched by right clicking on either the individual line in either the Navigation file tree layer of from the Imagery Bathymetry file tree layer Both of these options to launch the Swath Viewer are shown below respectively o Contacts SES Navigation Proces
90. cting a target make sure the Contact settings are set in the main Perspective window settings Targets can be selected from the top visible mosaic layer in the map view To enter the target selection mode select the Contact Generation toolbar button This will launch TargetOne and will set the cursor to target mode for acquiring targets from the map view window 167 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC To acquire a target double click on the mosaic on the feature of interest This will capture an image of the selected target and transfer that image into the TargetOne window If multiple lines of data used to create the mosaic exist in the selected target location then one image from each data line beneath the selected location will be captured and sent to the TargetOne window 7 3 TargetOne Application 7 3 1 TargetOne Layout TargetOne 0121711 103 Woks Fle Edt Tous View Winker Help e SH cat AAAA PABI etfoazhm Amongst Main Window Regions Image View Displays the captured image from the waterfall or mosaic There are two parts to this view the large image view in the center of the window and the Overview Window in the upper left corner of the window 168 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Thumbnail View Displays a thumbnail for each image saved in TargetOne with a scroll bar to access thumbnails from farther down the list than what can be viewed in this window Image Dis
91. d the user has the option to save the curve using the Save TVG Settings button This will launch a browser window for choosing a name and file location for the TVG curve as shown 160 Page February 2011 qp TRITON IMAGING INC Soe DES Recent My Documents My Computer File name 322 1821_T VG_Curvell v C MyNetwork_ Save astype TVG Settings files tvg_xml This TVG settings file can be loaded for use on subsequent data files by selecting the Load TVG Settings button An example of the effect TVG can have is shown below The first image shows the original waterfall view The second image shows a capture of the TVG settings The third picture shows the waterfall view after the settings were applied 161 Page February 2011 qp TRITON IMAGING INC Apply to All Channels Set for Individual Channels All Channels Maximum Gain 20 db B e B i 5 we S pas s H H a GR RER Ge SE Cf E E Bee 0 0m Max Range Stat At Transmit First Retum 6 10 7 Waterfall Targets Targets can be acquired from the waterfall viewer by selecting the Contacts toolbar button ite The targeting module is described in detail in the TargetOne section of the help document in Section 7 1 162 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 11 Interpretation Options 6 11 1 Sidescan Blink Comparator To quickly compare two overlapping sidescan mosaic layers the
92. d mosaic settings file Clicking this button opens a file browser to locate and select a previously saved settings file Save This will save the entered settings on this page of the MosaicOne wizard to an XML file for quick loading for processing subsequent mosaics Hit Next to continue to the next page of the processing wizard 6 2 5 Select Order Input Lines This page gives the user the option to select which lines to include in the mosaic processing and also what order to use for overlapping All lines loaded in the project that contain sidescan data will be included in this list as shown below s Triton Mosaic Wizard Select Order Input Lines v Files CSydreyHarborsE DUU sT P24 1821 att C SydnepH arbo k DUU eT FAITE 18712 att CSydreyH arbon k S000 7 FAST 27800 sth CSydreyH arbors S000 eT FAST 47 70S att CSydreyH arbors S000 TFG 1832 mtf C VSudnevH arbor KOU TFAOF0_ 197 6 wl Move Up CNSydreyH arbors S000 STEI 1809 sth CSydreyH arbors DUU TFT 2 77 71 ut CNSydreyH arbors DUU STEI 7 70S sth Move Down Select All Deselect All Cancel Options include selecting individual lines by clicking on the check box to the right of the line name or the user may either Select All or Deselect All If a line is deselected it will not be included in the mosaic that is being created Using the Add Lines tool it is possible to append the mosaic with the lines not included at a later time In additio
93. e Remove Allows the user to remove the data file from ae the DTM Perspective will prompt the user to confirm View swath before removing the selected file view GSF history View Swath This option is available on the XTF layer level and will open a swath viewer to view the multi beam data by swath View GSF History This option is available on the XTF layer level and will indicate what processing steps have been performed on the GSF file 1 3 8 Background File Tree This is where the background data is stored and organized within the Tree View There are two types of files that are used for background images 1 GeoTiff 2 ENC Charts 1 3 8 1 Background GeoTiff Data To bring a background GeoTiff into the project you can either right click on the layer node in the file tree Background gt GeoTiff Data 26 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC or the window menu option File gt Import gt GeoTIFF File Both options will open a file browser to locate a GeoTiff Open Geo TIFF Look in 9 AerialPhoto sdy6024 tiF LJ smalltif_O tif Recent a Desktop My Documents ES My Computer a File name BIR D BESSA My Network Files of type TIF titi ly Once selected the projection for the image will need to be defined if this was not previously set in the Projections Tab for the Application Settings or for a previous background import Perspective will remember your im
94. e Perspective Map View on areas you want to use as samples for training the Neural Net Click on the middle pause button when you are done Selecting the X button will remove the selected class points from the Training Classes and Samples field When finished adding classes and recording samples the Edit amp Classes window should look similar to the following image Triton SeaClass Edit Classes amp Samples Training Classes and Samples 2 Training Set 1 al Add Class Sand Lo u Silt Click on the Record Button to begin recording samples 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 H 3 q 178 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Sample points will appear in the map view in the colors chosen as shown in the example below Map Root ES Annotation Seallass Manual Training The training set points will automatically appear in the SeaClass C J Training Set 1 Sand file tree as shown The SeaClass file tree is discussed in Section 1 3 3 a mm Ps Mm zb CH Silt au D III OD 00 d On OI Ss GAP CH ls 179 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Click Next to open a dialog to for naming the training set XML file as shown here Save Training Session File Save in O SeaClassDemo im Ej test training_xml Recent E Desktop w My Documents gs My Computer m a File name demaltraining_xml My Network Save as type Triton Pe
95. e calculated from a sidescan mosaic layer include the following 164 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC e Allocated Coverage This is the number of square nautical miles which the tiles used to store the data in the DTM layer represent e Actual Coverage This is the number of square meters of the actual ensonified area e Total Lines This is the number of lines included and used 1n the creation of the DIM layer e Along Track Distance This is the combined along track distance of all lines included and used in the creation of the DTM layer To use the Statistics tool right click on the mosaic layer you wish to extract the statistics from and select Statistics from the menu options as shown below Imagery Export KML Sidescan dE 04 21 1999 55 Mosaic Blink Comparator a Selecting the Statistics menu option will calculate the statistics discussed above and display them as shown in the following window Mosaic Statistics S Mosaic Allocated Coverage 2 93 square nautical miles Actual Coverage 1 97 square nautical miles Total Lines g Along Track Distance 5 19 nautical miles 6 11 3 Sidescan Mosaic Targets Targets can be acquired from the sidescan mosaic in the map view by selecting the Contacts toolbar button 7 The targeting module is described in detail in Section 7 1 165 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 11 4 Sidescan Classification Bottom t
96. e default bathy layer format used for gridding the depth values from the processing results e TPE This stands for total propagated error and is used for a visual representation of the possible errors in the data results Before moving to the next step of the BathyOne processing wizard either an existing layer must be selected or a new layer created for the processing results If the user selects Create to generate a new bathy layer the following window will appear to name the layer and to select the output directory 861 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC Create Perspective DTM File Save mt Recent Desktop Mu Documents 5 Mu Computer File name 8101_DTM e Save el Mu Network Save az type OTM Files D map dm iw Cancel Note that the map dm file extension will automatically be appended to the entered file name When finished select Save This will create the new bathy layer and will automatically advance to the next processing step 5 2 4 Select Input Lines This page gives the user the option to select which lines to include in the bathy processing All lines loaded in the project that contain bathymetry data will be included in this list as shown below oF BathyOne Wizard Select Input Lines kel Files C SydneyH arbor B atb DI 01ST FSBRO GOS STE Is CNS ydreyH arbor athy i OTST PSBARDGO25 TF C SydnevH abor B athy e1 OTs T FABADGO24 STE C SydneyH arbor D athe
97. e overlaps itself Each has the following options e Average The average pixel value is calculated and used 133 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC e Maximum The pixel with the highest value maximum is used e Minimum The pixel with the lowest value minimum is used e RMS Root Mean Square is a statistical measure of the magnitude of pixel values It is the square root of the mean of the squares of the pixel values e Skip Does not apply this step overlap is handled by input line order Navigation This box is checked by default The standard setting will apply a boxcar filter using twelve navigation updates to create a running mean position Fill Between Pings e None Do not fill e Interpretation Calculates a smooth transition from the pixels in one swath to the next default Source of Heading This will tell Perspective what to use as the source for the heading when creating the mosaic e Sensor Use the heading sensor which 1s integrated into the towfish as the source e Ship Use the heading that is recorded for the ship as the source e Line Median The mean line heading useful when the survey lines are straight Port Channel Starboard Channel Select which channels of data to use in the mosaic Typically in a dual frequency system Ch 3 and Ch 4 will be a higher frequency with better resolution but shorter range than Ch 1 and Ch 2 Inner Outer Boundary Clipping Allows p
98. e projection to use If a custom projection is needed select the Custom button Press the Next button to select additional projection information For this example the correct UTM zone hemisphere and units need to be specified 66lPage February 2011 Vy TRITON g isphere i Noth South Finish and Save Select the datum to use If a custom datum is needed select the Custom button GGRS8 Greek_Geodetic_Reference_System_1987 NADSS3 North American _Datum_1983 NAD2 North _American_Datum_1927 potsdam Potsdam Rauenberg 1950 DHDN carthage Carthage 1934 Tunisia hermannskogel Hermannskogel ire65 Ireland 1965 nzgd49 New Zealand Geodetic Datum 1949 OSGB36 Airy 1830 Gauss Boaga AGDEE Australasia Australia and PNG 4GD64 Australia WG ZA Aratu Aratu Datum e Finish and Save Select Finish when done 67 Page February 2011 em yp TRITON IMAGING INC 3 5 3 Custom Projection To define a custom projection select Custom from the Select Projection page of the import or export projection wizards as shown below Projection State Plane Universal Transverse Mercator Mercator Transverse Mercator Maramara Finish and Save Back Finish This will open the following window Projection String EPSG Database http spatial reference org sets Select Create to start the Projection Definition window 68 Page February 2011
99. e sec Semi Major Axis SEU ee nn Semi ines telen foo ices E mm Reciprocal Flattening Op Eccentricity Scaling Ke Eccentricity Squared Save As 711Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Select an existing ellipsoid or choose custom from the list as shown below Ellipsoids Krassovsky 1942 Kaula 1961 Lerch 1979 Maupertius 1738 New International 1967 Plessis 1817 France Southeast Asia Walbeck WES 60 WGS 66 WGS 72 WES 84 Normal Sphere Ellipsoid Parameters to WGS84 Se Delta rm Rotation are sec D foo Semi Minor Axis 0 0 y bid bid Flattening 1 Reciprocal Flattening 298 257 Semi Major Axis 6378137 0 z loo 00 Eccentricity E Sealing Eccentricity Squared SaveAs CustomDatum Enter the appropriate information for the projection to be defined and a Save As name and select OK when done The Choose Datum window now has the custom datum listed at the bottom 72 1Page February 2011 17 TRITON IMAGING INC Projection Wizard Choose Datum WGS84 GGRS8 Greek_Geodetic_Reference_System_1987 NAD83 North _American_Datum_1983 NAD2 North American_Datum_1927 potsdam Potsdam Rauenberg 1950 DHDN carthage Carthage 1934 Tunisia hermannskogel Hermannskogel ire65 Ireland 1965 nzgd49 New Zealand Geodetic Datum 1949 OSGB36 Airy 1830 Gauss Boag
100. ection 6 10 6 Target collection from the waterfall window is discussed in Section 6 10 7 143 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 9 2 Waterfall Layout Waterfall View BRDG006 XTF File Contacts li ele elol Navigation Sensor Data Lat 33851 21 74 S Sonar Range Ping 1512 12 46 49 E Pitch 0 Date Heading Bot 1 Channel Depth Heading Slant Range Altitude Speed Layback Depth Altitude J Ping 473912 End of File Options 9090900000 ot rani e Stop Waterfall Window Layout Image View Displays the raw sidescan data as a waterfall Status Windows Information regarding navigation ship and sensor data and cursor position are displayed here Playback Controls Includes a slider bar for monitoring and controlling position in the data file standard controls for playing back and pausing sidescan data m the waterfall view and end of file options 144 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 9 3 Waterfall Menu Options File Menu At End of File Go To Scroll Forward Page Lip Scroll Back Page Down Bottom Track At End of File Options for how to proceed with the file playback once the end of the file is reached The image below shows the available settings File At End of File V Go Back to Start Go To gt D Go to Next File in Time Scroll Forward Page Up stop Scroll Back Page Down Bottom Track Go Back to Start
101. er Lines will be displayed based only on the order in which they were mosaiced e No Step No merging will take place existing imagery will be preserved new lines will not overwrite Constrain to map view Only generates the mosaic in the visible map view window Automatic Gain Control Applies an automatic gain to each line to account for signal attenuation in analog data Single Channel Auto Flip Where a mosaic has sufficient raw data overlap it may be possible to mosaic only one channel on lines running in opposite directions Perspective detects the line direction and selects the correct channel The resulting mosaic will have shadows only on one side of all objects which can give superior results by removing the double shadow problem The user needs to select the On box to enable this option and can select the starting line and also the starting channel Transducer Offsets hull mounted When the sidescan sonar is hull mounted instead of using layback transducer offsets need to be entered to account for the difference in position between the GPS receivers and the sonar transducer The user needs to select the On box to enable this option and can select the across track and along track offsets Load Save Options There are two additional buttons available on the page of the MosaicOne Wizard Load and Save 131 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Load This will load an existing save
102. es ne T Che 185 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC V Triton Perspective seacalss demo xml max Fie Modality View Help DamaR NAR Oe MORE Renee AESR KIRESESES R Ei z ona Cursor Measure Offset Contact et 1 8 m p North 6061340 41m N E ast 675560 30m E i gt Lat 64 41 37 38 N Lon 4 10 20 37 E Depth 0 00m Turi sand mud shale e t et tet is North East 8 6 Quick Classification As mentioned earlier the creation of the Classification image can take some time It is worth noting that the actual classification of the image does not take very long There is a Tool Bar Button called Quick Classification ID that can be used to check if the Classification image will be what was expected BEFORE the actual image is created To activate the Quick Classify button you must complete all steps up to the end of Training the Neural net Once the CNX file has been generated left clicking on the individual Neural Net in the tree view will activate the button Modality gt Quick Classification ID will also activate the button 1861 Page February 2011 17 TRITON IMAGING INC K Triton Perspective Jog Fie Modality View Help Se ted oh HERE CHE Cursor Measure Offset Contact 4 8 m p North 6059154 71m N East 573835 93m E Lat 54 40 27 61 N Lon 4 UI 42 09 E Depth 0 00m Neural Nets Geen 3 North 6059154 71m N East 573835 93
103. es a statistical neighborhood approach to account for mis registration between layers To calculate the differences between entire DTM layers using Change Detection right click on the DTM you wish to subtract from and select Change Detection from the menu options as shown below Imagery Export KML Export XYZ o Sidescan dB E athymetry ECH p 08 04 2003 2255 Blink Comparator E OF 27 2009 2153 E EI 07 27 2008 Meel Changs Detection Statistics Selecting the Change Detection menu option will open the same A B window discussed in the previous section The difference DTM created from this process will automatically load into the project and can be found in the Imagery Bathymetry file tree layer 5 10 4 Bathy Blink Comparator To quickly compare two overlapping DTM layers the Blink Comparator tool can be used The Blink Comparator allows the user to quickly turn on off a layer or can be set to cycle a layer on off to help identify differences in the layers To use the Blink Comparator tool right click on the DTM you wish to Blink cycle on and off and select Blink Comparator from the menu options as shown below GC Imagery CAPOTE BIL Export YYZ o Sidescan dE Bathyrietry A B 07 27 2009 2153 v ET 07 27 2009 Main Change Detection Statistics Selecting the Blink Comparator menu option the following window will open 123 Page February 2011 T
104. esolution Sets the output file resolution in meters pixel The size of the output file in pixels will show next to Dimensions just below the resolution 46 Page February 2011 cn yp TRITON IMAGING INC e Tiles Export The slider bar below the Dimensions is for indicating the number of tiles to break up the export image in order to reduce the individual file size of the output The image above shows the output divided into 16 tiles with resulting dimensions of each tile being 1097 x 992 pixels e Selection Tree Allows the user to select or deselect additional imagery to be included in the export Selecting the Export button will open the following window for saving the file Save Geo TIFF Save Im Recent e Desktop My Documents 48 My Computer My Network 8101XTF 5 8101_mb 28101 mb Dart 8101_mb_part2 8101_ss 98101dtm 5 8101mos 8101mostemp O testgsf 28101 se H File name Save Cancel Export Save as type TIF tif tiff 2 3 2 Imagery GeoTiff Export Sidescan and bathymetry data can be exported from an existing project from the File Tree to a geo referenced TIFF file For sidescan data the GeoTiff Exporter is launched from either the sidescan root node or the individual sidescan layer Individual GeoTiff files for bathymetry are only exported from right clicking on the Bathymetry root layer node All options launch the same export wizard For sidescan ex
105. fo o GeoTiff Data Watt_POM2 Encode Demo Version Zoom to Extents Save Classification File St Save in LS SeaClassDemo a Recent File name ClassificationGrid1_Export My Network Save as type SIP ase February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 2 3 7 Printing In order to print the Map View to a PDF file you will need Adobe Acrobat for this or to a printer select Print from the File menu This will open a standard Windows printing window as shown below Print p General Select Printer e B a fal E Ga SS E E Add Printer Adobe PDF Auto Lexmark EPSON Stylus HP LaserJet x500 Series Photo 1400 4000 Status Offline C Print to file Location Comment Find Printer Page Range All Number of copies 1 ERR Select Print to output the Map View to the chosen printer 2 4 Project Options 2 4 1 New Project To create a new project select the New Project option from the File menu as shown below Modality View Help New Project Ctrl N Open Project Ctrl O Save Project Ctrl 5 Save Project As Ctrl Shift 5 Selecting this will open a new project If an existing project is open and not already saved the user will be Import j mpor asked to save the project Export Page Setup Print Ctrl P Quit Ctrl Q 54 Page February 2011 qp TRITON IMAGING INC 2 4 2 Open P
106. for the Amplitude and Gradient method and allows the user to remove strong returns from near the sonar and noise in the water column Delta Used to constrain the filter gate make sure this is not set to 0 Delta Sensitivity Sets the sensitivity of the filter gate for finer adjustments ms m Toggles between time and distance units To see the results of the settings chosen select the Compute button The other available tab is the Color tab for adjusting the view Note that this does not affect the data or the mosaic and is only used to visually enhance the sidescan data in the bottom tracking tool window for better manual picking A brief discussion of the options available in the Color tab is presented here 153 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Standard Color Gamma J 0 52 Brightness J 0 0 ma Contrast J 1 2 Gamma Gamma is a way of logarithmically compensating for low intensity pixels that may be present in some images Sliding the bar to the right increases the gamma index for the image maximum gamma 10 sliding it to the left decreases it minimum gamma 0 10 The value 1 00 represents midpoint of the scale no gamma Brightness Sliding the bar to the right brightens the image sliding it to the left darkens it When the bar is at the midpoint 0 the image has neutral brightness no change in brightness Range is 100 dimmest to 100 brightest Contrast Sliding the bar to
107. ge February 2011 q7 TRITON IMAGING INC Vessel Geometry File Antenna Info 0 000 o Offset rm 0 000 Y Offset rm 0 000 Offset rm Transducer 1 Info Transducer 2 Info Motion Sensor Info 0 000 o Offset rm 0 000 a Offset m 0 000 a Offset m 0 000 Y Offset rm 0 000 Y Offset rm 0 000 Y Offset rm 0 000 Z Offset m 0 000 Z Offset rn 0 000 Z Offset m 0 000 Dol 0 000 Bolt Heave and Heading Into 0 000 Heading Offset Height of reference 0 000 point abowe water lne m Dratt Transducer Z offset Ref Height Heave Ref OTIONSENSOR a 0 000 Pitch P 0 000 Pitch 0 000 Yaw 0 000 aal 0 000 Latency Offset Info ma Multipliers 0 000 Bathy 1 000 Roll Factor 0 000 Navigation 1 000 Pitch Factor 0 000 Depth 1 000 Yaw Factor 0 000 Motion 1 000 Heave e ite fy 1 000 Depth Note that there is a drop down list for Heave Ref with the following options depending on the source of the data and where in the XTF file the information is stored OTIONSENSOR w MOTIONSENSOA TRANSDUCER TRANSDUCER2 When finished select OK This will open a window for entering the name of the vessel geometry file and selecting an output directory Heave Ret GSE Include FTS when available All data is written internally to a standard GSF Generic Sensor Format file FTS Footprint Time Series data is beam imagery from within each beam footprint sometimes called
108. gtude Lattude 6253193 36m N EE 33 50 54 36 S 1519 12 03 28 E 0 00 m o Map Root temp pro sml kel 2 Annotation E o Regions V E Region W Grid F o User E DT Contacts oO oO SIRs By clicking on Region U in the file tree the Map View will automatically zoom to that region shown as a yellow dashed box in image 34 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 1 5 1 7 Zoom to Extents This option is available by right clicking on select nodes within the File Tree Selecting this will zoom the Map View to the full extent of the chosen data 1 5 1 8 Pan Mode This mode allows for moving around the data at a particular zoom level by dragging the screen with the cursor Select the pan zoom icon a and then left click and drag the screen with the button depressed When the mouse button is released the view will redraw at the new location Pan mode is discussed more in section 1 5 2 3 To exit this mode another mode button must be selected such as the Select mode button 1 5 2 Cursor Modes There are several cursor modes available through the toolbar buttons and menu options These are 1 Select Mode 2 Measure Mode 3 Pan Mode 4 Zoom Mode 5 Contact Generation Targeting Mode 6 Classification Modes e Classification Training e Edit Classification e Quick Classification 7 Annotation Mode 8 Bathymetry Profiling Mode 9 A B Mode 351Page February
109. he SE region 1 3 2 2 Grid Overlay Annotation SR v Regions This is an overlay graph of the lines of E D ES Easting and Northing which are E Debris automatically displayed in the Map View It f Ju i Resolution eem i e ser can be modified in resolution and in color l Play Color Settings B Det Info Right clicking on the Grid layer will give Le the following options Resolution Allows the user to change the resolution of the grid overlay to a user defined distance Enter Grid Resolution Color Settings Allows the user to change the color of the grid overlay Info Allows the user to view the resolution datum projection and coordinates of the grid 100 00 1 3 2 3 User Annotation Drawing tools are available under the Modality gt Annotation menu or by selecting the Ben toolbar button When annotations are created using the drawing tools they appear in the Annotation gt User file tree menu Annotation The following options are available by right Regions clicking on the individual annotation Data Color Settings E Debris Rename Color Settings Allows the user to change the Ju PEN e e e v characteristics of the annotation Planne oN Debris Rename Allows the user to rename the user Move Down defined annotation Ee Vectors sydney_ce Move To Top Moves the corresponding Navigation Remove annotation to the top of the Tree View within
110. he spot and holding the button down while the area to be used for the A B calculation is defined A box will be drawn in the screen defining the area and when done release the mouse button to start the calculation The A B tool is described in detail in the BathyOne part of the Help guide in Section 5 10 2 1 5 2 10 Display Depth Scale Mode This option is available when there is a DTM layer in the project To display the depth scale first select a DTM layer from the file tree by clicking on it once The depth scale is then launched by either selecting the Display Depth Scale option in the Modality menu or by clicking on the toolbar button shown below This will open the following depth scale window shown to the right which can be moved around in the window or placed anywhere on your desktop 2 Data Management 2 1 Importing 2 1 1 Import Methods The toolbar offers three methods to bring data into Perspective Ak This will open a window browser to import selected raw data files into the project as shown in the image below 40lPage February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC Open Survey File Look in O SydneyHarbor ID erialPhoto S Bathy Recent Contacts Oppe vip D DxF E CD K5000_XTF Desktop oO KML IO ProjectFolder My Documents E Mu Computer a File name 2 My Network Files of type Survey Files at seg seou sou hal eS This button will import all compatible data file in
111. ias and Threshold to the Histogram Reset Allows the user to return the histogram to the original spread that was set during creation of the image An example of how the histogram options affect the DTM display is shown here When the user first opens the Bathymetry Histogram window the histogram displayed was designed to span the full range of signals in the DIM This however can lead to a color imbalance where much of the DTM appears the same color Shown on the following page is an example of this showing the default histogram for a DTM and the resulting color distribution Bathymetry Histogram Color Legend Auto Contrast Original Histogram pP Modified Histogram BE Threshold 1 0 YJ Bias 0 0 J Reset 111 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Adjusting the portion of the spectrum to display can enhance the vertical changes in the DTM as shown on the following page Bathymetry Histogram Histogram Color Legend Auto Contrast Original Histogram p Modified Histogramm Li Threshold 1 0 y Bias 0 0 J 112 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Additional adjustments can be made in the Auto Contrast section to enhance the color distribution Applying a Bias of 2 4 and a Threshold of 7 4 to the histogram results shown above yields the following color distribution Bathymetry Histogram Color Legend Auto Contrast Original Histogram P Modified H
112. ines During the Create DTM process it is possible to exclude some lines from being included in the DTM To add lines to an existing DTM right click on the DTM in the Bathymetry file tree layer and select Add Lines as shown 105 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC ne m e em kel o Imagery Ei o Statistics o Sidescan dB EEN E Bathymetry 08 04 2009 2253 SR 07 27 2008 2153 07 27 2009 Main Selecting this will open the following window containing a list of all the files added to the project but not included in the DTM as shown below oF BathyOne Wizard Select Input Lines v Files C SudnevH arbor E athy 1 O17 FABROGO2O STE C SudnevH arbor Bathye1 OTT FABROGO ATF CA SydneyH arbor B athy ol OTT FMBROGOTSSTF CA SydneyH arbor B athpsad OTT FMBROGOT ZTF CA SydnepH arbor B athpsad OTT FMBROGOTBAATF SelectAll Deselect All Choose which lines to include by checking the box to the left of each line they are all checked by default or by using the Select All or Deselect All buttons Click on Finish when ready to add the chosen lines to the DTM 5 7 Reset Date When a DTM is created it automatically reads the acquisition data from the raw data file and appends that to the file name in Perspective Map as shown below E Imagery I Bathyrnetry E Je 06 09 1999 8101 OTM 1061 Page February 2011 cn yp TRITON IMAGING INC If a user wished to instead
113. ing events Blink Comparator Lauer Dn Lauer Off Cycle Statistics This gives an overview of the data used to create the image Included in the Statistics window are the following e Allocated Coverage This is the number of square nautical miles which the tiles used to store the data in the DTM or MOZ file represent e Actual Coverage This is the number of square meters of the actual ensonified area e Total Lines This is the number of lines included and used in the creation of the mosaic file e Along Track Distance This is the combined along track distance of all lines included and used in the creation of the mosaic file Add Lines Allows the user to add other raw data files in the project to the mosaic Remove Allows the user to remove the imagery from the Map View Perspective will prompt the user to confirm before removing the imagery Delete This action removes the imagery file from the project and deletes the mosaic file that was created on import Perspective will ask for confirmation before deleting the imagery from the disk Info Access XML settings file for viewing the projection resolution file path directory of the mosaic file plus other information Zoom to Extents Quick zoom option to zoom to full extent of selected mosaic Sidescan Data File The following options are available by right clicking on the individual sidescan data files under the mosaic node Geo Reference GRL Settings
114. ing of data file Slow motion backwards playback Fast forward in reverse Reverse file playback Pause playback Play file forwards Fast forward file playback Slow motion file playback Jump to end of data file SM Another option for moving through the data file in the waterfall viewer is the slider bar above the playback controls as shown below Ping 2574 The number to the right of the slider bar indicates what ping number the file is at Dragging the slider allow the user to quickly move through the data file to a particular ping number How the viewer handles the end of the file being played can be set in the Fond of File Options corner of the waterfall window Options available are shown in the following image and discussed below End of File Options LoopBack Play Next File In Time _ Stop 149 Page February 2011 qp TRITON IMAGING INC Loop Back This option loops the file and restarts playback from the beginning of the data file Play Next File In Time Selecting this will automatically switch to the next file in the time that 1s loaded into the project Stop This option will stop playback at the end of the file 6 9 7 Waterfall Map Link As the data is played back in the waterfall window the position in the data file is displayed in the map view This is useful for correlating features seen in the waterfall view to the map display The following image shows a scour feature in the sidescan
115. ing over a small area or the entire DTM layer A Minus Ve Subtract 2153 tmap_dtm Mam Channel Baseline tmap_dtm Min Delta Max Delta J Absolute Positive Negative T A B Depth Delta rm The window on the left lists available DTM layers in the project to use for the calculation Note that the layer selected will be subtracted from the layer right clicked on in the file tree or from the top layer if selecting an area on the map Options available in the A B window include Min Delta This sets the minimum value for the layer difference to include in the output DTM This is useful for removing background noise from the difference layer Max Delta This sets the maximum value for the layer difference to include in the output DTM This is useful for targeting objects of a particular size from the difference layer Absolute Positive Negative Gives the user the option to include the Absolute values of all differences in the output DTM layer or just the Positive values or just the Negative difference values A B Depth Delta Allows the user to adjust for known depth difference Useful for comparing shapes of features when there is static depth shift between the data layers due to tides or sound velocity errors Selecting OK will launch the Save File dialog to choose a name for the DTM difference layer and for selecting the file directory 121 Page February 2011
116. isplay from the file tree More information about annotation options from the file tree is presented in Section 1 3 2 3 1 5 2 6 Bathymetry Profiling Selecting the Bathy Profile toolbar button ei in Perspective map will switch the cursor to the Profile mode for evaluating features seen in the Map View Select a starting point on the map by left clicking on the spot and holding the button down while the profile line is spanned Once the end point is reached release the mouse button The Bathy Profile tool is described in detail in the BathyOne section of this user manual 1 5 2 7 Contact Generation Selecting the Contact Generation option Gi in the Modality menu or selecting the toolbar button in Perspective map will switch the cursor to the Contact Generation mode for marking locations of interest seen in the Map View Selecting this toolbar will automatically launch TargetOne for analyzing and saving the selected target 1 5 2 8 Classification Bottom types can be classified in MosaicOne using the built in classification module called SeaClass The classification process is described in detail in Section 8 3 1 5 2 9 A B Mode Selecting the A B toolbar button in Perspective Map or the A B option in the Modality menu will switch the cursor to the A B mode for determining differences in DTM layers seen in the Map View 39 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Select a starting point on the map by left clicking on t
117. istogram Threshold 7 4 Bias 2 4 This is a bit extreme but shows how the Bias and Threshold settings can affect the histogram and resulting color distribution 5 9 3 Relief Shading Relief Shading simulates the illumination of the sun on the bathymetry data This is a global setting and can only be changed at this node level 113 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Right click on the DTM layer or root bathymetry file tree node and select the Relief Shading option as shown below EN Imagery Relief Shading Move To Top Gi Bathymetry Move Up 07 01 2010 Sydney 1 Move Down Sort by e Selecting Relief Shading will open the following window Relief Shading el On Sun Elevation Sun Azmuth Reflectivity Scaling y By checking the box next to On the user can create relief shading of the bathymetry image The color square next to On allows the user to select a beam shade This will be the overall translucent color cast on the image Other user defined settings include e Sun Elevation This is the elevation of the beam in degrees above the theoretical horizon For example 30 degrees would show relief as viewed from 30 degree above the horizon e Sun Azimuth This is position of the beam source For example 270 degrees would display the image as a beam shined on it directly from the West e Reflectivity This adjusts the amount of energy that would be refle
118. ition on the mosaic TargetOne is a collection of target processing tools that enable the acquisition and analysis of objects seen in the sidescan data Targets are acquired with point and click on a sidescan mosaic displayed in Perspective Map or from the raw sidescan data viewed in EE pw ET i i Perspective s embedded waterfall viewer The TargetOne module displays target images and tift7t provides for a variety of image manipulation si Tr ee and measurement tools to facilitate object recognition and classification Target positions are recorded as icons displayed on the mosaic with easy access to any target by clicking on an icon of interest Object measurement tools are provided that exploit sonar parameters Output of target information is in standard XML format to support processing by other applications iilPage February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC SeaClass is an advanced seabed segmentation classification module that automatically characterizes bottom types based on statistical properties of sidescan mosaics or multibeam backscatter imagery SeaClass is e ee nd based on a multi layer perceptron supervised Ke SC neural network The classification procedure ar consists of two stages a learning stage and a GC 8 err eu classification stage Training is accomplished SE ke gt WI 8 D P e 8 i b Di H y Ki Bis r S K R a E ep S
119. ity slider allows the Color Intensity adjustment of the brightness of the ENC in the Map Display to be adjusted 3 5 Projection Settings These are the five separate projection settings available in the Projections tab e XTF Import Projection e Contact Save Projection e GeoTiff Import Projection e Export Projection e ASCII XYZ Projection Program Settings General Pens Projections Contact Database TF Import Projection Unprojected Longitude Latitude ue GeoTIFF Import Projection Unprojected Longitude Latitude Aide ASCII XYZ Projection Unprojected Longitude Latitude et Contact Save Projection Unprojected Longitude Latitude it all Export Projection Unprojected Longitude Latitude Change weed ER Auto set Export Projection to UTM ZW GS 84 requires input files to be lat lon Ask to use current import projection 63 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC There are also two check boxes in the Projections tab related to import and export projections Auto set Export Projection to UTM WGS84 As specified this requires that the input files are in latitude and longitude coordinates Checking this box will export the data in the same projection as displayed in the Map View Ask to use current import projection This will prompt the user during the file import process and ask whether to use the current projection If the current projection is not satisfactory
120. k Comparator Statistics Move to Top Moves the selected image file to the top of the Tree View within the Imagery gt Sidescan Add Lines layer The image file listed on top or first within the Tree View will be displayed on top of all other image KE files of similar type Delete Move Up Moves the selected image file above the TAPE cs previous sidescan image file in the Tree View The image files will be displayed m the order listed within the Tree View Zoom to Extents Encode Demo Version Move Down Moves the image file below the successive sidescan imagery file The image files will be displayed in the order listed within the Tree View Mosaic Settings Opens the Mosaic Wizard so that the user can make changes to mosaic settings used to create the imagery More information about the MosaicOne Wizard can be found at section 6 2 21 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Re merge Mosaic Applies user corrections and line changes to the mosaic Export GeoTiff Exports a GeoTiff of the selected sidescan mosaic file Export KML Exports a KML file of the selected sidescan mosaic file s Classify Classifies the selected sidescan mosaic file Details on using the sediment classification tool in Perspective are available in section 8 3 Blink Comparator Toggles a sidescan layer on and off at a set cycle rate to get a visual comparison of the same location in two different sidescan layers or mapp
121. l Discards the results generated and closes the Bottom Tracking Tool window 6 10 2 Slant Range Corrections Slant range corrections are designed to remove the distortions caused by the oblique focus of the sidescan transducer receiver array In order to apply slant range corrections the bottom must first be tracked to remove the water column The following image shows a sidescan waterfall window with data that is not yet slant range corrected File Contacts Navigation Sensor Data Cursor Lon 151212 27 95 E Pitch 8 Date 4 22 1999 Heading 90 22 Rolk 26 Channel 1 Depth bid Sec Heading Slant Range 34 8 m Altitude 6 7 Shi e P Speed Lat 33 50 59 17 S Layback 0 0m Speed 6 5kts i Depth 0 0 Lon 1512 12 25 76 E Gyro 101 5 Altitude Ping 288 End of File Options Q Q Q Q O Q Q Loop Back Play Nest File I e Stop Shown in the image is the necessary red line indicating the line has been bottom tracked 155 Page February 2011 KR TRITON IMAGING INC len To apply the slant range corrections select the toolbar button This will correct the waterfall image by removing the water column as shown below File Contacts Sensor Data Navigation La 291 00 32 U LEES Time 18 22 18 380 Ping 390 Pitch Date 4 227 999 Heading EN Fe Rol 12 6 Channel Depth 0 0 Heading Slant Range 34 8 m Altitude Ship
122. les into Perspective the import processing wizard automatically launches While the wizard does give the option to process the navigation for the data type being imported multiple stages of navigation processing cannot be accomplished before the wizard completes the mosaic or DTM creation using the partially processed navigation data If there is reason to believe that the navigation data needs cleanup poor satellite coverage ROV AUV tracking etc then it is best to skip the creation of the mosaics or DTMs at this stage and process the navigation completely first Navigation processing is an important step to obtaining clean results and some thought should go into what parameters to use and what level of processing is necessary for the collected data For example hull or pole mounted systems tend to have a cleaner position signal and require less processing than towed sonar or ROV AUV surveys Presented in the next section are a couple possible workflows a user could follow for processing their navigation data 78IPage February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 4 3 Navigation Processing Workflows For surveys with hull mounted equipment and good position control very little processing is needed of the navigation data One pass is generally enough to remove small spikes in the navigation data This can be accomplished using the import processing wizard which only allows one pass at the navigation processing However for towed sonar or data
123. line 19 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 1 3 6 3 Navigation Viewer Navigation This option is available at all tree levels in the a lm Sidescan D Multibeam 14 SOSNNOK Navigation When the raw data from any Navigation tree layer is being viewed the line name will appear WW Vessel UE under the Viewer node Currently this is only e mm S enabled for the sidescan waterfall window and the Imagery multibeam swath viewer The example shown below Sidescan dB is for a sidescan line z 04 21 1999 kK5000mos 06 09 1999 8101_ss AS shown in the Viewer Waterfall View A node in the Navigation file tree the line being viewed ess is 071 1809 This is oT oS ane confirmed in the waterfall pipe i X Ko n window title bar as shown to the right 1 3 7 Imagery Tree This file tree layer is where the imagery data is kept and organized There are five types of imagery supported e Footprint Time Series e Sidescan e Bathymetry e Bathymetry TIN e Bathymetry TPE 1 3 7 1 Sidescan amp Footprint Time Series Sidescan Node The sidescan imagery file tree layer 1s where the mosaic files that are imported or created from raw data are managed The following options are available by right clicking on the sidescan node Move to Top Allows the user to move the Sidescan imagery to the top of the tree within the Imagery node Move Up Allows the user to move the
124. m m Display Continuous Data Points Only 5 10 2 Bathy A B The difference between two layers can be calculated with the A B tool and output as a separate DTM This tool can be used to determine the differences between DTM layers by selecting the entire layer or just a user defined portion of the layer To calculate the differences between entire DTM layers using A B right click on the DTM you wish to subtract from and select A B from the menu options as shown below d R o Imagery Batch Export GeoTiff ae GE Export KML o Sidescan dE F o Bathymety Export a 2 ok o 08 04 2009 2253 ok o 07 27 2009 2153 ok o 07 27 2009 Main Blink Comparator Pa Change Detection A o Selecting this menu option will open the A B window discussed below 120 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC To determine the difference between layers in a user defined area the user needs to first switch to A B mode by either selecting the A B toolbar button in Perspective Map or the A B option in the Modality menu Once in A B mode select a starting point on the map by left clicking on the spot and holding the button down while the area to be used for the A B calculation is defined A box will be drawn in the screen defining the area and when done release the mouse button to open the A B window The A B window shown below will launch regardless of whether you are differenc
125. m N When the Quick Classify button is activated the mouse cursor becomes a Query pointer double clicking anywhere on the image briefly 3 secs shows the current classification for that point in the image 187 Page February 2011
126. mine the bottom type throughout the image or mosaic layer Details of the Classify process are described in Section 8 3 Available Options Edit Training Set Allows the user to edit a training set Details of the Edit Training Set process are described in Section 8 5 Quick Classify Allows users to get a preview of the classification results without having to create the classification grid Details of the Quick Classification process are described in Section 8 6 8 2 Create Training Set The first step in the classification process is to enter ground truth information in order to generate a set of data points to be used in the neural net training process This can originate from multiple sources including bottom grab samples diver inspections and video surveys and must include a location and bottom type information 175 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC To create the training set click on the toolbar button W or right click on the Manual Training node in the SeaClass File Tree and select Create as shown below Manual Training S Create This will open the Create Training Set window shown below Triton SeaClass Create Training Set Training Set Name Training Set 1 Sampling Grid Size m 1 0 20 3 0 5 0 Custom Grid Size Options available on this page include e Training Set Name Allows the user to give the training set a unique name e Sampling Grid Size Sets the outpu
127. mport DTM files previously generated in Perspective GSF File This option allows users to import GSF files into Perspective Selecting GSF File import will automatically launch the BathyOne Wizard to create a bathymetry layer 2 2 Database Refresh An alternative method for importing mosaic and DTM files created from Perspective is to use the Database Refresh toolbar button shown below 44 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 5 The database refresh tool gives the user the option to import files into the project based on either time or location Itis important to note that instead of just being an import tool the database refresh tool also removes layers from your project that do not meet the search criteria Database settings need to be defined prior to using this toolbar button to setup the data directory and to setup the query parameters To use this tool zoom into a region of interest in Perspective Map and select the Database Refresh toolbar button This will open the following window Database Search Time e O Recent Since Date Range Start Date Friday May 01 2009 xw Layers to Load All C Do not ask me again The search parameters shown were copied from the Database settings tab but can be changed here for quick access to the search parameters Using the parameters shown above selecting OK will clear the project window and load the mosaic and DTM files all layers selected in
128. n the MosaicOne Wizard will automatically launch and the sidescan data can be processed as part of the import process However there are a few cases where the mosaic wizard should be canceled during the import process and re launched after the navigation data is properly processed Reasons for skipping the mosaic process upon import include 1 The navigation data needs repeat processing 2 The bottom tracking is not saved in the raw XTF data so the mosaic will not be slant range corrected There are two methods to launch the MosaicOne Wizard manually from within Perspective Map from the File Tree or using the toolbar button 1 To launch the wizard from the File Tree right click on the Imagery Sidescan node and selecting Create as shown below Imagery sidescan dE k en Create 2 The processing wizard can also be launched by selecting the Create Mosaic toolbar button KH Whether the processing wizard is automatically launched or manually as described above the same options are available Processing steps in the MosaicOne Wizard are presented in the following section 128 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 2 2 MosaicOne Wizard Overview There are several steps the MosaicOne Wizard guides the user through Brief descriptions of each step are presented below and details of their settings and options are in the following sections e Choose Create Mosaic Layer Options to create a new mos
129. n to selecting which lines will be included in the mosaic the user can also select what order they are loaded in for processing line overlaps 132 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC When finished selecting and ordering the sidescan lines for processing click the Next button to advance to the next processing step 6 2 6 Choose Line Settings This page of the processing wizard as shown below gives the user the option to set channel down sampling and overlap options process navigation enable interpolation to fill between pings set the heading source and to clip the inner and outer swath by percent Also on the page is the option to apply these settings just to a specified line or to all lines Triton Mosaic Wizard Choose Line Settings Channel Navigation Downsampling Mamm K Smooth navigation Settings Pitch correction Combine Overlapping Mavmum we Use XTF Latency Fill Between Pings Source of Heading None Gei Interpolation Sensor C Ship C Line Median straight lines only Fort Channel Starboard Channel Off OR of 2 Inner Boundary Clipping Outer Boundary Clipping J J Channel Both the Downsampling and Combine Overlap options refer to the method by which overlapping data from within one line is handled Downsampling Refers to the across track element sample to sample within a ping Combine Overlapping Refers to the merging of samples when a lin
130. ne E ERGO to 156 Zone 57 162 Zone 58 168 Finish and S ave Select the datum to use If a custom datum is needed select the Custom button For Custom Datum details see Section 3 5 4 GGRS8 Greek_Geodetic_Reference_System_1987 NAD83 North_American_Datum_1983 NAD2 North American _Datum_1927 potsdam Potsdam Rauenberg 1950 DHDN carthage Carthage 1934 Tunisia hermannskogel Hermannskogel ire65 Ireland 1965 nzgd49 New Zealand Geodetic Datum 1949 OSGB36 Airy 1830 Gauss Boaga AGDEE Australasia Australia and PNG 4GD84 Australia WGS 2 Aratu 4ratu Datum Finish and Save Select Finish when done 65 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 3 5 2 Export Projection The export projection wizard is basically identical to the import projection wizard except for the name in the title bar The default projection for exporting files is un projected latitude and longitude in WGS84 If the Auto set Export Projection to UTM WGS84 box is checked Perspective will automatically assign a UTM zone based on WGS84 coordinates Selecting Change under Export Projection in the Projections tab of the Program Settings will launch the following projection wizard Select Export Projection Select Projection x Projection Unprojected Longitude Latitude State Plane Universal Transverse Mercator Mercator Transverse Mercator Maramara Cancel On this page select th
131. ng the projection resolution file path directory of the bathymetry data and other information DTM Node The options shown in the image to the right are available by right clicking on the individual DTM layer under the Bathymetry node Color Settings Allows the user to change the color characteristics of the bathymetry layer Histogram This is the graphical representation of the imagery signal level in dB versus the occurrence of that dB within the image Move to Top Moves the selected image file to the top of the Tree View within the Imagery gt Bathymetry layer The image file listed on top or first within the Tree View will be display on top of all other image files of similar type Move Up Moves the selected image file above the previous bathymetry image file in the Tree View The image files will be displayed m the order listed within the Tree View Move Down Moves the image file below the successive bathymetry imagery file The image files will be displayed in the order listed within the Tree View Sort by Allows the user to sort Bathymetry layers by either Name or Date Rebuild Using Upon selecting this option the user is asked if they want to use the GSF flags already present in the GSF The Bathy Wizard then opens to allow the user to make changes to bathymetry settings used to create the imagery and apply any edits flags made to the GSF file For more information about the Rebuild Using tool visit Section 5 3
132. nnels Maximum Gain 20 db Max Range StartAt Transmit Gei First Return The window shown above is set to apply TVG to Al Channels If the user wants to set the TVG separately per channel select the Ser to Individual Channels option and the window will change to look like the following with a separate TVG tab per channel 159 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC TVG Settings Apply to All Channels Set for Individual Channels Channel Channel 3 Channel 3 Channel 4 Maximum Gain 20 db a Max Range StartAt Transmit First Return The default TVG curve is set to be flat as shown in the image above To change the TVG curve there are two options 1 Left mouse click anywhere in the TVG window and a node will be added at that spot 2 Left mouse click on an existing node and drag it to a new location by holding the mouse button down The sidescan data in the waterfall viewer will automatically update as the TVG curve is changed to get instantaneous feedback of how the changed curve affects the data display TVG options available in the TVG Settings window are Start At Sets where the TVG function starts e Transmit Starts at the beginning of the transmission e First Return Starts at the defined bottom track Buttons These are to the left of the TVG curve window and adjusts the maximum gain for the TVG curve After the TVG curve is define
133. nput Lines bel Files C SydreyH arbon B athye1 OTT FABROGO20 STE C SydneyH arbor B athye1 OTT FXABROGOIWS STE C SydreyH arbor B athy81 01 T FXBROGOWE STE C SydneyH arbor B athy 81 01ST FSBROGOW ZTF C SydnevH arbor B athy 81 0137 FXBROGOTE TF 135 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Choose which lines to include by checking the box to the left of each line they are all checked by default or by using the Select All or Deselect All buttons Click on Finish when ready to add the chosen lines to the mosaic This will bring up the last page of the MosaicOne Wizard as shown below for adjusting the line settings Triton Mosaic Wizard Choose Line Settings Channel Navigation Downsampling Mamm K Smooth navigation Settings Pitch correction Use TF Latency Combine Overlapping Fill Between Pings Source of Heading None Interpolation Sensor CC Ship Line Median straight lines only Fort Channel Starboard Channel Off OR Off Gi Inner Boundary Clipping Outer Boundary Clipping J J Appl To All Select Finish when done 6 5 Force Regeneration This option is only available at the sidescan data line file tree level as shown below Imagery Sidescan dE 06 09 1959 8701 mosaic BROGOO BROGOOE PEDGODG Geo Reference GRL Settings BROGON DH UL RRE E EEN e BROGoOR View Waterfall Selecting this option will apply any changes made to
134. nt pixels e Invert Checking the box next to invert will invert the color scheme that is applied The button next to the color bar opens the Gradient Manager shown below 109 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC Gradient Manager aX Jet e 20 Linear EI _ Invert In this dialog the user can change the Lutz table applied and the algorithm used in the application of the color spectrum The user may also invert the application of the color tables by checking the box next to Invert within this dialog or within the main Group Color Settings dialog 5 9 2 Bathy Histogram The histogram window is a graphical representation of the imagery signal level in dB versus the occurrence of that dB within the image To open the histogram window right click on the DTM layer or root bathymetry file tree node and select the Histogram option as shown below i zl Navigation Color Settings i Jl o Imagery Relief Shading Je S E Move To Top Bathymetry kel o 07 01 2010 Sydney Harbor Move Up E e e e Selecting Histogram will open the following window Bathymetry Histogram Histogram Color Legend Auto Contrast Original Histogram P Modified Histogram ETT Threshold 1 0 E Bias 0 0 Q 110 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC This window shows two overlapping histograms one is the original histogram and the other represents the m
135. o specified image type Save Al All Save all contact files open in Save all contact files open in TargetOne Save All Images As Save all contact files open in TargetOne to specified image ZEN a A Delete From Disk From Disk Delete active contacts from the hard disk active contacts from the hard disk Delete All From Disk Delete all contacts in project folder from the hard disk Print Print the current contact Print Setup Opens the printer setup dialog ASCI Report Opens window for setting up and generating an ASCII report Exit Quit TargetOne application Edit Menu Copy the selected item to clipboard Paste the selected item from clipboard Tools Menu Launches Electronic Light Table options for advanced image processing Annotate Annotate Gren a dialog to enter comments to be written into the 170 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC image tag Tag 270 Classify Classify Opens a window for classifying the active target Geocorrect Corrects active target image for north up instead of heading up Configuration Configuration Opens an application configuration settings window Ramp Support Gives options for applying a ramp file Symbol E for the cursor icon symbol Cursor Color Color Options for changing the cursor color for changing the cursor color Pan Image Changes the cursor to enable the user to pan in the main image window
136. odified histogram based on the adjustments the user makes here Options in the histogram window include Window Options The two square boxes along the bottom of the window act as nodes for manually adjusting the portion of the spectrum to be displayed The lower and upper dB bounds can be set by left clicking on the node and dragging it while the mouse button 1s depressed When the mouse button is released the color map of the DTM layer in the map view will automatically update Color Legend The gray histogram is the spread of the actual data The green is the contrast stretched histogram of the data as defined by the user selected min max range of the data The green histogram will be the actual data within the user defined limits spread out over the entire graph range dB Auto Contrast During the construction of the DTM the program uses the default settings to improve the initial appearance of the image program defaults are Bias 0 and Threshold 1 The threshold setting determines where the upper and lower limits of the histogram are located based on the threshold curve A higher Threshold setting will move the upper and lower limits closer together The Bias setting again moves the upper and lower limits closer together but allows the user to ignore the histogram curve The defaults of 0 and 1 therefore should include almost all values in the image with very little clipping Selecting Compute will apply the changes made to the B
137. ooms to the full extent of selected GeoTiff 1 3 8 2 Background ENC Charts To bring a background S57 ENC Electronic Nautical Chart into the project you can either right click on the Layer node in the file tree and select Add Background gt ENC Data or the window menu option File gt Import gt ENC S57 File ENC Search Both options will open the ENC Search pye window SENCs CAusr ocaldata S57 SENC Pressing the Import button will open a file browser to locate a S57 000 or 7cb file 281Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC My Documents My Computer My Network Once selected the ENC will be imported into Perspective It will then be displayed in the Map View and added to the Background gt ENC Data layer in the File Tree E 7c320001 7c8 7C3BDO002 7CB E 7c 38D003 7cB 7C38D004 7CB el 7c3B0005 7c8 E 7c38D006 7c8 7C4BD001 7CB HS KSE e 7C4BD003 7C8 7C4BD004 7CB El yc4eD005 7c8 Race 28 es 7c480011 7CB AS 7c48D012 7c8 7C4BD013 7CB 7C4BD014 7CB 7C48D015 7CB 7C4BD016 7CB 7CSBDOO 1 708 7CS5BDOO2 FCB 7CS5BDOOS FCB 7CSBDOOG FCB 7CABDOO 1 7C8 US4LA34M 7CB US4M512M 7CB US4VA12M 7CB USSCA62M 7CB USSMS 11M 7CB E US5MS21M 7CB US5MS22M 7CB zs USSRI22M 7CB US5VA18M 7CB US5VA19M 7CB USS5VA20M 7CB Unprojected Longitude Latitude WGS384 Noth 4608948 75m N 20268 pie E EE e 2901 W 0 00m E GR
138. ottom interpretation RK a e Bathy Area Edit mode not yet implemented Digitize Lines and Polygons not yet implemented Classification training mode Quick classification mode Edit classification mode Display Depth Scale Se sg dr St A B Zoom Toolbar Ee ane ete a A Zoom in Zoom out Zoom to 1 Zoom Home 5 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 1 2 Information Displays Perspective Map has four tab controlled information displays in the upper left corner of the software window located to the left of the Map View and above the File Tree Cursor Tab This the default display which shows the cursor position and the map Measure Tab Shows the results of measurements made in the map view Offset Tab Shows the amount a sidescan line has been moved for feature alignment Contact Tab Indicates the target capture size and next target number Custom Cursor In addition to the 4 tabs of information there is another cursor information display below the File Tree for setting a custom cursor position display For Custom Cursor Tab details go to Section 1 4 1 2 1 Cursor Tab The cursor display is where position values can be viewed dynamically as the cursor is moved across the Map View The current project projection is displayed in gray at Cursor Measure Offset Contact the top of this tab 2 1 mp North and East Lat and Lon display the current North 6253186 57mN Fast 3346
139. pens color dialog for changing the color of the sample point icons in the map view Train Neural Net Initiates the second step in the classification process using the training set created More information about the Neural Net training process is presented in Section 8 4 Edit Training Set Allows user to make changes to training sets by adding or deleting data points in a class bottom type or to add another class with new data points More information about the Edit Training Set process is presented in Section 8 5 Resample This will resample the targeted image with the updated training set after edits are made Remove Removes the selected layer from the project This is available at the training set layer and the class layer nodes Remove All Removes all sub layers from the current tree node Export Allows users to save the SeaClass training set created SeaClass export options are described in Section 2 3 6 Create Launches the Create Training Set wizard as described in Section 8 2 Add Adds an existing training set to the project and Map View Rename Allows users to rename an existing training set that is in the file tree Info Allows the user to view XML info for the selected file Right clicking on the Neural Nets layer or any of its sub layers will give the following options z Neural Nets Neural Net m r Move to Top Moves the selected layer to the wt first position within the Neural Nets heading
140. ph for transducer depth Hit Next to continue to the Tide Squat Processing Dialog 99 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 5 2 10 Tide Squat Processing To enable the Tide Data processing the user must check the On box in the upper left corner of the Tide Data options as shown in the image below BathyOne Wizard Tide Squat Processing Tide Data On O Tide Folder C SydneyH arbor B athy T ides proc O Use ATK Tides Fredicted_T ides070699_150699 tid I In F Wu i d i de OH DN lt Interpolation Linear Linear Spline Squat Table WeightedMeans Planarlntersection Use Tide Data The user has the option to select an individual Tide File choose a Tide Folder with several tide files or to Use RTK Tides Tide File Applies predicted or collected tide data from a single file Tide Folder Applies predicted or collected tide data from multiple files in the selected folder using one of four interpolation methods shown in the drop down list in the image above which are e Linear e Spline e Weighted Mean e Planar Intersections Use RTK Tides Will read RTK tide data from raw data file if collected during acquisition 100 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Note that tide files read by Perspective are XML files created from the Raw ASCII data by the XML Utilities program Files that are read successfully will generate a graph you can click on a list of
141. play Controls This allows the user to adjust the image display settings Status Windows Information regarding the cursor position towfish position and target measurements are displayed here Status Bar Displays additional status information including image size in pixels color scale zoom level etc 7 3 2 TargetOne Menu Options File Menu New Project Ctrl M Open Project Chril O Save Project Ctrl 5 Save Project As Ctrl Shifk 5 Import Export Page Setup Print Ctrl P Quit Ctrl g New Project Create a new Perspective Project Open Project Open an existing Project proj_xml Save Project Save your current project proj_xml Save Project As Save project with new name proj_xml Import Primary import menu for recognized types This option can also be accessed through the standard window drag and drop Export Export Geo TIFF and KML files Page Setup Page setup for printing Print Print the current project 169 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Quit Quit Perspective File Menu Open Open an existing contact file con tgt tif pcm Find Opens a Contact Search Criteria window to search for contacts in or ject Close Close the active contact file the active contact file Close All Closes all open contact files Save Save the active contact file asks what file types to save to oe ave Image As ee ave the active contact t
142. pling Co Mid Sample Sample Refraction at transducer depth from of CTD SVF SVP Selection The user has the option to select an individual SVP file choose a folder with several SVP files or to manually enter a sound velocity value SVP File Applies sound velocity profile from the selected cast SVP Folder Applies the SVP file in the folder that is closest in distance to the vessel at the time of the ping Single Beam manual entry Enter a mean value used for single beam data processing Note that SVP files read by Perspective are XML files created from the Raw ASCII data by the XML Utilities program Files that are read successfully will generate a graph you can click on a list of SVP files to compare the graphs double clicking the small graph window will display a large resizable version 98 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC If the cast has both Up and Down components then these are displayed as dark blue Down and lighter blue Up Sample from There are choices to use either the Upcast the Downcast or the Merged value from both Velocity sampling Choose whether to use the Mid Sample value or the actual Sample Refraction at transducer depth from Off Use the value supplied by the sonar head sensor CTD Use the value supplied by an external CTD sensor and logged in the XTF file as Sound Velocity SVP Use the information read from the SVP gra
143. port projection after the first image is imported so the user will not need to repeat the projection wizard for every background file GeoTiff Data Node Options By right clicking on the GeoTiff Data node the following options exist H Color Settings Color Settings Allows the user to change the color el rojection characteristics of the GeoTiff layer Tag Info Add Allows the user to add other GeoTiff files to an existing project Info Access XML settings file for viewing the projection resolution file path directory of the background data and other Sane information Info Zoom to Extents Zoom to Extents Quick zoom option which zooms to the full 27 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC extent of selected GeoTiff GeoTiff Options Right click on the imported GeoTiff for the following options Color Settings Allows the user to change the color characteristics of the GeoTiff layer Projection Allows the user to change the GeoTiff projection Tag Info Displays the GeoTiff world file information as shown below GeoTIFF Info sdy6024 4 Scaling Tie Point x 1 000 0 000 o 330650 000 Y 11 000 J DUU Y 6257750 000 z 0 000 K 0 000 2 0 000 Remove Removes the selected GeoTiff file from the project Info Access the XML settings file for viewing the projection resolution file path directory of the background data and other information Zoom to Extents Quick zoom option which z
144. ported from raw data file The navigation data automatically populate these sub tree layers depending on the type of data present in the import file There is an additional node in the Navigation tree called Viewer When viewing the raw data of an imported file the line name will appear under the Viewer node This applies to sidescan data in the waterfall window and multibeam data in the swath viewer 17 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC There are no right click options on the Navigation tree node but sub layers have the following options Reset Navigation Allows the user to return the navigation Color Settings to its original position as interpreted from the data file Selecting this option from right clicking on a mosaic file p Se will reset the navigation for all XTF files in the mosaic rocess Navigation Right clicking on a single XTF will only reset the Reset Navigation fe navigation for the selected file and file type View This option is available on the XTF layer level and Sort Ascending will open a waterfall viewer for sidescan navigation and a Sort Descending ae swath viewer for multibeam navigation Add More information on the Waterfall Viewer and Swath Viewer can be found at Sections 5 9 and 5 9 4 Info Dien tal Pane Sort Ascending Sorts the data files by name in ascending alphanumeric order Sort Descending Sorts the data files by name in descending alphanumeric order
145. ports only sidescan data is available for inclusion in the export For bathymetry exports only bathymetry data is available for inclusion in the export as shown in the image on the following page 47 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Geo TIFF Exporter Image Settings Resolution 1 000 meters pixel Dimensions 4096 3703 pixels 1 4096 x 3703 8101_mb 8101_mb_partt 8101dtm Options available in this window include e Resolution Sets the output file resolution in meters pixel The size of the output file in pixels will show next to Dimensions just below the resolution e Tiles Export The slider bar below Dimensions is for indicating the number of tiles to break up the export image in order to reduce the individual file size of the output The image above shows the output in only 1 tile with resulting dimensions of each tile being 4096 x 3703 pixels e Selection Tree Allows the user to select or deselect imagery for the export Selecting the Export button will open the Save GeoTIFF browser window for selecting a location and file name for the export 2 3 3 Imagery Batch GeoTiff Export Sidescan and bathymetry data can be exported from an existing project from the File Tree e For sidescan data the Batch GeoTiff Export window is launched from the sidescan root node only e For bathymetry the Batch Export GeoTiff is available from right clicking on either the Bathymetry root
146. pression This is for suppressing beam soundings based on the range of motion between pings and has three options as shown in the image 96 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC BathyOne Wizard Beam Suppression Beam Suppression Attitude Suppression Suppress Using Pitch Range Suppress Using Roll Range Min Pitch HD Min Bolt 0 0 Uni On Max Fitchi Zi Max Bolt a0 Suppress Using Heave Range Mm Heave m 0 0 On Max Heavel m 10 Each option must be individually enabled by checking the On check box Suppress Using Pitch Range This will suppress beam soundings if the pitch exceeds the range of values entered Suppress Using Heave Range This will suppress beam soundings if the heave exceeds the range of values entered Suppress Using Roll Range This will suppress beam soundings if the roll exceeds the range of values entered Hit Next to continue to the SVP Processing dialog 5 2 9 SVP Processing To enable the SVP Processing tab the user must check the On box in the upper left corner of the dialog as shown in the image below 97 Page February 2011 17 TRITON IMAGING INC BathyOne Wizard SVP Processing SWF Data On rai Selection SVP Folder C SydreyHarbor Bathy S Ps proc Single Beam manual Entry 1500 00 ris 061099 2 p_ ml DateTime O61 299 2vp_ vm Sample from Downeast Upeast Co Merge Velocity sam
147. rallel 0 FalseEasting 0 FalseNorthing 0 MeridianlsEast true ParallellsNorth true gt lt ImportProjection gt lt LinePen Color 255 169 169 169 DashStyle Solid Width 1 lt LayerColorinfo Gamma 1 Alpha 1 Brightness 0 Contrast 4 ENEE 255 0 0 0 Has TransparentColor false gt lt Extents gt lt nw XCoord 71 46620621208811 YCoord 41 64257438213248 gt lt se XCoord 71 2521790084058 YCoord 41 420903385669668 lt XCenter gt 71 359192610246964 lt XCenter gt lt Center gt 41 53173888390107 lt YCenter gt lt Radius gt 0 2216709964628123 lt Radius gt Display settings for ENC data files can be found in Program Settings in Section 3 4 1 4 Custom Cursor In addition to the Cursor tab which displays the cursor position in both projected and un projected coordinates the cursor position can be displayed in another coordinate system in the Custom Cursor display located below the File Tree 33 DU 43 34 5 Lon 151210 57 26 E Custom Cursor The elongated button beside Lat and Lon is used to change the format to either a preset or a custom format Clicking this button starts the Select Custom Projection wizard as shown below 30lPage February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Projection Wizard Select Projection Projection Unprojected Longitude Latitude State Plane Universal Transverse Mercator Mercator 5 Transverse Mercator Maramara Finish
148. roject To open an existing project select the Open Project option from the File menu as shown below File Modality View Help New Project Ctrl N Open Proce Save Project Ctrl 5 Save Project As Ctrl Shift 5 Import Export Page Setup Print Ctrl P Quit Ctrl Q Selecting this will open the following window Look in O SydneyHarbor v OO P O erialPhoto O Bathy Contacts temp proj_xml temp_bathyonly proj_xml My Network Files of type Perspective Proj pro sml e KE 55 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 2 4 3 Save Project To save an existing project select the Save Project option from the File menu as shown below left Fie Modality view Help Fie Modality view Help New Project Ctrl N New Project Ctrl N Open Project Ctrl O Open Project Ctrl O Save Project Ctrl 5 Save Project Ctrl 5 Save Project As Ctrl Shift S Save Project As Ctrl Shift S Import Import Export Export Page Setup Page Setup Print Ctrl P Print Ctrl P Quit Ctr Q Quit Ctr Q To save a new project select the Save Project As option from the File menu as shown above right Selecting this will open the following window Save Project File Save in O SydneyHarbor v temp proj_xml temp_bathyonly proj_xml My Network Save as type Perspective Proj pro sml Ra 56 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMA
149. rovided for bathymetry layers including profiling color coding gridded data by depth relief shading and transparency adjustment With these tools comparing recently collected bathymetry with other sensor data and historical data sets is a simple and intuitive process iilPage February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC MosaicOne makes the production of high quality geo registered sidescan mosaics a simple process Mosaic images of sidescan or multibeam backscatter data are created by simply dragging and dropping raw XTF data files into the Perspective Map multi layer map view Processing options such as nadir delete far range clipping and single channel select coupled SSS witha comprehensive set of navigation processing tools result in superior quality mosaics suited to specific application needs and collection regimes MosaicOne images are displayed in Perspective in correct registration with other survey data such as shaded or color coded bathymetry electronic nautical charts coastline vector data survey tracks target icons annotation seabed classifications etc Data fusion is facilitated by adjusting the transparency of mosaic images allowing visual comparison of sidescan features with underlying data elements Fine adjustments to line position are easily made with the new Move Line feature and high resolution waterfall displays of sidescan data direct from source XTF files cab be invoked with point and click at any pos
150. rspective Training File training_xrml EN or click Finish to close the Edit amp Classes window without saving the training set to a XML file 8 3 Bottom Classification The last step in the classification process is to use the neural net to automatically classify an image or mosaic file To classify an image or mosaic right click on file in the Imagery or Background file tree and select Classify as shown below Background GeoTiff Data Watt_POM2 SSES e This will open the Seat lass window shown below Neural Net Neural Net 1 Lal watt_POM2 1801 Page February 2011 E TRITON IMAGING INC Options in this window include e The drop down list contains all of the available neural nets e Select the layer to classify by clicking the checkbox next to the layer name e Cancel will close the SeaClass window and stop the classification process e OK will close the SeaClass window and will open a Save Classification Grid File window as shown below Save Classification Grid zeen BEST Recent Desktop My Documents zc My Computer File name ClassificationGrid1 My Network Save as type Classification Grid tmap_cla Enter a file name and select Save This will start the classification process The following dialog is displayed during classification Classifying 181 Page February 2011 s q7 TRITON IMAGING IN
151. s will re merge the mosaic without the selected line included 6 8 Visualization Options 6 8 1 Color Settings The imagery color settings can be changed for individual mosaics by right clicking on an individual mosaic layer and selecting Color Settings as shown below E Imagery Sidescar dE kel o 06 09 1999 8101 mosaic 04 27 1999 KS000mosaic Bathprnetry Histogram This will open the following window Layer 6101 mosaic Settings Transparent Color Opacity J 1 0 Gamma 1 00 Brightness Contrast g Invert Options available in the Color Settings window are 139 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC e Transparent Color Checking this box will make the imagery transparent e Opacity Allows the user to change the opacity of the image from O to 1 0 with 1 0 being full opaqueness e Gamma The gamma of an image is a measure of its contrast and brightness By correcting the gamma you can adjust these two elements in unison e Brightness Allows the user to change the brightness of the image A positive number will correspond to a brighter image and a negative number will correspond to a darker image e Contrast Allows the user to change the contrast of the image The contrast of an image is the difference in brightness between due adjacent pixels e Invert Checking the box next to invert will invert the color scheme that is applied The button next to the color bar
152. s Navigation 2 4 BR Multibeam Reset Navigation SS 06 05 1993 BROGU6 BB 06 09 1999 BRDGOZS me 06 09 1999 BROGOZ4 D EE Tol mmc no woo ODM Imagery E Bathymetry 06 09 1999 8101_ DTM BROGOO BROGOU BROGOZE BROGOOS Remove View GSF history 116 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Selecting either option will open the following window Swath viewer Reset Slider Max J Notice that the beams flagged as bad are marked red in the viewer The slider bars to the left and below the swath data are for setting the scale of the window Selecting the Processing button will open the BathyOne Wizard for viewing the processing steps made The bottom slider bar is for indicating the progress through the data file This position is tied to the map view and is represented by a red circle called the pipper which moves along the navigation line as the swath viewer progresses through the file to correlate features seen in the map view to the raw swath data An example of the pipper location is shown in the image below 117 Page February 2011 T TRITON Here the pipper is located at the start of the navigation line for line BRDG026 xtf 5 10 Interpretation Options 5 10 1 Bathy Profile Profiles can be generated once a DTM layer is created or loaded into the project The profile tool is launched from the toolbar button IS or by selecting Bathy Profile from the Modali
153. size and transparent color of the symbol To load a symbol into this window select the Load button which will open the file browser below to select the symbol file Navigate to a compatible file type and select Open This will automatically insert the symbol image into the Symbol Importer window Selecting OK will load the symbol into the project ASCII XYZ Grid File Selecting an ASCII XYZ file to import will launch the XYZ Grid Parsing window as shown below XYZ Grid Parsing 334191 38 6253238 63 12 35 334192 38 6253238 63 12 40 334193 38 6253238 63 12 40 334194 38 6253238 63 12 40 334189 38 6253237 63 12 40 334190 38 6253237 63 12 40 334191 38 6253237 63 12 40 Delimeters Line 0 Space Colon _ Semicolon Forward Slash _ Comma TT Dash Parsed Field Lae Field WW Format 334191 38 East Meters Attribute 6253238 63 Longitude Feet 12 35 North Fathoms Data Latitude Depth O Header Height Date Decoded Data Element Decoded Header Element Clear Header Elements East 334191 38 Meters North 6253238 63 Meters Depth 12 35 Meters Options and displays include e Data Field The data in the XYZ file is shown in the box at the top of the window 43 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC e Line If there was a header the box next to Line is for entering the number of lines to skip for the header before
154. spective by integrating the Triton BathyOne MosaicOne TargetOne and SeaClass software modules into a cohesive suite capable of processing fusing and displaying sidescan and multibeam data Each module is controlled from the Perspective Map environment via common embedded user interface tools and displays Perspective Map displays the output from these modules as multi layer co registered survey tracks sidescan sonar images bathymetry DTMs target icons and images and seabed classification areas and boundaries These seafloor image data can be easily combined with other available geo coded data such as S 57 electronic nautical charts coastline maps and satellite or other GeoTIFF imagery as required Output of individual and fused data products in standard formats for processing by third party applications is supported Geen s28 BathyOne will process raw multibeam data Help Eana we ae ME Bem eee Je ae Oe ee meee aa ae A8 and combine it with vessel position pitch roll Nath KO n N T4508 im E heave and heading tides sound velocity draft and other data to produce accurate corrected bathymetry grid files Total Propagated Error TPE of the gridded data is calculated and made available for review and display Gridded results are displayed as layers in Perspective Map along with other survey data such as coastline vector maps electronic charts sidescan mosaics etc A variety of display options are p
155. ssing once the xtf_idx file is created The first time a survey file is read the xtf_idx file is created and it takes a little longer to load the file once the idx file is created Forcing a cache rebuild forces this xtf_idx file to be recreated Use Ensemble X Y SEG Y Some SEG Y have the data stacked and the navigation stored in a different place checking this box identifies the file as this type Suppress Warnings These are warnings that come from indexing a file when building the cache For example 10 pings had no navigation If you do not want to have these warning pop up then click the box to suppress warnings Sync Views For a data file that contains bathymetry and sidescan data the Sync View option allows the user to sync the playback of the waterfall viewer and swath viewer by ping number Reset Factory Settings This will reset the Program Settings to the default factory settings 611Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 3 3 Pen Settings Intersection Allows the user to change the color Perspective assigns to sub bottom intersections Background Allows the user to change the color of the Map View background Profile Font Allows the user to change the color of the profile font in SB I not yet implemented Zoom Tool Allows the user to change the color of the zoom box Measure Tool Allows the user to change the color of the measuring line used by the measure tool 3 4 E
156. step otherwise the processing will continue to use the same raw source navigation Details of the Process Navigation window are presented in Section 4 5 79 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 4 4 Navigation Boxcar Settings Selecting the Filter Setup button in the Process Navigation window opens the following Boxcar Settings window for setting processing parameters Boxcar Settings General Speed Window 12 Filter Speed kts Min 0 5 Compute Never O Always G Sensor Max 7 When Zero Source Ship Change Cutoff kts Smoothed 1 3 Heading Compute CMG Bias 0 0 Change Cutoff 30 0 Layback Source Tow Point N Offsets m one O Computed 5 Manual rm Time Delay s 0 0 General Window sets boxcar window size Source sets source navigation e Sensor Uses the position found in the XTF sensor navigation e Ship Uses the position found in the XTF ship navigation e Smoothed Uses the smoothed position already in the cache file uses the previously smoothed navigation from the last processing 801 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Heading Compute CMG Check the box to compute a heading from the Course Made Good navigation Bias Apply a single bias to the computed CMG heading Change Cutoff Cutoff value for CMG calculation in degrees Layback Source e None Do not apply a layback e Computed Computes a layb
157. stom Enter a name to save the projection to and select OK This returns the user to the Select Projection window Choose the new projection just created from the projection list and select Finish or Finish and Save to keep the custom projection for future projects Projection Unprojected Longitude Latitude State Plane Universal Transverse Mercator Mercator Transverse Mercator Maramara Finish and Save 701 Page February 2011 IMAGING INC qp TRITON 3 5 4 Custom Datum To define a custom datum select Custom from the Choose Datum page of the import or export projection wizards as shown below GGRS8 Greek_Geodetic_Reference_System_1987 NAD83 North American_Datum_1983 NAD2 7 North American_Datum_1927 potsdam Potsdam Rauenberg 1950 DHDN carthage Carthage 1934 Tunisia hermannskogel Hermannskogel ire65 Ireland 1965 nzgd49 New Zealand Geodetic Datum 1949 OSGB36 Airy 1830 Gauss Boaga AGDEE Australasia Australia and PNG 4GD64 Australia WGS 72 Aratu Aratu Datum Finish and Save This will open the following window Ellipsoids Soviet Geodetic System 85 GAS 1980 IUGG 1980 IAU 1976 Airy 1830 Appl Physics 1965 Naval Weapons Lab 1965 Modified Airy Andrae 1876 Den Iclnd Australian Natl and Amer 1969 GRS 67 IUGG 1967 Bessel 1841 Bessel 1841 Namibia Clarke 1866 Ellipsoid Parameters toWGS84 Delta m Rotation ar
158. t date for the End date Range The user can select a range of time using the Start Date field to enter a start date and the End Date field for the end date Always ask before Program Settings search This check box General Pens Projections Contact Database will prompt the user for a J date option when selecting Refresh to View Auto Load Database On Use Refined Palanan Fankas pii Query when Viewport is SEET less than User enters a value for using the refined O Recent Since Date Rance database query for small Viewports tart Date 2 Wednesday May 193 2010 ei This is useful for reducing ina aie the data that is nearby but Wednesday May 26 2010 at not in the map view from loading into the project by Always ask before search reducing the size of the layers bounding box Use Refined Database Query when Viewport is less than 100 meters 75 1Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 4 Navigation 4 1 Navigation Types Navigation embedded in raw data files is extracted upon import of the data file and sorted into 5 main categories The main types of navigation in Perspective are e Sidescan navigation for sidescan data imported from raw data files e Multibeam navigation for multibeam data imported from raw data files e Singlebeam navigation for singlebeam data imported from raw data files e Subbottom navigation for subbottom data imported from raw data files e
159. t node or the individual mosaic DTM layer 49 Page February 2011 N TRITON IMAGING INC All options launch the same export wizard For bathymetry exports only bathymetry data 1s available for inclusion in the export For sidescan exports only sidescan data is available to be included in the export as shown below KML Exporter EJ Image Settings Resolution 1 000 meters pixel Dimensions 2046 x 1851 pixels Range 2000 000 meters above ground J 48 256 x 231 Insert layer s in Google Earth k5000mos 8101_ss Options available in this window include Resolution Sets the output file resolution in meters pixel The size of the output file in pixels will show next to Dimensions just below the resolution Range Sets the default zoom range above the Earth for opening the file with Google Earth Tiles Export The slider bar below Dimensions is for indicating the number of tiles to break up the export image in order to reduce the individual file size of the output The image above shows the output in 48 tiles with resulting dimensions of each tile being 256 x 231 pixels Checkbox Automatically launch Google Earth and insert the exported KML file for viewing at the distance above ground specified above Selection Tree Allows the user to select or deselect imagery for the export Selecting the Export button will open the Save KML browser window for selecting a location and file name for
160. t resolution in meters If Custom is selected the value is entered in the Custom Grid Size box below Click Next to advance to the next page This page is for adding classes bottom types and has the following options as shown below 176 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Triton SeaClass Edit Classes amp Samples Training Classes and Samples Add Class ji x Add classes to the current training set Select a training class to use for recording samples Options available on this page include Enter Name e Add Class Selecting this will open See a dialog for entering the name of the Sand class types to be used as shown here Selecting OK will open a Color window to select the color to use for the entered bottom Basic colors type as shown here et Sel See EEE Im Custom colors CEET eee ee 8 Define Custom Colors gt gt Selecting OK will add the entered name to the Training Classes and Samples field as shown here 177 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC Triton SeaClass Edit Classes amp Samples Training Classes and Samples Training Set 1 Add Class Sand mic Click on the Record Button to begin recording samples e Recording Options The three buttons shown below are provided for linking the selected class to the mosaic or GeoTiff values The left button is for recording Double Click in th
161. t to the layer A green check mark appears next to the items in the map root that are displayed in the Map View The order the items are arranged in the map tree dictates the display order in the Map View 1 3 1 Map Root Layer Layers organized under the heading of Map Root include e Annotation e SeaClass e Contacts e Vectors e Navigation e Imagery e Background ID e Map Root Annotation Regions v Data me Grid User Planned Survey Line v Debris Contacts Navigation BW Multibeam D 06 09 1999 BRDGOOS D 06 09 1999 BRDGOO2 D 06 09 1999 BRDGOO1 Sidescan 06 03 1933 BRDGOOS E 06 03 1999 BROGOO2 06 09 1999 BRDGOOT E Vessel Imagery Sidescan dE 06 09 1999 8101_BRDG123_M0 BRDGOO2 BRDGOO1 BRDGOOS Bathymetry 06 09 1999 8101_BRDG123_DTM BRDGOOS BRDGOO1 BRDGOO2 BI All layers in the File Tree can be toggled on off by checking or un checking the box next to the layer If a box is unchecked all sub layers will also be unchecked Conversely by checking a box that is not already checked all sub layers will also be checked Selection Color Collapse To Roots The image above shows the basic File Tree structure and the Expand Al check boxes for toggling the display of that layer Open Project New Project Info 8 Page Right clicking on Map Root will bring up the following menu for user defined controls of the map root dialog
162. tact target settings window Bookmarks and contact settings are discussed in detail in the TargetOne Section at 7 1 146 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 9 4 Waterfall Toolbars Main Toolbar DG le ealoizLopvle l Single sidescan waterfall window Double sidescan waterfall windows Separate parameter window Previous moves backwards in waterfall window one screen at a time Forward moves forwards in waterfall window one screen at a time Refresh Window O V DR Contact Toolbar ELO Launch TargetOne module Clear Bookmarks A Open Contact Settings 6 9 5 Waterfall Information Displays The sidescan waterfall viewer has four information displays below the waterfall data display window The Navigation Ship and Sensor Data information is read from the XTF and updates as the file is played back The information comes from the center of the display top to bottom where the blue dashed line crosses the screen as shown here Ka l H vlt DENK Gun Wi Ch A g deg i fyi fi 2 AY Zelt d ETA H 1 al ce Y i vr e EC CA SA i OC e KINN Ki A TE S e a a AN VAY Aa Ei f gt hy k p D b D A a AE i EN KAN Te ae ve lt H i rh ly r O fy i A RA e 1 ee He MI t NI Au Zb G i Kl f Wl Mk Vo MIKE zw Li Mr Wale ame Zei Ye i AM d Ay N af f LA l AN ii ORAM Gart ah e OC ak CK Dia in Re K 29 kW A E d H ah i i n K KAN YN AR
163. tangle Dimensions are determined by clicking and dragging to the desired size Triangle Dimensions are determined by clicking and dragging to the desired size Polygon Dimensions are determined by clicking and dragging to the desired size Fixed size Ellipse Dimensions of the annotation are entered by the user prior to insertion of the character on the map Fixed size Rectangle Dimensions of the annotation are entered by the user prior to insertion of the character on the map Text A text box used to mark and describe features on the map Common Annotation Tools Well O Core Sample l Grab Sample YJ Pipe Contact Cable Contact Jl Fault After selecting an annotation mode the user may preselect the annotations attributes from this same dialog 38 1Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC EJ The color opacity thickness and character of the annotation line are defined by clicking on the paint palette The color of the icon is the current color selected for the annotation and will remain the default color until changed in this attribute box The font attributes of text annotation are selected by clicking on the letter icon CH The symbols can be hollow or filled by clicking on the corresponding icon Object attributes can be set at the time of creation or later by right clicking on the layer in the file tree structure Annotations can be turned on and off from the map d
164. that the tmap_moz file extension will automatically be appended to the entered file name When finished select Save This will create the new mosaic layer in the selected directory and will automatically advance to the next processing step 6 2 4 Choose Mosaic Settings This page of the processing wizard as shown below gives the user the option to set output resolution choose overlapping line options constrain mosaic to map view enable single channel auto flip and set transducer offsets Also on the page is the option to save the mosaic settings selected or to load from an existing saved settings file e Triton Mosaic Wizard Choose Mosaic Settings General Settings Single Channel Auto Flip kel On Resolution mpixel Ma5 O04 O02 6001 Gi 0 29 Starting Line Combine Overlapping Lines Using Transducer Offsets hull mounted Constrain to map view On L Automatic Gain Control Across Track m Along Track m Fort 0 00 0 00 130 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC General Settings Resolution Enter the resolution of the mosaic in meters per pixel Use any of the predefined values or enter a custom value Combine Overlapping Lines Using There are four options as shown in the image below Combine Overlapping Lines Using e Maximum Will cause stronger returns to shine through an overlapping line default e Minimum Will cause weaker returns to be preserved when lines overlap e Ov
165. the node and dragging it while the mouse button 1s depressed When the mouse button is released the color map of the mosaic layer in the map view will automatically update Color Legend The gray histogram is the spread of the actual data The green is the contrast stretched histogram of the data as defined by the user selected min max range of the data The green histogram will be the actual data within the user defined limits spread out over the entire graph range dB Auto Contrast During the construction of the mosaic the program uses the default settings to improve the initial appearance of the image program defaults are Bias 0 and Threshold 1 The threshold setting determines where the upper and lower limits of the histogram are located based on the threshold curve A higher Threshold setting will move the upper and lower limits closer together The Bias setting again moves the upper and lower limits closer together but allows the user to ignore the histogram curve The defaults of 0 and 1 therefore should include almost all values in the image with very little clipping Selecting Compute will apply the changes made to the Bias and Threshold to the Histogram Reset Allows the user to return the histogram to the original spread that was set during creation of the image 141 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC 6 9 Waterfall Viewer 6 9 1 Waterfall Module The waterfall module is part of MosaicOne and allows users to
166. the project folder that intersect the viewport and was collected since May 1 2009 Selecting the checkbox in the lower left corner will not open this window upon selecting the Database Refresh toolbar button and instead will use the search criteria entered in the Database settings tab 2 3 Export Methods There are a few options for exporting data from Perspective Map Export file types include e Geolrff file 45 Page February 2011 d TRITON IMAGING INC e KMLfile e XYZ file Layers visible in the Map View can be exported as a GeoTiff by using the Composite GeoTiff export menu option Right clicking on the File Tree layers offers additional export options Printing the Map View is similar to selecting Composite GeoTiff Export from the File menu but also includes annotations and allows the user to save the map View as a PDF with Adobe Acrobat or send the map View to a printer for a hard copy of the project Export options are discussed in detail in the following sections 2 3 1 Map View Export Exporting the Map View to a GeoTiff will create a geo referenced TIFF that includes all the layers selected in the File Tree Selecting File gt Export gt Composite GeoTiff will open the following window Geo Exporter Image Settings Resolution 1 000 meters pixel Dimensions 4388 x 3968 pixels k5000mos 8101_ss CT 8101_mb 19101 mb patt 8101dtm Options available in this window include e R
167. to allow for changes to the parameters set during the import gridding process Presented below are the only BathyOne Wizard pages available with the Edit GSF Using option Note that there is an additional page not in the normal BathyOne Wizard at the end for entering comments BathyOne Wizard Ancillary Options HTF Generate HTF 103 Page February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC Vizard Beam Suppression GSF Beam Suppression On e Suppress Using Beam Quality Poor C Low Bad Tide Data On Tide File Interpolation Linear Squat Table 104 Page gl Suppress Beams Using Beam Flag Yes No Finish Tide Folder C SydneyHarbor Bathy lt Tides proc wmd 2 UU a 4 640 S 1 280 in i H l f Hours from Brr Ou 1 Finish Cancel Cancel February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC BathyOne Wizard GSF History Record Operator IBM SS Tony Comments Must put a comment here to proceed 5 5 Re Merge DTM Selecting this option will apply any changes made to the processing parameters or edits to the data made since the DTM was created This feature is only available by right clicking on the DTM in the bathy layer node as shown below l ree El Image Rebuild using IS SF USING d M E athymetry VEER E a a aE e CALTE SEL aa This process happens automatically with no user set options available 5 6 Add L
168. to move the region up and down within the region file tree node 10lPage February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Info Dialog Remove The region can lt xml version 1 0 encoding utf 16 gt e Lo FontGeoSize 10 Text Targets FileRef Targets Persistable True NavUnits Meter OffsetX 0 OffsetY 0 Checked True gt be removed by selecting lt ImportProjection Projection String proj utm datum WGS84 zone 56 south NavUnits Meter gt lt Projection Wizard Settings Projld 0 Zoneld 31 ZoneNorth true Datumid 0 StatePlaneld 0 Unitsld 0 i State Plane NAD83 true ProjectionName Unprojected Longitude Latitude DatumName using default StatePlane CentralMendian 0 c6 99 Remove eee StandardParallel 0 FalseEasting 0 FalseNorthing 0 MeridianlsEast true ParallellsNorth true gt lt Import Projection gt lt LinePen Color 255 255 215 0 DashStyle Dash Width 2 gt lt LayerColorinfo Gamma 1 Alpha 1 Brightness 0 Contrast 1 Xml TransparentColor 255 0 0 0 Has TransparentColor false gt e lt Extents gt Info Allows the user to lt nw XCoord 334513 50907677028 YCoord 6252824 8797076615 gt S th d t ti lt se XCoord 334664 87055594509 YCoord 6252739 7501242487 gt view e da um ro1ection lt XCenter gt 334589 18981635768 lt XCenter gt p J lt Center gt 6252782 3149159551 lt YCenter gt s lt Radius gt 85 129583412781358 lt Radius gt and coordinates of t
169. tom Right clicking on a vector file that has been imported into Perspective provides the following 16 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC options Rename Allows the user to rename the vector file in the Tree View This does not change the name of the file only the reference name within Perspective Tree View Rename Edit Test mmm Remove Move to Top Remove Allows the user to remove individual vector files Mowe Up from the map tree and Map View Move Down eg Move to Top Moves the individual vector file to the first MO position within the Vector heading Move Up Moves the individual vector file above the previous file within the Vector heading Move Down Moves the individual vector file below the succeeding file with the Vector heading Info Allows the user to view the projection and file path directory of the vector file 1 3 6 Navigation Tree This file tree layer is where the navigation for the various files are kept and organized The main sources of navigation available in this heading are e Sidescan navigation for sidescan data imported from raw data file e Multibeam navigation for multibeam data imported from raw data file e Singlebeam navigation for singlebeam data imported from raw data file e Subbottom navigation for subbottom data imported from raw data file e Vessel vessel navigation im
170. ty menu Selecting Bathy Profile or the toolbar button will change the cursor mode so that it can be used to select a line in the map view to see a profile of the data that line intersects To draw a profile line in the map view left click at the desired start point and hold the mouse button down while the cursor is dragged to the desired end point The line drawn will appear in the map view as shown in the image below W Triton Perspective Port LA Full Project proj_xml max File Modality View Help Horiz Dist 12 88 m Vert Dist 923m Distance 15 84 m SC S F Imagery Ger D zl Sidescan dB 2 Tel o Bathymetry eA a 08 04 2009 2253 f o 07 27 2009 2153 wkl o 07 27 2009 Main Elo kel o Background Le H VM DA La 33 44 19 28 N Lon 118 16 39 75 W Custom Cursor Note that the line drawn also doubles as a measurement tool and the length of the drawn line is displayed automatically in the Measure Tab as shown below February 2011 yp TRITON IMAGING INC When the mouse button is released the Bathy Profile window opens and displays an along line profile of all of the DTM layers existing beneath the profile line Bathy Profile DT Ms m 08 04 2003 2253 Lat 339 44 19 55 N me 07 27 2009 2153 CIR 07 27 2009 Main Cha Lon 118816 40 23 Ww Custom Cursor Depth 14 92 m m Display Continuous O Data Points Only
171. view the raw sidescan data in a waterfall viewer collect targets from the raw data and apply bottom tracking and slant range corrections Options available in the waterfall viewer are presented below Launch Waterfall Viewer There are three ways to launch the waterfall viewer from Perspective 1 Right click on the line in the navigation file tree as shown below Navigation Process Navigation Sidescan Reset Navigation 06 09 1999 BROGO 26 ME 2 Right click on the line in the imagery file tree as shown below Imagery Ge dB Geo Reference GRL Settings Idescan l 06 09 1999 K5 Force Regeneration THAT BROGOU ee BRDGODS Move line 3 Double click on the sidescan navigation line in the Map View as shown below 142 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Waterfall Options The waterfall layout is described in Section 6 9 2 Menu and Toolbar options are presented in Sections 6 9 3 and 6 9 4 Information displays are discussed in Section 6 9 5 File playback options are presented in Section 6 9 6 The link between the map view and the waterfall viewer is discussed in Section 6 9 7 Waterfall Tools Bottom tracking is described in Section 6 10 1 Slant range corrections are discussed in Section 6 10 2 Speed corrections are discussed in Section 6 10 3 Histogram options are presented in Section 6 10 4 LUT options are presented in Section 6 10 5 TVG options are presented in S
172. waterfall data To see where this feature exists in the project a round green circle appears in the map view at the position along the data line currently being viewed in the waterfall viewer as shown below 2 Ska a A WAT l ces NY R ie un F s ey 5 Peg E i EER E WT Ho ONS ou E d ewes ws o GE TY gi Py 150 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Conversely it is also useful to correlate features seen in the map view with the waterfall view of the raw data Double clicking on a sidescan navigation line in the map view will open the waterfall viewer and bring up the data for that location In the example above the pipper shows cursor position along the data line currently being viewed in the waterfall viewer However if the user wishes to see the feature in the adjacent line the pipper can be dragged to the other navigation line in the map view and the waterfall viewer will refresh with the data from the line the pipper was placed on as shown below The first image shows the pipper in its dragged to location and the second image shows the waterfall data for the adjacent line from the new pipper location e n CN Gar VK gr E d E s o n S f dene aa yb ts A A i va A ee EEN di WV gA x TTE saaTi E d Lin ce Hi p D lt EA D Li dg Get Ln a 7 v ZA om e K l e ER Le NM n EAN E r a Le vt Ta N H bh
173. ypes can be classified in MosaicOne using the built in classification module called SeaClass The classification process is described in detail in the SeaClass section of the help document in Section 8 1 7 TargetOne 7 1 TargetOne Module TargetOne is an add on to Perspective Map which allows users to select targets from sidescan waterfall data or from mosaics in the map view Options available in the TargetOne module are presented below Settings Settings for TargetOne are found in the Contact tab of the main application settings for Perspective Application settings can be accessed through the toolbar button wr or by selecting Settings Info from the View menu as shown below Fil Modality AG Toolbar Cursor Measure Zoom Ini Zoom uk zoom 1 1 Morth p253 East Ja Lat EE Lorn 1511 14 f Settings Info Ctrl I Projected Cursor oom Home Save Os Home Add viewport Log Window Note that the file paths for the temporary and saved contacts in the TargetOne settings must be different and they need to be set before targets can be selected The Contact setting options available are described in detail in Section 3 6 Target Selection Targets can be acquired in Perspective Map from raw waterfall data and from the mosaic layers in the map view 166 Page February 2011 T TRITON IMAGING INC Waterfall Targets From the waterfall window in Perspective targets

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