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1. JOSUBS 9AE9H 19N9294 SAD gt 1eB80 yidag Q gt Jepsooey jeuueu Depth logger Remote Display Thermal Recorder 4 Y 4 4 4 N x x E Ah A x o E E o oO A E o o0 89 3k 9 o 0 o 31 13 a 2 0 qnH asn m oO 5 Je ug snad D gt F gsnan 22 se soc T 58 oO 0 D 2e co e o E o s o 4d o i cec SH uU v o OE 5 FE 8 o o 4 D 5 2 2 T o MIT 53 Os 25 o o ES Ez 4 St 98 23 QE 9 t c oS s l a y o y o a no E 5 CS i o gt i a casos 2 Lob EDAD BAND RUE o p a o LPT Com Ports Figure 2 0 Interconnection Block Diagram D111 04384 Rev1 0 Client Server Embedded Block Diagram The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 8 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 2 3 n K SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 06 EE i m m j EE 00m m A SS 19 8m 5 0m Recording Stopped pe HH 20 5m 10 0m Ch1 200 0kHz 211m 15 0
2. Configure Recording Configure Peripherals Configure Serial Data Logging Configure UDP Broadcast Advanced Setup Save Configuration Help Load Configuration Diagnostic Tools Recorder Setup Oscilloscope Recording Status Setup Event Marks Event Annotation Restore Display Recording Defaults Restore EchoSounder Defaults Preferences Figure 4 8 Setup Sub Menu The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 38 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 4 1 4 7 Setup Sub Menu 4 7 1 Save Configuration The Save Configuration menu option will save the current Channel System Range Phase Com Port and Pinger Mode settings in a file of the user s choosing 4 7 2 Load Configuration This menu option allows the user to load Channel System Range Phase Com Port and Pinger Mode settings previously saved using the Save Configuration option 4 7 3 Diagnostic Tools The Diagnostic Tools are settings that a technician can use to test and verify the functionality of the echosounder These controls are not recommended for the general user the control option for Analog Output should be left at None to preven
3. ProcessingF lags WORD 0 TVG off 4 TVG on Feqeny F WORD nominal frequency kHzJie200 eee wenn p LE GainCode RxGain parameter 0 255 Gear wor Jo 2 meme 0 mom Po dil ContactClassification Cane 177777 ae Cmmerpe wsgeddm OSS Reserved WORD 0 2 1 1 Fixed VSOP float 4 ieee ee OOO D101 03322 Rev2 2 KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 8 of 8 XTFNOTESHEADER structure An annotation record is a line of text which can be saved to the file and is displayed in the Notes field on the Isis display This text is displayed during playback Additionally this text may be printed in realtime or in playback This can be activated in the Print Annotation dialog box Field Name KEL Data Usage MagicNumber OxFACE hex HeaderType BYTE XTF_HEADER_NOTES SubChannelNumber NumChansToFollow Reserved 2 WORD NotesText 200 char Fix annotation 200 Byte Count Total D101 03322 Rev22 ECHOSOUNDER CONCEPTS TECHNICAL NOTE D101 02251 Revision 4 1 July 6 2009 Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario Canada CONTENTS 1 BASIC ECHOSOUNDER THEORY 5 etre A tect ted tee ABLE plete dete eg 1 1 1 1 Bas ic Conceptss s oce etr donat eese see tero m elit ety se fes Seg ote aet Rides e zip oett a ets 1 1 1 2 Pings and Belioescas tau uc yw rp e bles hale oe aches Ooms BO ee SRY S 1 1 1 3 Bottom Characteristic s ii ats ho estate
4. Cancel Accept The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 35 of 51 3 25 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 6 5 Ping Rate The EchoContolServer application controls the echosounder s ping rate based on either range the 1 duty cycle transmit limitation or the user selected ping rate whichever is the largest value The user can adjust this ping rate to the optimal value for his application The echosounder will then ping at this rate if possible built in ping rate limitations may override the basic value selected here Ping Interval R 100 1 2 3 abc def 4 5 6 ghi jkl mno T 8 9 prs tuv wxy Clr 0 Cancel Accept 4 6 6 Tracking Gate The tracking gate parameter is used by the bottom tracking algorithm to determine the validity of the current depth value It is a depth variability tolerance value defined as a distance above or below the bottom depth trend established by the current and several previous samples If the most recent depth value fits this established trend to within the range defined by the tracking gate it is considered valid and is displayed in the appropriate dialog boxes If
5. 3 10 Thermal Recorder This menu option provides access to two sub menu items that allow the user to setup and send data to a thermal recorder This option is only available if a valid KEB data file is opened The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 9 of 23 3 5 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 3 10 1 Setup Recorder Setup Select Recorder No Recorder v Port Addr 0378h bal Print Test Block D This option brings up a dialog box that allows the user to select a thermal recorder to be used for making hardcopies Table 3 1 Supported Thermal Recorders Manufacturer Models EPC Laboratories 9800 GSP 1086 HSP 100 ODEC TDU 850 GeoAcoustics 9315 The EPC GSP 1086 driver expects the user to have set the following parameters to the values listed via the unit s front panel menus DATA INPUT PARALLEL SWEEP FORWARD SHADES 064 DATA TYPE 6BITS WIDTH 2048 LPI 200 nominal not EXTERNAL The Port Addr option allows the user to specified the proper output port address for the printer port For most systems this value should be 0378h but for some laptops and secondary printer ports the alternate value of 0278h could
6. The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 3 of 51 4 7 6 Recording Status os a Eno Reo 9 81 09 8 09 Be wa BLA ead Weld aad td ah cit 4 6 4 1 7 Setup Event Marks e edad ed EE RRS AA Ress 4 7 A Tell Next Event oo iia dadas 4 7 4 7 7 2 Timed Event Enabled Disabled 0 0000s 4 7 Ao Event Intervalo see i eh ste BAP RARE AA 4 7 4 7 7 4 Increment Decrement Event s 00 0 4 8 4 7 8 Event Annotation llle e nen eens 4 9 4 71 9 Factory Detalla NAAR RR M adn de dab dled dala a wats 4 9 4 7 10 Display Recording Controls 0 lille eee nents 4 9 4 7 11 EchoSounder Controls enn e eee 4 10 4 7 12 Preferences ico ode eae o ead Pd ad adds patada da eG ee E 4 10 4 8 Sounder Info 2 2 3 29 92 52 30e bee ORE hee e e oe b ob AG pedet de dade dude hr aebna ied 4 10 4 8 1 Module Sunday 4 11 4 9 Tech SUuDpOEt ons x see ee RIO RA RC RR RR ARR RA ERRARE RA RA RES 4 11 4 10 About EchoControlClient lees hh 4 12 AV Status Babia o tada dla 4 13 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specifi
7. 3200 3203 3204 3207 3208 3211 3212 3213 3214 3215 3216 3217 Byte s 3218 3219 3220 3221 3222 3223 3224 3225 1 floating point 4 bytes 2 fixed point 4 bytes 3 fixed point 2 bytes 4 fixed point with gain code 4 bytes Auxilary traces use the same number of bytes per sample CDP fold Expected number of data traces per CDP ensemble 3226 3227 D101 03021 Rev2 2 SEG Y Rev1 2002 Byte s 0000 3199 3200 3203 3204 3207 3208 3211 3212 3213 3214 3215 3216 3217 3218 3219 3220 3221 3222 3223 3224 3225 3226 3227 KEL Usage Specification Description Format Label 3200 Byte EBCDIC Reel header text 40 80 DWORD Job id DWORD line number Reel Number DWORD reel number Number of data traces record WORD data trace number Number of aux traces record aux trace number Sample interval in microsecs for this reel of WORD reel sample time data WORD Job identification number Line number one per reel Sample interval in microsecs for original field recording Number of samples per data trace for this WORD reel sample number reel of data WORD orig sample number WORD orig sample time Number of samples per data trace for original field recording Data sample format code sample format 1 floating point 4 bytes 2 fixed point 4 bytes 3 fixed point 2 bytes 4 fixed point with gain code 4 bytes Auxilary traces use the same number of byte
8. 7 1 Sounder Infos ico Li ds onn e dalle rete eu fatis ote dus LIMES a tite or er eA 7 1 7 2 Tech Support iced ennt esc s Aet e nd vetet ut asse net e uus auus t sr eb Por 7 2 7 3 About EchoControlSeryeri 4 222 9 AA Ry RARE EG REG RENE REA EE TEE 7 2 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 2 of 16 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 1 1 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 About this manual This manual describes the Windows EchoControl Server application Part D409 04185 EchoControlServer exe It is used to connect to the USB Echosounders providing a central gateway for transfer of sounder controls peripheral devices and echogram data to and from various client applications 1 2 Technical Support For technical support or to report problems please contact your local representative or Technical Support Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario K7H 3P2 Voice 613 267 1165 8 30 am to 5 00 pm E S T Core Hours Fax 613 267 7085 E Mail support knudsenengineering com WebSite http knudsenengineering com The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information f
9. D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 6 of 16 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades 4 2 Select Destination Location Where should SounderSuite USB be installed k Setup will install SounderSuite USB into the following folder To continue dick Next If you would like to select a different folder dick Browse C Program Files SounderSuite USB Atleast 6 3 MB of free disk space is required Select Destination Location Default C Program Files SounderSuite USB If there are any batch files for managing multiple configurations they will be hardcoded to this folder for now It is recommended that only advanced users modify this option Select Components Which components should be installed Select the components you want to install dear the components you do not want to install Click Next when you are ready to continue Stand alone Install dient and server side software Setup Components Default Stand alone There are three options available for this item The required installation depends on the usage ofthe sounder The simplest is to load the recommend default Stand alone and run the sounder from the same PC it is connected to host PC It is The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unles
10. D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 29 of 51 3 19 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 5 4 Configure UDP Broadcast The EchoControl software can transmit echogram data in ASCII format as UDP IP datagrams Selecting this menu option brings up the UDP Configuration dialog figure 4 3 UDP transmission is performed by the server but configured through the client interface r UDP Configuration UDP IP 192 168 1 255 55000 1 per second CONFIGURABLE Settings i y undefined Settings Format undefined Settings Format undefined Settings Format undefined Settings Format undefined Format undefined Settings Format O sw memea Stings Format D ERE A Figure 4 3 UDP Configuration Dialog The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 30 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 20 The UDP Configuration dialog shows the current UDP settings IP address UDP port number transmission frequency and UDP message format Clicking on the Settings button brings up the UDP Settings dialog to change these settings figure 4 4 UDP Settings IP address 192 168 2 56 UDP Port 55000 Transmission rate At ping
11. Perth Ontario Canada CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 46 ales fai e ob EE erts E assai A eu mte AO Irc Dra R teste he Db un LO 1 1 1 1 Aboutsthis manual 2155 A serva dre Lats a ces M ate aes ao tese nU T da e hha 1 1 1 2 Software Descriptor rr a a Meme bo s deut 1 1 1 3 Technical SUppott 2 s dE aha Be esa Acree O EL e ee RR C 1 1 2 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS 5 L3 ad uet f Matt beo BAN i ite te Fake ia of tert a ets aat oce oS M 2 1 2 1 Description ote atre oto tl wis ey dez Sole eto o Vet des sel o px eur sale 2 1 2 2 VSCOM see E IA Oe ee EE RI UL Ri ste ee Sadi iy ae aN ks eA 2 2 2 2 1 Scan for Devic Sa m Be Pe ok Desk PR ERA GR OE BES Ee ee eed 2 2 2 2 25 TER cece bu eR xe IM aq Eau nd ee M Pi E 2 2 2 3 NW medo a e cbr A md FE uA re sd E A dea uso ecd met PAM us M 2 2 2321 Load DSP PBarmwates edes emer RAGGGUISLCCUEWOGIURNE PE EAS GOS EE WE OF ROE 2 2 2 3 2 Load CFG Update cm ecb Gee Wedd Mew ee REG ESR e da Gee es 2 6 2 3 3 Load Printer Firmware du timetur ORS ERA EA OED OR SS EAS ES eA 2 9 2 4 Helpers peek cae ans E um Sac ade at Me esp ts e AE 2 12 ZA Sounder Infos s A SD Da OA SUE I SD ED 2 12 2 4 2 Rech Support d e sd MES LEARN OS Ree is P REQUIEN CIE SNP PEG 2 14 2 4 3 About FirmwareLoader 22er 2 14 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended i
12. Processing Draft 0 00 m Tx Blank 10 00 m Pulse Length 1 000 ms Signal Type chirp J Envelope detect square law These Channel Data controls allow the user to display or close individual dialog boxes for each frequency channel If the user clicks the left mouse button while pointing the cursor to a position of interest on the echogram display window any active channel data dialog boxes will display the following data for the ping record represented by that point record number assigned by the echosounder the depth and echo strength determined by the echosounder s digitizer and all of the transmit power gain draft transmit blanking pulse type and signal type settings used for that particular ping cycle The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 12 of 23 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 4 2 4 2 Parameter Data 10001 2008 043 1709 Record s 486 Time Stamp 17 10 46 875 Working Units meters Sound Speed 1500 m s Window 0 100m n Fix Status None J Fix Number 00000 l Heave 0 00 m Latitude 36 47 95830 N i Longitude 121 48 37006 W Fish Depth 0 00 m The Parameter Data option provides the user with the
13. Run the Firmware Loader again Step 13 Select the Help menu option Sounder Info This will bring up a Module Summary dialog that shows one tab for each module detected Listed on this tab is information identifying the module and the firmware detected running in it The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 16 of 16 SounderSuite USB EchoControlServer Supports Software D409 04185 D101 04381 Revision 2 0 July 6 2009 n Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario Canada CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 14 unm dal e ob EM E erts E eaa et eu ete RA Irc Dra e ra Len 1 1 1 1 Aboutsthis amantial 21 5 A dre das bs Ces ate des aod etos nA LU Y da o b o 1 1 1 2 Technical Supports 24 Passes rr oe epee Me ated Peete cee ih ee Sd Res MS 1 1 2 OVER VIEW ois TI RIESE eA BE a IH UE Pe S e EP EIER 2 1 2 1 USB and Network Usage 558 ues alts Leth te eta Rts dics Leti ood ed e eMe Lett ies ed en 2 1 2 2 Description snena ao tb epi geworden Sel o od VL v des scie eto geworden tud 2 3 2 3 Taskbar Restore e sce A ehe autas e Be By OE a nb o Dec 2 4 2 4 Taskbar About EchoControlServer lees 2 4 2 5 Taskbar Close ARR GR xeu SB ERU NA M
14. 2 filtered bandpass or chirp as the case may be or 3 detected envelope data Note that the first two formats are signed while the third is unsigned The default format is option 3 detected envelope Note 5 Position data is only recorded if a GPS receiver producing GGA or GGL strings is connected and configured on one of the echosounder s serial ports Note 6 SEG Y data is recorded only for the portion of the water column which is displayed in the echosounder s window on the PC which is controlled by the echosounder s RANGE and PHASE settings The shallow end of this window is referred to as the start depth Note 7 These unassigned bytes are used by KEL for additional information which is not specifically provided in the standard specification IMPORTANT These additional fields are NOT compatible with the Rev 1 specification Do not use extended fields if file reader expects Rev1 formatting D101 03021 Rev2 2 KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 1 of 8 Structure Recording Sequence XTF isa file format defined by Triton Elics International and used by their Isis application as well as various other seismic packages The implementation details contained in this document define the field usage employed by Knudsen Engineering to ensure compatibility with Caris s HIPS SIPS products Adjustment will probably need to be made as different flavour requirements are identified At file creation the main header structure is written X
15. 2 1 EchoControl Server EchoControlServer exe eee nee 2 1 2 1 2 2 EchoControl Client EchoControlClientexe esee eee 2 1 2 1 2 3 PostSurvey PostSurvey exe lessen 2 1 2 1 2 4 Hypack Device Driver EchoHypackDLL dll 0 0 0 0 eee 2 1 2 1 2 5 Firmware Loader FirmwareLoader exe 0 0 0 2 1 3 INSTALLATION UPGRADE GUIDELINES 0 ccc cece eee ehh hne 3 1 3 1 Initial Installation ue etc A e RE TRES Gig dew aces heec ea RRA aS 3 1 3 2 System Upgrades c sv A etate eet e De RR Ig AUR ated Dae die A E 3 1 4 PC SORE WARE INSTALLATION od dies nip 3 9 AO S Rc E iA Et A d 4 4 1 Setup Procedure uere pepe M era e ec ee ag ette bora ER Rec e VER E dee 4 1 4 1 Special Notes regarding Windows 2000 XP Vista 7 csse 4 5 4 2 Driver Installation for Single Channel Modules 0 0 00 cece esee 4 5 4 2 10 Recommended Installation 00 etn een eee ene eeee 4 5 42 2 Advanced Installations use cue iS Eee Re SOR a reu d ate etn Des 4 8 5 FIRMWARE INSTALLATION epica 3teitbee a sat d tants ples aed b oe S Fac dE SU Rd UE ERE 5 1 5 1 Upgrading the Firmware 0 0 0 0 ce ccc ee en e hh hh 5 1 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2
16. 3 5kHz Ping Chart uem Echo Tx Rx Proc Tx Record Depth Strength d c Draft Blank 00361 10 91m 0dB 0 00 m 10 00 m gt E gt gt EA E m Jis J Eata Pause The Ping Chart operates in much the same fashion as the Depth Chart except the Ping Chart displays the intensity of each sample along an entire ping trace To the right of the graph is an intensity slider control which will magnify the image in the display area by the factor displayed in the control The VCR style controls operate in the same manner as those for the Depth Chart The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 14 of 23 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 4 4 4 6 Status Bar This control allows the user to enable and disable the application s status bar 0001_2008_043_1709_000 keb S N 70886 3 5kHz OS Vista The status bar contains relevant information such as the name of the currently active line file in the left corner The Windows Operating system is displayed in the box second from the right and the currently available thermal printer is displayed in the box furthest to the right 4 7 Main Toolbar This control allows the user to enable and disable the application s Main
17. 5 1 3 4 5 1 4 4 5 1 5 Tx Pulse Tx Power 4 5 Fil 4 5 1 6 4 5 1 7 USB and Network Usage secte e x acp acai ei eee a dee RU E able TERE EREE as Types of Parameters Status Enabled Disabled 0 ccc cee ee eee RR e RR IR esee Display Mode Analog Gain Auto Manual TVG Mode Gain Slider Digital Gain Tx Blanking Automatic Numbering Storage Folder Binary File Format KEB 4 5 1 5 1 4 5 1 5 2 ASCII File Format 4 5 1 6 1 SEG Y File Format 4 5 1 7 1 4 5 1 7 2 4 5 1 8 XTF File Format CONTENTS 1 n 1 SN m N pa N N 1 Ko los N w N 1 A ww 1 Ra U ww 1 N 05 N AA A EE ca hatte ia e e a e ww 1 Uy ies A 95 3s Ww A ANS Text Enabled Disabled Uy Es U 1 EN 3 6 3 6 3 6 3 6 3 7 3 8 3 8 3 9 3 9 3 9 3 9 3 9 A TET TTET ETETE EEEE ETET EEE 3 10 Recording o 3 10 e Naming Mode 3 11 3 11 3 11 3 12 3 12 3 12 3 12 3 12 3 13 3 14 3 14 3 14 3 14 e Formats To Be Recorded Compress Binary Data 0 0 0 0 0 cece eens Skip Sidescan Channels 0 0 0 0 eens Setup ASCII format 0 0 0 0 eens SEG Y Extended Data Fields o ooooooooooomoo o Limit File Size 25MB The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific
18. CR gt lt LF gt As various fields are selected or deselected the Example String at the bottom of the dialog box changes to illustrate the expected output format It will only put the sample info for one channel s worth of data In the actual output file for each channel present its particular block of data fields is appended after the previous channel s block Some fields can only be selected if other fields are also selected and will be inactive greyed out if the required field is not selected For example the Position Latency field 1s an active option only if the Position field is selected The format configuration selected is stored in the application s registry keys and restored the next time the program is invoked The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 23 of 51 3 13 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 5 1 7 SEG Y File Format The SEG Y output file format has been defined to meet as accurately as possible the RevO format specifications defined by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists See the KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION document D101 03021 for complete formatting details 4 5 1 7 1 SEG Y Extended Data Fields The original SEG Y specifi
19. K2K 07 0100 Ch4 The user can click on the Module Summary button to access the dialog of the same name Module Summary K2K 07 0430 K2K 06 0164 K2K 06 0166 K2K 07 0426 m Module Identification Serial K2K 07 0430 Board Type Single Channel 16 bit Firmware Part D409 04195 Version 2 07 The Module Summary dialog provides information regarding the hardware channels detected in the sounder by the server application For each hardware module it reports the programmed serial number the module s type and the firmware part number and version This is a useful reference for verifying the hardware status in the sounder The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 15 of 16 7 2 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 7 2 Tech Support Tech Support For Tech Support contact Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Rd Voice 613 267 1165 Perth Ont Canada Fax 613 267 7085 K7H 3P2 w w w knudsenengineering com mailto support knudsenengineering com Detected OS Info Microsoft Windows Vista 6 0 6002 Service Pack 2 This option brings up a simple dialog box that provides contact information for technical suppor
20. Record Preamble21 10 bytes Ping Record 2 variable number of bytes compressed if Huffman Record Preamble31 10 bytes Ping Record 3 variable number of bytes compressed if Huffman Record Preamble N 10 bytes Ping Record N variable number of bytes compressed if Huffman The recording program will write data records to one file for up to 20000 pings then the current file will be closed and a new one will be opened for subsequent data recording 1 2 File Type Id Preamble The first 40 bytes of the file are used for a file type identification preamble for the playback software to use This is used to determine if the file is in the valid format supported by the version of software being used Example KEB D409 04184 V1 00 Huffman pad unused character locations with spaces where KEB identifies the file as a KEL Binary file D409 04184 identifies the part number of the program used to record convert the data V1 00 identifies the version of the program used to record convert the data Huffman indicates that the data is in a compressed format not present for uncompressed files After the File Type Id Preamble the actual data records are stored as they are received As soon as a record is received it is recorded to the disk file Records are recorded to the file in the same order as they were received time stamps must be in sequential order Multiple types of records can be stored in the binary file ie Envelope data records seri
21. Variable Length Multiple Channel Envelope Table 1 2 Ping Record Uncompressed FIELD DESCRIPTION DATA FORMAT RANGE Data Type BYTE BYTE Record Identification Information Record Id E0h WORD 2 0000h Record Length data dependent DWORD 4 0002h Record Number 0 to 65536 WORD 2 0006h of Channel Records 1 to 8 WORD 2 0008h Reserved Bytes NULL WORD 20 000Ah 30 Byte Count Section Total Record TimeStamp Day 1 to 31 WORD 2 001Eh Month 1 to 12 WORD 2 0020h Year yyyy WORD 2 0022h Hour 0 to 23 WORD 2 0024h Minute 0 to 59 WORD 2 0026h Seconds 0 to 59 WORD 2 0028h Milliseconds 0 to 999 WORD 2 002Ah Julian Day 1 to 365 WORD 2 002Ch TimeTagSeconds Seconds since midnight Jan 1 1970 DWORD 4 002Eh TimeTagMilliseconds Millisecond portion of timetag DWORD 4 0032h FrameCountAtPingStart DWORD 4 0036h D101 05498 Rev1 0 October 2 2012 4 of9 FIELD DESCRIPTION DATA FORMAT RANGE Data Type BYTE BYTE COUNT OFFSET FrameCountAtStorage DWORD 4 003 Ah Reserved Bytes NULL WORD 20 003Eh 52 Byte Count Section Total Sounder Parameters Shared for Each Channel Working Units Code 0 metres WORD 2 0052h 1 feet 2 fathoms Speed of sound 1300 to 1700 m s WORD 2 0054h 4265 to 5577 ft s 710 to 929 fm s Pinger Mode 0 off WORD 2 0056h 3200 series only 1 1 8th second sweep 2 1 4th second sweep 3 1 2th second sweep 4 1 second sweep 5 2 second sweep 6 4 second sweep Mux Mux Enable not current
22. a typical Windows Setup SounderSetup exe installation program For most Windows systems this Setup executable will automatically run autorun when the CD ROM is loaded in the drive If it does not start automatically simply run the file SounderSetup exe Sometimes the upgrade package is provided by an e mail or weblink download In that case the installer package filename will incorporate the release serial number ie K206 0110 USB exe This is still a standard Windows executable and can be run the same as a Setup exe file When the installer program is run it displays a number of information and configuration prompts to allow the user to customize the installation process if desired Customization of the installation should be undertaken by advanced users only The normal installation process proceeds as follows G Setup SounderSuite U Welcome to the SounderSuite USB Setup Wizard This will install SounderSuite USB 2 52 on your computer It is recommended that you close all other applications before continuing Click Next to continue or Cancel to exit Setup Welcome to the SounderSuite USB Setup Wizard Simply click Next to continue The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited
23. ability to display or close a dialog box that presents the non channel specific data recorded from the echosounder If the user clicks the left mouse button while pointing the cursor to a position of interest on the echogram display window the active parameter data dialog box will display the following data for the ping record represented by that point record number assigned by the echosounder echosounder time stamp at start of the ping cycle working units and speed of sound being used for calculations upper and lower limits of the active window being displayed fix status code and fix number if a fix condition exists and the heave and position data used for the ping cycle 4 3 Signal Data a 0001_2008_043 1709 E CHANNEL ID S N 70886 Record 00436 Start 2 3 kHz Stop Frequency 5 3 kHz Bandwidth 3 0 kHz Sample Rate 12000 Hz Gain Mode Auto TVG Mode None The Signal Data option provides the user with the ability to display or close a dialog box that presents the extended channel specific and system data recorded from the echosounder If the user clicks the left mouse button while pointing the cursor to a position of interest on the echogram display window the active parameter data dialog box will display the following data for the ping record represented by that point record number assigned by the echosounder start and stop frequencies of the transmit pulse bandwidth of the transmit pulse sample rate used to di
24. binary data file for use by post processing software Every ping cycle one record is stored with header information and raw data for each frequency channel Each record is variable in length and may be compressed using a Huffman compression algorithm The storage device for these files should have sufficient disk space free to store the vast amounts of data generated especially when working in shallow water where the faster ping rate results in a larger volume of data being generated See the File Format Specification KEB DO Format Document D101 04386 for complete formatting details 4 3 4 2 Compress Binary Data When the Compress Binary Data box is checked the application will compress all the KEB binary data records using a Huffman compression algorithm on each record The File Type Id Preamble in each data file will indicate that Huffman compression has been applied This control gives the user the option to store in a compressed or uncompressed format 4 3 4 3 ASCII File Format The ASCII output file can be used to log many data fields such as depth echosounder time GPS position and heave Since these files do not contain any of the raw envelope data they use substantially less disk space than the binary files Every ping cycle the application records one output string The user can request to modify the desired output data format by clicking on the Modify ASCII output format button This The information contained in this document is pro
25. echo has a minimum duration of about half the transmitted pulse length To put this into perspective the duration of the leading edge of the echo from a 0 1 ms transmit pulse a typical pulse length for high frequency shallow water work is equivalent to almost 4 centimetres of depth The longer pulses used in deeper water have longer rise times In practice however the echosounder is more accurate than these rise times would lead us to believe In the days before digitizers the easiest way to deal with the rise time problem was to operate the sounder with receive gain increased to the pomt where the background noise just started to show and the bottom echo was strongly saturated This has the effect of setting the detection threshold very low almost at the noise level and it works well because the human brain is very good at distinguishing echo from noise The repeatability and accuracy of depths scaled by hand from such records is typically a fraction of the nominal pulse length The digitizer software on the other hand is designed to set its threshold at the midpoint of the leading edge at the 50 amplitude point because this is the value that provides optimum detection performance The problem is that hydrographers tend to set their visual threshold at the point in the echogram where the echo first becomes visible which is often somewhat shallower The difference between the digitized depth and what the hydrographer sees on the printed re
26. essentially zero Scale accuracy is normally controlled by the accuracy of the speed of sound value which is entered by the operator either from a sound velocity instrument or in The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 02251 Rev4 1 July 6 2009 Page 7 of 9 2 4 Technical Note Echosounder Concepts the course of a bar check 2 The offset error contributed by the echosounder is essentially zero a result of the deterministic and highly predictable nature of digital filters The main sources of error are normally the stability of the draft measurement entered by the operator sensitivity to vessel motion and a lesser contribution from the group delay of the transducer 3 The repeatability errors contributed by the echosounder are difficult to measure because under normal operating conditions they are dominated by instabilities in the propagation medium which is of course outside the control of the echosounder The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 02251 Rev4 1
27. for this application to be usable It provides scrolling echogram image displays with echosounder operating controls and controls for data logging and recording functions 2 1 2 3 PostSurvey PostSurvey exe This program is an independent Windows application that provides the user playback and printing capabilities for the echogram data recorded by the EchoControlChent application 2 1 2 4 Hypack Device Driver EchoHypackDLL dll This program is provided as a device driver to Coastal Oceanographics HYPACK for Windows hydrographic survey software in the DLL Dynamic Link Library format required by HYPACK This program is only useful to HYPACK for Windows users It uses DDE data transfer protocol to interface with the EchoControlClient application 2 1 2 5 Firmware Loader FirmwareLoader exe This program is a very simple Windows interface program It communicates with the echosounder through the USB port on the server host PC It provides simple firmware upgrade capabilities The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 4 of 16 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades 3 1 3 INSTALLATION UPGRADE GUIDELINES 3 1 Initial Installation A newly delive
28. format of the currently active document the appropriate dialog box pops up that allows the user to setup printout presentation options similar to the screen options Greyscale colour mode display mode contrast see Section 5 2 The Print Range option provides the user with the ability to select the entire line file set or only a section of the line file set to print The printout can be limited to print between Record Numbers or Fix Numbers if any exist Once the print options have been OK d the standard print dialog box appears This allows the user access to the printer setup to change from the current default printer and to modify printer setup options Once all the desired selections are made and the user clicks on OK the printing will begin Currently any printer setup selections made for the current print job will be lost on the next and have to be re selected NOTE There is a Cancel Print capability but it has limited response capability once the printing procedure has started Because the printouts are very graphically intensive and most systems print graphics quite slowly the user should be certain he really wants to proceed before clicking OK in the Print dialog box The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering
29. gain recovered 3250 3251 1 no 2 yes 3252 3253 Amplitude recovery method 3252 3253 1 none 2 spherical divergence 3 AGC 4 other 3254 3255 Measurement system 3254 3255 1 meters 2 feet 3256 3257 Impulse signal polarity 3256 3257 1 increase in pressure gives negative number of tape 2 ncrease in pressure gives positive number on tape 3258 3259 3258 3259 Vibratory polarity code seismic signal lags pilot signal by 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 337 5 to 22 5 22 5 to 67 5 67 5 to 112 5 112 5 to 157 5 157 5 to 202 5 202 5 to 247 5 247 5 to 292 5 292 5 to 337 5 3262 3599 Optional Data 3260 3499 3500 3501 3502 3503 D101 03021 Rev2 2 SEG Y Rev1 2002 Specification Description Format Label KEL Usage WORD Binary gain recovered binary gain recover 1 no 2 yes Amplitude recovery method WORD amplitude recover 1 none 2 spherical divergence 3 AGC 4 other Measurement system WORD measure units 1 meters 2 feet Impulse signal polarity WORD impulse_polarity 1 increase in pressure gives negative number of tape 2 ncrease in pressure gives positive number on tape Vibratory polarity code WORD seismic signal lags pilot signal by vibrate_polarity 337 5 to 22 5 22 5 to 67 5 67 5 to 112 5 112 5 to 157 5 157 5 to 202 5 202 5 to 247 5 247 5 to 292 5 292 5 to 337 5 co Du buno Optional Data BYTE unassigned 240 0000 traditional 1975 specification 0100 Rev 1 0
30. has been envelope detected Detected This is the envelope detected data available at the original signal sampling rate 4 6 2 System Settings Page r Advanced Options 10 Echogram Heave Compensated Figure 4 7 Advanced Options Dialog System Settings Page The System Settings Page see Figure 4 7 provides access to system wide parameters used by the echosounder They are described in the following sections The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 34 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 24 4 6 3 Working Units The Working Units option allows the user to select the desired operating units from three options The operating Units can be selected from Metres Feet and Fathoms When these units are switched the echosounder converts the speed of sound and draft to the appropriate new units 4 6 4 Speed of Sound This feature allows the adjustment of the velocity of sound value used by the echosounder for all depth calculations The user adjusts this value in the course of a bar check or enters the average expected velocity of sound over the water column of interest obtained from a speed sensor Sound Speed LX 1500 MP de
31. is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 13 of 17 2 11 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader During this programming process at various key points the application checks for error conditions Status Attempting to erase memory device Status Attempting to program memory device a BEBE Status Verifying the new contents in the memory device BBBEEBHEEEEBSEHEBHSSEBESEHEBES EE OK If any error is detected the progress dialog will terminate with the appropriate error message such as failure to erase or similar These types of errors are typically a result of the module not being in the appropriate start up state to support programming Simply exiting the Firmware Loader power cycling the sounder and then retrying the update steps should resolve these errors The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 14 of 17 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader 2 12 ERROR Failed to erase part properly Modul
32. more than one channel is recorded in the currently active data set Each channel in a given data set will be opened in a separate window When the Active Global Scroll toggle is set it acts as a master scroll bar and will synchronize all open channel windows associated with the currently active data set The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 16 of 23 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 5 1 5 Settings 5 1 Contrast amp Contrast oe m ou L OK cance This option pops up a dialog box with a single control that allows the user to increase decrease the contrast of the displayed greyscale data 52 Display Display Settings EchoGram Presentation Display Options Colour Reverse Display Reverse Colour Waterfall Display Overlay Options Zoom Display Digitized Line Display 7 Embedded Grid Text tome 12 Y Embedded Grid Lines The Display option brings up a dialog box that allows the user to customize the display presentation to a configuration that suits his personal requirements 5 2 1 Colour When Colour mode is selected box checked the envelope data displayed in the program
33. numbering scheme The user must exercise caution in this mode Because the application will not allow a file to be overwritten that already exists the user may not be able initiate file recording if the same name is used every time the application is started without ensuring a different Start value for the automatic numbering The PC Generated format is the most flexible format and the least likely to cause a conflict with identical file names except in the unlikely instance of two Start Lines within the same minute If such a scenario happens frequently the automatic numbering option will help to prevent duplicate filenames From Hypack is only useful if the supporting Hypack DLL is being used to transfer data file and line info from Hypack Inc s Hypack Survey application When it is employed the EchoControlClient application will start and stop recording when Hypack starts and stops logging and will use the file folder and name root sent from Hypack 4 5 1 2 Automatic Numbering This mode is enabled by default when the User Entry filenaming mode is active Basically when this mode is active the filename is automatically appended with a number that starts at the value entered in the Start value box and automatically increments every time one recording file is closed and a new one started Enabling this mode helps to prevent recording problems that occur when a file already exists with a particular file name 4 5 1 3 Storage Folder To mod
34. option to include the extended data fields numerous operation controls are recorded in the unassigned bytes at the end of the RevO Trace header Some SEG Y readers do not recognize files that contain data in these bytes so it is advisable to verify the requirements for the desired reader application before selecting this option See the KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION document D101 03021 for complete formatting details 4 3 4 7 XTF File Format not implemented at this time The XTF output file format is a specialized format used to record Sidescan data The format has been defined to be compatible with the standard as defined by Caris See the KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION document D101 03322 for complete formatting details The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 12 of 16 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 5 1 5 MAIN MENU Hide Window This menu control simply causes the application to minimize to the taskbar The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen En
35. parameter is used to specify the transmit power level of the pulse being transmitted Power levels are controlled by changing the duty cycle of the switchmode transmitter output stage Although high power signals will always give the strongest echoes they also produce more ringing and reverberation which may obscure the bottom echo in shallow water Using high receive gain in combination with high transmit power in shallow water may cause signal levels high enough to saturate overload the receiver which will mask any echoes 4 4 6 Digital Gain The Digital Gainparameter provides for additional gain in the digital signal processing software Sometimes the automatic gain control algorithm can force the signal processing module to overdrive compromising the quality of the echogram data A good rule of thumb is to start increasing the process shift when the AGC has to push the gain level over 45dB This adjustment should be done gradually to slowly reduce the amount of analog gain required without applying too much digital processing gain process shift Applying too much process shift can cause the return echo to be saturated and distorted compromising the digitization performance of the system 4 4 7 Tx Blanking The Tx Blanking parameter sets the transmit blanking distance used by the echosounder s internal digitizer to avoid false triggering on transmit reverberation The Tx Blanking value or transmit blanking is the distance in the working u
36. record was saved Day 1 i 1 HSeconds BYTE Sounder time when ping started hundredths of seconds 0 99 CurrentLineID Line if one exists OceanTide DWORD Jo S o oi CTD information TemperatureFreq 0 D101 03322 Rev2 2 KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 5 of 8 AuxVall AuxVal2 AuxVal3 AuxVal4 AuxVal5 AuxVal6 Ship Navigation information FS O O ShipXcoordinate Ship longitude or easting moe ooo wo e O Tk Sensor Navigation information FixTimeHour FixTimeMinute FixTimeSecond SensorSpeed Tow Cable information RangeToFish BearingToFish CableOut Layback SensorDepth SensorPrimaryAltitude SensorAuxAltitude D101 03322 Rev2 2 KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 6 of 8 Computer time tag milliseconds since midnight of Jan 1 1970 FishPositionDeltaX FishPositionDeltaY short FishPositionErrorCode ReservedSpace2 11 BYTE Byte Count Total D101 03322 Rev22 KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 7 of 8 XTFPINGCHANHEADER structure This is data that can be unique to each channel from ping to ping It is stored at the front of each channel of sonar data Field Name KEL Data Usage ChannelNumber 0 port low frequency 1 stbd low frequency DownsanpleMethod won mMAX OO o To mee p a d ui E Fre t 8 L4 TimeDuration float 2 start depth speedofsound SecondsPerPing float amount of ine in seconds romping oping
37. seg rev number fixed length trace flag 1 all traces have the same sample interval and number of samples as specific in 3216 fixed length flag 3217 and 3220 3221 0 the length of the traces may vary traditional 1975 specification 3ofll Usage Description unused unused Note echosounder will support fathoms 1 meters 2 feet 3 fathoms unused Unused unused KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION SEG Y Rev 0 1979 Specification Description TRACE HEADER SEG Y Rev 0 1979 Specification Description w se c e a o e 1 ce ve Trace sequence number within line numbers continue to increase if additional reels are required on same line Trace sequence number within reel each reel starts with trace number 1 008 011 Original field record number Trace number within original field record 012 015 E S X e S d o an o el Energy source point number used when more than one record occurs at the same effective surface location CDP ensemble number Trace number within CDP ensemble each ensemble starts with trace number one 020 023 024 027 o N oo o N No Trace Identification code 1 seismic data 2 dead 3 dummy 4 time break 5 uphole 6 sweep 7 timing 8 water break 9 N optional D101 03021 Rev2 2 SEG Y Rev1 2002 KEL Usage Byte s Specification Description Label 3504 3505 number of 3200 ex
38. the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 8 of 16 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades 4 4 Select Additional Tasks Default Desktop Icons This can be modified to any preferred value Please note that all the following documentation assumes that the defaults have been used a Setup SounderSuite Ready to Install Setup is now ready to begin installing SounderSuite USB on your computer Click Install to continue with the installation or click Back if you want to review or change any settings Destination location C Program Files SounderSuite USB Setup type Stand alone Install dient and server side software Selected components Client side Installation Server Side Installation Firmware Installation Sounder Driver Installation Thermal Recorder Service WinXP 2000 only Documentation and Help Files Ready to Install Last chance to cancel before actual installation is performed Click Next to proceed with the installation The installer will proceed to copy the application executables driver setups firmware files and support documentation in PDF format After completing these tasks a final screen will appear indicating if the setup completed successfully Completing the SounderSuite USB Setup Wizard Setup has finished installing SounderSuite USB on your compute
39. the user to select a preferred font size The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 18 of 23 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 5 3 5 3 Event Annotation 38 Event Annotation 8 v Event Source Code v Event Number v Time V Depth Heave MV Position Lat Long JV Event Lines OK Cancel This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows the user to select which of the available data parameters will be printed out on the event mark annotation line The selections made here apply to the display the Windows printer outputs and the thermal recorder output The user has no control on the ordering of the parameters they are output in the order they are listed if they are checked off 5 4 Colour Selection Color Selection This dialog box allows you to customize the color of d the displayed Grid Text Event Text and Digital Overlay Grid Line EB Blue Event Line L 1 Red y Event Text Es Red Digital Overlay Rea The Colour Selection dialog box allows the user to customize the colour for select display components such as the grid annotation text and overlays The information con
40. trace recording minute PC Time of trace recording second unused unused unused unused unused unused unused Frequency channel code Time start of ping Hours Time start of ping Minutes Time start of ping Seconds Time start of ping Milliseconds Transmit power parameter setting 1 to 8 Receive gain parameter setting 0 to 255 Processing gain parameter setting 0 to 8 KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION SEG Y Rev 0 1979 Byte s Specification Description Byte s 196 199 200 201 202 203 204 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 D101 03021 Rev2 2 SEG Y Rev1 2002 KEL Usage Specification Description Label Shotpoint number WORD Kel Sensitivity WORD Kel MuxChannel Scaker to be aplied to the shotpoint number WORD Kel EchoStrength Trace value measurement unit WORD Kel PrimaryChannel 1 other 0 unknown 1 Pascal Pa 2 Volts V 3 Millivolts V 4 Amperes A 5 Meters m 6 meters per second m s 7 meters per second squared m s 2 8 Newton N 9 Watt W Transduction Constant WORD Kel PulseLength WORD Kel TxBlank Transduction Exponent WORD Kel SoundSpeed Transduction Units WORD Kel StartDepth other 0 unknown 1 Pascal Pa 2 Volts V 3 Millivolts V 4 Amperes A 5 Meters m 6 meters per second m s 7 meters per second squared m s 2 8 New
41. 1 4 1 5 Event Mark Code Definiti0MS s 1 9 LIST OF TABLES Table 1 1 Record Preamble 200 snin mose ask dee ERR RC ih dee CRUCE a inh dee OX CR Ron O CC Un 1 4 Table 1 2 Ping Record Uncompressed l i 1 4 Table 1 3 Event Mark Codes 2 io cruce ORE ERI RES Oia Meee Gaede A ORE EEG AA oe a 1 9 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific ose intended is expressly prohibited unless to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05498 Rev1 0 October 2 2012 2 of 9 1 File Specification 1 1 Overview The envelope data for each channel can be recorded in a binary data file for use by post processing software Every ping cycle one record is stored with header information and raw data for each frequency channel Each record is variable in length with a current maximum possible number of 6772 bytes and can be compressed using a Huffman compression algorithm The storage device for these files should have sufficient disk space free to store the vast amounts of data generated especially when working in shallow water where the faster ping rate results in a larger volume of data bemg generated The binary data files are recorded using the following basic structural format File Type Id Preamble 40 bytes Record Preamble 1 10 bytes Ping Record 1 variable number of bytes compressed if Huffman
42. 11 Ping Chart Dialog There are five controls on the Ping Chart dialog The Tools button identified by the A icon two spinner controls to adjust the vertical and horizontal scale a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the scope control and the scope control itself The Tools button brings up the Oscilloscope Config dialog Figure 4 12 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 42 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 4 5 Controls on this dialog allow the user to select Data Type toggles between Carrier Data and Envelope Data Channel a list box displays all configured channels and Horizontal Scale Units toggles between Time in milliseconds and Number of Samples i Oscilloscope Config Data Type Carrier Data Channel Chi 24 0kHz Horizontal Scale Units Time ms cancel Figure 4 12 Oscilloscope Config dialog 4 7 6 Recording Status Recording Status amp Recording Formats Binary Ascii SegY XTF e Temp 0001 1432 keb 0001 1432 kea 0001 1432 70430 28 0kHz sgy 0001 1432 xtf The Recording Status dialog displays the current status of any file recording that is active on the EchoControlCl
43. 35 When the event number reaches this maximum value on the count up it wraps back to zero 4 7 8 Event Annotation Application parameters r Event Annotation Setup Event Source Code v Event Number V Time V Depths V Heave V Position Lat Long This menu item brings up a dialog box that allows the user to select which of the available data parameters will be printed out on the event mark annotation line The selections made here apply to the display and the thermal recorder output The user has no control of the ordering of the parameters they are output in the order they are listed if they are checked off 4 7 9 Factory Defaults Occasionally after a software firmware upgrade has been performed or a new site setup is required it is advisable and convenient to restore the sounder controls or the client display and recording controls back to factory default This enables starting the sounder from a known default state As discussed in Section 2 3 there are Echosounder controls and Application Controls The reset commands for the Factory Defaults have been divided into two separate commands to allow the user to decide if he wants to reset the Echosounder or Application controls only or if he wants to reset them all The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpos
44. 4 KEL Sounder Module Click Finish to close the wizard Once it has completed it will indicate whether or not it was successful in installing the software for the module If it was the user can simply click on Finish to continue If the sounder has more than one channel this step needs to be repeated for each channel module detected in the sounder The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 14 of 16 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades 5 1 5 FIRMWARE INSTALLATION The firmware installation procedures are only required for system upgrades Newly delivered systems do not need to have any firmware loaded Upgrades are performed when new capabilities are added to the echosounder s functionality Sometimes only the Windows support software is enhanced and firmware remains unaffected Often the Windows program will indicate if a newer version of firmware needs to be loaded in other instances there will be instructions provided with the installation package indicating if an update is required A single echosounder may be comprised of a number of hardware channel modules Upgrading the echosounder involves downloading new firmware into these individua
45. 5 2 4 Embedded Grid Text The Embedded Grid Text option allows the user to enable box checked or disable the use of embedded grid text When this option is enabled grid text is displayed within the envelope data display whenever a range or phase change occurs or at evenly spaced intervals if no changes have occurred The embedded text can be disabled for cases when the grid text changes obscure the envelope data 5 2 5 Embedded Grid Lines The Embedded Grid Lines option allows the user to enable box checked or disable the use of embedded grid lines When this option is enabled the chart grid is displayed within the envelope data The embedded grid lines can be disabled for cases when it is undesirable such as bitmap creation for presentational purposes 5 2 6 Reverse Display This control will display the data set in Reverse View last data sample displayed first This control acts as a toggle to allow the user to switch back to Normal View first data sample displayed first 5 2 7 Waterfall Display This control will display the data set along the y axis This control works as a toggle to allow the user to switch back to standard view display along the x axis 5 2 8 Zoom Display This control is a primitive zoom control which will magnify the display by a factor of 2 along which every axis is currently active This control acts as a toggle to allow the user the switch back to Regular view 1 1 5 2 9 Text Size This option allows
46. Correlated Instrument early or initial gain WORD instrument init gain WORD correlated trace 1 no 2 yes WORD sweep freq start Sweep type WORD sweep type 1 linear 2 parabolic 3 exponential 4 other Sweep trace taper length at start ms WORD sweep taper time start Sweep trace taper length at end ms WORD sweep taper time end Taper type WORD taper type linear 2 cos cos 3 other Alias filter frequency if used WORD alias filt freq Alias filter slope WORD alias filt slope Notch filter frequency if used WORD notch filt freq Notch filter slope WORD notch filt slope Low cut frequency if used WORD low cut freq High cut frequency if used WORD high cut freq Low cut slope WORD low cut slope High cut slope WORD high cut slope Year data recorded WORD year 7 of 11 Usage Description unused unused unused unused unused pulse length unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused PC Date Year KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION SEG Y Rev 0 1979 SEG Y Rev1 2002 166 167 oo ala la 2 Az N o e 1 1 1 e a un en o 1 o N Time basis code 1 local 2 GMT 3 other 69 Trace weighting factor defined as 2 n volts 168 169 for the Isb n 0 1 32767 71 Geophone group number of roll switch 170 171 position one 73 Geophone group number of trace 1 within 172 173 original field 75 Geoph
47. December 22 2010 Page 2 of 16 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades 1 1 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 About this manual This manual provides installation and upgrade details for the software package provided with a 1600 or 3200 Series Echosounder It provides brief descriptions of the Windows software applications and the embedded firmware It explains what needs to be installed for a newly delivered system and what needs to be done to upgrade an existing system 1 2 Technical Support For technical support or to report problems please contact your local representative or Technical Support Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario K7H 3P2 Voice 613 267 1165 8 30 am to 5 00 pm E S T Core Hours Fax 613 267 7085 E Mail support knudsenengineering com WebSite http knudsenengineering com The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 3 of 16 2 1 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades 2 SOFTWARE DEFINITIONS 2 1 Overview Virtually every aspect of the USB Echosounder s functionality is defined and controlled by software This software includes the firmware which resides in non volatile memories within t
48. E Cancel Accept For more complicated parameters with very large ranges of allowable selections such as speed of sound or draft it is often easier to input the desired value directly Scroll bars work well for small ranges of values but become very difficult to set when the range becomes very large It is hard to finetune to a specific value because the increments are too sensitive For these types of parameters there is the keypad control This control is a little more complicated than the previous two described There are additional buttons designed to aid in the setting of the parameter The Clr button is used to clear the current value in anticipation of setting a new value If an error is made in entering the value the Clr button can be used to restart the entry Unlike the other two control dialogs the effects of the parameter change are not immediate If it is desired to keep the new selection clicking on Accept will apply the change permanently clicking Cancel will abort the change and restore the initial value The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 11 of 51 3 1 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 3 INITIAL START UP 3 1 Server Connect
49. EB Compressed See D101 04842 File Format Specification KEB D3 Format for details KEB Uncompressed Only one output data type can be selected If more than one type is desired the conversion process needs to be run for each type to be converted If a SEG Y format option is selected an additional checkbox control is supplied to the user This control allows the user to select if they would like to 1gnore any differences between fields in the main file header and the individual trace headers or if they want the application to open a new file each time a difference 1s detected The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04968 Rev1 1 December 22 2010 Page 5 of 5 File Format Specification KEB EO Format D101 05498 Revision 1 0 October 2 2012 Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario Canada 1 Fale Speeificationss iu san Seaton SGA A Praed A trat ce QR Leaded Ae eee 1 3 1 1 Overview oeste bea Me ies tai eit leet dee ere S tree RC ens A ers 1 3 1 2 FleType ld Preamble 23 3 vssVupeX a A quercus eae Rue eI 1 3 1 3 Record Preamble elu etel xn E Rep ue aeter d 1 4 1 4 Ping Record Record Type E0 Variable Length Multiple Channel Envelope o ooo
50. EYER WIE 2 4 3 MAIN MENUS System sub ew REESE EE RO CLE Sida UCET E SEE 3 1 3 1 Scan for DEVICES ens s x LA MES ut ea A REP EI QN MEC ELSE 3 1 3 2 Sell Test 2 5 lu A Sq RE RES quU ERE EUNT Ea Bae RE end XA SES MEA 3 1 3 3 Amie S VIC es bros rne ad lee sho tes tS um Sore de bns Mate Ge nck pei oh pre LU E re e i et ote 3 1 3 4 Iq rc 3 1 4 MAIN MENU Recording 6205 ia Den RE saepe o GES oq Cath OE ps 4 1 4 1 SIEBEN ERE RE CE aden desea ag E EPI A ETHER 4 1 4 2 Ends Emens A A SIRE TL 4 1 4 3 COntigure cs ros e A PIENO DENN MEN A ANS bE Oe ORE LES x VR 4 1 4 3 00 Eile Nimme Moders 2 24 Goth bbw Gee SE ES pipi diet 4 1 4 3 2 Automatic Numbering es 4 2 4 3 3 Storage Folder ec feces ek RR ee de ee ah a ENSE RU A REN Ree RENE 4 2 4 3 4 File Formats To Be Recorded s 4 2 4 3 4 1 Binary File Format KEB 0 0 00 0 eee ee 4 2 4 3 4 2 Compress Binary Data 4 2 4 3 4 3 ASCH File Format it eg Bee wake hb sh ev bun ERE he eee 4 2 4 3 4 4 Modify ASCII output format 2 0 ee eee 4 3 4345 SEG Y File Foral ra ISI ended POR Camels 4 4 4 3 4 6 SEG Y Extended Data FieldS ooo 4 4 4 3 4 7 XTF File Formate i og awe eee bo A NER RU E RN eS 4 4 5 MAIN MENU Hide Window ns se be AG ven Mates wed FAG ale end er LP AS Pees Mais oe didis 5 1 6 MAIN MENU Clear bogs cia rc ete Me ds mn ee pre e ERAT Deeds Wel a Soke dU 6 1 7 MAIN MENU Help esla eret alode p e a he bera sv e hen diodes e ec 7 1
51. Fax 613 267 7085 K7H 3P2 www knudsenengineering com mailto support knudsenengineering com Detected OS Info Microsoft Windows Vista 6 0 6002 Service Pack 2 This option brings up a simple dialog box that provides contact information for technical support It also provides information about the type of Windows operating system the EchoControlClient program has detected The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 49 of 51 4 12 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 10 About EchoControlClient r About EchoControlClient SounderSuite EchoControlClient Sounder Control and Data Recording Part D409 04184 2 12 Copyright 1997 2009 The About EchoControlClient menu item brings up a simple dialog box stating the name of the PC software program the KEL part number for the program and the latest revision number The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 50 o
52. July 6 2009 Page 8 of 9 Technical Note Echosounder Concepts 3 1 3 DIGITIZED DEPTH VERSUS PRINTED ECHOGRAM We are often asked about discrepancies between the digital depth value and the printed echogram Most often the printed echogram shows the leading edge of the bottom echo to be shallower than the digitized depth This note addresses the reason for this apparent discrepancy In the early days of echosounders before digitizers the printed record was the only record The hydrographer adjusted the draft and sound speed during a bar check using the depths he scaled directly from the printed record based on his visual determination of the location of the leading edge of the echo There were two problems with this approach First the hydrographer would have noticed that the depth was slightly dependent on receiver gain By cranking up the gain he could thicken the bottom line and decrease the apparent depth slightly Reducing the gain had the opposite effect Second the person who digitized the printed record back in the shop may have had a slightly different view of the precise location of the leading edge of the echo a bias toward a lighter or darker shade of grey as the threshold point Both of these problems result from the fact that the leading edge of the echo is not a distinct event The echo arrives as an increase in signal strength from the background noise level to the echo peak over a finite period of time The rise time of the
53. KEL part number for the program and the latest revision number The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 17 of 17 SounderSuite USB Conversion Utility Supports Software D409 04545 D101 04968 Revision 1 1 December 22 2010 n Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario Canada CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION S adi ZA eat niece ESE hah tee EN Rae 1 1 1 1 Aboutthis manual sesiis seepe be caves pns Ead a a Sec ia o RW TE BO Ga pda 1 1 1 2 Software Descriptionz 45 oe ron adie e lr Rea eee a eere d ebrei de 1 1 1 3 Technical Support 5i ee urere EE Rem eer ect eli eer e M e ce A a Palos apes 1 1 2 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS 5 2e cr p ds ELI S RECTUS 2 1 2 1 Descriptions PP 2 1 2 2 Select Source Eile a rdc e ROREM aec a e RU dee RT 2 1 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04968 Rev1 1 December 22 2010 Page 2 of 5 SounderSuite Conversion Utility 1 1 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 About this manual This manua
54. Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 8 of 23 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 3 4 la Print Job Status Printing in Progress Setting up Cancel NOTE this menu option is only used to send data to standard Windows printers not thermal recorders Use the Thermal Recorder Send Data command to print to thermal recorders Important information The printed envelope output is very graphically intensive Some printers with on board memory may have problems with data overflow reducing the print quality resolution in dpi may minimize this problem but it also reduces the quality of the printout Preliminary testing with a limited number of printers had the best presentational results with the folowing printer setup options click Setup in the Print dialog box to access Landscape mode Fine dithering and the highest resolution available to the printer this is a printer specific option For users of Windows 95 98 the spooler options should be setup as follows to avoid creating excessively large temporary files which can quickly over flow hard drives with limited available space printing should start after the first page has spooled and the spool data format should be RAW not EMF In some cases it may even be better to disable spooling altogether and send the data directly to the printer 3 8 Print Preview This option is not fully implemented at this time 3 9 Print Setup This option is not fully implemented at this time
55. N ER oo 957 N ER o Correlated data traces 1 no 2 yes D101 03021 Rev2 2 Byte s 3228 3229 3230 3231 3232 3233 3234 3235 3236 3237 3238 3239 3240 3241 3242 3243 3244 3245 3246 3247 3248 3249 KEL Usage Specification Description Format Label Trace sorting code WORD trace sort 1 as recorded no sort 2 CDP ensemble 3 single fold continuous profile 4 horizontally stacked Vertical sum code WORD vertical sum no sum 2 two sum NN sum N 32767 Sweep frequency at start WORD Sweep frequency at end WORD Sweep length ms WORD WORD sweep_freq_start sweep_freq_end sweep_ time Sweep type code sweep_type 1 linear 2 parabolic 3 exponential 4 other Trace number of sweep channel WORD WORD sweep_trace_number Sweep trace taper length in ms at start sweep taper time start the taper starts at zero time and is effective for this length Sweep trace tape length in ms at end WORD sweep taper time end the ending taper starts at sweep length minus the taper length at end Taper type WORD taper type 1 linear 2 cos cos 3 other WORD Correlated data traces correlate trace l no 2 yes 2 of 11 Usage Description set as recorded unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION SEG Y Rev 0 1979 Byte s Specification Description Byte s 3250 3251 Binary
56. OS ESQ ee A OR SEO ye EE SE ad 4 1 4 2 Parameter Data is dia GE eed 4 2 4 3 Signal Data aede Sond we eles a we ark Sek RENS ap ed AR eh Oe ae ee Sok we eee 4 2 4 4 Depth Charts 2 d dem A WS ey bur RE ens 4 3 4 5 Ping Chart fete Sth hum Ld e tat t Cm Ad IR Lads a bed eat Did a bik eques s toy Hs Lem dd Bold 4 3 4 6 Status Bar CETT e rl a la a e e MM 4 4 4 7 Man Toolbar a ad be a 4 4 4 8 Info Tola iii A A ERA END Ebr ER RR M EHE 4 4 4 9 Settings Looban 25 60e lace toti Emo ars enis ct a wr E cate ta ivi Ek roofs Enea Ch apu 4 4 4 10 Channel Toolbar 2 5 4 352 a so rr as RAL ate Leo MOTO gez otto Mee o d Hv d mn piu 4 5 4 11 Active Global Scroll 22 uu ura biu qute SU or Pe ea een OUR ERE Lae ees 4 5 5 Settings we eh e ARRIERE CESARE EGRE Wer E MOEN AGS REN 5 1 5 1 Contrast RET T als Ri Hee clash ott erect a ale WS Lem a pa MC 5 1 5 2 Display de ace oe te ete nes E bre tas or err ds ted hse i f IUS ST dt ee i ond lee or err ds ales 5 1 5 23 SCOURS te eed cec ok sce BO e RACE Cd EE v IN mea sce qb a uei uci teda Motos 5 1 5 2 2 Reverse Colour i R BGR E a ee BE ERS eek BG PRE T up ees 5 2 5 2 3 Digitized Line Display ssis rtas kia ge x I4 bL GRIEF REE EE ee AGS EEE ES 5 2 S204 Embedded Grid E exte oes tee fs sake eb as d CP ANE UP eee pe EN ie ee tS 5 2 5 2 9 Embedded Grid Lanes on oe LACE AR a te A RR se ise RISUS Bape ORT Te ROT ROS 5 2 5 2 6 Reverse Display ics oo oe a EE EN 5 2 5 2 7 Waterfall Display iod
57. P Pinger EchoControlClient 8 Chi 200 0kHz 8 Chi 200 0kHz Gain Gain Analog Gain Auto TVG Mode None Analog Gain Auto TVG Mode None H 0 dB _ _ 0 dB Transmit Tx Power 1 Digital Gain x1 Tx Blanking 1 1 Reset Figure 4 1 Depth Channel Dialog showing collapsed and expanded modes 4 4 1 Analog Gain Auto Manual A channel s analog receive gain can be controlled either manually or in Automatic mode AGC Auto mode is the recommended setting for most operating conditions 4 4 2 TVG Mode This option allows the user to enable TVG time varied gain on the analog receivers The OFF setting provides constant receive gain throughout each pulse echo cycle note that receive gain will still vary from ping to ping if AGC is on When set to 20logR the receive gain is increased linearly logarithmically if gain is expressed in decibels with time and range from the instant of transmission to compensate for signal amplitude loss due to spherical spreading The 40logR setting provides for spherical spreading of both outgoing and returning signals The bottom referenced setting Bottom Ref d provides a gain ramp at the bottom as determined from the previous ping to provide approximate compensation for attenuation in sub bottom sediments The last setting is intended for sub bottom profiling applications For surveying operations TVG may help to prevent the depth digitizer from fal
58. RARE UR RESTORE UARIIS CERE EA ESSE YU 5 2 5 2 8 Zoom Displ y iios esr S oU Ser ERR e Mes aU sh at re INE ERE Mu Se ak Te Per BUS 5 2 DD Os SPCR SIZ x 26 eh e i PEN eR b OD aue ED IN Lent cebat e ea doc 5 2 5 3 Event Annotation uy Padus ERRARE A A A PEU SR PEG S 5 3 The information contain ed in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 2 of 23 5 4 Colours election cm seo coni gue betel ee tothe ss ble alect a Me tal ote woth es ta 5 3 5 5 Alternate Printera 2 dose seu o tC te dt oe ae el at i e Lee haa Sls hr des bu 5 4 6 Mando Wet de nia Les ne tts etn puts e ERE eet de be cS Ls e tes E aet Tuc E FOU Att f tero c iia of Bis 6 1 6 1 AA a a aa a a a a T Aae a aa o iea a adara ae a Aa a na dg 6 1 6 2 iE ASEEN TE E E EEES TE T T EES RO 6 1 6 3 Arrange Window Seene hog fess A A S Re gle A eee E E EE 6 1 7 Channels tis 1 era ds es O ca eb tad ntl Plat ana pl ati Fa LA Cod det cts O e 7 1 8 Help susie E E E eS S x sn etur dues a etek E di ei tb Pis 8 1 8 1 About PostSurvey s 204 ss RI RO RR EH ERR CA OE eee PG ae eed EA 8 1 8 2 Tech Support nius reri hae bb ee ee ue IU bee DY eub Hea C NUMEN ee ee X 8 1 LIST OF TABLES Table 3 1 Supported Thermal Recorders 0 ras 3 5 The informat
59. SounderSuite SBP Software User Manual Complete Reference D101 05517 Revision 1 0 November 19 2012 aan Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario Canada SOFTWARE INSTALLATION AND FIRMWARE UPGRADE D101 04383 Rev2 2 ECHOCONTROL SERVER D101 04381 Rev2 0 ECHOCONTROL CLIENT D101 05429 Rev1 0 POSTSURVEY D101 03175 Rev4 0 FIRMWARE LOADER D101 04382 Rev2 0 CONVERSION UTILITY D101 04968 Rev1 1 FILE SPECIFICATION KEL E0 KEB D101 05498 Rev1 0 FILE SPECIFICATION SEG Y D101 03021 Rev2 2 FILE SPECIFICATION XTF D101 03322 Rev2 2 ECHOSOUNDER CONCEPTS D101 02251 Rev4 1 Formatted for AVERY Ready Index Tbl Cont 12 tab SounderSuite USB Windows Installation and Firmware Upgrades Supports Software Installer Package D429 04216 D101 04383 Revision 2 2 December 22 2010 Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario Canada CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ad tette Sh aed Bw it c eae e e ea ete EG ATK ESA Saa teet EN ima 1 1 1 1 About this manual d esl ecce od eh sedis eic tubos ete bloga Dre Rees or ea i ees 1 1 1 2 Technical SUpport tei pani ieai eee o Man et de prec e Ree ecu i eee e D Rc quio WS 1 1 2 SOFTWARE DEFINITIONS 52 5 59 fat anurans eb AAA A RB ec edibus 2 1 2 1 OVA ended umet ned dos b Pa edes edet Be robs andas 2 1 Delle OVE T O O e E E E E r R 2 1 2 1 2 Windows Support Applications s assau sasas aaeeea 2 1 2 1
60. Start Depth End Depth Cancel i Example String 012423 65 004 00 4 p Channel Frequency v Digitized Depth Select All This dialog box allows the user to customize the ASCII format of the serial data logging string with certain limitations The fields can only appear in the order listed ie header string depth checksum separated only by commas except hhmmss and milliseconds and terminated only at the very end by lt CR gt lt LF gt As various fields are selected or deselected the Example String at the bottom of the dialog box changes to illustrate the expected output format It will only put the sample info for one channels worth of data In the actual output string for each channel present its particular block of data fields is appended after the previous channel s block Some fields can only be selected if other fields are also selected and will be inactive greyed out if the required field is not selected For example the Position Latency field is an active option only if the Position field is selected The format configuration selected is stored in the application s registry keys and restored the next time the program is invoked The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited
61. TFFileHeader Then for every ping that occurs the following structures are formatted and written to the file in the following order XTFPingHeader Port Channel Header Port Channel Data 1600 words Starboard Channel Header Starboard Channel Data 1600 words XTFNotesHeader only if a supported fix mark condition exists D101 03322 Rev2 2 KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 2 of 8 Structure Usage CHANINFO structure One time information describing each channel This is data pertaining to each channel that will not change during the course of a run ae in the XTFFILEHEADER for FR channel Field Name Name Format KEL Data Usage 2 STARBOARD LF channel e CN IO AUT CC A E UniPolar 1 UNIPOLAR i wor fe O O PReseved DWORD Expeced of samples por channel 160 3 VoltScale ey aa E AAA TORO CIMAS ee EE rige 2 ep BeamWidth ESOO O EEE om hw CO E TES re e d E OffsetYaw eee O ReservedArea2 54 char 0 54 Byte Count Total 128 HRY PR IRL RIL RP RP RP RTA u D101 03322 Rev22 KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 3 of 8 XTFFILEHEADER structure a M RR E swwtwe sw e 3 a EchoCtrl or PostSrvy ART Je eee SomNamel6 foarte Eee CT A ee meme de Giu 8 3 DEGREES from GGA or GLL NumberOfSonarChannels 2 inactive channel filled with NULLs NabeOmemegCume wo O Numb
62. Toolbar Figure 4 0 can have five to eight buttons depending on the number of channels configured for the system The buttons are e Global Tx e Record Start Stop e Manual Fix Mark e Depth Channels one or two depending on number of channels configured for the system Setup The functions of these buttons are described in the sections that follow 4 1 Global Tx As its name implies the Global Tx button is a global on off switch for all channels of the sounder system Channels can also be individually enabled or disabled using the Tx Enabled button on the appropriate page of the Advanced Options dialog 4 2 Record Start Stop This button starts or stops file recording as configured on the Configure Recording Options dialog 4 3 Manual Fix Mark Use this button to generate a manual fix mark The keyboard shortcut Alt M can also be used The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 16 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 6 4 4 Depth Channels The Depth Channel buttons display the channel number center frequency and transmit status of the depth channel in question Clicking on the button opens the channel s Depth Channel dialog When viewing a Depth Channel dialog the
63. a This makes the data appear darker or lighter on the record without affecting the actual echogram data received from the sounder The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 40 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 4 3 4 7 4 4 Mode There are three printing mode options available 1 None turns the display off No echogram or event data is displayed in this mode 2 Overlayed displays all the channels overlayed together using the entire chart display height 3 Stacked displays all the channels separately with Channel 1 at the top and sequentially going down the display 4 7 4 5 Font Size Depending on the data presentation on the chart sometimes larger fonts for the grid and other text annotation is easier to read sometime smaller fonts are preferred The user has the option to toggle between the large and small font options 4 7 4 6 Overlays If desired other data than from the echogram can be plotted on the recorder The Overlays Selections dialog figure 5 9 provides options for recording additional data They are e Heave Indicator records the heave values as received from a heave sensor e Heave Corrected Depth records the detected depth corrected by the
64. a depth return falls outside of this range it is deemed invalid and 0 0 is displayed in all the dialog boxes with depth displays The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 36 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 26 Tracking Gate Hj 1 2 3 abc def 4 5 6 ghi jkl mno Fl zl sl prs tuv wxy Clr 0 Cancel 4 6 7 Echogram Heave Compensated Uncompensated When enabled Heave Compensated the echogram data is compensated for heave as detected by a heave sensor When disabled the echogram data 1s displayed as received 4 6 8 Syne Mode Internal External This switch specifies whether pings will be triggered internally by the sounder module or externally by an external module connected to the sounder unit through the Sync In connector if applicable The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 37 of 51 3 27 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient
65. a set and the desired output data formats all can be active at the same time Recording Stopped Ch1 200 0kHz 19 95m Ch2 14 1kHz 24 95 nm Configure Recording Configure Peripherals Configure Serial Data Logging Configure UDP Broadcast Advanced Setup Help Figure 4 2 Setup Sub Menu The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited April 27 2012 D101 05429 Rev1 0 20 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 10 Configure Recording Options ES m File Naming Mode r File Formats To Be Recorded _ C User Entry JV Binary File KEB File Name Root KEL Iv Compress Binary Data v Skip Sidescan Channels PC Generated M Lines Year Julian Date Y Time v ASCIFie KEA E J Setup ASCII format 2 V SEG Y File SGY From Hypack V with Extended Data Fields limit file size 25MB Storage Folder XIF File XTF e Temp limit file size 25MB Automatic numbering Start value File Name Format Example 0002 1433 4 5 1 1 File Naming Mode With the User Entry option the filename is based on the text entered by the user and an automatic
66. ader 2 2 2 2 System 2 2 1 Scan for Devices Sometimes on start up the Firmware Loader may not see any DSP or printer modules on the bus For example if they are not connected or are powered off This command gives the user the opportunity to rescan the bus after correcting the source of the problem without having to restart the application This option is only enabled if no supported modules are detected on the USB bus If any supported modules are detected this option is disabled 2 2 2 Exit The user can terminate the FirmwareLoader application using the Exit command 23 View This control group allows access to the key functions used for the in field firmware upgrades The first two menu items are for upgrading and configuring the DSP channel modules the last item is for upgrading the printer module 2 3 1 Load DSP Firmware The Load DSP Firmware command is used to start the firmware upgrade of a DSP channel module If there are no DSP modules detected then this menu item will be disabled If only one module is detected on the USB bus the user is taken straight to the dialog to open the desired bin file If more than one is detected then a dialog box with a drop list is opened to allow the user to select which module should be updated r Select Sounder Hardware Device Id Module Type 4195 Serial K2K 07 0430 Once the user has selected and accepted a module to update a File Open dialog will appear This
67. ake a little while so a progress bar continues to update the status as the various stages are run on the embedded module Status 1 Attempting to erase memory device During this programming process at various key points the application checks for error conditions r Status Attempting to erase memory device EBEEEBEHBEBESHHEBEESBEBHESEHEHEBEBSBES The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 7 of 17 2 5 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader Status Attempting to program memory device A A se OK Status Verifying the new contents in the memory device OK If any error is detected the progress dialog will terminate with the appropriate error message such as failure to erase or similar These types of errors are typically a result of the module not being in the appropriate start up state to support programming Simply exiting the Firmware Loader power cycling the sounder and then retrying the update steps should resolve these errors ERROR Failed to erase part properly Module operation may be compromised A A A tn A e A mE If the operation has comple
68. al port sensor data records configuration records etc only Envelope records are actually implemented at this time The original data record format is shown in Table 1 2 The data can be stored in this format or the user can enable data compression When compression is enabled each data record as shown in Table 1 2 has a Huffman compression algorithm applied to it The result of the compression is stored in the file The playback application runs the matching decompression algorithm to access the data records The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific ose intended is expressly prohibited unless to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05498 Rev1 0 October 2 2012 3 of 9 1 3 Record Preamble Each data record is preceded by a Record Preamble that provides quick access particularly for compressed records to useful info about the record This data is used by the PostSurvey application for faster analysis of the data statistics See the following description about the Data Records for some of the field definitions Table 1 1 Record Preamble FIELD DESCRIPTION DATA TYPE pem dde Ss Record Type Code J Code File offset to start of record after the record long preamble eee Record Size expressed in bytes se Event mark code Byte Total 1 4 Ping Record Record Type E0
69. alog box indicating the progress of the print job in terms of pings printed relative to the total number in the data set It also provides the user with the ability to cancel the print job if desired Note this menu option is only used to send data to thermal recorders not standard Windows printers Use the Print command to print to standard Windows printers 3 11 Exit The user can terminate the PostSurvey program using the Exit command Many configuration parameters are recorded as the program is terminated The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 11 of 23 4 1 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 4 View This control group provides access to data display dialogs and toolbar configuration controls The echogram chart is only one of the items of interest during playback of the data set Sometimes the user wishes to see what control settings were in use to achieve the echogram on display The various dialogs accessible from this control group provides access for the user to this additional control information 4 1 Channel Data 0001 2008 043 1709 CHANNEL ID S N 70886 Record 00486 Depth 11 01 m Echo Strength 0 dB Tx Power Rx Gain
70. amplitude of the simulated echo return 4 7 4 Recorder Setup The EchoControlClient application supports real time printing of the echogram data to various thermal recorder models The thermal recorders typically connect to the client PC via the parallel port or the USB interface The Recorder Setup mode provides access to the parameter specifically for customizing the hardcopy printing These controls are completely independent of the various display mode settings 1e The display could be showing four channels stacked whereas the thermal printout could have them overlayed together Thermal Recorder 3 Recorder No Recorder Status Disabled Contrast 0 Graph Mode Overlayed Font Size Small Overlays Figure 4 9 Thermal Recorder Setup Dialog 4 7 4 1 Recorder There are a number of thermal recorder models supported by the client application There are as follows EPC Labs 9800 GSP1086 and HSP 100 models ODEC s TDU 850 iSys V8 5e and V12 GeoAcoustics GeoPrinter 9315 as well as KEL s own USB printer 4 7 4 2 Status Enabled Disabled The hardcopy printing on the thermal printer can be disabled or enabled as desired using the Status toggle This control allows the recording to be disabled without having to change the actual thermal recorder selection itself 4 7 4 3 Contrast This contrast control allows the user to increase decrease the contrast of the printed echogram dat
71. annel 1 HF Channel 2 Cancel Lox Cancel ll There are various data logging output formats available ranging from a configurable user defined format to industry standard protocols The standard formats have predefined field assignments that cannot be adapted by the user The user configurable format can be customized within certain limitations to the user s desired configuration The Select Format dialog shown above displays to appropriate controls for the output format selected The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 28 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 18 4 5 3 2 1 Configurable Data Format Header Fields Sensor Data Fields User Defined Preamble String Speed of Sound lini V Heave Roll Angle Pitch Angle Heading Angle KEL Proprietary Header String Record Number Fix Indicator Date Heave Sensor Timetag Heave Sensor Quality HW T Time hhmmss E Position Lat Long or Working Units z oom Channel Specific Fields Boat Speed ALL Fish Depth Depth Valid Flag Draft Clear All Signal Type Envelope Detect Opt Transmit Power Analog RX Gain Pulse Length TX Blank 7
72. annel Parameters Module Serial Number yynnnn LONG 4 OOE8h K2K yy nnnn WORD 2 Channel Usage Code 0 undefined 1 bathymetry 2 sidescan port 3 sidescan starboard Position Format Lat Long or 0 undefined format WORD X Y 1 Latitude Longitude 2 X Y Latitude expressed in degrees data dependent double or Y from Hypack or GPS Longitude expressed in data dependent double degrees or X from Hypack or GPS PosTimeTagSeconds Seconds since midnight Jan 1 1970 DWORD PosTimeTagMillieconds Millisecond portion of timetag DWORD Boat Speed from Hypack or tbd float GPS 1 amplitude detection Echogram Data Type Code 6 Envelope detected Data WORD 2 0102h more code options tbd Sample Rate Hz float 4 0104h Nominal Frequency 3500 to 210000 Hz float 4 OOEEh Bandwidth Hz float 4 00F2h ESI m 4 OOF 6h Stop Frequency Hz float 4 OOFAh Waveform Type Code 0 CW WORD 2 OOFEh 1 Chirp Envelope Detection Code 0 square law detection WORD 2 0100h The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific ose intended is expressly prohibited unless to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05498 Rev1 0 October 2 2012 6 of 9 FIELD DESCRIPTION Sample Data Type Code Number of Data Samples Data Truncated Flag Windowing Filter Decimation Windowing Filter Signal Win
73. ar Bar 5 Bar Meter Bar m 6 Newton N 7 Kilograms kg 232 239 Optional Data unassigned D101 03021 Rev2 2 KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 11 of 11 Note 1 The Echo Control application names SEG Y files as follows Hxxx_hhmm sgy where the initial letter H or L identifies the echosounder high or low frequency channel the following 3 digits identifies the survey line assigned with the Record Start Line dialog and the last four digits define the time the file was created A future release will support a more flexible file naming scheme but it should not be expected any time soon Note 2 A new file is created whenever any of the Main Header parameter values such as sample interval or number of samples per trace become invalid This typically occurs when echosounder range phase or pulse length is changed or whenever bottom track is lost while in autophase mode Note 3 Sample interval in microseconds The specified units for this parameter do not provide adequate resolution The KEL DataRate parameter in the Unassigned Bytes section of the Trace Header should be used instead Note 4 Data is recorded in Big Endian form most significant byte first Note that the actual content of the recorded data is determined by the echosounder s embedded software Compilation options individually defined for high and low frequency channels are used to specify one of three different formats for the SEG Y data 1 raw as digitized
74. ardless of the connection option selected once the user clicks on Connect the client application will attempt to establish communications with the server If this communications connection is unsuccessful then the client application will display an error message indicating the failure After the user acknowledges the error condition the Server Connection dialog will reappear to allow the user to adjust the settings or retry the original selections after verifying that the host PC has the server running Once successful communication is established with the server the EchoControlClient enables its main window and the control options applicable to the particular system or usage configuration Ifthere are no channels available for operation most control options will be disabled The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 12 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 2 3 2 Startup Options r Startup Options Select Transducer nominal freq 15 0kHz Y Bandwidth 10 0 kHz Center Freq 14 1 kHz Maximum Acquisition Depth 50 Y Working Units Metres Y Click OK to accept changes Click Cancel to restore last settings used E Cancel Figure 3 0 Startup Op
75. as except hhmmss and milliseconds and terminated only at the very end by lt CR gt lt LF gt As various fields are selected or deselected the Example String at the bottom of the dialog box changes to illustrate the expected output format Some fields can only be selected if other fields are also selected and will be inactive greyed out if the required field is not selected For example the Position Latency field is an active option only if the Position field is selected The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 11 of 16 4 4 SounderSuite EchoControlServer The format configuration selected is stored in the application s registry keys and restored the next time the program is invoked 4 3 4 5 SEG Y File Format not implemented at this time The SEG Y output file format has been defined to meet as accurately as possible the RevO format specifications defined by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists See the KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION document D101 03021 for complete formatting details 4 3 4 6 SEG Y Extended Data Fields not implemented at this time The original SEG Y specification does not account for many useful data fields If the user selects the
76. ation for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 9 of 17 2 7 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader Once the user has selected and accepted a module to update the File Open dialog appears allowing the user to navigate to the folder where the necessary configuration file typically an ese file is located 4 Open Lx J QO E Documents X 4 Search p By Organize y geg Views p New Folder Favorite Links Name Date modified Type Size Tags My Pictures K2K070430 ese BE Desktop ji Computer E Documents More Folders se IE Contacts A n Desktop E Documents File name K2K070430 ese w The user selects the desired configuration file and clicks on Open to load it This causes an Update Module ID dialog to appear Normally the ese file is specific to a particular DSP module and they are matched using the module s Serial This dialog allows the user to verify he is actually modifying the DSP module that is realy required and that it enables the features he is expecting for his system Some features are unit type specific some are special order items The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly pr
77. be required The Print Test Block check box allows the user to tell the application to send some test data to the selected thermal recorder to confirm it is interfaced properly The test block consists of greyscale ramps with samples of imbedded grid and fix annotation text The recorder selection and port address settings are stored in the application s registry keys and restored the next time the program is invoked The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 10 of 23 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 3 6 3 10 2 Send Data KEB Print Options LEX Print Range All C Record Numbers El mr sj C Fix Numbers 1 2 Frequency Contrast Select channel to print SIN 70886 3 5kH F gt Colour Mode Greyscale Colour Large Text OK Cancel The Send Data menu option is used to print the entire file or selected portions for the currently active file This option is not available if a data file is not already opened When this item is selected it first causes a dialog box to pop up that allows the user to select the presentational parameters desired If the OK box is clicked the application then brings up a status display di
78. c numbering option will help to prevent duplicate filenames From Hypack is only useful if the supporting Hypack DLL is being used to transfer data file and line info from Hypack Inc s Hypack Survey application This not implemented at this time in the EchoControl Server 4 3 2 Automatic Numbering This mode is enabled by default when the User Entry filenaming mode is active Basically when this mode is active the filename is automatically appended with a number that starts at the value entered in the Start value box and automatically increments every time one recording file is closed and a new one started Enabling this mode helps to prevent recording problems that occur when a file already exists with a particular file name 4 3 3 Storage Folder To modify the Storage Folder selection the user simply double clicks on the to back up from the current directory or double clicks on the new directory or drive name desired The currently selected folder is displayed in the text line above the selection box 4 3 4 File Formats To Be Recorded There are four possible output file formats Binary SEG Y ASCII and XTF The SEG Y format is only available for 3200 series systems using 32 bit processing modules The XTF and the KEL proprietary formats KEB and KEA are always available Any combination of available formats can be recorded simultaneously 4 3 4 1 Binary File Format KEB The envelope data for each channel can be recorded in a
79. c purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 4 of 51 LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2 0 Interconnection Block Diagram 1 0 ehh rr 2 2 Figure 2 1 Main Application Window 0 0 0 ccc tence eect e re 2 3 Figure 3 0 Startup Options Dialog 2 0 eR e e 3 2 Figure 4 0 Application Toolbar l eese eee he mete yh ehh sahen 3 6 Figure 4 1 Depth Channel Dialog showing collapsed and expanded modes 0000 e cece ee eee eens 3 8 Figure 4 2 Setup Sub Menu sise iaar kosia ee tec e ie pog RU ened Oa p od gr acd ao e Pere Rin oda doas 3 10 Figure 4 5 UDP Message Format Dialog 0 0 cence e 3 21 Figure 4 9 Thermal Recorder Setup Dialog 0 0 ccc cette e 4 3 Figure 4 10 Overlay Selections Dialog 2 0 nee 9 I rra 4 4 Figure 4 11 Ping Chart Dialog 2 0 er haha 4 5 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 5 of 51 1 1 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 About this manual This manual describes the client side Windows application Part D409 OXXXX EchoControlClient exe It is used to con
80. cation does not account for many useful data fields If the user selects the option to include the extended data fields numerous operation controls are recorded in the unassigned bytes at the end of the Rev0 Trace header Some SEG Y readers do not recognize files that contain data in these bytes so it is advisable to verify the requirements for the desired reader application before selecting this option See the KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION document D101 03021 for complete formatting details 4 5 1 7 2 Limit File Size 25MB When data is recorded over a long period of time the resultant SEG Y files using the standard 20000 ping limitation can become so large some readers encounter difficulties reading them for playback and processing To protect against this type of issue the user can select the Limit File Size option to keep the files at a size usable by most SEG Y readers 4 5 1 8 XTF File Format The XTF output file format is a specialized format used to record Sidescan and Bathymetry data The format has been defined to be compatible with the standard as defined by Caris See the KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION document D101 03322 for complete formatting details 4 5 1 8 1 Limit File Size 25MB When data is recorded over a long period of time the resultant XTF files using the standard 20000 ping limitation can become so large some readers encounter difficulties reading them for playback and processing To protect against this type o
81. ce settings the user simply clicks the Format box beside the desired COM port entry This will bring up a dialog that provides access to the key settings required for configuring the port to accept data from the desired device 4 5 3 1 Settings G Setup COM6 Baud Rate 19200 Parity None Data Stop bits Sdata 1stop Transmission rate 1 per second Cancel 1 4 5 3 1 1 Baud Rate The baud rate can be adjusted to any one of the following options 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 and 38400 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 27 of 51 3 17 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 5 3 1 2 Parity All three options are available for parity None Even or Odd 4 5 3 1 3 Data Stop bits There are two combinations of data and stop bits currently supported 8 data 1 stop or 7 data 2 stop 4 5 3 1 4 Transmission Rate Available transmission rates are At ping rate 5 per second 4 per second 2 per second per second every 2 seconds every 5 seconds and every 10 seconds 4 5 3 2 Format r COME Select Format COME Select Format CONFIGURABLE Format HYDRO DIGITRACE dm Channel 1 LF Ch
82. cord is more pronounced at the high print contrast levels many users prefer and with longer pulse lengths Two points are worth noting First the fact that the digitizer threshold is set at the 50 point rather than at some lower but still visible on the echogram value does not mean that the echosounder has a built in error equal to half the rise time of the echo or a quarter of the pulse length In fact the echosounder software accounts for this very precisely Second the point at which the echo becomes visible on the echogram is highly dependent on the print contrast mode which is used see the user manual for an explanation of these modes With most print contrast modes particularly including manual contrast the relationship between the greyscale echogram and the digitized depth is subject to interpretation In summary the digitized depth is most likely correct even if the printed record appears to be slightly shallower This should only be a matter for concern if the depth discrepancy is much greater than about a quarter of a pulse length The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 02251 Rev4 1 July 6 2009 Page 9 of 9
83. data for that channel is isolated in both the full chart and zoom chart displays Only one Depth Channel dialog can be displayed at one time The functions accessible from this box are the most commonly used parameters during a sounding session The initial values for these controls are read from the server application The dialog is initially shown in its collapsed form see figure 4 1 Clicking the button expands the dialog to show all the available controls The Analog Gain display box also acts as a toggle to switch Automatic Gain Control off and on The TVG Mode box also acts as a switch to cycle through the available TVG modes The additional display boxes are also quick buttons to access control dialogs for adjusting the values of their respective parameters Some controls also have adjustment arrows used to quickly increment decrement the available values The adjustment arrows affect the controls instantly whereas the control dialog requires the user to accept the value before the sounder can utilize it The Reset button returns all parameters for the channel in question to factory defined defaults The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 17 of 51 3 7 SounderSuite SB
84. dialog allows the user to navigate to the folder where the necessary firmware file typically a bin file is located The user then selects the desired firmware file and clicks the Open button to load tt The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 5 of 17 2 3 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader 1 Open vorite Links Desktop Computer Documents More Folders do 2004 Je 2005 2006 js 2007 2008 2009 By O ze v am Views v Jrgan ze pee VIEWS Name Date modified eee Se arse K2K09007 bin 1 K2K09008 bin K2K09009 bin K2K09010 bin K2K09012 bin K2K09013 bin K2K09014 bin 1K2K09020 bin K2K09021 bin K2K09022 bin K2K09023 bin K2K09024 hin bin y New Folder gO d TagFileLibrary 2009 v 4 Search Type E This starts the upgrade process by transferring the firmware to the DSP module It then does a checksum test to ensure the data transferred to the module was received correctly Verifying the data checksum in module If not a warning message appears indicating the checksum failure and the upgrade is aborted Status o ERROR module checksum cccc does
85. dowing Filter Analytic Windowing Filter Transmit Transmit power level code Pulse length ms Transmit Scale Transmit Modulation Gain Mode Gain Value dB Processing Shift TVG Mode Code TVG Referenced Depth used for Bottom Ref d TVG only TxBlank expressed in working units DATA FORMAT RANGE 0 8 bit unsigned 1 16 bit unsigned 16 bit signed 3 32 bit signed 4 32 bit float currently fixed at 1600 0 no truncation 1 data truncated 0 Rectangular 1 Hamming 2 Cosine 0 Rectangular 1 Hamming 2 Cosine 0 Rectangular 1 Hamming 2 Cosine 0 Rectangular 1 Hamming 2 Cosine 1 to 4 0 manual 1 Auto AGC 0 to 96 0 to 13 0 None 1 5logR 2 10logR 3 15logR 4 20logR 5 30logR 6 40log R 7 Bottom Ref d 0 to 300 0 m 0 to 984 3 ft 0 to 164 0 fm Data Type Type BYTE CM OFFSET WORD 0108h DWORD 010Ah WORD 2 010Eh WORD 2 0110h WORD 2 0112h WORD 2 0114h WORD 2 0116h float WORD 2 0122h WORD 2 0124h float 4 one WORD 2 012Ah WORD 012Ch float 4 012Eh D101 05498 Rev1 0 October 2 2012 7 of 9 FIELD DESCRIPTION DATA FORMAT RANGE Data Type BYTE BYTE COUNT OFFSET Draft expressed in working 0 to 100 00 m float 4 0136h units 0 to 328 08 ft 0 to 54 68 fm Keel Offset 0 to 100 0 float 4 013Ah Start depth expressed in 0 0 to 10000 0 float 4 013Eh working units End depth expressed in workin
86. e use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 11 of 16 4 7 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades channel module detected in the sounder The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 12 of 16 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades 4 8 4 2 2 Advanced Installation Found New Hardware Wizard This wizard helps you install software for KEL Sounder Module If your hardware came with an installation CD 42 or floppy disk insert it now What do you want the wizard to do O Install the software automatically Recommended 3 Install from a list or specific location Advanced Click Next to continue Sometimes the driver file loading performed by the installer application is not successful in indicating to the Windows operating system where the driver files are actually located In this instance the user may need to perform an Advanced driver installation instead of the Recommended Found New Hardware Wizard Please choose your search and installat
87. e Errors Modern echosounders use extremely precise quartz crystal timebase control so in theory calibration error in the scale parameter sound speed is effectively zero and can safely be disregarded In practice the theoretically achievable accuracy can be compromised by errors in the digital processing of timebase parameters mostly as a result of fixed point arithmetic or truncation errors However this is a software issue and is easily resolved with good programming practice and floating point arithmetic as used in the KEL Echosounders Note that the scale parameter calibration error referred to here is the accuracy of the correction applied to the depth value by the echosounder to compensate for the speed of sound value entered by the user either in the course of a bar check or from a sound velocimeter The depth accuracy still depends ultimately on the accuracy of the sound velocity value provided by the user In practice errors in the sound velocity value account for virtually all of the scale effects on the accuracy of the depth measurement 2 4 Offset Errors Errors in the offset draft parameter result of all of the small time delays built into the signal paths in the echosounder Because of the very wide bandwidth of the Sounder 1600 and Chirp 3200 analog front ends the error resulting from analog group delay is negligible group delay is inversely proportional to bandwidth The same can not be said for the group delay through the d
88. e USB PostSurvey 8 1 8 Help 8 1 About PostSurvey r About PostSurvey Eg SounderSuite PostSurvey Data Playback and Printing Part D409 03171 2 41 Copyright 2001 2009 The About PostSurvey menu item brings up a simple dialog box stating the name of the PC software program the KEL part number for the program and the latest revision number 8 2 Tech Support Tech Support For Tech Support contact Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Rd Voice 613 267 1165 Perth Ont Canada Fax 613 267 7085 K7H 3P2 ww w knudsenengineering com mailto support knudsenengineering com Detected OS Info Microsoft Windows Vista 6 0 6002 Service Pack 2 This option brings up a simple dialog box that provides contact information for technical support It also provides information about the type of Windows operating system the program has detected The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 23 of 23 SounderSuite USB Firmware Loader Supports Software D409 04363 D101 04382 Revision 2 0 July 6 2009 BN WE Y Ww NE uu uum Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road
89. e corrective actions if possible 4 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 2 13 System Recording Hide Window ClearLog Help D zc dix mE Client DONNA connected New Connection total 1 OS Vista Figure 3 0 Main Application Window If the user wishes to access the server application window once it has been minimized they can do so through the icon on the taskbar A double click with the left mouse button will Restore the main application window A single click with the right mouse button brings up small menu of options including Restore About EchoControlServer and Close When the main window is restored it pops up with five control groups offered on the main menu bar and a blank display area used for status The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 6 of 16 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 2 4 messages regarding client server interconnections and peripheral input strings 2 3 Taskbar Restore As the name implies the Restore option on the taskbar icon menu is used to restore the main application window to the desktop 2 4 Taskbar About EchoControlServer This option brings up the About EchoControlServer dialog box See Section 7 3 2 5 Taskba
90. e intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 45 of 51 4 8 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 7 10 Display Recording Controls EchoControlClient Me x WARNING This action will reset all display recording and printing selections back to defaults Proceed When the user selects the option to reset the Application display and recording controls the client application will prompt the user for confirmation to proceed with the action This prevents accidental modification of the settings when 1t may not be desired 4 7 11 EchoSounder Controls p EchoControlClient ES o WARNING This action will reset all settings back to defaults Proceed When the user selects the option to reset the Echosounder controls the client application will prompt the user for confirmation to proceed with the action This prevents accidental modification of the settings when it may not be desired 4 7 12 Preferences The Preferences menu selection brings up the Preferences dialog Selecting the Continue sounder transmission after shutdown option allows pinging to continue after EchoControl Client has been shut down 6 Preferences A Continue sounder transmission after shutdown oK Cancel The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Enginee
91. e operation may be compromised ER If the operation has completed successfully the progress dialog will terminate with a message indicating the successful completion Status SUCCESS Firmware upgrade process completed successfully N B At this time the new firmware is programmed into the DSP module but it is not actually running yet The sounder will need to be power cycled for the new firmware to become active 2 4 Help The Help menu provides access to system configuration information that is most useful when contacting the factory for technical assistance There are no other help features implemented at this time 2 4 1 Sounder Info This option pops up the Module Summary dialog box used for summarizing the channel modules detected by the server The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 15 of 17 2 13 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader Module Summary K2K 07 0430 k2k 06 0164 K2K 06 0166 K2K 07 0426 Module Identification Serial K2K 07 0430 Board Type Single Channel 16 bit Firmware Part D409 04195 Version 2 06 The Module Summary dialog provides information regarding the hardware channe
92. e the data for only a single channel out of a data set If a data set has more than one channel the user will be prompted for the channel selection before the Save As dialog appears The Save As dialog is displayed to allow for the selection of a name and location for the new image file 3 5 Save Portion This command allows the user to select a portion of the currently active document to be saved to a new KEB file in the latest recording format Once this command has been selected the user will be prompted with a Save dialog box to allow them to choose a name and location for the new file The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 6 of 23 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 3 2 3 6 ASCII Dump X Data Forma Header Fields Sensor Data Fields User Defined Preamble String Speed of Sound V Heave Roll Angle KEL Proprietary Header String E 7 Record Number Pitch Angle Fix Indicator Heading Angle Date Heave Sensor Timetag m Heave Sensor Quality Time milliseconds Bladi vedete Padi Position Lat Long or X Y Position Timetag m Channel Specific Fields Boat Speed ALL Fish Depth Channel Frequency Y Dig
93. eed directly and enter the values into the echosounder In this latter case the user is trusting that the echosounder manufacturer has calibrated the unit correctly particularly the draft at the factory This report discusses the technical aspects of echosounder calibration and accuracy 2 2 Repeatability 2 2 1 Background As already mentioned ping to ping repeatability of the measured depth value is a fundamental limitation to echosounder accuracy It is important to realize that the typical variability in the echo time of arrival measurement is much smaller than the total duration of the echo The problem is not so much to locate the echo but to locate the precise point in the echo time after time which represents the calibrated depth value Repeatability of the depth measurement therefore hinges on repeatability of the echo itself at the transducer and also on the repeatability of the process by which the depth determination is made within the echosounder 2 2 2 Amplitude Effects The depth determination invariably involves measurement of the precise instant at which the echo amplitude exceeds some threshold For this to produce repeatable results the echo amplitude has to be repeatable in relation to the threshold Obviously echo amplitude varies widely depending on transmitted power water depth bottom reflectivity and receiver gain and so amplitude normalization is a basic requirement of precision echosounding Traditionally amplitude no
94. enengineering com WebSite http knudsenengineering com The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 4 of 23 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 2 1 2 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS 2 1 Description SounderSuite PostSurvey 2 41 0001 2008 043 1709 000 keb jus View Settings Window Channel Help a E NR He i8 Tore El P copy pim MER Qro CHANNEL 0001 2008 043 1709 000 keb S N 70886 3 5kHz 47 97043N 1289 36 5 LF 4236m 7 10 12 515 T 00002 1 S N 70886 3 5kHz OS Vista The PostSurvey software is a multiple document interface Windows program design that provides the capability for data playback and printing of multiple KEL Echosounder KEB XTF and SEG Y data files on the PC When the program is invoked it creates a window with three control groups offered on the main menu bar with limited functionality a blank display area for greyscale or colour presentation of the echogram playback Once a properly formatted KEB DO D1 D2 or D3 format XTF or SEG Y data file has been opened an additional control group is added to the main menu bar and many more options are added to the original control groups The information contained in thi
95. ent r Advanced Options Ch1 200 0kHz Ch2 14 1kHz System Settings Signal Generation Filter Windowing Waveform Decimation Rectangular Center Freq Bandwidth Main Signal Rectangular Frequency 200 000 kHz Analytic Rectangular Bandwidth 10 000 kHz Lowpass Rectangular Transmit Rectangular Stop Start Frequencies Start Freq 195 062 kHz Stop Freq 205 062 kHz Envelope Detect Amplitude Echogram Type Detected Channel Enabled Draft 0 00 Reset Figure 4 6 Advanced Options Dialog Signal Controls Page 4 6 1 Signal Controls Page The Pinger echosounders are frequency agile systems The Advanced Options dialog Signal Controls see figure 4 6 page provides the user the ability to override the default channel assignments with alternate selections It is assumed that if a user is making modifications at this point that they have a detailed understanding of the physical configuration within the echosounder Improper configuration of the hardware could result in poor system performance This is not a recommended section for inexperienced users Please contact the appropriate technical support if the sounder is not properly configured for the operational requirements 4 6 1 1 Waveform Selects whether the signal generation and signal processing use CW or tone signals and passband filters or if it uses Chirp pulse generation and correlation processing 4 6 1 2 Frequency Thi
96. erOtForvardLookAnays Won O NumberOFEchoSiengthChamels WORD O Reservedl Reserved wor Reserveda wob JO od RA fp Proj coucnl ypel 12 E eve oo NavigationLateney mg o 4 Fete e I OriginX iof Pg CN CA o AT Dore A NavOffsetYaw MU a Muone feo o o Iwuomaz mau o o OffsetYaw womb dm 0 O DE wmtomemar nw 9 Ci ANT CAT CHAMNFO secmmeiodeeipin 76 NINITN t2 to to to rto D101 03322 Rev22 KEL XTF FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 4 of 8 XTFPINGHEADER structure Packets must be padded to a multiple of 64 bytes Triton equation is size size 63 64 64 The data here can change from ping to ping but will pertain to all channels that are at the same time as this ping Field Name Format KEL Data Usage bytes MagicNumber OxFACE hex HeaderType BYTE XTF_HEADER_SONAR 0 NumChansToFollow WORD 2 inactive channel filled with NULLs 2 4 NumBytesThisRecord 1 channel 256 64 3200 3520 2 channels 256 2 64 3200 6784 where sizeof XTFPINGHEADER 256 sizeof XTFPINGCHANHEADER 64 2 PING SIZE 3200 Date and time of the ping WORD Computer date when this record was saved BYTE Computer date when this record was saved BYTE Computer date when this
97. erSuite FirmwareLoader 2 3 3 Load Printer Firmware The Load Printer Firmware command is used to start the firmware upgrade of a Printer module If there are no Printer modules detected then this menu item will be disabled When the user selects this option a File Open dialog appears allowing the user to navigate to the folder where the necessary firmware file typically a bin file is located The user selects the desired firmware file and clicks on Open to load it r K Open Li 04268 Revl03 409 v 55 Search p By Organize y e Name gt Date modified Type _ Print5509a bin 26 09 2008 4 54 PM BIN File BE New Folder BH Desktop ji Computer E Documents More Folders de 04264 J 04268 Le Revi o Li Rev1 01 J Rev1 02 Le Rev1 03 Lo n426a0 File name 137 This starts the upgrade process by transferring the firmware to the DSP module a Status Switching to firmware loading mode OK It then does a checksum test to ensure the data was transferred to the module correctly The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 12 of 17 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader 2 10 Status Ver
98. f 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 4 13 4 11 Status Bar Application parameters EchoControlClient REC OFF GPS unavailable No Recorder 13 54 11 Jun 2009 05 Win XP This control allows the user to enable and disable the applications status bar The status bar is located at the bottom of the applications window The status bar provides helpful messages that describe menu controls and other useful items These messages include from left to right if applicable Menu help tips Pinger distance measurement Chirp 3200 scientific systems only Recording Status REC off for none B for KEB A for KEA S for SEG Y and X for XTF GPS position data if GPS is connected and pinging is active Thermal recorder selection PC time and date Version of operating system detected The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 51 of 51 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey Supports Software D409 03171 V2 xx D101 03175 Revision 4 0 July 6 2009 BN WE Y Ww NE uu uum Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario Canada CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 46 ales fai e ob EE erts E assai A eu mte AO Irc Dra R teste he Db un LO 1 1 1 1 About
99. f issue the user can select the Limit File Size option to keep the files at a size usable by most XTF readers 4 5 2 Configure Peripherals While the peripheral devices connect to the server application on the host PC the setup controls for these devices have been incorporated into the client application The dialog that appears when this menu option is selected is a list of detected com ports on the server and their current status If hosting a peripheral device configuration information is displayed for that port The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 24 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 14 A Peripheral Devices l 2 coma 19200 None 8 data 1 stop NMEA SGPGGA Settings Format come in use for data logging etting Format At present it simply assumes there may be as many as eight serial ports available on the host PC and it lists any device and communications settings currently in use It is up to the user to know what serial ports are available on the host PC and where the particular peripherals of interest are connected To add or modify any of the device settings the user simply clicks the Edit box beside the desired COM por
100. formance and operation These controls are normally preserved by the server application in order to retain the same settings regardless of which client PC is used to interface the next time the system 1s started The server stores the necessary parameters in the registry of the host PC Examples of Echosounder parameters are Transmit Pulse Length and Maximum Acquisition Depth The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 9 of 51 2 4 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient Application parameters The EchoControlClient application has a number of controls that affect the presentation and recording of the data received from the echosounder These controls have no effect on the performance of the echosounder just the behaviour of the EchoControlClient application itself Most of these controls are preserved in the Windows registry when the application shuts down Examples of Application parameters are Contrast and Zoom Window Size Throughout the following descriptions is a notation indicating if the control parameters being discussed are Echosounder parameters or Application parameters 2 4 Types of Controls The majority of the dialogs that are accessed via the menus serve as bot
101. g 10 0 to 12000 0 float 4 0142h units Computed Heave expressed in float 4 0146h working units Digitized Depth expressed in 0 00 to 12000 0 float 4 014Ah working units Echo Strength expressed in 128 to 0 float 4 014Eh decibels Depth Validity Flag 0 good WORD 2 0152h 1 bad Reserved Bytes NULL BYTE 40 0154h Byte Count Section Total 148 CER Channel Signal Data Signal Data 0 to 32767 variable 017Ch Byte Count Section Total 3200 Event Mark Condition follows after all channel sections CED EE Event Mark Code 0 to 6 WORD 2 ODFCh Number of Event Mark Data 0 to 130 WORD 2 ODFEh Bytes Event Mark Number 0 to 65536 WORD 2 OEO00h Event Mark Annotation String data dependent char variable 0E02h max 145 Byte Count Section Total 151 Byte Count Structure Total 1 channel 3731 0E93h e Count Structure Total 4 channels 13775 35CFh Although the channel data definition allows for variable number of data samples currently the number is fixed to 1600 words 3200 bytes which is the value used to determine byte count totals and data offsets The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific ose intended is expressly prohibited unless to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05498 Rev1 0 October 2 2012 8 of 9 1 5 Event Mark Code Definitio
102. g on Accept will apply the change permanently clicking Cancel will abort the change and restore the value initially in use Scroll bar adjustment Some parameters can have a continuous range of valid values The scroll bar control allows the user to quickly adjust the parameter within a large range of values Clicking the arrows will increase decrease the parameter with the smallest allowable increment decrement Clicking and dragging the slider tab adjusts the parameter value very quickly but usually the arrows need to be used to fine tune the setting Clicking on the bar between the tab and the end arrows allows the parameter to be adjusted in larger steps The size of the steps depends on the range of values and the minimum allowable increment decrement already assigned As with the drop down list if keeping the new selection is desired clicking on Accept will apply the change permanently clicking Cancel will abort the change and restore the initial value Digital Gain power of 2 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 10 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 2 5 Key Pad Draft y prs Cir 150 MEB E
103. ghest to lowest and if there are duplicate frequencies by serial number lowest to highest The Channel Mapping Assignments dialog provides a listing of this assignment list determined by the server The user can determine what physical modules were actually detected by clicking the Module Summary button 4 8 1 Module Summary Module Summary m K2K 07 0430 K2K 06 0164 K2K 06 0166 K2K 07 0426 Module Identification Serials K2K 07 0430 Board Type Single Channel 16 bit Firmware Parts D409 04195 Version 2 07 The Module Summary dialog simply provides information regarding the hardware channels detected in the sounder by the server application For each hardware module it reports the programmed serial number the module s type and its available channels plus the firmware part number and version This is a useful reference for verifying the hardware status in the sounder The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 48 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 4 11 4 9 Tech Support r Tech Support For Tech Support contact Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Rd Voice 613 267 1165 Perth Ont Canada
104. gineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 13 of 16 6 1 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 6 MAIN MENU Clear Log The main window of the EchoControl Server is used to display various feedback messages to the user These can include information about what clients have been connected or disconnected as well as the strings received from peripheral devices If the information is getting too confusing the user can clear the log and start with a fresh display The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 14 of 16 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 7 1 7 MAIN MENU Help The Help menu provides access to system configuration information that is most useful when contacting the factory for technical assistance There are no other help features implemented at this time 7 1 Sounder Info This option pops up the Channel Mapping Assignments dialog box that summarizes assigned usage of the channel modules detected by the server Channel Mapping Assignments Ch 2 K2K 06 0166 Chirp 200 0kHz BW 10 0kHz Bathymetry K2K 07 0100 Ch2 Ch 3 K2K 07 0426 CW tone 200 0kHz BW 10 0kHz Bathymetry K2K 07 0100 Ch1 Ch 4 K2K 07 0430 CW tone 28 0kHz BW 6 0kHz Bathymetry
105. gitize the echogram analog gain mode and TVG mode The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 13 of 23 4 3 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey in use for the ping record 4 4 Depth Chart 0001_2008_043_1709_000 keb S N 70886 3 5kHz Depth Chart A t E a a ET oO T oO kHz Channel Echo Tx Rx Proc Tx Record Depth Strength ign og Draft Blank 00217 3433m 0dB 0 00 m 10 00 m gt b red EA E m E reat a Pause This option allows the user to view the digitized depth value for the entire data set in a simple line chart display At the bottom of this chart are located many VCR like controls which allow the user various options for viewing the Digitized depth of the data set Just under the display section of the graph is a parameter data section which displays the configuration parameters for the right most ping if playing forward through the file or the left most ping if playing backwards through the file In order to close a particular chart you simply select the button that corresponds to the open chart along the Control Bar on the left side of the screen 4 5 Ping Chart 0001 2008 043 1709 000keb S N 70886
106. h status displays and control access The control status is displayed in the text of a button control Unless the button control is for a simple state toggle parameter clicking on the button will bring up one of three possible control dialogs dependent on the control type For button controls that are simple toggle parameters clicking the button instantly toggles the state of the parameter 1e on off control will immediately toggle between the on state and the off state While the control dialogs that get activated are modal boxes meaning they have to be closed before you can access other controls they do apply new settings in real time This allows the user the opportunity to try the effect of a parameter change but allows the change to be cancelled if not desirable As mentioned there are three possible control styles that are used for adjusting parameter values These are the drop down list control dialog the scroll bar control dialog and the keypad control dialog Drop down list Tx Pulse Length 3 For parameters with a finite list of possible options such as pulse length or transmit power the drop down list control will appear The control will show the currently active value The user can change the value by clickin p E Accept on the down inis beside the current selection which drops pud the lis of available options and then by clicking on the new selection in the list Cancel If keep the new selection 1s desired clickin
107. hat easy A signal pulse has a bandwidth approximately equal to the inverse of its duration thus a one millisecond pulse needs a receive filter with a bandwidth of at least 1 KHz or it will be attenuated along with the out of band noise The shortest pulses need the widest bandwidth and achieve poorest noise rejection while the longest pulses can use the narrowest filters with the best noise rejection On the other hand the short pulses produce better range resolution which permits more accurate depth measurement and shows more detail on the bottom Generally short pulses are used in shallow water where resolution is important and where echoes are strong while long pulses are used in deep water where echoes are weaker and the noise rejection capability of narrowband filtering is more important The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 02251 Rev4 1 July 6 2009 Page 3 of 9 1 2 Technical Note Echosounder Concepts 1 5 Sound Speed Because the 1600 series and 3200 series Echosounders are digital systems with a quartz crystal timebase they do not require internal recalibration due to aging or temperature and can measure the return time of the echo with a great deal of accuracy The ultimate accurac
108. he application can handle up to 200 files in one batch session Multiple input file formats can be supported the application will run a detection algorithm on each file prior to starting the conversion on that particular input file e Select Destination The next item in the dialog is the destination location The user can simply type in a path and file name root or click the button on the right of the text entry to pull up a Save As dialog By default the filename is preloaded with lt UseNameRoot gt This is required for doing batch jobs to make the application use the source file s name to construct the name for the new converted file For single file conversions the user can enter any name root they prefer The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04968 Rev1 1 December 22 2010 Page 4 of 5 SounderSuite Conversion Utility 2 2 e Select Format The final item that needs to be set before the conversion operation can be run is to select the file type to be created by the conversion action The available options for file types are SEG Y Rev0 See D101 03021 KEL SEGY Format Usage Definition for details SEG Y KEL Extended XTF See D101 03322 KEL XTF Format Usage Definition for details KEA K
109. he echosounder itself and various Windows compatible support applications which run on the host PC 2 1 1 Firmware The term firmware refers to the software which resides in nonvolatile memory within the Echosounder modules Upgrades and revisions are distributed periodically as bin files which can be re programmed into the echosounder module in the field by the user 2 1 2 Windows Support Applications There are various Windows applications provided with the USB Echosounders for different support purposes All the programs are Windows compatible and are installed with a standard Setup exe process 2 1 2 1 EchoControl Server EchoControlServer exe This program is an independent Windows application that interfaces to the Echosounder via a USB interface The USB interface must be connected and functioning for this application to be usable It provides the interconnection between the echosounder hardware on the host PC to the client application on the same PC or another one on the same network It also provides the interfaces for the peripheral device inputs This application must be active on the host PC for the client application to communicate properly with the echosounder hardware 2 1 2 2 EchoControl Client EchoControlClient exe This program is an independent Windows application that interfaces to the server application via TCP IP network communications The server application must be running and successfully connected to the sounder
110. heave value e Correction Offset offsets the Heave Corrected Depth plot by a specified number of working units to make the data more readable e Uncorrected Depth plots the detected depth value uncorrected by heave e Tracking Gate Limits plots the upper and lower Tracking Gate Limits as lines parallel to the plotted depth e Tx Blanking Limits plots the Tx Blanking value above which the bottom detection algorithm does not search echogram data is still displayed above this line e Tx Blanking blanks any echogram data above the Tx Blanking value Overlay Selections Heave Indicator Heave Corrected Depth Correction Offset 5m 4 gt 7 Uncorrected Depth Tracking Gate Limits Tx Blanking Limits Tx Blanking oa Figure 4 10 Overlay Selections Dialog The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 41 of 51 4 4 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 7 5 Oscilloscope This menu option brings up the Ping Chart dialog the main feature of which is an oscilloscope to view echogram data figure 4 11 c D ma 0 Q M 5 ul 20480 0 4 b Time ms Figure 4
111. ial interpolation and floating point arithmetic The end result of this process is to decouple the depth measurement from both amplitude variations and sample rate limitations 2 2 3 Bottom Type Different bottom types can affect not only the amplitude of the return echo but also its shape A very smooth flat bottom provides an almost specular reflection with a well defined leading edge and very little off axis return A rough bottom on the other hand returns a considerable amount of off axis scattering which tends to elongate the pulse and shift the point of peak amplitude downward Generally speaking bottom type effects are more difficult to compensate in the design of the echosounder than the simple amplitude effects mentioned above The template matching correlation scheme used in the Echosounders for both bottom picking and amplitude normalization is very effective in minimizing sensitivity to bottom type 2 2 4 Sample Rate Effects and Truncation Noise This repeatability issue is peculiar to digital echosounders It refers to the errors which accumulate whenever a timebase parameter is truncated or rounded off to the nearest sample interval or improperly interpolated It ultimately places limits on the achievable resolution and therefore the repeatability of the time delay measurement In early designs it tended to show up in the form of A D converter sample rate limitations In modern echosounder designs it is more likely to be the result of fi
112. ient application It provides information regarding the file types being recorded the storage path where they are recording and the name of any files currently open for recording Clicking on any data display box in this dialog while the recording state is inactive will activate the Configure Recording Options dialog see Section 7 3 Clicking on any data display box in this dialog while the recording state 1s inactive will activate the Configure Recording Options dialog see Section 7 3 The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 43 of 51 4 6 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient Seg Y Recording Status Ea KEL_70281_CHP200 0_RAW_006 sgy KEL_70282_CHP200 0_FLT_006 sgy KEL_70280_CHP200 0_DET_006 sgy When recording Seg Y format files depending on your configuration multiple files may be recorded If more than one channel is recording Seg Y data the Recording Status dialog displays the number of channels Clicking on the Seg Y data display box in this case brings up the Seg Y Recording Status dialog This dialog displays the names of all Seg Y files being recorded If only one channel is recording Seg Y data the filename is displayed on the Recording Status dial
113. ify the Storage Folder selection the user simply double clicks on the to back up from the current directory or double clicks on the new directory or drive name desired The currently selected folder 1s displayed in the text line above the selection box The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 21 of 51 3 11 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 5 1 4 File Formats To Be Recorded There are four possible output file formats Binary SEG Y ASCII and XTF The SEG Y format is only available for 3200 series systems using 32 bit processing modules The XTF format is only available when there are sidescan channels configured The KEL proprietary formats KEB and KEA are always available Any combination of available formats can be recorded simultaneously 4 5 1 5 Binary File Format KEB The envelope data for each channel can be recorded in a binary data file for use by post processing software Every ping cycle one record is stored with header information and raw data for each frequency channel Each record is variable in length and may be compressed using a Huffman compression algorithm The storage device for these files should have sufficient disk space free to s
114. ifying the data checksum in module BSEHBHESEEBEESEHEBHESEBEEEEEBEESHENU If not a warning message appears indicating the checksum failure Status ERROR module checksum cccc does not match expected checksum fa38 aborting action ea Checksum failures could be a result of USB bus changes that occurred after the Firmware Loader was started especially if additional DSP modules were detected The thing to do in this case is shutdown Firmware Loader power off the sounder power on the sounder and wait a few seconds to allow Windows to detect the internal modules Then restart Firmware Loader and re attempt the update Otherwise if the checksum tested passed successfully the application will prompt the user with a confirmation message box This is to warn the user that as soon as they accept this action they will permanently change the code in the module Normally this is what is desired so the user should simply accept the prompt to continue E FirmwareLoader WARNING The following steps will permanently modify the firmware in A the module Do NOT shut off power to the unit until these steps are complete or the module could lose all functionality Are you sure you want to continue No The actual programming steps can take a little while so a progress bar continues to update the status as the various stages are run on the embedded module The information contained in this document
115. igital filters which may be considerable Fortunately the group delay of a digital filter is deterministic and can be precisely calculated for any filter at any frequency The group delay through a transversal bandpass or lowpass digital filter depends on the sampling interval and the number of taps and inversely with the bandwidth and is a very straightforward computation The formula is somewhat different for the correlation filters used with chirp signals but the precision with which the group delay can be calculated is the same This actually represents one of the big advantages of the digital signal filters used in the KEL products over the multiple analog filters used in other digital echosounders The group delay values of the digital filters are computed precisely in software and are compensated for in software No tuning of pots or coils in individual echosounders is involved and of course software never drifts It should be noted that all of the digital filtermg in KEL Echosounders for both CW and chirp signals is performed with transversal or finite impulse response FIR filters which are unconditionally stable The two way group delay of the transducer itself contributes a very small amount to this offset error varying slightly from transducer to transducer the lower the Q of the transducer the smaller the group delay 2 5 Summary To summarize the discussion above 1 The scale error contributed by the echosounder is
116. ion 4 Server Connection Server name or IP Previously used servers 127 0 0 1 local computer no network i ie puter network Connect Do Not Connect The first time the EchoControlClient application is started it will attempt to automatically locate the EchoControlServer application start the application if necessary and establish a connection If the client is unable to find the server application the Server Connection dialog will appear to select its location of the server application and that of its echosounder The most common usage is on the local machine the same host PC as the server application This configuration can be selected by clicking on the option for 127 0 0 1 local computer no network available by default in the Previously used servers box and then clicking Connect If the server and echosounder are located on another PC on the same network it can be accessed by entering either the IP address or the machine name for the PC in question The user may need to contact their systems administrator to get this information Once an IP address has been used on the given client application it is preserved for future use On subsequent startups the client will attempt to automatically connect to the last known server Note any additional Server IDs are saved on the machine with the client If another client is run on another machine the server information needs to be entered on it as well Reg
117. ion 2 test Distance from source point to receiver group DWORD source_receiver_dist negative if opposite to direction in which line is shot Receiver group elevation all elevations are DWORD receiver_elevation above sea level are positive and below are negative Surface elevation at source DWORD number TT WORD surface elevation source depth datum receiver elevation datum source elevation water depth source water depth group Scaler to be applied to all elevations and scaler 1 depths in items 40 67 hex to give real values Scaler 1 10 100 1000 10000 If positive scaler used as multiplier if negative scaler used as divisor Scaler to be applied to all coordinates in 72 WORD 87 hex to give the real values scaler_2 same as above 5 of 11 Usage Description set 1 set 1 unused unused unused unused set echosounder draft parameter unused unused digitized depth as determined by the echosounder unused set 100 set 1000 KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION SEG Y Rev 0 1979 Byte s Specification Description 080 083 Group coordinate X 084 087 Group coordinate Y 088 089 Coordinate units 1 length meters or feet 2 seconds of arc 090 091 Weathering velocity Subweathering velocity 094 095 Uphole time at source Uphole time at group Source static corrections o o
118. ion contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 3 of 23 1 1 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 About this manual This manual provides information about the Playback and Printing application D409 03171 PostSurvey exe This program has been designed to review previously recorded USB Echosounder data files and to produce hard copies on selected thermal recorders and windows printers 1 2 Software Description The USB Echosounders developed and produced by Knudsen Engineering Limited were designed with a USB interface for transferring detailed envelope data and parameter settings PostSurvey is a specially designed Windows compatible program created to play back data records offline from the sounder and to create hard copy records In addition to support for the Knudsen Engineering Limited proprietary file format KEB this application also supports XTF and SEG Y Rev 0 formats 1 3 Technical Support For technical support or to report problems please contact your local representative or Technical Support Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario K7H 3P2 Voice 613 267 1165 8 30 am to 5 00 pm E S T Core Hours Fax 613 267 7085 E Mail support knuds
119. ion options NS Y Search for the best driver in these locations Use the check boxes below to limit or expand the default search which includes local paths and removable media The best driver found will be installed C Search removable media floppy CD ROM Include this location in the search D Program Files SounderSuite USB Class Don t search will choose the driver to install Choose this option to select the device driver from a list Windows does not guarantee that the driver you choose will be the best match for your hardware Proceeding with the Advanced installation the user can browse to the appropriate folder on the hard drive where the The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 13 of 16 4 9 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades necessary files are stored In a default installation this would be the folder C Program Files SounderSuite USB Class As for the Recommended installation the operating system will load the driver files located in the indicated folder for the module Found New Hardware Wizard Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard The wizard has finished installing the software for
120. ip ce iL a Liao 2 igo SXXoOxX Sxxox Ij d hA c A a a d JOSU9S SALIH 4 192994 SAD L Jabbo yidag Jopoday euueu Com Ports Remote Display lt 4 Thermal Recorder 4 4 y Depth logger Figure 2 0 Interconnection Block Diagram D111 04384 Rev1 0 Client Server Embedded Block Diagram The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 5 of 16 2 3 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 2 2 Description The EchoControlServer application acts as a conduit for control transfer from the client application to the sounder and echogram data from the sounder to the client It also provides the interface to any serial peripheral devices such as GPS receivers and heave sensors The server maintains the history of various operational controls but the adjustment of these controls is available only via a client When the program is invoked if it is successful in detecting one or more DSP channel modules it will minimize as a small red K in the taskbar a pcr 11 26 AM If an error is encountered the main window will pop up instead of being minimized This is to allow the user to tak
121. istance in the working units of the system from the surface of the water to the active face of the transducer Its main use is to ensure that the echosounder s output is corrected for the transducer depth 4 6 1 7 Filter Windowing There are various digital filters applied through the signal processing code to extract and isolate the return echo from the background environmental noise These digital filters can use various windowing options to enhance their filtering characteristics The options available are rectangular hamming and cosine The main thing the user should watch if he decides to adjust the windowing is to use the same window type for the main signal filter and the transmit filter This will ensure the best correlation results since the transmitted pulse will more closely match the anticipated correlation signal 4 6 1 8 Usage The Usage option selects the operational mode of the channel The operational mode determines where and how the echogram data is displayed in the EchoControlClient application as well as what data file formats are available for recording Currently there are three modes bathymetry for downward looking channels used for depth detection and sub bottom profile Sidescan Port for as the name implies the port channel of a sidescan configuration and Sidescan starboard for the starboard channel of a sidescan configuration Sidescan channels are displayed in the waterfall display mode section scrolling top to b
122. ited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 10 of 16 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades 4 6 Found New Hardware Wizard This wizard helps you install software for KEL Sounder Module If your hardware came with an installation CD 42 or floppy disk insert it now What do you want the wizard to do Install the software automatically Recommended Install from a list or specific location Advanced Click Next to continue The next dialog asks if the software should be installed automatically Recommended or from a list or specific location Advanced Normally the user should be able to select the automatic Recommended option given that the installer application will have already loaded all the necessary files If it was successful in doing so the wizard should find the driver files and loaded them without any user assistance Found New Hardware Wizard Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard The wizard has finished installing the software for K KEL Sounder Module Click Finish to close the wizard Finish Cancel Once it has completed it will indicate whether or not it was successful in installing the software for the module If it was the user can simply click on Finish to continue If the sounder has more than one channel this step needs to be repeated for each The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosur
123. itized Depth Select All Depth Valid Flag Draft Clear All Signal Type Envelope Detect Opt Transmit Power Analog RX Gain Pulse Lenath TX Blank Start Depth End Depth Example String 4 The ASCII Dump option will allow the user to select a variety of fields from the currently active data set that they would like to record into a new standard ASCII file The new file will have the extension kea however the user can select the name and location through the standard Save As dialog box The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 7 of 23 3 3 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 3 7 Print KEB Print Options LES Print Range e All C Record Numbers t A CE C Fix Numbers 1 2 Frequency Contrast Select channel to print S N 70886 3 5kH A gt Colour Mode Greyscale Colour Large Text OK Cancel The Print option allows the user to print the entire data set or limited sections of the set to any Windows printer This option is only available if a valid KEB XTF or SEG Y Data file is opened When the Print option is selected depending on the file
124. l modules Typically there will be only one type of module and only one bin file will be required In those rare cases where there is more than one a readme file will be included to indicate which bin is required for which hardware module 5 1 Upgrading the Firmware The FirmwareLoader application loaded onto the PC by the installer package provides the interface necessary to upgrade the firmware in the sounder channel modules The steps to upgrade the hardware modules are as follows Step 1 Exit any open SounderSuite windows applications Step 2 Power cycle the sounder The modules will not be able to initiate the firmware loading operation if they have already run a ping cycle Step 3 Run the Firmware Loader application available under the Start gt All Programs gt SounderSuite USB program folder It should detect the modules in the sounder If not it will indicate the appropriate error condition Step 4 In Firmware Loader select Upgrades gt Load DSP Firmware This should cause the application to display a dialog box labelled Select Sounder Hardware The drop down list indicates the modules detected Step 5 Select a module to update Step 6 The application should now provide a dialog box for opening the firmware file Ideally it will already be looking at the appropriate folder if not browse to the folder C Program Files SounderSuite USB Firmware Select and open the desired bin file Step 7 The application
125. l provides information about the Conversion Utility application D409 04545 ComversionUtility exe This program has been designed to give the user the ability to convert between supported data file types 1 2 Software Description The echosounder control software is capable recording various data formats in real time Sometimes a user may decide not to record a particular format type during his real time survey operation and then realize after the fact he needs that particular data type for his post processing or his client s deliverables The Conversion Utility provides the user the ability to create a file of the given type from a file of another type that was recorded in real time The conversion process is not the ideal method for generating some format types since the source file used may be lacking some information that would have been available during real time recording but the Conversion Utility will populate as many fields as technically possible with what data is available The Conversion Utility also allows the user to convert older formats of KEB binary files for readback in the PostSurvey application 1 3 Technical Support For technical support or to report problems please contact your local representative or Technical Support Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario K7H 3P2 Voice 613 267 1165 8 30 am to 5 00 pm E S T Core Hours Fax 613 267 7085 E Mail support knudsenengineering com WebSite htt
126. ls detected in the sounder by the Firmware Loader application For each hardware module it reports the programmed serial number the module s type plus the firmware part number and version This is a useful reference for verifying the hardware status in the sounder The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 16 of 17 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader 2 14 2 4 0 Tech Support Tech Support 28 For Tech Support contact OK Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Rd Voice 613 267 1165 Perth Ont Canada Fax 613 267 7085 K7H 3P2 w w w knudsenengineering com mailto support knudsenengineering com Detected OS Info Microsoft Windows Vista 6 0 6002 Service Pack 2 This option brings up a simple dialog box that provides contact information for technical support It also provides information about the type of Windows operating system the Firmware Loader program has detected 2 4 3 About FirmwareLoader G About FirmwareLoader K Firmware Loader Part D409 04363 V1 39 Copyright 2006 2009 The About FirmwareLoader menu item brings up a simple dialog box stating the name of the PC software program the
127. ly in use WORD 0058h sweep systems only systems only Mux Transducer Number not currently in use WORD 005Ah sweep systems only Echogram Heave Compensation echogram not heave compensated WORD 005Ch Flag f echogram heave compensated Number Of Number Of Pings pings active in Multiple Pmgs mode WORD 005Eh Sync Mode 0 intternal sync WORD 0060h 1 external sync Tracking Gate Width expressed Gate Width expressed 0 to 200 WORD 0062h in in working units units Reserved Bytes NULL WORD 0064h Byte Count Section Total Sensor Data Parameters Shared for Each Channel Heave expressed in m feet or data dependent float 0078h fathoms Roll Angle degrees data dependent float 4 007Ch Pitch Angle degrees data dependent float 4 0080h Heading Angle degrees data dependent float 4 0084h HeaveTimeTagSeconds Seconds since midnight Jan 1 1970 DWORD 4 0088h HeaveTimeTagMilliseconds Millisecond portion of timetag DWORD 4 008Ch Heave Sensor Quality 0 invalid WORD 2 0090h 1 okay D101 05498 Rev1 0 October 2 2012 5 of 9 FIELD DESCRIPTION DATA FORMAT RANGE Data Type Boat Heading from Hypack or tbd float 4 00BOh GPS VTGTimeTagSeconds Seconds since midnight Jan 1 1970 DWORD 4 00B4h VTGTimeTagMillieconds Millisecond portion of timetag DWORD 4 00B8h Towfish AUV Depth to be determined float 4 00BCh Reserved Bytes NULL WORD 40 00COh Byte Count Section Total 112 Ch
128. m an A A Ch2 14 1kHz 24 95m 21 8m 20 0m 224m 25 0m a ita n 23 1m 30 0m gl 2 23 7m 35 0m A PRE sss 24 4m gt 40 0m e Bee 25 0m 45 0m S a gl 25 7m ie 50m v EchoControlClient REC OFF GPS unavailable Printer N A Figure 2 1 Main Application Window 2 Description The EchoControlClient application contains all the necessary controls for standard operation of the echosounder and any data recording activities on the PC The application main window consists ofthe application toolbar the zoom chart display the full chart display and the zoom window control The application toolbar provides access to the operational and configuration controls The full chart display on the right in Figure 2 1 shows a graphical rendering of the real time echo data for both channels for the entire acquisition window The scale of depths is to the right of the display The maximum acquisition depth is selectable by way of a drop down list control To the right of the depth scale is the zoom window control This control is adjustable in size and position and selects a section of the full window display to be shown in the zoom window display 2 3 Types of Parameters Before proceeding with the description of the operational controls it is worth making the distinction between Echosounder controls and Application controls Echosounder parameters The Echosounder has numerous controls that control its per
129. n Engineering Limited D101 02251 Rev4 1 July 6 2009 Page 2 of 9 Technical Note Echosounder Concepts 1 1 1 BASIC ECHOSOUNDER THEORY 1 1 Basic Concepts The following section is intended for new or occasional operators It provides a brief introduction to echosounding and to a few of the most important concepts Experienced users may safely skip this section 1 2 Pings and Echoes An echosounder is an acoustic echo ranging device It measures the depth of the water by transmitting brief pulses of ultrasound downward toward the ocean bottom and measuring the time it takes for the bottom echo to return The transmitted pulse traditionally called a ping is a tone of a specified frequency with a duration of anywhere from a sixteenth of a millisecond to four milliseconds The transducer is mounted through the hull of the ship near the keel with its active face pointed straight down The same transducer is used for both transmitting the ping and receiving the echo signal The intensity of the received signal as a function of depth is printed vertically on the graphic recorder After many repeated pings the bottom is visible as a horizontal black line which follows the contours of the bottom The sharpness and clarity of the line depend on the strength and quality of the echo which depends on many factors including bottom characteristics pulse length depth of the water and the amount of ambient noise noise pollution which comes from man
130. nfigure another port to the same type of sensor will fail For example if COM1 has been configured for TSS1 a heave sensor format COM2 cannot be configured for either TSS3 or Seatex MRU other heave sensor formats 4 5 3 Data Logging While the serial data logging is actually performed by server application on physical com port on the host PC the setup controls for the data logging have been incorporated in the client application The dialog that appears when this menu option is selected is a list of detected com ports on the server and their current status If currently set up for data logging configuration information is displayed for that port The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 26 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 16 r Data Logging Configurations l 2 j 2 COM3 in use for peripheral input devices At present it simply assumes there may be as many as eight serial ports available on the host PC and it lists any data logging format and communications settings currently in use It is up to the user to know what serial ports are available on the host PC and where the datalogger systems are connected To add or modify any of the devi
131. ng point N optional use Usage Description an o paa longitude expressed in degrees 60 60 Note 5 latitude expressed in degrees 60 60 unused unused set 2 seconds of arc unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused unused 1000 2 start depth sound speed Note 6 unused unused as defined 1000000 data rate unused KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 120 121 123 124 125 Correlated 1 no 2 yes Sweep frequency at start 129 Sweep frequency at end Sweep length ms 133 Sweep type 1 linear 2 parabolic 3 exponential 4 other Sweep trace taper length at start ms Sweep trace taper length at end ms 139 Taper type 1 linear 2 cos cos 3 other a oe a 2 NIU NN s amem yt Er 7 TT MITTEN s mas le tA UU tA E E E E E be Y we U we N N N D S De e oo a R e e 00 e A N o6 a N zs 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 e dk uU UA 0 N ez a v3 3 u o 157 D101 03021 Rev2 2 SEG Y Rev1 2002 Byte s 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 KEL Usage Specification Description Format Label Instrument gain constant WORD instrument gain constant
132. nits of the system measured from the face of the channel s transducer to the point in the water column at which the bottom detection software begins to look for the bottom Transmit blanking must be set large enough that transducer ringing following the tail end of the transmit pulse is not falsely interpreted as the echo from a very shallow bottom but small enough not to unduly limit the minimum depth capability of the echosounder The optimum value depends on the expected depth conditions the pulse length the transmit power level and the signal frequency It is best determined by experimentation The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 19 of 51 3 9 4 5 Setup The Setup button brings up the Setup sub menu see Figure 4 2 The bulk of the EchoControlClient application s SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient functionality is accessible through the options on this sub menu Each is described in the corresponding section that follows 4 5 1 Configure Recording The Configure Recording selection pops up a dialog box that allows the user to select the folder or directory where the data file set is to be recorded the filename format used to identify the dat
133. nks any echogram data above the Tx Blanking value 3 3 5 Filters Zoom Window Display only r Select Filters Trace Stacking Envelope Detection Size V Enable Filter Window e Method Mean None Maximum Detection Method Square Law cea Users have the option of applying filters to the Zoom Display data Trace stacking combines from two to ten concurrent traces the trace stack and derives the displayed trace using one of two methods If Mean is selected the displayed trace is derived by averaging the data values in the stack If Maximum is selected the maximum values in the stack are used for each sample to create the displayed trace Envelope Detection when enabled allows the user to apply a filter window and detection method to the displayed data Available filter windows are None no filtering Rectangular Cosine and Hamming The detection method is selectable between Square Law and Amplitude The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 15 of 51 3 5 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 APPLICATION TOOLBAR Recording Stopped Ch1 200 0kHz Ch2 14 1kHz Figure 4 0 Application Toolbar The Application
134. not match expected checksum fa38 aborting BHEEEEBBEBHSBSBSESESESHSBEEHESEBEHE E The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 6 of 17 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader 2 4 Checksum failures could be a result of USB bus changes that occurred after the Firmware Loader was started especially if additional DSP modules were detected The thing to do in this case is to shutdown Firmware Loader power off the sounder power on the sounder and wait a few seconds to allow Windows to detect the internal modules Then restart Firmware Loader and re attempt the update Otherwise if the checksum tested passed successfully the application will prompt the user with a confirmation message box This is to warn the user that as soon as they accept this action they will permanently change the code in the module Normally this is what is desired so the user should simply accept the prompt to continue WARNING The following steps will permanently modify the firmware in the module Do NOT shut off power to the unit until these steps are complete or the module could lose all functionality Are you sure you want to continue No The actual programming steps can t
135. ns Event marks can be initiated from a number of sources the Event Mark code indicates the source of the event mark as described in Table 1 3 Serial Port and Hypack initiated event marks often have variable length annotation strings recorded as well Table 1 3 Event Mark Codes Code Code Source 0 1 Timebase 2 Client Application 3 Hyapck 4 Remote 3 Serial The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific ose intended is expressly prohibited unless to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05498 Rev1 0 October 2 2012 9 of 9 KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION SEG Y Structure definitions designed from documentation supplied by Scripps Institution of Oceanography Note Data is recorded in Big Endian format most significant byte first to match original definition REEL IDENTIFICATION HEADER Main Header SEG Y Rev 0 1979 Specification Description 3200 Byte EBCDIC Reel header Job identification number Line number one per reel Reel Number Number of data traces record Number of aux traces record Sample interval in microsecs for this reel of data Sample interval in microsecs for original field recording Number of samples per data trace for this reel of data Number of samples per data trace for original field recording Data sample format code 0000 3199
136. o o o kel NO NO o oo an N fon 1 o o JQ o Ww o Total static applied 0 if none applied 0 0 e o N 1 3 5 X 1 Delay recording time ms 1 Mute time start 1 Mute time end 3 15 0 0 e e o 1 0 un o oo 1 1 7 9 1 e N 1 1 Number of samples in this trace 17 Sample interval us for this trace e e o A 1 1 oo 1 O Gain type of field instruments 1 fixed 2 binary 3 floating point N optional use D101 03021 Rev2 2 SEG Y Rev1 2002 KEL Usage Byte s 072 075 076 079 080 083 084 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 Specification Description Format Label DWORD source coord x DWORD source coord y Coordinate units WORD coord units 1 length meters or feet 2 seconds of arc WORD weathering velocity WORD subweathering velocity WORD source uphole time T WORD source static correct WORD group static correct group uphole time Delay recording time ms WORD record delay time Mute time start WO mute time start Mute time end WORD mute time end Number of samples in this trace WORD trace sample number Sample interval us for this trace WORD sample time RD RD Gain type of field instruments WORD instrument gain type fixed 2 binary 3 floati
137. og in the same manner as files of other formats 4 7 7 Setup Event Marks Event Mark Options Next Event 3 Timed Event Disabled Event Interval s 60 Increment Event s The Event Marks option pops up a dialogue box that allows the user to adjust the event marking options 4 7 7 1 Next Event The Next Event indicates what number the echosounder s event counter will use on the next event mark The user can adjust this to any value between and the maximum value 65535 4 7 7 2 Timed Event Enabled Disabled The Timed Event toggle allows the user to select whether to use the echosounder s internally timed event marks or not 4 7 7 3 Event Interval If Timed Event is enabled the echosounder will cause internally generated event marks at the time interval selected in the Event Interval box The units for this interval measurement are seconds 4 7 7 4 Increment Decrement Event s The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 44 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 4 7 The event marks can be configured to count up increment or count down decrement When the event number reaches zero on the count down it wraps to the highest value supported 655
138. ohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 10 of 17 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader 2 8 8 Update Module ID Program Only Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4 Module Identification Serial ak 07 lt 0430 Board Code 5 Hardware Information Module Reference Single Channel 16 bit Firmware Information Firmware Part Firmware Version 2 06 Factory Default Configuration Waveform Chirp v mam Frequency kHz 28 0 kHz Bandwidth kHz 6 0 kHz Usage Bathymetry Channel Mapping Reference Label Feature Options v Sounder 1600 If the module identification is correct the user simply clicks the Program Module button to program the setup permanently into the module There is no specific feedback about the progress the dialog simply disappears briefly until the task 1s complete then reappears with the info loaded into the module The sounder will need to be power cycled for the changes to become active The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 11 of 17 2 9 Sound
139. omatically recognize the new driver and load the driver by itself when it detects the sounder s internal modules This is not always the case though and the user may need to provide additional direction for Windows to successfully complete the loading of the hardware driver 4 2 1 Recommended Installation The first time the sounder is connected and powered on Windows should indicate that it sees new hardware called a Single Channel Module and should activate the New Hardware Wizard Found New Hardware Wizard Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard Windows will search for current and updated software by looking on your computer on the hardware installation CD or on the Windows Update Web site with your permission Read our privacy policy Can Windows connect to Windows Update to search for software O Yes this time only O Yes now and every time connect a device No not this time Click Next to continue Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard The wizard will ask if it should access the internet to search for the driver for the module The driver has been loaded on the hard drive so the user should select No not this time and click Next The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Lim
140. on dialog box with selection options for the desired data fields The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 22 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 12 r Data Format Header Fields Sensor Data Fields J User Defined Preamble String Speed of Sound wes V Heave Roll Angle Pitch Angle Heading Angle Heave Sensor Timetag Heave Sensor Quality E 4 KEL Proprietary Header String Record Number Fix Indicator Date Time hhmmss r Working Units Position Lat Long or X Y Channel Specific Fields Boat Speed ALL Fish Depth Channel Frequency v Digitized Depth Select All Depth Valid Flag Dra Clear All 7 Signal Type Envelope Detect Opt Transmit Power Analog RX Gain Pulse Length TX Blank l Start Depth End Depth Cancel Example String 012423 65 004 00 4 4 5 1 6 1 Setup ASCII format This dialog box allows the user to customize the ASCII file format string with certain limitations The fields can only appear in the order listed ie header string HF depth LF depth checksum separated only by commas except hhmmss and milliseconds and terminated only at the very end by lt
141. one group number of last trace within 174 175 original field 77 Gap size total number of groups dropped 176 177 178 179 Overtravel associated with taper at 178 179 beginning or end of line 1 down or behind 2 up or ahead 180 239 Unassigned 180 183 184 187 188 191 192 195 e e e Ll m L ion an N o oo 1 1 1 1 1 D101 03021 Rev2 2 KEL Usage WORD time basis code Time basis code local 2 GMT 3 other Trace weighting factor defined as 2 n volts WORD trace_weight for the Isb n 0 1 32767 WORD Geophone group number of roll switch group switch number position one WORD Geophone group number of trace 1 within group trace number original field WORD Geophone group number of last trace within group last trace number original field WORD Gap size total number of groups dropped gap size Overtravel associated with taper at WORD taper overtravel beginning or end of line 1 down or behind 2 up or ahead WORD WORD Kel SpmCode Kel PingStartTimeHr X coordinate of CDP position WORD WORD Kel PingStartTimeMin Kel PingStartTimeSec Y coordimate of CDP position WORD WORD Kel PingStartTimeMs Kel TxPower for 3 D poststack data in line number WORD WORD Kel RxGain Kel ProcessingGain for 3 D poststack data cross line number 8 of 11 Usage Description PC Date Day of year 1 PC Time of trace recording hour PC Time of
142. or other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 3 of 16 2 1 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 2 OVERVIEW 2 1 USB and Network Usage The 1600 and 3200 series echosounders were designed with a USB interface port to provide advanced remote control and signal data acquisition and recording capabilities KEL has developed a pair of specialized PC applications that run under Windows a client side application and a server side application See Figure 2 0 for reference The server side EchoControlServer exe runs on the host PC the one physically connected to the sounder and communicates with the echosounder s internal signal processing modules using the USB interface It uses TCP IP communications to receive control settings from the client which it passes to the sounder and to send echogram data from the sounder to the client It also interfaces to peripheral devices such as GPS receivers and heave sensors via the host PC s RS 232 ports It acquires the sensor data and transfers to the client and the sounder as necessary This document provides details regarding those few operations accessible to the user on the server application The client side application EchoControlClient exe can run on either the same host PC as the server side or on another PC on the same network This client side application allows the user to control the echoso
143. osounder s internal signal processing modules using the USB interface It uses TCP IP communications to receive control settings from the client which it passes to the sounder and to send echogram data from the sounder to the client It also interfaces to peripheral devices such as GPS receivers and heave sensors via the host PC s RS 232 ports It acquires the sensor data and transfers it to the client and the sounder as necessary The client side application EchoControlClient exe can run on either the same host PC as the server side or it can run on another PC on the same network See Section 3 1 for details on how to connect appropriately This client side application allows the user to control the echosounder display in real time a greyscale or color graphic on the PC monitor similar to a hardcopy record capture envelope signal data perform standard depth logging and record in real time to a thermal recorder This document provides details regarding access and control of all these operations The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 7 of 51 2 2 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient
144. ottom with the port channel on the left half of the display region and the starboard channel on the right half of the display region Bathymetry channels are displayed in the chart display section scrolling right to left in either overlayed presentation or stacked depending on the display mode setup 4 6 1 9 Envelope Detect There are two modes of envelope detection available on the Pinger series echosounders The standard square law detection mode improves the signal to noise ratio of the echogram data by helping to pull out the signal return level from the background noise In some applications sidescan and sub bottom profiling it may actually be of interest to see the background noise level In these situations the user can switch to the amplitude detection mode The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 33 of 51 3 23 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 6 1 10 Echogram Type The Pinger sounders are capable of providing echogram data for recording and display This data is available in two specific format types from a channel s signal processing module Filtered This is the signed data after it has been through the digital correlation filter but before it
145. ottom echo to return is directly proportional to the round trip distance or twice the water depth The accuracy of the depth value depends on a great many factors some intrinsic to the echosounder and some the local speed of sound for example which are environmental factors beyond the control of the echosounder designer This report discusses those factors which are affected by the design and operation of the echosounder Sources of error can conveniently be divided into three categories repeatability scale and offset Repeatability is a fundamental limitation there is no point in calibrating scale and offset to centimetres if the ping to ping variability is measured in decimetres A brief discussion of some of the factors affecting repeatability and some of the design measures taken to enhance this characteristic is provided below Deterministic scale and offset errors which are amenable to calibration represent the main focus of this report Echosounders are traditionally provided with offset and scale adjustments in the form of draft and sound speed controls which permit the user to calibrate the unit for his specific transducer installation and local water conditions The user can set these two parameters by performing a bar check at two different depths draft is set at the shallow depth and sound speed at the deeper depth and iterating the procedure as necessary to refine the values Alternatively the user can measure the draft and sound sp
146. ows and display them in a overlapped format down the display area of the application 6 2 Tile This option will take all open windows and stretch them across the width of the display area and stack them on top of one another 6 3 Arrange Windows This option will arrange all minimized file icons along the bottom of the display area within the application The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 21 of 23 7 1 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 7 Channel Channel Selection pau Select New Frequency To S N 70874 12 0kHz OK Cancel The Channel menu item and similarly the Channel tool bar button provide access to a control dialog used to activate additional channel windows for the currently active file set The Channel control is only active when more than one channel is recorded in the active data set The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 22 of 23 SounderSuit
147. p knudsenengineering com The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04968 Rev1 1 December 22 2010 Page 3 of 5 2 1 SounderSuite Conversion Utility 2 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS 2 1 Description Then Conversion Utility application is a very basic application intended for simply converting one data file type to another data file type When the user runs the application a simple dialog box appears with the key controls needed to select source files destination folder and output file format pr File Conversion Utili Select source file MADataTransferiChrisi0001_2008_043_1709_000 De Select destination M DataTransfer Chris 3 Select format V Ignore differences between SEG Y file and trace heade 2 Select Source File The first item in the dialog is the selection entry for the file or files to be converted The user can type in a file path and name explicitly or click on the button at the right ofthe text entry to pull up a File Open dialog In this dialog the user can filter what type of files to view Supported File Types keb sgy SEG Y Files sgy Knudsen Binary Files keb All Files The dialog supports the selection of multiple files t
148. prietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 10 of 16 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 4 3 causes the application to pop up a configuration dialog box with selection options for the desired data fields f Data Format Header Fields Sensor Data Fields User Defined Preamble String Y Speed of Sound V Heave v Roll Angle KEL Proprietary Header String M w Pitch Angl Record Number a z TS Fix Indicator PAN er Heave Sensor Timeta V Date Lj 9 Heave Sensor Quality Y Time hhmmss i Position Format degrees or meters v Time milliseconds E v Position Lat Long or X Y Working Units E Position Timetag Channel Specific Fields Boat Speed ALL V Fish Depth Channel Frequency v Digitized Depth Select All v Depth Valid Flag I Drak Clear All 7 Signal Type Envelope Detect Opt Transmit Power Analog RX Gain Pulse Length TX Blank Start Depth End Depth Cancel Example String y 4 3 4 4 Modify ASCII output format This dialog box allows the user to customize the ASCII file format string with certain limitations The fields can only appear in the order listed ie header string HF depth LF depth checksum separated only by comm
149. purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 2 of 51 4 5 1 8 1 Limit File Size 25 MS y o coe sia sig enn wh hyo aw poe 3 14 4 5 2 Contipure Peripherals cis 224 9 9 a 3 14 4 5 2 O 3 15 4 5 2 1 1 hrinBic EE 3 15 45 2 1 2 Pi anda as 3 15 4 5 2 1 3 Data Stop bits lille Ih 3 16 4 5 2 2 Formato canta teed pope hehe bebe tebe e o ed MERE ERTEERERPTERET ET 3 16 4 5 3 Data LOgging oose2eswewsd vede A bed a aw rs 3 16 ASSAD ou MP C m 3 17 4 5 3 1 1 Baud Rate 23 dak ddd ada eqq RR d ded 3 17 4 5 3 1 2 Pati osos oppor das 3 18 4 5 3 1 3 Data Stop bits 22529 rr e es de os on 3 18 4 5 3 1 4 Transmission Rate 2 2 0 eee eee eee 3 18 4 5 5 2 Formats s m RR aa naaan RR aed eAVAG ane RAW eRABKRAE4484444646444R0 3 18 4 5 3 2 1 Contisurable i e tn hae PbS ERE Sees PS 3 19 4 5 4 Configure UDP Broadcast serer teen een e eens 3 20 4 6 Advanced Optionsye ecu nos ow beets ER RETE EE SANA GA ad diae a ers 3 21 4 6 1 Signal Controls Page 0 0 eee e 3 21 46 12 Waverton sete dae a ud ddan qudd RUM du Pg 3 22 4 6 1 2 Frequency ected ddad ad diddddddgdddgddidtde t RE ERR COS ive vide edi eus 3 22 4 6 1 3 Bandwidth siisti ioneina o a o Ret elote bdedudeatiodudedtddededtiododes 3 22 4 6 1 4 Start Stop Frequencies llle e 3 22 4 6 1 5 Channel Enable 0 0 0 0 ce
150. r Close The Close option will terminate the server application The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 7 of 16 3 1 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 3 MAIN MENU System 3 1 Scan for Devices Sometimes on start up the EchoControl Server may not see any DSP modules on the bus This could occur if they are not connected or are powered off This command gives the user the opportunity to rescan the bus after correcting the source of the problem without having to restart the application This option is only enabled if no supported modules are detected on the USB bus If any supported modules are detected this option is disabled 3 2 Self Test This item is currently not implemented 3 3 Time Sync The EchoControl Server application has an NTP client implementation that allows the user to synchronize the PC s time with an external time server either on the web or a local area network A Time Sync LE NTP server IP address 204 34 198 41 Sync status Enter a valid IP address Press the test button to test The user can enter the IP address of a known NTP server and click the Test button to initiate a synchronization attempt 3 4 Exit The
151. r The application may be launched by selecting the installed icons Click Finish to exit Setup V View Readme txt The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 9 of 16 4 5 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades If the installation process is being performed for a new unit the process is now complete The sounder will have been shipped with the appropriate firmware revisions If this is an upgrade package the firmware in the sounder will probably need to be upgraded as well Please see Chapter 5 for detailed information regarding the firmware upgrade Once the installer has completed and restarted you should see a series of new icons on the desktop These icons are also available in the Program Group accessible from the Start button 4 1 1 Special Notes regarding Windows 2000 XP Vista 7 Because the installer package needs to install driver services and class components the installation must be done using an administrative account 4 2 Driver Installation for Single Channel Modules When the Windows software installer was run it installed all the necessary driver files to support the sounder In the ideal situation Windows will aut
152. race 1 one trace 2 two etc 032 033 Number of horizontally stacked traces yeilding this trace 1 one trace 2 two etc 034 035 Data use 1 production 2 test 036 039 Distance from source point to receiver group negative if opposite to direction in which line is shot 040 043 Receiver group elevation all elevations are above sea level are positive and below are negative Surface elevation at source number Scaler to be applied to all elevations and depths in items 40 67 hex to give real values o o o o o o eN nN ce n Az AR AR an N oo o o o o o ON nN Nn CA CA ER w o Cn e o DD oo 1 e ex Nel Scaler 1 10 100 1000 10000 If positive scaler used as multiplier if negative scaler used as divisor Scaler to be applied to all coordinates in 72 87 hex to give the real values same as above o 1 o e D101 03021 Rev2 2 SEG Y Rev1 2002 Byte s 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 039 040 043 044 047 048 051 052 055 056 059 060 063 064 067 068 069 070 071 KEL Usage Specification Description Format Label Number of vertically summed traces yeilding this trace 1 one trace 2 two etc WORD vertical sum Number of horizontally stacked traces WORD horizontal sum yeilding this trace 1 one trace 2 two etc Data use WORD data use 1 product
153. rate s cm Figure 4 4 UDP Settings dialog The IP address can be a broadcast address or single machine The available Transmission Rates are At ping rate 5 per second 4 per second 2 per second 1 per second every 2 seconds every 5 seconds and every 10 seconds f UDP Message Format CONFIGURABLE Y Format Cancel OK Figure 4 5 UDP Message Format Dialog Clicking on the Format button brings up the UDP Message Format dialog figure 4 5 Available options are NONE CONFIGURABLE and NAVY REMOTE When CONFIGURABLE is selected the Format button will open the Data Format dialog as shown in section 8 4 2 1 Virtually any combination of comma separated values can be configured 4 6 Advanced Options The Advanced Options dialog has between two and five tabbed pages depending on the number of channels in the system One to four Signal Controls pages one for each channel allow the user to adjust the assigned channel parameters The System Setting page offers options for system wide parameters such as Sound Speed and Working Units The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 31 of 51 3 21 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlCli
154. red echosounder has the necessary firmware already programmed into it The user only needs to load the Windows support applications supplied on the CD ROM The CD ROM contains a Setup exe Windows installation program that creates the directory and copies all the files onto the user s hard disk See Chapter 4 for a complete description of the installation process 3 2 System Upgrades Occasionally a system that has already been operating out in the field will be provided an upgrade software package to provide additional operating features not available with the original software Ifthe Echosounder s firmware is not at the proper revision it will need to be upgraded See Chapters 4 and 5 for detailed descriptions of the installation processes NOTE When performing the upgrade always perform the Windows upgrade first as this will extract the necessary bin file onto the hard disk required to proceed with the firmware upgrade The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 5 of 16 4 1 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades 4 PC SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 4 1 Setup Procedure The CD ROM provided either with a new system or in an upgrade package contains
155. rformed as follows A bar a target which will return a distinct echo is lowered to a known short distance below the surface The draft is then adjusted until the depth return from the bar equals the known value After the draft has been adjusted the bar is then lowered to a deeper known depth The sound speed is then adjusted until the depth return from the bar equals the known value This procedure must be repeated several times until both elements are calibrated After this procedure the system will calibrated for the current water conditions and can be left unmodified for the remainder of the sounding session The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 02251 Rev4 1 July 6 2009 Page 4 of 9 Technical Note Echosounder Concepts 2 1 2 ACCURACY OF THE KNUDSEN ECHOSOUNDERS Note We are frequently asked to specify the accuracy of the echosounders and the answer is never straightforward Although the following discussion does not provide the definitive response it may shed light on some of the issues 2 1 Introduction Although modern echosounders can be sophisticated and complex the principle on which they operate is simple transmit a ping and listen for the echo The time it takes for the b
156. ring Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 46 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 4 9 The Help menu provides access to information dialogs that provide the user with system configuration information that is most useful when contacting the factory for technical assistance There are no other help features implemented at this time The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 47 of 51 4 10 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 8 Sounder Info 4 Channel Mapping Assignments a K2K 06 0166 Chirp 200 0kHz BW 10 0kHz Sidescan Starboard K2K 07 0100 Ch2 K2K 07 0426 Chirp 200 0kHz BW 10 0kHz Bathymetry K2K 07 0100 Ch1 K2K 07 0430 Chirp 28 0kHz BW 6 0kHz Bathymetry K2K 07 0100 Ch4 When the server application starts it scans the USB bus for all available KEL echosounder hardware modules and catalogues a list of these modules It uses the frequency and board serial number information for each module to sort and organize the modules sequentially by frequency hi
157. rmalization has been accomplished with a combination of automatic gain control when available and a considerable reliance on operator attention to control settings Amplitude normalization in the KEL Echosounders starts with an assessment of the amplitude of each received echo This is performed in software after the signal has been digitized filtered and envelope detected The details of the algorithm are The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 02251 Rev4 1 July 6 2009 Page 5 of 9 2 2 Technical Note Echosounder Concepts beyond the scope of this report but basically it involves increasing the sample frequency of the envelope record by a factor of four with a cubic spline interpolation and then cross correlating the upsampled signal with a replica of the leading edge of the expected echo this is also part of the bottom picking algorithm The correlation peak is scaled to produce a very accurate estimate of echo amplitude Another filter is used with the correlation results to obtain the background noise level A threshold is then computed as a specified fraction of the echo amplitude usually 50 The point in the sample record at which the envelope signal crosses the threshold is computed using polynom
158. s agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 7 of 16 4 3 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades possible to connect the sounder to one PC and control it from another That s where the Server side PC connected to the sounder and Client side another computer on the network can be used They only load the application components required for each side of the operations For now this document assumes that the echosounder is controlled from the same PC to which it is connect Stand alone Select Start Menu Folder Where should Setup place the program s shortcuts Setup will create the program s shortcuts in the following Start Menu folder To continue dick Next If you would like to select a different folder dick Browse sounder Suite USB Select Start Menu Folder Default SounderSuite USB This can be modified to any preferred value Please note that all the following documentation assumes that the defaults have been used Select Additional Tasks Which additional tasks should be performed Select the additional tasks you would like Setup to perform while installing SounderSuite USB then dick Next Additional icons Create a desktop icon The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than
159. s control adjusts the nominal operational centre frequency used for signal generation and processing If this value is changed the Start and Stop Frequencies below are automatically adjusted 4 6 1 3 Bandwidth The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 32 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 22 The user can adjust the bandwidth used for signal generation and processing If this value is changed the Start and Stop Frequencies below are automatically adjusted 4 6 1 4 Start Stop Frequencies In addition to the Center Frequency and Bandwidth the Start and Stop Frequencies can also be adjusted These values represent the starting and ending frequencies of the Chirp waveform They are irrelevant to Continuous Wave CW operation When either of these values is changed the Frequency and Bandwidth are automatically adjusted 4 6 1 5 Channel Enable This control determines whether or not a channel is enabled for transmission When enabled the channel will acquire digitize and log data when the Global Tx control is on When disabled channel operations are turned off and will remain off regardless of the state of Global Tx 4 6 1 6 Draft Draft indicates the vertical d
160. s document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 5 of 23 3 1 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 3 File 3 1 Open If the Open command is selected the program responds with a File Selection dialog box to access the files When a valid file keb xtf and sgy is opened the data from that file will be loaded into memory and displayed starting with the first ping in the selected file 3 2 Close An opened file and all its associated windows can be closed using the Close command This option is not active if a file is not already opened NOTE An individual window can also be closed by clicking on the close button X located on the top right side corner of the active window 3 3 Copy to Clipboard This command is used to copy the image within the currently active window to the clipboard in a bitmap format which can then be copied into another graphical program for further editing Note This option only copies what you see on the screen If the user requires more than what is able to be viewed on the screen then it is better to use the Save to Bitmap feature instead 3 4 Save to Bitmap The Save to Bitmap command saves the entire image for the currently active window to a DIB bmp file This command will sav
161. s expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 2 of 17 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader 1 1 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 About this manual This manual provides information about the Firmware Loader application D409 04363 FirmwareLoader exe This program has been designed to support in field firmware upgrades of the internal modules of Knudsen Engineering Limited s USB Echosounders For detailed instructions on the upgrade process please see document reference D101 04383 Windows Installation and Firmware Upgrades 1 2 Software Description The Firmware Loader allows the user in the field to upgrade the firmware in his unit s channel DSP modules and printer module if one is present This application provides the user access to controls to program the firmware with new releases from the factory for overall operational enhancements Additionally it allows the user to program configuration information supplied by the factory and granted to licenced users 1 3 Technical Support For technical support or to report problems please contact your local representative or Technical Support Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario K7H 3P2 Voice 613 267 1165 8 30 am to 5 00 pm E S T Core Hours Fax 613 267 7085 E Mail support knudsenengineering com WebSite http knudsenengineering com The information contained in this document is proprietary da
162. s per sample CDP fold Expected number of data traces WORD cdp fold per CDP ensemble l1 of 11 Usage Description EBCDIC format header using ASCII to EDCBIC conversion code credited to T O Brien of USGS unused The survey line number assigned with the Record Start Line dialog in the Echo Control application and which forms part of the file name See Note 1 File number in survey line Note 2 set 0 unused Set 3 fixed point 2 bytes Note 4 KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION SEG Y Rev 0 1979 SEG Y Rev1 2002 Specification Description Trace sorting code Uy je N ec oo e v F N o 1 as recorded no sort 2 CDP ensemble 3 single fold continuous profile 4 horizontally stacked Ww N UY o Ww N w e Vertical sum code 1 no sum 2 two sum N N sum N 32767 3232 3233 Sweep frequency at start Sweep frequency at end 3236 3237 Sweep length ms Sweep type code Ww N w D Ww N U n Ww N w oo Ww N Ww o 1 linear 2 parabolic 3 exponential 4 other Trace number of sweep channel Sweep trace taper length in ms at start the taper starts at zero time and is effective for this length 3240 3241 UJ N ER N w N EN vs 957 N EN P uy N A n Sweep trace tape length in ms at end the ending taper starts at sweep length minus the taper length at end 957 N A n 957 N EN UA Taper type 1 linear 2 cos cos 3 other UJ
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164. sely triggering on fish or other water column targets at the expense of a slightly greater susceptibility to locking on the second echo from the bottom For sidescan operation TVG may help to bring out weak returns in the far field allowing for improved detection of targets TVG operates in addition to the AGC or manual gain settings which are applied independently to each channel and which The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 18 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 8 effectively define the starting gain for each channel at the instant of transmission 4 4 3 Gain Slider The Gain Slider is only available when the channel is setup to use manual gain It controls the analog receive gain of the relevant channel Reducing the analog receive gain is useful when sounding in extremely shallow water This reduces the overall noise while not seriously affecting echo strength Increasing the analog gain is useful when sounding in very deep water The Gain value in dB is displayed to the right of the slider 4 4 4 Tx Pulse The Tx Pulse parameter allows the user to specify the pulse length the duration ofthe transmit pulse expressed in milliseconds 4 4 5 Tx Power The Tx Power
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166. t It also provides information about the type of Windows operating system the server program has detected 7 3 About EchoControlServer G About EchoControlServer SounderSuite EchoControlServer Server for USB Echosounders Part D409 04185 V2 13 Copyright 2005 2009 The About EchoControlServer menu item brings up a simple dialog box stating the name of the PC software program the KEL part number for the program and the latest revision number The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 16 of 16 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControl Client Supports Software D409 04184 D101 05429 Revision 1 0 April 27 2012 Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario Canada INTRODUCTION 1 1 About this manual 1 2 Technical Support OVERVIEW 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 Description Types of Controls INITIAL START UP 3 1 Server Connection 3 2 Startup Options 3 3 Full Window Displ 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 5 3 3 6 Contrast Colour Mo Embedded Grid Mode 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 4 Depth Channels 4 4 4 4 2 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 6 4 4 7 Setup 4 5 1 Configure 4 5 1 1 Fil 4 5 1 2 4
167. t any interference with the normal operations of the echosounder Diagnostic Tools El i Ch2 14 1kHz Analog Output Echo Test Pulse Test Pulse Depth 20 00 Scale 1000 4 7 3 1 Analog Output The Analog Output setting defines the signal type available at the test pulse generator header on the signal processing module There are various selections which allow for the output of a replica of the detected signal during its various stages of digital filtering There is also a test depth simulation mode that allows for testing of the signal processing module without requiring transmitter cards and transducers to be connected This mode is currently only useful if there is a test cable installed between the test pulse generator and the analog receiver input on the sounder module 4 7 3 1 1 Test Pulse The test pulse control options are only available when the Analog Output is set to Echo Test Pulse The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 39 of 51 4 2 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient 4 7 3 1 2 Depth The Depth parameter is the desired location of the simulated echo return 4 7 3 1 3 Scale The Scale parameter is the
168. t entry This will bring up a dialog that provides access to the key settings required for configuring the port to accept data from the desired device 4 5 2 1 Settings pa Setup COM3 ES Baud Rate 19200 Parity None z Data Stop bits e data 1 stop Cancel OK 4 5 2 1 1 Baud Rate The baud rate can be adjusted to any one of the following options 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 and 38400 4 5 2 1 2 Parity All three options are available for parity None Even or Odd 4 5 2 1 3 Data Stop bits The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 25 of 51 3 15 SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient There are two combinations of data and stop bits currently supported 8 data 1 stop or 7 data 2 stop 4 5 2 2 Format The peripheral device formats supported by the server include GPS Receivers e NMEA GGA e NMEA GLL e NMEA GMP Heave Sensors e TSSI e TSS3 e POSMV EM1000 e POSMV EM3000 Seatex MRU e Navy Remote NOTE The echosounder can support only one device of a particular type such as one heave sensor or one GPS receiver If one port has already been configured to a particular type of sensor any attempt to co
169. t sediments more readily than high frequency signals They are also aware that the bottoms of oceans lakes and rivers are often characterized by one or more layers of soft sediments sometimes very soft as in fluff which may be more liquid than solid overlying harder more acoustically opaque materials Echoes are generated at the interface between substances of low acoustic impedance such as water and higher acoustic impedance sediment An even greater acoustic impedance difference may exist between buried layers of soft and hard sediment A low frequency echosounder will often identify a buried layer of hard sediment as The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 02251 Rev4 1 July 6 2009 Page 6 of 9 Technical Note Echosounder Concepts 2 3 the real bottom while a two channel echosounder will often detect the shallowest interface on the high frequency channel and a deeper layer on the low frequency If the digitized depth values are consistent under these conditions the results with a two channel echosounder can provide useful information about the type of bottom More often the depth values bounce back and forth between one interface and another producing misleading data 2 3 Scal
170. ta of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 3 of 17 2 1 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader 2 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS 2 1 Description When the Firmware Loader application is run it scans the USB bus for supported DSP and printer modules Note for this to work reliably the EchoControl Server application should be terminated before the Firmware Loader is run Additionally to ensure the modules are in the appropriate state to support programming the sounder should be powered off and then back on before the Firmware Loader is activated Once the bus scan is complete the Firmware Loader displays a simple window with a menu system to access key controls for the upgrade process Please see document reference D101 04383 Windows Installation and Firmware Upgrades for detailed instructions on the upgrade process 4 FirmwareLoader 1 39 OX System Upgrades Help cg Ba 5 L Ready The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 4 of 17 SounderSuite FirmwareLo
171. tained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 19 of 23 5 4 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 5 5 Alternate Printer This control is a toggle switch which was included for users having a problem printing to a select group of Windows printers The default for this control is unchecked If the grid data for the line file being printed is the only data that is displayed on a printout then simply checking this control should resolve this problem The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 20 of 23 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 6 1 6 Window This control group is only visible when a valid data file is opened This Control group allows the user to easily arrange the multiple files and Windows they have open At the bottom of this control group is a list of all open line files When a line file from this list is selected it then becomes the active file within the display area of the application 6 1 Cascade This option will take all open wind
172. ted successfully the progress dialog with terminate with a message indicating the successful completion The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04382 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 Page 8 of 17 SounderSuite FirmwareLoader 2 6 Status SUCCESS Firmware upgrade process completed successfully N B At this time the new firmware is programmed into the DSP module but it is not actually running yet The sounder will need to be power cycled for the new firmware to become active 2 3 20 Load CFG Update The Load CFG Update command is used to start the process for programming new feature configurations into a DSP channel module If there are no DSP modules detected then this menu item will be disabled If only one module is detected on the USB bus the user is taken straight to the dialog to open the desired ese file If more than one is detected then a dialog box with a drop list is opened to allow the user to select which module should be updated r Select Sounder Hardware Device Id Module Type 4195 Serial K2K 07 0430 Es The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis inform
173. tended textual header num extended headers records that follow the binary header 0 none traditional 1975 standard 1 variable number n exact number of record 3506 3599 Unassigned Y l massgnedod SEG Y Rev1 2002 KEL Usage Byte s Specification Description Label 000 003 Trace sequence number within line numbers DWORD line trace number continue to increase if additional reels are required on same line 004 007 Trace sequence number within reel each reel DWORD reel trace number starts with trace number 1 008 011 Original field record number DWORD orig record number 012 015 Trace number within original field record DWORD orig trace number 016 019 Energy source point number used when DWORD energy source number more than one record occurs at the same effective surface location 020 023 CDP ensemble number DWORD cdp number 024 027 Trace number within CDP ensemble each DWORD cdp trace number ensemble starts with trace number one 028 029 Trace Identification code WORD trace ident 1 seismic data 2 dead 3 dummy 4 time break 5 uphole 6 sweep 7 timing 8 water break 9 N optional 4 of 11 Usage Description Usage Description Echosounder record number 0 to 65535 1 LF channel 2 HF channel unused unused unused set 1 seismic data KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION SEG Y Rev 0 1979 Specification Description 030 031 Number of vertically summed traces yeilding this t
174. tion contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 13 of 51 p ow SounderSuite SBP Pinger EchoControlClient This option accesses the control that allows the user to increase decrease the contrast of the displayed echogram data This makes the data appear darker or lighter on the display without affecting the actual echogram data received from the sounder G2 3 2 Colour Mode Thereare seven colour modes available plus a simple greyscale mode The seven colour modes are Basic Clr Base Red Base Green Base Blue Base Magenta Base Cyan Base Yellow When the Base colour modes are used the most meaningful presentation is achieved with the Background Black selection See Table 5 0 for details regarding echogram level mapping Display Colour Usage Colour Mode Highest level Greyseale Black Reversed White Colour Dark Red Reversed Dark Red Yellow The Colour setting actually uses the 15 basic Windows colours mapped from lowest level to highest level as follows White or Black see table Light Grey Dark Grey Cyan Blue Dark Blue Dark Cyan Dark Green Dark Yellow Green Yellow Magenta Dark Magenta Red Dark Red The other modes use a basic gradient from the lowest level colo
175. tions Dialog The Startup Options dialog appears each time the EchoControlClient application is started Its purpose is to collect and or confirm initial startup values for some critical parameters The user can select the installed transducer identified by its nominal frequency more specific information is shown below the drop down list the maximum acquisition depth and the working units Click OK to accept the selected contents of the dialog Click Cancel to restore the settings used the last time the application was run 3 3 Full Window Display and Zoom Window Display Full Window Display x Zoom Window Display fx a Contrast 0 Colour Mode Greyscale 1 Overlays Overlays Grid Mode Fine Grid Mode Fine Filters There are two data display views presented in the application main window These views are separated by a splitter bar that allows the windows to be adjusted in size Each view has its own display controls dialog box activated by double clicking the view in question The sections that follow describe the adjustments presented on these two dialog boxes NOTE None of the display options adjustments will affect any of the recorded data If the echogram data is being recorded to the binary file the data is always stored in the same form it is received from the echosounder All display transformations are applied independently from the recorded data 3 3 1 Contrast The informa
176. ton N 9 Watt W Device Trace ID WORD Scalar to be applied to times specified in 94 WORD 113 to give true time value Source Type Orientation WORD Kel EndDepth Kel Undefined Kel Heave 9 of 11 Usage Description Sensitivity parameter setting 1 to 100 Multiplexer channel code not currently used Echo Strength expressed in dB Primary channel parameter setting Pulse Length parameter selection code Transmit blanking paramter expressed in 1 10 system units Sound Speed Parameter Setting Active window start depth Active window end depth No longer defined Heave expressed in 1 100 of system units KEL SEGY FORMAT USAGE DEFINITION 10 of 11 SEG Y Rev 0 1979 SEG Y Rev1 2002 KEL Usage Specification Description Byte s Specification Description Format Label Usage Description 218 223 Source Energy Direction with respect tothe WORD Kel HeaveSensorLatency Latency since heave data received sec source orientation WORD Kel GPSLatency Latency since GPS data received sec WORD Kel EventMarkCode Event mark code 0 no event mark 224 227 Source Measurement Mantissa WORD Kel EventMarkNumber Event mark number if event present WORD Kel Scalar Scalar applied to digitized depth and sampling data rate 228 229 Source Measurement Exponent DWORD Kel DataRate Sampling data rate 230 231 Source Measurement Unit 1 other 0 unknown 1 Joule J 2 Kilowatt kW 3 Pascal Pa 4 B
177. tool bar fimi i Aa Pee He se be ife C W ioie 9 The Main tool bar contains easy access controls which can also be found under the File Menu 4 8 Info Toolbar This control allows the user to enable and disable the application s Info tool bar epth 77 Ping Pri chan 73Par Chart mi idData E Data The Info tool bar contains easy access controls which can also be found under the view menu 4 9 Settings Toolbar This control allows the user to enable and disable the application s Settings tool bar Color ri Event El mni onirast la Sem Ann E s The Settings tool bar contains easy access controls which can also be found under the settings menu The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 15 of 23 4 5 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 4 10 Channel Toolbar This control allows the user to enable and disable the application s Channel toolbar CHANNEL The Channel tool bar contains one button which allows the user to select the channel within the currently active data set that they would like to view This tool bar is only active when more than one channel is recorded in the active data set 4 11 Active Global Scroll This control is a toggle that is only active if
178. tore the vast amounts of data generated especially when working in shallow water where the faster ping rate results in a larger volume of data being generated See the File Format Specification KEB DO Format Document D101 04386 for complete formatting details 4 5 1 5 1 Compress Binary Data When the Compress Binary Data box is checked the application will compress all the KEB binary data records using a Huffman compression algorithm on each record The File Type Id Preamble in each data file will indicate that Huffman compression has been applied This control gives the user the option to store in a compressed or uncompressed format 4 5 1 5 2 Skip Sidescan Channels When the Skip Sidescan Channels box is checked the application will only record the Bathymetry channels to the KEB format The occasion when the user may want to select this is option is if the sidescan data is already being record into the XTF format and it is desired to save storage space 4 5 1 6 ASCII File Format The ASCII output file can be used to log many data fields such as depth echosounder time GPS position and heave Since these files do not contain any of the raw envelope data they use substantially less disk space than the binary files Every ping cycle the application records one output string The user can request to modify the desired output data format by clicking on the Modify ASCII output format button This causes the application to pop up a configurati
179. trol operational parameters and to record data from Pinger series USB echosounders It communicates via TCP IP with the server side application EchoControlServer that connects to the actual physical sounder 1 2 Technical Support For technical support or to report problems please contact your local representative or Technical Support Knudsen Engineering Limited 10 Industrial Road Perth Ontario K7H 3P2 Voice 613 267 1165 8 30 am to 5 00 pm E S T Core Hours Fax 613 267 7085 E Mail support knudsenengineering com WebSite http knudsenengineering com The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 6 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 2 1 2 OVERVIEW 2 1 USB and Network Usage The Pinger series echosounders were designed with a USB interface port to provide advanced remote control and signal data acquisition and recording capabilities KEL has developed a pair of specialized PC applications that run under Windows to interface to these sounders a client side application and a server side application See Figure 2 0 for reference The server side EchoControlServer exe runs on the host PC the one physically connected to the sounder and communicates with the ech
180. tte eee eens 3 23 65 560 DA iicek 03 3 309 03 0986 NHEUE i n 3 23 4 6 1 7 Filter Windowing 0 me 3 23 IN A 3 23 4 6 1 9 Envelope Detectors aderire deed ded oie dede deg 3 23 4 6 1 10 Echogram Type ovem cere CR OR EORR ROC ERAS 3 23 4 6 2 System Settings Page lisse ha 3 24 4 6 3 Working Units sse hh here 3 25 4 6 4 Speed OF Sound iis e es shes a AAA E 3 25 4 6 5 Ping Rae ec n oooh eetlone en eases se Shee eee Ea MOR AER AA A RES 3 26 4 6 6 Tracking Gate 2 004 oa estie d ae RU EE cela es 3 27 4 6 7 Echogram Heave Compensated Uncompensated 0 0 00 0 c cee teens 3 27 4 6 8 Sync Mode Internal External 2 cette eens 3 27 4 7 Setup SUb M EU e oita kiii eaaa r a Ad Sin 4 1 ALI o ii AAA y 4 1 47 2 Load Configuration x aera e re Rte ie ak Dd ee ei nut dd laa 4 1 4 7 3 Diagnostic Tools lle RR e 4 2 4 7 3 1 Analog Output eere egre bp IBN eh PR DOA INSIGNE EE 4 2 4 7 3 1 1 Test Pulse ERE eese 4 2 4 7 3 2 Depth x vod osod32225ES UD ERIS Se xen Uo le he E RC e EE 4 2 4 1 3 9 RRE ERRE 4 2 4 7 4 Recorder Sel evi EGG GG EGO RO RR eh V TR ER REIR Rn 4 2 4 7 4 1 Recorder id 4 3 4 7 4 2 Status Enabled Disabled 0 00 eh 4 3 2 14 3 Contrast s kaka nc heh cheat heroes bed Rr ded ded dedi dedi dede 4 3 ATAA MOL ie bee Rane Gee ob tip pou Es 4 3 ATA FONUSIZe sc tese posee a dda daa 4 3 QW NOE TID PEEL 4 4 4 o OSCUNOSCOPC REEL Rhee Ree A ERSE AEREE AE ENE 4 4
181. under display in real time a greyscale graphic on the PC monitor similar to a hardcopy record capture envelope signal data perform standard depth logging and record in real time to a thermal recorder The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 4 of 16 SounderSuite EchoControlServer st e oN N x Ho X 3 x x x Xx x x pel FE A A AAA A A Se A gt UL d DE mh e 2 S T oo EH o o o 3k dto o o e sizz all aje c c c o c c e c e ccelS c c o o ST olaq G G foe E S ooog o o a e N 2 g hn En E bis o o m P o 2 o o o 3 o 3 3 oO O E 8 3 e c 2 z E 2 4 A 4 t o o qnH asn qnH asn A A y y qnH asn m 7 3 JeAug asnan 29 3 3c MEC 382 os ya Do s Z o E o 5 Q Q o Le o Ww CET SY e ag a5 SE E Fin 3 o a S 2 E O amp os o a Os o9 95 oe E ES ES I gt g SE Oc og Of og oz LES E o9 o9 uz ui S o Z o li no A o A 5 oe
182. ur to the highest level colour see table W 3 3 Grid Mode There are times such as when the chart display is sharing the window with the Oscilloscope display or when the application window is sized to a small area that the grid information can overwhelm and obscure the echogram data of interest The Grid Mode option allows the user to select between no grid a coarse grid or a fine grid to best suit his display needs 3 3 4 Overlays If desired data other than from the echogram can be displayed The Overlays Selections dialog provides options for displaying additional data including r Overlay Selections v Heave Indicator Heave Corrected Depth Uncorrected Depth Tx Blanking The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction of this information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 05429 Rev1 0 April 27 2012 14 of 51 SounderSuite EchoControlClient 3 4 e Heave Indicator records the heave values as received from a heave sensor Heave Corrected Depth records the detected depth corrected by the heave value e Uncorrected Depth plots the detected depth value uncorrected by heave Tracking Gate Limits plots the upper and lower Tracking Gate Limits as lines parallel to the plotted depth e Tx Blanking bla
183. user can terminate the EchoControl Server application using the Exit command The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 8 of 16 SounderSuite EchoControlServer 4 1 4 MAIN MENU Recording This control group allows access to functions that control the recording of data from the echosounder onto the PC drive All data recording options supported can be active simultaneously 4 1 Start Line The Start Line selection instantly initiates the recording of all the active file formats into the storage folder last selected using the Configure option It is advisable to use Configure to verify the setup before initiating the first Start Line command 4 2 End Line The End Line selection causes all data file recording to be terminated and all open data files to be closed 4 3 Configure The Configure selection pops up a dialog box that allows the user to select the folder or directory where the data file set is to be recorded the filename format used to identify the data set and the desired output data formats all can be active at the same time Configure Recording Options m File Naming Mode r File Formats To Be Recorded C User Entry JV Binar
184. will start the transfer of the firmware to the module Once it 1s complete and has passed a validity check a dialog will appear asking for confirmation that you do want to reprogram the firmware contents in the module Click on Yes to proceed Step 8 The application will display the programming status as it proceeds and indicate once it is completed if it was successful or not WARNING Do NOT turn off the power to the sounder while the programming step is active or the memory in the module could be permanently damaged and require return to the factory for reprogramming Step 9 Repeat steps 4 8 for the next module The Firmware Loader simply replaces the contents of the on board boot memory The new firmware is not actually running The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04383 Rev2 2 December 22 2010 Page 15 of 16 5 2 SounderSuite USB Windows Installation Firmware Upgrades yet The sounder will need to be rebooted to run the new firmware Step 10 Click Close and exit the Firmware Loader application Step 11 Power cycle the sounder At this point technically the process is complete but if you wish to verify that the firmware load was completely successful a simple check is in order Step 12
185. window is in 15 colour levels mapped from lowest to highest levels as follows White normal video or Black reverse video Light Grey Dark Grey Cyan Blue Dark Blue Dark Cyan Dark Green Dark Yellow Green Yellow Magenta Dark Magenta Red Dark Red If this item is not checked the envelope data is displayed in levels of grey where for normal video mode white is the lowest level return and black is the highest for reverse video mode white is the highest level return and black is the lowest The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 03175 Rev4 0 July 6 2009 Page 17 of 23 5 2 SounderSuite USB PostSurvey 5 2 2 Reverse Colour When Reverse Colour mode is selected the display colours are configured to make black the main background colour For both colour and greyscale modes the lowest level return is assigned the colour black When Reverse Colour is not selected normal mode the lowest level return is assigned the colour white 5 2 3 Digitized Line Display This control allows the user to display a red line over top of the echogram to indicate where the digitized depth was recorded along the trace This control acts as a toggle to allow the user to switch the Digitized depth overlay on or off
186. xed point arithmetic or poorly written software The only practical solution to truncation and round off noise is to use floating point arithmetic for all timebase related computations and to use continuous polynomial interpolation when working with time sampled data This is the approach taken in all current releases of KEL software Digital timebase errors are essentially nonexistent in KEL Echosounders 2 2 5 Pulse Length Effects If properly implemented different transmit pulse lengths are matched to different receive filters with short pulses matched to wide bandwidth filters and vice versa there is very little point in transmitting a long pulse unless the receive filter has an appropriately narrow noise bandwidth The group delay of an analog or digital filter is inversely related to the bandwidth and can be quite considerable in a narrowband filter Fortunately this is a deterministic effect and can be corrected see the section on offset calibration A more fundamental repeatability issue arises from the simple observation that long narrowband pulses have a much longer rise time than short wideband pulses and the threshold crossing instant is more sensitive to minor amplitude variations This is just another way of stating the well known fact that longer pulses provide poorer range resolution than short pulses 2 2 6 Frequency Effects Hydrographic surveyors are well acquainted with the fact that low frequency sound penetrates sof
187. y File KEB File Name Root KEL V Compress Binary Data v Skip Sidescan Channels PC Generated v Lines Year v Julian Date Y Time v ASCIFie KEA C Setup ASCII format 1 r C From Hypack IV T Storage Folder a EAProjectsWinAppsYSounderSuite USBlDebug E J Automatic numbering Start value 0 File Name Format Example 0001 176 1135 000 se 4 3 1 File Naming Mode With the User Entry option the filename is based on the text entered by the user and an automatic numbering scheme The user must exercise caution in this mode Because the application will not allow a file to be overwritten that already exists the user may not be able initiate file recording if the same name is used every time the application is started without ensuring a different Start value for the automatic numbering The information contained in this document is proprietary data of Knudsen Engineering Limited Any disclosure use or reproduction ofthis information for other than the specific purpose intended is expressly prohibited unless agreed to in writing by Knudsen Engineering Limited D101 04381 Rev2 0 July 6 2009 9 of 16 4 2 SounderSuite EchoControlServer The PC Generated format is the most flexible format and the least likely to cause a conflict with identical file names except in the unlikely instance of two Start Lines within the same minute If such a scenario happens frequently the automati
188. y of the depth measurement also depends on the accuracy of the sound speed value used in the computation The speed of sound is not a constant but depends on several factors most importantly the salinity and the temperature of the water Normally the variations in sound speed from location to location are small enough that only occasional adjustments to this parameter are required such as when transiting from fresh water to salt water If maximum accuracy is important however velocity measurements must be made and the sound speed value entered into the echosounder Since sound speed can vary significantly with depth as a result of temperature or salinity gradients it may be necessary to enter an average velocity based on a measured sound velocity profile 1 6 Draft Draft is the nautical term used for the depth of the keel the deepest point of the vessel below the surface of the water In echosounders it generally refers to the depth of the transducer below the water surface The echosounder compensates for the effect of draft both in the graphic record and in the digital depth display The amount of draft varies from time to time as a result of vessel loading or a transit from fresh water to salt water and a new value must periodically be entered into the echosounder 1 7 Bar Check A bar check is a test procedure used to set up the appropriate speed of sound and draft settings for a sounding session Typically a bar check would be pe
189. y sources and is unavoidable The location of the strongest echo is detected by software and displayed recorded as a depth in metres Each frequency has its own independent display record Echosounder operation is affected by many factors some much more dominant in their effect than others Several of the more important factors and their effects are discussed below 1 3 Bottom Characteristics The strength of the received echo is strongly affected by the type of bottom The strongest echoes are produced by rock gravel or sand such bottoms are said to exhibit high target strength Mud or silt surfaces have low target strength and produce weaker echoes The bottom characteristics can often be deduced from a graphic record as a result of penetration of the ping into the ocean bottom Echoes from harder layers a few decimeters beneath the surface of the sea floor often show up as a characteristic layering effect on the graphic record This is particularly evident in the case of silt overlying rock 1 4 Pulse Length The echosounder s receiver processes the received signal with a bandpass filter with a passband centred at the transducer frequency This filter allows the received echo to pass through but rejects ambient noise at all other frequencies It would seem logical to use the narrowest possible bandwidth to achieve the greatest possible noise rejection and thus detect the weakest echoes of the transmit pulse Unfortunately it isn t t

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