SonarWiz 5 Release Notes

SonarWiz 5 was released on September 2009 and ended production in March 2015 with the release of SonarWiz 6.

Version 5.08.0011 06 MAR 2015

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix bug in Web Export functions where the main map was being exported as a GeoTiff but labeled as a JPEG.

  2. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- SonarWiz now properly converts and scales beam-averaged 7006 backscatter intensity from RESON S7K files.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add support for processing bathymetry from SWATHplus and BathySwath processed SXP files.

  4. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fixed bug in range calculation when converting SWATHplus SXP amplitude data into sidescan CSF format.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added option in the Preferences->General page to allow users to display either WGS84
    latitude/longitude or local datum latitude/longitude. Obviously, if the local datum is WGS84 this option won't have any effect. The defualt state
    is off which displays latitude/longitude as WGS84 always.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fixed bug in initialization of band pass filter.

  7. BUGFIX:VESSEL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Vessel editor was inadvertently disabled for non-bathy licenses. This is now fixed.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Some users complained about the flashing red disk icon on the status bar which was an indication that recording was not active.
    This icon has been removed from installations where only post-processing is available.

  9. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- The heave compensation was not being applied to the seabed trace for either the display of the bottom trace or the conversion of the bottom trace line to a reflector. This is now fixed.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The bathy Merge, Filter and Process Amplitude wizard dialog is now much more responsive on page to page
    switching.

  11. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- When changing the selected palette for a data type via the drop-downs on the ribbon, the palette shown in the legend window for the same data type would not be updated; this is fixed.

  12. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added nadir cutoff filter to the Angle Cutoff filter for removing noise near the nadir

  13. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- All angle-based filters now work on angles measured from nadir regaurdless of processing mode or transducer orientation.

  14. BUGFIX:BATHY:MAJOR:GM:0 -- Raytracing bathymetric samples now properly stores results in database.

  15. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Raytracing performance improved by making the starting velocity layer search more efficient.

  16. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Raytracing now automatically extends sound velocity profiles from the sea surface to the bottom of the ocean to prevent dropped pings when the transducer depth is
    shoal of the top of the sound velocity profile or when pings exit the bottom of the profile.

Version 5.08.0010 20 FEB 2015

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The color legend window is better-behaved when changing data types, opening and closing projects.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Certain dockable windows (color legend and bathy cross-track) could sometimes not be re-shown when closed from docked positions; this is fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- SBP annotation now allows for trying to draw horizontal scale lines near the top of the image (minimum sensor depth) or position zero (for depth, time). Starting positions are still subject to being rounded to "friendly" values.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- SBP navigation plot drawing mode now allows for setting the line width and thickness, independently of the overall navigation plot color; these settings are available in the View -> Drawing Mode -> Sub-Bottom Drawing Modes menu.

Version 5.08.0009 13 FEB 2015

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR:GM:2158 -- Fix dongle code problem with SBP 24-bit server not being recognized.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add support for processing the Kongsberg dual head files.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add support for deleting one or all of the bathy selection polygons.

  4. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:765 -- The HSX reader had inverted the sign of the launch angle and of the heave value. This is now fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The color legend window now allows for scaling backscatter palettes to user-specified percentages of the full data range.

  6. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:327 -- In prior versions, backscatter data would only draw when the SSS overlap mode was set to cover-up; this is fixed.

  7. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:5083 -- The Klein UUV3500 SDF reader was not correctly detecting the angles marked as invalid in the SDF reader. This is now fixed.

Version 5.08.0008 06 FEB 2015

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- In some instances, speed-corrected sidescan images shown in the digitizing window would have many pings missing; this is fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Allow the re-use of bathy cross section segments in the same way that we allow users to re-use previous bathy selection polygons to redit or re-patch test
    on prior selection polygons. For example, if you select an area to cros section and then make some adjustments to say tide and would like to compare the same cross section as before you can now do this
    by enabling the View->Bathy Views->Show Bathymetry Selection Polygons and then simply right click on the previous cross section segment.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The depth scale window now draws shallower depths at the top and deeper depths at the bottom.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Selecting "Capture Target" from the ribbon and clicking on a sidescan file in the plan view would often not cause the resulting digitizer window to scroll to the right location; this is fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Modified the geodesy library LatLonToXY() to populate the callers coordinate variables as long as the return value from the CS_cnvrt call was less than the maximum warning level. The status code is
    still returned to the caller so they can choose to use or not use the compute values but at least now they have a choice. This was
    implemented to respond to an issue where a user wanted to compute a NAD27 coordinate for Belize which is technically south of the NAD footprint.

  6. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix a problem in the HSX reader where the file reading was terminating prematurely.

  7. BUGFIX:BATHY-RT:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix a problem in the sensor offset code that was not correctly reading the number of channels configured in the vessel->Sensor settings.

  8. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Selecting a polygon in the plan view for any of the bathy processing functions now causes the polygon to be drawn as it's created for feedback.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The depth scale window is now able to show palettes for data types other than bathymetry. All non-bathymetry types have their ranges displayed as a percentage, and aren't yet scalable.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The L/R steering indicator and bathymetry cross-track profile windows have more reasonable minimum size requirements.

Version 5.08.0007 30 JAN 2015

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Moving sidescan or sub-bottom files forward or backward in the draw order by one position can now be done via the Alt+F and Alt+B keystrokes, respectively.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add new sonar definition for the Edgetech 2205 AUV bathymetry sonar to vessel editor. Update default offset angles on other swath bathy sensors.

  3. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix subtle error in bathy processing library that caused what looked like a roll error in the processed bathy data.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added "Color by channel" option to Patch Test Calibration utility.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Now 'current' selected vessel is activated when the Vessel Editor is launched.

  6. BUGFIX:SIDESCAN:MINOR:GM:0 -- In the sidescan digitizer, selecting a feature from another file in the drop-down would often scroll the window to the wrong position; this is fixed.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Clicking from digitizer views to select features in prior versions could often be somewhat slow, esp. in projects with many features and/or with features having many points; this is significantly faster now.

  8. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Some icons shown for sidescan files, etc., in the file ordering dialog were wrong; this is fixed.

  9. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The icon shown for contacts in the file explorer tree was wrong; this is fixed.

Version 5.08.0006 23 JAN 2015

  1. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR:GM:0 -- Somewhere along the way the jsf reader lost the ability to write CSF extension data--probably when we decided against the VHR stuff. That made it
    also impossible to use CSF files with the Map Correction stuff. This is now fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- The sidescan bottom tracking image builder could sometimes skip over samples int the output image causing small vertical stripes in the image. This is now fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- The recent enhancement to track the offsets to sidescan altitude was not being updated correctly when the user stepped through the files using
    the Previous and Next buttons in the bottom tracker window. This is now fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:RDF:MINOR:GM:0 -- The recent changes to the GeoSwath bathy processing messed up the sidescan importing. That has been restored in this release.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Implement a Tools->ALL Files extraction utility to display the sensr offset values from the Kongsberg installation packet 0x49.

  6. BUGFIX:EGN:MINOR:GM:0 -- The EGN Build Table dialog's Start button did not resize correctly with the dialog. This is now fixed.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Previously, sidescan waterfall windows would draw very slowly if many foreign features (from other files or the plan view) were drawn; this is improved.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Features digitized on the plan view or from a sidescan waterfall can be edited from the plan view or any waterfall that shows them, regardless of where they were originally created.

Version 5.08.0005 16 JAN 2015

  1. ENHANCEMENTS:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Eliminated old vessel editor--really this time.

  2. ENHANCEMENTS:ALL:MINOR:GM:5335 -- The CSF to XTF converter was not carrying the sound velocity value through. This is now fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENTS:ALL:MINOR:GM:5335 -- Add a column for sound velocity to the Tools->XTF->Export XTF navigation utility.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:4909 -- Fix minor banding problem seen in some sidescan waterfall images.

  5. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:0 -- Added optional 3D view to swath editor which opens in a popup window.

  6. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:0 -- Added keyboard shortcuts for Accept, Reject and Interpolate (Bathy Navigation and Attitude Editor (BNE) only) functions to all bathy editing applications (BNE, Swath Editor, 3D Editor, PTC).

  7. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:0 -- Added support for amplitude grids to bathymetry gridding options.

  8. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The default shape of the default vessel has been update to something more likely to be usable.

Version 5.08.0004 09 JAN 2015

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Previously, when a project was loaded after being moved (e.g., to a different folder, or machine), all sidescan and sub-bottom files would be enabled, even if they were disabled prior to the move. This is fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add filter page to bathy merge wizard.

  3. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Vessel import and export can now be read/written from/to any folder the user wants.

  4. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Vessel Editor now detects and warns when a sonar transducer is configured above the waterline.

  5. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Implement new sample density filter that is useful for some interferomaters like the GeoSwath.

  6. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Remove the draw gridded bathymetry from the view options since this is now handled better by creating/adding grids on the project explorer.

  7. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Simplified the usage of sound velocity files. When a sound velocity file is added to the project explorer and has it's checkbox enabled that SV file will automatically be available for post-processing.
    The manner in which multiple SV files are selected is controlled by the SV Selection Method Nearest Time or Nearest Distance in the merge settings. If an SV file does not contain a valid position, then the selection is done by nearest time.

  8. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- In some previous versions, speed-corrected images created by the batch export (and possibly other) functions were over- or under-corrected, depending on how many samples per channel were imported. This is corrected.

  9. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Replace the grid cell size drop list control with an edit box to allow users to create grids of any size from 0.25 to 200 map units.

  10. ENHANCEMENTS:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Moved shaded relief controls onto the Bathymetry tab. The modal dialog is still available under the View->Bathymetry Views button for now anyway.

  11. BUGFIX:CMAX:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix problems in handling a subset of range/frequency codes in CM2 files. The number of samples in these range codes was being incorrectly reported in the CM2 file. Now fixed.

  12. ENHANCEMENTS:ALL:MINOR:GM:94 -- Removed the 'old' vessel editor dialog as it is now all handled by the new 3d vessel editor.

  13. ENHANCEMENTS:ALL:MINOR:GM:486 -- The batch image export utilty now operates in a background thread that can be canceled by the user.

Version 5.08.0003 06 DEC 2014

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The active vessel is now saved and restored in the project database.

  2. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 When multiple vessels were contained in a project only the first vessel's offsets were aplied during merge. This is now fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 The GeoSwath heave was being inverted during the bathy merge step. This is now fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 The label for SSV source was being changed from "SV Sensor" to "Sensor" after merge. This is now fixed.

  5. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 The SV profile file names and tide file names were missing from the summary page during a merge process. This is now fixed.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 Add SEGY File Specific options to scale selected values during the import process.

  7. BUGFIX:RT-SSS:MINOR:GM:0 The manual TVG gain functions were not handling the sample count correctly with Edgetech dual frequency sonars where the LF sample count was different
    than the HF sample count. This is fixed.

  8. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The shift key is no longer needed to move files between groups in the explorer tree.

  9. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Moving port-side nodes on features in the SSS waterfall would, in prior versions, sometimes result in the node being treated as if it were on the starboard side, e.g., when being drawn in the contact editor, if contact-based; this is fixed.

Version 5.08.0002 04 DEC 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Vessel selection removed from new project creation since the vessel can't be added until a new project exists.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- New projects will always be created with the "Default Vessel". Users may now set the Default Vessel with any existing vessel so that future new projects
    will always be created using the Default Vessel. Also, added options to export and import a vessel to an XML file and to set and clear the default vessel used during new project creation.

  3. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR:GM:0 -- JSF Sidescan files were not reporting the acoustic transmit frequency correctly. This is now fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The SonarWiz log file was linked to two locations in the users common app data path. The log file is no longer linked and is only found in one Logs folder location.

  5. BUGFIX:XTF:MINOR:GM:0 -- The AutoTVG applied on import did not correctly initialize between successive file imports causing the effects of AutoTvg to seem to vary with each import. This
    is now fixed and has also been enhanced to prime the AutoTvg values by pre-scanning each XTF file before importing. This has the benefit of eliminating the wasted area at the beginning
    of each file where the AutoTvg function was "learning" the TVG curve.

  6. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Restore the functionality of the Yellow, Green Red icons associated with the processing state of the bathy file.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- When users import very small SS or SB files that contain fewer pings than the "Time Constant for Course Smoothing" SonarWiz would reject those files. Now, SonarWiz
    adjust the time constant for course smoothing down to the length of the file being imported if the file contains fewer pings than the smoothing value.

  8. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Gridding bathy to be shown in the plan view when e.g., enabling/disabling bathy files could cause crashes due to out-of-memory errors, esp. with many or large datasets. The memory needed for this operation has been cut down considerably, significantly reducing the chances of this occurring.

  9. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Sub-group names for e.g., grid files created for a project could erronously be copied into a new project when it's created; this is fixed.

  10. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Contact positioning on the waterfall SSS digitizer could differ significantly in previous versions under certain circumstances from the mouse click location; this is improved.

  11. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- Feature sub-grouping functions for projects created with 5.08.0001 were not working; this is fixed.

Version 5.08.0001 28 NOV 2014

  1. BUGFIX:XTF:MINOR:GM:0 -- Modify the cable out storage in XTF files to round the floating point value to the nearest integer value.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:TIF:MINOR:GM:0 -- When user selects the option to Export Tiles Only in the Save Project As GeoImage dialog the internally used tiles now include the embedded geodesy information.

  3. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- The polarity context menu was disabled in the SBP playback and acquisition windows. Fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:MAG:MINOR:GM:4114 -- Magnetometer files added to the project with the "Add..." button in the file manager will have their group restored, if any.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:4018 -- Shift + mouse wheel will scroll the SBP digitizer window horizontally now.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The SSS & SBP target editors will cause crosshairs to be drawn in the plan view when the mouse is moved within their images.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:4018 -- Reflector fragments added via "Add Fragment" or automatically after finishing a reflector will have the same name as the reflector being copied.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The "View Selected Contact in Waterfall" menu item will now open a waterfall window for the CSF file the contact was captured from, if applicable.

  9. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The wrong icon was previously showing for contacts within the explorer tree; this is fixed.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:3105 -- There is preliminary support now for showing contact-based features and features from other CSF files (or from the mosaic) in the sidescan waterfall.

  11. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Perimeters are now drawn for selected bathy files when the gridded drawing mode is active, and not drawn when the navigation plot mode is active.

  12. BUGFIX:MAG:MINOR:GM:4114 -- Magnetometer CMF files would previously not be fully updated when a project move is detected, leaving references to old file names intact, which would cause editing e.g., anomalies on these files to fail. This is fixed.

  13. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- The SBP Datum Align utility did not clear any values in the geoid height value when computing the separation between the SBP profile and the reference datum (grid). When SBP datum align
    is applied the internal value for geoid height is now zeroed out so that the aligned profiles will match up in the 3D editor and susequent exports.

  14. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- The Post-processing->Export->Export to 3D Viewer for SBP files has been modified to work in a background user-cancelable thread.

  15. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added new context menu item for SBP files to open the selected files in the 3D viewer without having to go through the batch export dialog above. This is also a
    background process than can now be canceled.

  16. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Mousing over the image in the sidescan bottom tracker now causes a synchronization cursor to be drawn on the plan view.

  17. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:NW:3105 -- The contact sort dialog now supports sorting by distance from all 4 corners of the bounding box around the current contacts (was SW only before), and by distance from a user-supplied X/Y location.

  18. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- Sub-bottom reflector polylines now have an option that will allow them to be colored by depth in the plan view.

Version 5.07.0013 31 OCT 2014

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- ADD FILES in 5.07 series was posting an OUTPUT MESSAGE LOG message saying that the imported file project name did not match that in the database, and this message also appeared x2 for each such file, for each mosaic refresh. We decided to remove this message. Fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- With sidescan images flipped top-to-bottom in the waterfall window, using the new image control ("Use old non-virtual image control" checkbox unchecked) to digitize/capture contacts would result in features/contacts being placed in the wrong location (as if the file were not flipped). This is fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR:GM:0 -- The "Fit View to All" command for adjusting the plan view to encompass all project items now considers enabled magnetometer anomalies when determining the area to show.

  4. BUGFIX:MAG:MINOR:GM:0 -- Editing magnetometer files would previously cause them to disappear from the plan view under some conditions; this is fixed.

  5. BUGFIX:MAG:MINOR:GM:0 -- Some previous versions may have read/written magnetometer anomalies incorrectly, resulting in various problems including disassociation between anomalies and their source magnetometer files, erronous values (esp. peak-to-peak and duration), and failure to display. Several variants of this are detected and fixed, with anomalies and the magnetometer records they're associated with repaired.

Version 5.07.0012 24 OCT 2014

  1. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR:GM:0 -- The JSF import options for SBP was nt saving the user selected TVG value correctly. Fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR:GM:2765 -- Until this release magnetometer data was always limited to a 1Hz sample rate. This version includes a new magnetometer option
    that allows the default (1Hz) sampling or no-downsampling. Successive mag samples that have the same position will still be rejected that is we don't store duplicates.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR:GM:2765 -- Implement a new magnetometer template for the user 2765 that handles the date correctly.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:3839 -- Add min/max latitude and longitude to audit report for waterfall viewer.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The bathy gridding window (when launched from the "Create..." menu item in the right-click menu for the Grids node of the explorer tree) now defaults to the limits of the plan view and allows for new selections to be made on the plan view (via rectangle selection with the mouse). The limits are also snapped to increments of the chosen cell size.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Grid files can now be exported in a variety of formats. The "Export..." menu items in the right-click menu for grid files in the explorer tree will launch a window similar to the magnetometer export window.

Version 5.07.0011 17 OCT 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Minor UI tweaks to the new grid branch of the tree control and bathy grid export dialog to allow user control of the graphically selected extents.
    The grids are also now always stored in the ./Grids folder of the current project.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Implement shaded relief drawing of bathymetric grids.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Implement new Bathy XYZ Export dialog to provide users with more control over exported XYZ file format.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- An similar problem to that noted in BUGFIX 3 from 5.07.0009, most likely to affect diagonal lines, is fixed.

Version 5.07.0010 01 OCT 2014

  1. BUGFIX:SDF:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix import reading problem with dual frequency Klein UUV3500 data.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add ribbon UI category for bathymetry functions. The ribbon is removed for dongles that do not include a bathymetry post-processing license.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add option to SBP reflector exports to add the SBP Datum Alignment offset to exported reflector files like CSV and XYZ text.

  4. BUGFIX:S7K:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix the sidescan import on S7K files.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add an option to the CSF to SEGY converter to generate SEGY in either 16-bit fixed point or 32-bit floating point formats.

  6. BUGFIX:LINES:MINOR:GM:0 -- Recent enhancements to the survey line tree control caused a problem with the Survey Line Time report tool. This is fixed.

Version 5.07.0009 19 SEP 2014

  1. BUGFIX:BATHY_RT:MINOR:GM:0 -- Only write into the real-time bathy grid when recording is active.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add Clear Grid menu item to clear the real-time bathy grid display.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- At certain high zoom levels or resolutions, blocks of data could be missing from the plan view or GeoTIFF exports; this is fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- User-defined tile exports are now limited to tile sizes within 10 and 1000 meters, and pixel sizes within 5cm and 10m.

Version 5.07.0008 15 SEP 2014

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Not sure if this is a new version of HSX or not but customer sent files containing 24 bit sidescan samples from MB1 data and SonarWiz
    was not scaling them correctly. Fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix crash problem in HSX bathy processing that occurred when the HSX:RMB record did not contain quality values.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:0 -- The Report button in the Sonar File Manager window was using the start and end points of the line to estimate its length. This has been modified to
    sum the distances between each ping resulting in a more accurate estimate of line length.

Version 5.07.0007 12 SEP 2014

  1. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Many of the bathy utilities were only enabled in the GUI when a project that contained bathy files was opened. This restriction has been relaxed so that
    these utilities may be launched with non-bathy projects as well. This is particularly useful for the bathy gridder utility which is a more robust gridding option than the one found
    under Tools->Grid and Contour.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- The sidescan tiling export function would occasionally drop tiles intermittently. We think we have this fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- The 8-bit sidescan import function was introducing noise that looked alittle like cross-talk. We don't see many 8-bit sidescan files anymore but this has been fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The waterline height was not being used in the final depth computation. Fixed.

Version 5.07.0006 8 SEP 2014

  1. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Factory bathy settings files were missing default settings for the merge section. These have all been updated.

  2. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- When applying GPS heights, we were not accounting for the GPS antenna height offset.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- We discovered, and corrected, a problem reading in old project (V17) CSF files, which did not display correctly, in any of the 5.07 releases.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Removed the Maintain Backward Compatibility checkbox to store the lower resolution V17 CSF files, from project setup dialog and advanced preferences.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- Expanded the SBP Cursor tracking info window so we can display more stuff like sensor depth in ms. More to follow.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- For batch reflector thickness computations, SonarWiz now only operates on reflectors that are enabled, meaning reflectors which have their check box SET in the feature manager.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added a new reflector thickness file format that simply exports the Date,Time,Ping,Reflector,Lat,Lon,X,Y,ReflectorDepth(ms),SeafloorDepth(ms), so the user can better manipulate the data.

  8. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The time stamps for some of the attitude and position records were not being computed correctly in the Isis XTF files for the C3D bathymetry.

  9. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The sound velocity in RDF files that have it was not being applied correctly during the import step.

  10. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The sound velocity file selection for nearest time or nearest distance was failing to select a file when the time or position was not valid in the SV file. Fixed.

Version 5.07.0005 29 AUG 2014

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- When importing multiple SSS files in some formats, in particular RDF, there was a bug that caused the first ping of the 'next' file
    to be set to the position of the last ping of the 'previous' file. This has been fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY-RT:MINOR:GM:0 -- Launching the Edgetech 4600/6205 bathy server now will always set the server so that it records JSF data when SonarWiz starts its recording.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY-RT:MINOR:GM:0 -- Simple improvements to the real-tie gridded bathymetry plan view display.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- First release of new grid filter editing option in standalone 3D Bathymetry editor.

Version 5.07.0004 22 AUG 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add support to parse, log and display magnetometer data received through a sonar interface like the Edgetech 4200.

  2. BUGFIX:SDF:MINOR:GM:4236 -- Fix a bug in Klein 3000 channel/frequency selection that caused K3000 SDF files to display the port channel in both the port and stbd locations.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Decent performance improvements to the real-time bathymetry drawing in plan view. Now the real-time data is gridded according to the
    grid size settings in the View->Drawing Mode->Bathymetry Drawing Mode->Grid Size control. Real-time data is always gridded. The historical data may be viewed as gridded or raw points.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Enhance the drawing of freespan objects in both the plan view and waterfall views.

Version 5.07.0003 15 AUG 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- New twists to contact editor and contact manager export utility to allow generate a pipe span report.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:NW:4276 -- Upgrades to the JSF importer to unravel the raw magnetometer data contained in the serial device packets within a JSF file. The JSF file
    contains unframed raw serial data in each packet and we now buffer the packets and reassemble complete records.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:NW:4276 -- New option to JSF importer that allows users to write out a text file containing the raw magnetometer data when the
    JSF file contains serial data logged from either a Marine Magnetics or Geometrics system. The JSF importer prepends the current time and position from
    the nearest JSF record.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:NW:3004 -- Implement new freespan pipeline tracking tool in sidescan waterfall digitizer.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- First cut at drawing real-time bathymetry gridded during acquisition in plan view.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix problem with sonar contact image generation introduced in first 5.07 release.

Version 5.07.0002 08 AUG 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Modest enhancements to real-time mosaic sidescan drawing to better handle CSF files when the real-time mosaic option is
    disabled. Previously, when real-time sidescan mosaic was disabledm, CSF files were not generated and this prevented the user from capturing contacts.

  2. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- If a user changes the apply pressure depth setting in the bathy profile editor, that setting (and a couple of others) were not being
    propogated through to the dataset during import. This is fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- If a user edits the settings on one bathy dataset and then used the Apply To All button the function was using the previous settings
    instead of the ones the user had just modified. This is fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- The import sidescan dialog had a set of hidden (and hopefully unused) functions for aggregating the old Marine Sonic MST files during import.
    This same action can be accomplished after import in a graphical more intuitive way and so this option to aggregate during import has been removed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- The Make Others Like this dialog has had a major overhaul. We now display all of the settings of the reference line that
    is about to be applied to the others. In addition, we allow the user now to select how offsets will be applied when transferring offsets from the reference
    file to other files. Users may now select the last relative move setting or they may choose the absolute move settings.

Version 5.07.0001 01 AUG 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MAJOR:NW:0 -- Major sidescan resolution upgrade. Users may now choose the resolution they want to see when importing sidescan files.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add new import options for processing the EM2040 snippets backscatter data from Seabed Image 89 packet.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:2162 -- The XTF reader for 8-bit sidescan data was broken during a recent update. Luckily we don't see too many 8-bit XTF files any more.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:926 -- The Klein SDF reader for page type 3000 and 3001 (Klein System 3000) was not correctly selecting the array data. This is fixed.

  5. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR:GM:2087 -- The Tools->CSF->CSF to SEGY utility option for constant start time was not reading the min/max sensor depths correctly. Fixed.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Initial implementation of on the fly gridded plan view drawing. The bathy plan view drawing modes now adds 3 options for gridded surfaces: shoalest, median and deepest.

  7. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:389 -- Modify the Kongsberg ping handling logic to work around their 16-bit ping number storage that wraps around every 65K pings.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Detect when SonarWiz is running over remote desktop or similar and intervene on settings selections that are not supported on remote sessions.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR:GM:0 -- Undo & redo for the magnetometer gamma interpolation and clipping functions is available in the magnetometer editing windoww.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:C3D:MINOR:GM:0 -- Implement attitude source options for C3D XTF file that include ATTITUDE packet 3, GYRO packet 84 or the SIDESCAN record 0.

Version 5.06.0065 18 JULY 2014

  1. BUGFIX:3D:MINOR:GM:0 -- When exporting a non bathymetric file the CFG file generated with incorrect depth range values.

  2. BUGFIX:3DPDF:MINOR:GM:0 -- Thew new 3D-PDF function introduced last week installed a DLL that conflicted with the CTI Geodesy Tool, NavInjectorPro and a few other minor utilities. This is reolved in todays release.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added support for importing Kearfott INS navigation and attitude data from Gavia as an optional replacement navigation and attitude data loaded from the raw bathy files.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The Bathy Navigation and Attitude editor now supports the display and editing of external navigation files.

Version 5.06.0064 11 JULY 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Significant improvement over bathymetric processing of Kongsberg EM2040 bathymetry.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:4114 -- The XTF and JSF along track downsampling options have been improved to allow for finer control over the percent of along track pings used.
    This is useful for ROV work where the speed of the vehicle along track is very slow compared with towed or AUV applications.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:NW:0 -- Added capability to 3D viewer to now generate and export 3D PDF files viewable in standard Adbobe Acrobat reader. Use the Tools->Export xxx options in 3D viewer to kick this off.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- A few more minor improvements to the Kogsberg EM2040 seabed image 89 packet (snippets) processing of backscatter data.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add some additional information to the bathy file properties report including star/end times, duration and rate.

Version 5.06.0063 07 JULY 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add XTF file option to skip the first N files during import of SSS or SBP.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:NAV:MINOR:GM:3060 -- Add new navigation interface for Novatel SPAN INSPVASA string.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:NAV:MINOR:GM:3060 -- Add new navigation interface for Novatel SPAN BESTPOSA string.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:NAV:MINOR:GM:3060 -- Add new motion sensor interface for Novatel SPAN $PASHR string.

  5. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fixed weird JSF bathy 'pigs tail' pings that were occasionally seen at the beginning of some JSF files especially when importing multiple JSF files at once.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added user interface to allow the re-use of selection polygons that were previously used to edit areas of bathymetry, generatea patch test or grid

  7. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Implement new MapInfo format for bathymetry contours. Google Earth and MapInfo contour formats can both now display the contour depth values when loaded as overlap.

  8. BUGFIX:MAP:MINOR:GM:0 -- Map corrections were initially only enabled for XTF files. This release enables map corrections to be supported for JSF and SDF files too.

  9. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fixed problem with XYZ position in some cases where sensor offsets were defined in the vessel setup.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added global checkbox option to Advanced Preferences dialog to allow the user to select the new Experimental Waterfall Digitizing viewer as the default viewer.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Implement new Cross Section Bathymetry utility that allows users to drag a line across an area in the bathymetry plan view and pop open a window that shows the vertical profiles of the underlying bathymetric points.

  12. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix problem where the real-time SSS CH1-2 waterfall context menu would open the gain settings initialized to CH3-4.

  13. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Enhance the processing of the Kongsberg snippets (Seabed image data 89 packet) in the .ALL file format.

  14. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix a couple of issues parsing the EM2040 attitude data. The validity flags were not being applied correctly to the 65 and 110 packets. Also fixed a scaling problem in the heave parser for the 65 packet.

Version 5.06.0062 27 JUNE 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Modest improvements to the Patch Test Manager dialog.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix bug that was introduced in a recent version that caused the range to be scaled incorrectly when the projection units were not in meters.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:4740 -- Hook up UI to new bathy cross section utility.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:2662 -- Add new CSFsidescan utility to swap port and starboard sidescan channels in a file after importing. This utility is to correct data where the
    port and sonar transducer cables were crossed.

  5. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR:GM:290 -- When building thickness reflectors in batch mode (all files), resulting reflectors would be placed on the line currently opened in the digitizer, rather than on the line holding the top & bottom reflectors used. This has been fixed.

Version 5.06.0061 20 JUNE 2014

  1. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:235 -- Fix HSX reader problem that caused up and down jumps in the altiude of some pings.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:865 -- Add starting and ending X/Y coordinates to Sonar File Summary Report.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR:GM:865 -- Add starting and ending X/Y coordinates to Project Summary Report.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SDF:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add navigation validity checking on the Klein SDF bathy navigation processor.

  5. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:1417 -- Annotations on images exported via batch export were not matching those shown in the waterfall window, esp. in the presence of end-to-end image flipping & speed correction; this is fixed.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:4880 -- The waterfall digitizer could crash the program when opened on certain machine configurations or when running through a remote desktop;
    this was due to the experimental image control failing to be created. This is fixed; the waterfall can fall back to the original image control only if
    the new one can't be created, and there are fewer ways the new control can fail to be created.

Version 5.06.0060 13 JUNE 2014

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:3065 -- Showing only port or starboard data on SSS files in the plan view, in conjunction with nadir transparency, could end up drawing some errant thin lines directly down the nadir; this is fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:3065 -- Using the contact hiding feature would cause transparent areas of the swath to lose their transparencies, resulting in dark squares extending into the transparent areas near the starting and ending positions of the obscured region; this is fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:FEATURES:MINOR:GM:1663 -- Add new standalone utility for permanently removing feature database records that have been marked for deletion and compression the feature database.

  4. BUGFIX:HSX:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix a problem in the HSX sidescan reader where if no sidescan records were detected a CSF file would still be added to the project.

  5. BUGFIX:HSX:MINOR:GM:4839 -- Fix a problem in the Coverage Report Generator when a project contained a mixture of SSS and SBP files.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add new option to the coverage report generator to allow the user to select which files will be used in the coverage report. The new checkbox at the bottom of the dialog provides
    a means of using only a currently enabled sidescan files or all of the sidescan files whether they are currently enabled or not.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:235 -- Initial implementation of Patch Test Manager to allow users to group and apply different patch test values for different groups of bathy files in their projects. This is a work in progress,

  8. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added ribbon UI to patch test utility.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added manual editing capability to patch test tool.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Added trackbar to patch test tool's sidebar to step through calibration value range faster.

Version 5.06.0059 6 JUNE 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:FEATURES:MINOR:GM:1663 -- Add new Clean Feature Database button to the Feature Manager dialog to allow users to physically delete feature records marked for
    deletion from the database. The Clean Feature Database button appears when the user selects the check box in the feature manager dialog labeled "Display Deleted Features" only
    if there are currently features that have been marked for deletion.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR:GM:367 -- The CSF to SEGY export function was not writing the trace header sample interval (bytes 117-118) correctly during export. Fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:RS232:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fixed a minor typographic error in the serial port baud rate setup dialog contained a typo where baud rate of 38400 was labeled as 37400.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Add new bathy menu item and toolbar button to select a user defined polygon of points to edit in the area editor. Thi same tool can also
    be used to select data for the new (Beta) version of the Patch Test Utility which we should have complete by next week.

  5. BUGFIX:REPORTS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix a crash problem in the contact report generator that occurred when out of range values were supplied in the event number column of the contact database.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR:GM:367 -- The CSF to SEGY export function was not handling the pecent of range to map setting correctly. Fixed.

Version 5.06.0058 30 MAY 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:FATHOMETER:MINOR:GM:2416 -- Add geoidal height to fathometer file recording options and also to the default file format.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR:GM:319 -- Add magnetometer anamoly file export format compatible with USACE requirements.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:2508 -- In the adjust displayed range dialog we now display the Full Range value all the time.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- When importing the Klein 5900 gap filler channels, set the towfish altitude to zero.

  5. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:0 -- Correct a problem in the NavInjectorPro utility that prevented users from adding template variables.

  6. BUGFIX:NAV:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix a bug that caused the annoying series of message boxes when launching the Navigation (ZEdit) editor.

  7. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Fix a false warning message when importing BathySwath SXI files related to the ping time and ping number not
    getting reset correctly when multiple files were imported in one session.

  8. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:319 -- Fixed a problem with the swipe tool related to the way files are selected. If a file was selected in the plan view Swipe worked correctly
    but not so if the files are selected in the tree control of the project explorer.

  9. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR:GM:319 -- Fixed a problem with sidescan mosaic channels (both, prt only, starboard only) option.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR:GM:4236 -- Allow User to set size font of classification legend as well as select one of the 4 corners for placing the legend in the image.

Version 5.06.0057 16 MAY 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:FEATURES:MINOR:NW:3690 -- Add new import option for creating SonarWiz digitized features (points, lines and polygons) from standard vector files like DXF, SHP, KML, etc.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:865 -- Add support for 32-bit floating point support for band pass filter. Previously only signed 16-bit integer data was supported.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:3363 -- Fixed a bug in the contact editor that prevented the user from moving contacts where the new location distance from nadir was less that the sonar altitude.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:CONTACTS:MINOR:GM:865 -- Added Advanced settings button in the contact preferences window to control how contact, length, width, height and scour measurements are computed
    for rationalied contacts. The user may now choose to use the maximum or average of the measurements from the contacts being rationalized. The computation modes may be chosen
    independently for each for the 4 measurements listed above. The default mode is to use the maximum value for height and the average value for all others.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:CONTACTS:MINOR:GM:865 -- The contact editor now blocks user move and measurement functions on rationalized contacts. The requirement for this function was to provide a justifiable
    and repeatble method to produce a compsite position for a group of contacts.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:CONTACTS:MINOR:GM:865 -- When the user has chosen the User Class 1 Name substitution method for contact naming the contact editor generates a unique contact name when the user
    class name is assigned to the contact. Previously, in some cases it was possible to get duplicate contact names.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:CONTACTS:MINOR:GM:865 -- In order to support the enhancement above, user classification files may be edited upon loading into the contact editor to replace funky characters that
    would not be allowable in a windows file name.

  8. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- Non metric projects were not handling the offsets and sound speed correctly. This has been fixed.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:865 -- The bathy grid setup dialog now uses the abbreviation of the current map unit name when generating the output grid file name.

Version 5.06.0056 09 MAY 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR:GM:0 -- The external ExportXYZ application has been deprecated and this function is now handled
    internally by SonarWiz as part of the preparation to support GSF export.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR:GM:3363 -- User reported a crash problem when the contact preference was set to open the contact editor each time a contact was picked and during the
    editing session the contact that was just picked was deleted. This problem is resolved.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:486 -- The SBP profile batch image export utility now exports the contact symbols when the options check box for Export Digitized Features is enabled
    and the contact display checkbox is also set.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:0 -- The Contact Manager now disables the buttons for S-57, Geotiff and Google Earth unless the manager contains at least one sidescan based
    contact that is enabled. These exports (obviously) are not meaningful for sub-bottom contacts.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR:GM:0 -- Minor performance enhancement to serial port class.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR:GM:75 -- Add support for real-time heave compensation in the Edgetech 3x00 chirp interface when using a motion sensor that can provide the TSS01 datagram.

Version 5.06.0055 02 MAY 2014

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- When new contacts were digitized in the waterfall view they did not correctly inherit the default label drawing setting. This is fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:CONTACTS:MINOR -- Fixed a small case sensitive issue in the processing status assignment for Contact Rationalization function.

  3. BUGFIX:CONTACTS:MINOR -- Fixed a problem in the drawing of contact symbols digitized on 'other files' in the waterfall digitizer. This only occurred when the
    project was based in units other than meters.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Fixed a problem with processing JSF sub-bottom files where the range changed during the course of the file.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR -- Modify the logic on processing FGSI PLR magnetomter files such that if an altimeter value is present we now use it, otherwise the altitude is computed from
    the difference between water depth and sensor depth.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Prevent BTK files from REALLY old projects from SonarWiz.MAP 4 from being used to update altitude in a current SonarWiz 5 project. The BTK and CSF formats are too different to reconcile.

  7. BUGFIX:MAP:MINOR -- Fixed a problem with Map Corrections when the basemap in use was not in the same map projection as the project, the symptom was that the user could add a sonar
    correction point but not a corresponding map correction point. This is now fixed.

Version 5.06.0054 25 APR 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:XTF:MINOR -- Add some additional file information to the Tools->XTF->Extract XTF Header utility.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add support for gridding external XYZ files in the CTIBathyGridder utility Post-Processing->Export->Bathy Exports->Export Bathy Grid

  3. BUGFIX:HSX:MINOR -- When mapping HSX bathymetry sample intensity the range of the sample was not being handled correctly. Fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Minor upgrade to the sidescan post-processing bottom tracking function to better handle the tracking of the first few pings.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add contact option to set the processing state of a selected contact to "Final" or "Draft". All contacts are originally set to "Draft" when created.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add new contact test when rationalizing multiple contacts. The input contacts are tested to see if they all have the same input class--which they should
    since the user is saying they are all the same contact. If the input contacts have different (and non-empty) class values, the user is advised they need to verify the class in the rationalized contact.

Version 5.06.0053 18 APR 2014

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- The Hypack Shared Memory interface was not working. This is fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SDF:MINOR -- The bathy setting inside the Klein SDF File Specific Options for ship or fish heading source was not being handled correctly. This is fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Initial support for processing the zoom level (121) records from the Syqwest Bathy 2000, StrataBox and HydroBox ODC files. To select the zoomed records,
    use the File Type Specific Options button on the SBP import dialog and go to the ODC tab. At the bottom of the ODC window there is a checkbox labeld "Process only zoom (121) records.
    When this checkbox is set, the standard (111) records are ignored and only the 121 zoomed records are processes.

Version 5.06.0052 11 APR 2014

  1. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- The real-time bathymetry server socket connection was not being closed correctly when the server broke the connection.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add XTF File Specific option check box to enable recording XTF files in local time.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add SEGY File Specific option check box to enable recording SEGY files in local time.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add tracking direction checkboxes for Semi-automatic reflector tracker (SART) in SBP Digitizer View::Acoustic Reflectors.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add new sonar contact controls in the Preferences dialog to specify the prefix name, color and symbol to be assigned to
    'rationalized' contacts. Rationalized contacts represent an 'average' contact automatically generated based on a user selected set of two or more contacts.
    Rationalized contacts contain the averaged position, maximum height and shadow measurements and use the first selected contact image and for minor attributes.

  6. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- When opening the gain control window from the context menu in a waterfall window to edit low- or high-frequency SSS/SBP gains, the two
    waterfall windows would have two different sets of settings, only one of which was saved/loaded correctly at shutdown/startup time. The waterfalls share gain
    settings now for each datatype (SSS/SBP)/frequency (HF/LF) combination.

  7. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Bathy plan view drawing while recording is improved; before, when the ship moved off the edge of the screen and triggered a re-center, much/all of the existing bathy wouldn't be drawn. This is (largely) corrected.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:NAV:MINOR -- L/R steering indicator now colors the steering needle the same (red/green) as the offset text.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR -- Cleaned up termination of real-time sensor connections.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR -- The mosaic setup window now allows the choice of showing a limited number of bathy files during recording, as it does for sonar data.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- The swipe tool can now operate on selected bathy files, as it does on selected sonar files.

Version 5.06.0051 04 APR 2014

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- Some changes made (e.g., gain) via the "apply to all" window were not being processed immediately; this is fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- In some circumstances, bathy recording sessions could begin failing in a way that would never allow them to recover; this is fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Bathy drawing during recording could cause a program crash; this is fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Semi-automatic reflector tracking is faster and more accurate than before.

  5. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Cross Track Display—nadir was shifting based on how the data wass displayed. This is fixed.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add check-box to the real-time mosaic dialog to allow users to control whether or not bathy will be drawn in the plan view. Also,
    improved the response to the sidescan modes for real-time mosaic drawing.

Version 5.06.0050 28 MAR 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add some drawing options to the bathy cross track profile display to show perspecive view or bathy waterfall.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:CONTACTS:MINOR -- Add first cut a contact rationalization function. The idea is that when duplicate picks on the same contact occur, the user
    can select all or some of the duplicates and create a 'rationalized' contact from them. The new rationalized contact will have the average position of all of the selected
    contacts and will inherit the image and most of the attributes from the first contact in the selection group. If the group of contacts contained measurements then
    the new rationalized contact will use the average value for scour, length and width and the maximum value for shadow and height.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Extract pitch and roll when importing XTF files. We don't use it for anything yet but we might.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:JSF:MINOR -- Implement an along track downsampling function for importing JSF files where the along track ping density is too high. This can happen in ROV sidescan ops.

  5. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix bug in output of custom depth scaling values into 3D Viewer configuration file for seismic profiles.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- The bathy cross-track display now uses the same palette as is used for showing bathy data in the plan view.

  7. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- Clicking in the plan view will now de-select container nodes in the explorer tree (i.e., nodes not corresponding to a thing selectable in the plan view, e.g., the root node, the base sidescan and sub-bottom nodes, sub-groups). This alleviates the situation where some context menus wouldn't be available due to those nodes being selected.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Container nodes in the explorer tree now list a count of the items within them. Nodes containing more than one type contain a count of the primary type (e.g., the sub-bottom top-level node contains a count of the sub-bottom files, even though it contains intersections as well).

  9. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- The progress bar at the bottom of the main window could sometimes jump from a high completion percentage to a low one during a redraw; this is fixed.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Redraws of the plan view and rebuilds of the explorer tree are reduced in some instances (e.g., opening projects for the former, adding a single file to the project for the latter).

  11. ENHANCEMENT:XTF:MINOR -- Add roll, pitch, water temp and altitude to XTF navigation extraction utility spreadsheet export.

  12. BUGFIX:CONTACTS:MINOR -- Recompute Contacts was not converting a range value from non-metric units correctly. This is now fixed.

Version 5.06.0049 14 MAR 2014

(release not done - all changes included in 3/21/2014 release of 5.06.0049)

  1. ENHANCEMENT:3DVIEWER:MINOR -- Add user defined color mapping ala SonarWiz.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:3DVIEWER:MINOR -- New WebGL Export function now works with Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. And we added progress loading bar and vertical scaling.

  3. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- This vessel offsets were not being transferred correctly to the bathy library. This has been fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR -- Mag Log Type 5 - new mag file template added in version 7.45 of FFTemplates_system.db3

  5. ENHANCEMENT:3DVIEWER:MINOR -- SonarWiz now sets the same color map settings including the custom depth range colors for bathy grids when launching 3d viewer.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add new cutoff angle filter to reject bathy sampleas outside of a user specified angular sector.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add defaultSV and TimeDelay to the RawSonar table in the bathy DB.

  8. BUGFIX:NAV:MINOR -- Fix a UDP socket buffer size problem that made SonarWiz look like some of the Applanix POS messages were not being received.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Minor enhancements to bathy cross track profile display.

  10. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR - In some instances, SonarWiz could fail to shut down properly when sidescan or sub-bottom files were awaiting processing; this has been fixed.

  11. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR - Batch bottom tracking and batch exporting of SSS/SBP data could eliminate sub-groups erronously; this has been fixed.

  12. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR - Some sidescan or sub-bottom files, with offsets applied, could exhibit strange drawing artifacts after processing (e.g., gain), such as overly-dense perimeters. This is fixed.

  13. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR - The explorer tree could sometimes (mostly just after startup) fail to properly de-select the existing selection when a new selection was made via the right mouse button, causing context menus to not display. This is fixed.

  14. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR - In certain cases, the explorer tree could look as if a file or bathy dataset was selected, even though it wasn't. As a consequence, the explorer tree would show a menu on right-click with inapplicable items. This is fixed.

  15. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR - In projects having overlapping low- and high-frequency sonar data, jagged artifacts could often be seen near the intersection point, in which files low in the draw order appeared to be drawing on top of files high in the draw order. This is fixed.

Version 5.06.0048 07 MAR 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:3DVIEWER:MINOR -- Now output folder for WebGL reports will be automatically set to containing folder of the item being exported.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:3DVIEWER:MINOR -- Added 'Open in browser' and 'Open containing folder' checkboxes to webGL export dialog in 3D viewer.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Changed bathey area editor default values of '2D View' and '3D View'. Also modified default values for bathy area based editor as follows:
    3.1. Subset editor orientation (in mini mode) - Vertical.
    3.2. Auto filtering mode – Auto Reject.
    3.3. Auto-hide subset manager – On.
    3.4. Show rejected samples – Off.
    3.4. Show coordinate axes – Off.

  4. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Checkboxes in 3D Editor will persist after application restart.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add an option to the contact preferences that allow a contact to be named to by the user classification 1 selection in the contact editor. When the "Dynamic substitution of User Classification 1 for contact root name"
    checkbox is on in the Contact Preferences dialog, the contact name prefix will be replaced with the currently selected user classification 1 string.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The CSF to XTF export function was storing the event number in the old XTF location for event number. This has been fixed.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Implement an advanced settings dialog for map corrections to offer users more control over how the map correction algorithm works.

  8. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- On initial installations the vessel selection dialog was not available. This has been fixed.

  9. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- When exporting a CSF file that was clipped to a closed polygon, the function would occasionally fail. This has been fixed.

Version 5.06.0047 25 FEB 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Plan view drawing enhancements for simultaneous acquisition of both bathy and sidescan.

  2. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix crash when applying AutoHeave or AutoRoll to a bathy file that had no processed XYZ.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Fix a scaling problem with CODA sidescan files that contain a zero in the data_size_bits field of the CODA sonar message header.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add some defensive code to the C and C MultiNav navigation parsing logic to catch exceptions thrown when their beacons go offline.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR -- Add the ability to generate magnetometer corrections by adding a map correction point in the Mag Editor and on the plan view. Also, add the
    capability to copy sonar map corrections to mag files that have the same time stamp.

  6. BUGFIX:MAG:MINOR -- Fix up Magnetometer File Manager Export dialog to get the enhanced ascii file working again

  7. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR -- Added ability to create map corrections to mag editor and also to display the map correction x and y.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR -- Add map corrections to enhanced CSV mag file export file.

Version 5.06.0046 14 FEB 2014

  1. BUGFIX:MAPS:MINOR -- Map Corrections function was inadvertently disabled for evaluation licenses. That is now fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- The new CSF to SEGY utility crashed when a user supplied EBCDIC file was not provided. This is now fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix long loading times and out of memory conditions for large or noisy datasets in bathy swath editor.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- The bottom trackers in SSS and SBP windows now accept a floating point value for the blanking parameter to assist in shallow water tracking applications.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- When a user provides a custom EBCDIC file to use with the SEGY they may also specify that when the $FILENAME$ variable is observed in the
    user EBCDIC text file that SonarWiz is to replace that with the acoustic filename that was the source for the CSF. This function has been modified so that instead of using the full filename for example "my_file.jsf"
    the substitution would now simply become "my_file".

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- Fix an obscure bug with drawing digitized features in the SS digitizer that only occurred when the image was flipped top to bottom and the slant range correction was
    disabled and it was the first Tuesday of the month. JK about the Tuesday.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:MAPS:MINOR -- Minor improvements in the storing and loading of online map resources.

  8. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- Fix annotation bug where in some cases the last event number would not appear on an exported SS waterfall image that had been flipped top to bottom.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- New projects will default to the previous bathymetry settings profile used.

Version 5.06.0045 01 FEB 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- First working version of applying a vertical datum shift based on a gridded version of the datum heights. The strategy
    is to take the transducer position and look up it's associated datum height from the grid and scale the height by the user entered scalar value.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Correct a problem with annotation by distance when using the batch image export tools with flipped images when the annotation type was distance
    and the image had been scaled along track.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add new bathy post-processing function to smooth heading or position or both. This might be useful when processing small AUV
    datasets with low quality motion sensors.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- First release of new shaded relief image that generates a geotiff image by combining an optional input tiff image with a bathymetric grid.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Sidescan and sub-bottom files and sub-groups can now be dragged in the file explorer tree to change their drawing order. Additionally, the
    file ordering dialog (available through the Order sub-menu of sidescan/sub-bottom context menus) now uses a tree instead of a list to show the files in their groups. Moving files
    into subgroups by dragging is still supported but requires pressing the Shift key after dragging has started.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Shift + F and Shift + B now invoke the "move to front" and "move to back" functions on a single selected SSS/SBP file, respectively.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- There are now draw order and sub-group columns in the file explorer dialog, and any column can be sorted on (subject to SSS sorting before SBP).

  8. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- When dragging files in the sonar file manager, the grid rows (albeit not the header) are refreshed as the dragging occurs, instead of being painted white.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Within the file manager, a checkbox click within one of several selected rows now operates on all selected rows.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Correct the display of SBP sensor depth which was displaying only half of the distance. The system info panel also now displays both time and distance for SBP sensor depth.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- First release of new auto-roll correction function intended for use with shallow water AUV bathy applications where a low quality IMU is in use.

  12. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Remove useless bathy draft mode drawing style.

  13. BUGFIX:TILING:MINOR -- Fix a bug with the Export Mosaic Tiles function where the tiling process would stop if a single tile that was inside the convex hull was found to
    be empty of sonar data.

  14. BUGFIX: -- Fixed bug that caused contact image filenames and contact names in the Contact DB to become corrupted in the case where (i) one or more contact images were missing,
    AND (ii) the user pressed the Next or Previous buttons in the contact editor.

Version 5.06.0044 03 JAN 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Enhance the CSF to SEGY export dialog to display the same enabled CSF files to the user as the files are
    currently enabled in the project explorer.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Enhance the CSF to XTF export utility to display the same enabled CSF files to the user as the files are
    currently enabled in the project explorer.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Implement a new XTF Datum Shift utility to allow users to reproject the coordinate system of an XTF file.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add the ability to crop CSF to XTF exports to a selected closed polygon feature.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add the ability to crop CSF to SEGY exports to a selected closed polygon feature.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix a couple of minor issues with the Klein UUV3500 bathy and sidescan processing.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add first cut at allowing users to supply their own text file with variables for the CSF to SEGY function.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add option to skip first N pings in Klein SDF processing to help skip past bad ping records in AUV files.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add new batch option to compute the thickness between all enabled reflectors in a project.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Improved patch test dialog with diagnostic charts and displays of calibration results.

  11. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Cursor tracking between two or more sub-bottom digitizer windows near intersection points is improved; cursors before were often not visible when they should have been.

  12. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- Some conditions in prior releases could result in the progress bar (in the status bar at the bottom of the main window) being invisible when it should have been showing progress for an operation; this is fixed. Some related changes were also made to address a problem in which the status bar would remain visible after its associated operation had finished.

Version 5.06.0043 03 JAN 2014

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add new parameter to sidescan (and bathy backscatter) import dialog that allows the user to set a threshold value
    for controlling the far field transparency. The idea with far field transparency is that when working up against a bulkhead or river bank where
    the the far-field sonar samples that extended beyond that acoustic impediment should be made transparent instead of just low amplitude. We were
    previously triggering this far field transparency when the amplitude dropped near zero but some systems apply AGC and the far field samples can have
    a much higher amplitude. So, this new control allows the user to set a threshold value for making these far-field samples transparent.

  2. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix heading interpolation error that was causing some corkscrew artifacts on north-south lines.

  3. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix bug when processing Edgetech JSF binned files where the new null bin flag was not being handled correctly.

  4. BUGFIX:CORES:MINOR -- Implement a cores file backup strategy that copies the current core file to the backup folder at project load time unless backups are disabled.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add support for bathy data acquisition using new Edgetech 4600 Bathy Server interface.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Measurements that are made within the contact editor are now displayed as persistent colored lines in the target editor and the waterfall views
    whenever the checkbox "Draw Contact Measurements in Editor and Waterfall views" is checked in the Preferences->Contacts window.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add new Tools->JSF utility to swap the JSF port/starboard sidescan channels in a JSF file. Solves a problem for a case where the sonar
    in an AUV had mis-wired port and starboard..

Version 5.06.0042 20 DEC 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Set the 3D Viewer depth color map to the same color map in use within SonarWiz.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add new checkbox to Edgetech JSF sidescan options to lock down the average port/starboard amplitude values.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Add line bearing column to Project Report CSV file.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Adjust the Batch Image Export flip files with bearing between X and Y so that the angle comparison is more
    accurate and also inclusive of the angle range values supplied by the user.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- The Simrad ALL file reader was giving up to quickly when looking for packets that it recognized.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Implement new attitude packet hander in Simrad ALL file reader for heading packet ID 0x41 (decimal 65).

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- At least temporarily, the internet evaluation code will enabled some of the real-time features in SonarWiz.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- First release of the map correction points.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add a new option for both storing and reading SBP sensor depth (delay) using the SEGY-Rev1 scalar in bytes 215-216 of the trace header. Set this option
    in the Sensor Depth selector in the SEGY File Specific option dialog. The selection is labeled "SEGY Rev1 109-110 scaled by 215-216". When this selection is active the delay in milliseconds will
    be read from the product of the scalar in bytes 215-216 and the value in bytes 109-110.

  10. BUGFIX:ALL:MODERATE -- A crash related to receiving corrupted data on a serial port-attached device was fixed (NMEA navigation messages, primarily, but could potentially affect fathometer, layback sensor, motion sensor, magnetometer).

  11. BUGFIX:MAG:MINOR -- Deleting magnetometer files from the project through the magnetometer file manager could crash the program; this is fixed.

  12. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- A problem causing progress bars on the main window to occasionally become "stuck" and not closed down after their operation is finished has been fixed.

  13. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The Cancel button in the classification settings/class settings dialogs would leave changes applied to the class names/colors; this is fixed. A related change also addresses an issue whereby altered classification names would not show up in the floating legend window in the map view; the altered names show up correctly now after a filter/merge operation has been run.

  14. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- Classification legend data, when drawn on merge/filter images built by the classification system, would often not have class names visible; this is fixed.

Version 5.06.0041 29 NOV 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Begin implementation of bathy processing AUV based data.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- If the Set Cable Out dialog was used after the percentage of cable out to use for layback was set the layback distance would not update until SonarWiz was restarted.
    This is now corrected so that if the user changes the cable out or the sensor depth the layback distances will be updated.

  3. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Immediatley after applying the swell filter the red bottom track line did not correctly follow the adjusted seabed until the image was reloaded.
    I thought I had corrected this in the previous build but it's definitely fixed now.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add bathy preferences section to general Preferences dialog.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add bathy preferences check box option to immediately merge bathy files upon import allowing a 1-step import to bathy process.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Improve the scanning of XTF Bathy files for the "Get From File..." option to set the initial position of the project. Previously, this function only considered sonar packets
    but now it also will read various bathy positioning records.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- In previous versions using the AutoTVG gain function on SSS files always wasted a small bit of the start of file as the adaptive gain function "ramped-in". This wasting effect
    has been eliminated by using a priming loop to pre-ramp the AutoTVG function. No more wasting.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- For large projects with many acoustic reflectors, it was taking a very long time to open the Compute Thickness dialog. This has been improved.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:JSF:MINOR -- Add new JSF utility that splits combined sidescan and sub-bottom files into separate JSF files that contain all sidescan in one file and only sub-bottom in the other file. JSF records
    that are not specific to either subsystem are written to both SSS and SBP files.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- For large projects with many acoustic reflectors, it was taking a very long time within the Feature Manager dialog to enable/disable the entire set of features using the check box control in the
    header columns of the list control. This has been improved.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add new bathy profile for the Edgetech 4600 binned files.

Version 5.06.0040 22 NOV 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- Make slight correction to MBES nadir beam altitude used for SSS bottom tracking.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- First release of Map Correction Points features that allows users to select points on a basemap (like a multibeam image) and other points in the sonar records and adjust the navigation data to fit them together.
    This is a work in progress. Documentation to follow.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Implement port and starboard intensity controls on eth EGN function to allow better mosaic normalization.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add new JSF utility to split SBP file when JSF range or sample count changes.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add new Reson s7K file options dialog to select which bathy packets to process.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Immediatley after applying the swell filter the red bottom track line did not correctly follow the adjusted seabed until the image was reloaded. This has been fixed.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add new Reson s7K Tools utility to extract a summary of the various packets contained in s7k files.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Implement new swath editor for bathy.

  9. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- Cut down on redrawing (and potential crashes) during seabed classification.

  10. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- Several problems related to selections in the plan view have been fixed; certain items wouldn't become unselected when others were, depending on the selection order.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Map- and SSS-based features can be dragged in the plan view. Map-based features can be dragged anywhere; sidescan-based features can currently only be dragged within the limits of the CSF file they are attached to.

Version 5.06.0039 8 NOV 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Make the SBP Datum Align tool work with grids that contain either negative or positive depth values.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- When a new project is created we now set the geodesy used for importing sonar files as the same geodesy that the user set for the project output. I caved.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add checkbox for controlling background transparency on mosaic tile export dialog.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Add sonar contact time to the contact editor display of position. Display the XY position to the nearest centimeter.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- The SonarDateTime field of the contact database now stores the time to the nearest millisecond.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:XTF:MINOR -- Set the default XTF Event number source to "Auto Detect".

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- When digitizing multiple linear features of the same within the waterfall digitizer window, allow the user to close the current feature with a single
    mouse click and continue on to a new feature by continuing to add points with a left click. A double right click ends the session.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Allow for save-and-continue feature digitization in the plan view: ending a feature in the normal way (single left click for point/text; left click, drag, and release for rectangle/circle; right-click after 2 or more left clicks for polylines) saves the current feature and causes a new feature of the same type and properties to be created and set as the in-progress feature. Right-clicking when a feature cannot be saved ends the session.

  9. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- Previously, point or text features that were not either selected or set to display text were not visible in the sidescan digitizer; they are drawn in their non-selected state now, even if their text isn't visible.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Auto TVG settings can now be copied to multiple files via the "Apply to All" window.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- The "Apply to All" window has the settings checkboxes arranged in three columns roughly corresponding to the categories: gain, display, and offset parameters.

  12. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- The merge operation in seabed classification would cause a redraw of the plan view, which would crash SonarWiz; this is corrected, and the redraw no longer crashes the program.

Version 5.06.0038 1 NOV 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Start infrastructure for map correction points. No user impact yet.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- The file explorer tree has support for bathy sub-groups now; sub-groups can be created and deleted, and bathy datasets can be assigned to sub-groups.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:JSF:MINOR -- Add the JSF data format code to the navigation Extraction utility.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Loading Applanix SBET external navigation and attitude files is now done in a separate thread that can be cancelled by the users.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- All temporary files that SonarWiz creates are now created in the .\tmp folder of the project.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- When a user selected the full screen option of the SBP digitizer and then closed SonarWiz, the next time the SBP window opened it did so without the
    ribbon or a way to close exit full screen mode. This is now fixed.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Implement cursor tracking in various views from the 3D bathy editor, 3d viewer and bathy navigation and attitude editor.

Version 5.06.0037 18 OCT 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Improve the merge process to consider only the raw sonar data records that have corresponding navigation and attitude data.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- The merge process has been made about 3 times faster.

  3. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- The Applanix SBET import dialog GPS week number entry was not selectable. This is now fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Fix problem with rendering SEGY files stored in IBM floating point format.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- When reading R2Sonic snippets or TruePix sidescan in from XTF files or R2S files, SonarWiz now retrieves the sonar altitude from the multibeam
    packet nadir beam if indeed the multibeam packets are available in the XTF.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- In the waterfall digitizer view for sidescan occasionally the range scale lines were not drawn correctly if a file contained varying ranges per ping. This is now fixed.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- When reading backscatter or sidescan data that contains variable ranges per ping, the bottom tracker waterfall window now displays the imagery
    at a constant range so as to eliminate the 'steps' in the waterfall data.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- First cut at supporting online maps sources through the global mapper interface. As such, there are two new buttons in the map manager for loading online maps
    as a base layer and another for loading online maps as an overlay. This is a work in progress.

  9. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Many bathy points that should have drawn in the plan view were not drawing; the drawing density is much higher now.

  10. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- After importing sidescan files and allowing far-field transparency, some of the transparent edges of the files could become lost (non-transparent) after gain is applied. The transparent range is now restored after gain is applied.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Processed external navigation files are deleted from disk when removed from a project.

  12. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add support for Reson S7K packets 7006, 1012 and 1013.

Version 5.06.0036 11 OCT 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Implement first cut at supporting post-processing of R2Sonic TruePix data stored in R2S files.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The sonar contact export to ESRO shapefiles was broken. Not sure how long ago things went south there but it is fixed now.

  3. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Fix bugs in CSF to SEGY export relating to constant time and datum separation.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Implement the Trimming function for SBP files.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Update the color picker in the SBP annotation dialog. On dual monitor windows the color picker was opening on the wrong monitor.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- When exporting SEGY files after applying AGC or TVG the amplitude data was rectified. Now the sign of the data has been preserved.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add option to display only port or only starboard in the real-time sidscan waterfall views.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add support for processing R2Sonic snippet data from .R2S files.

  9. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- Changes to basemaps or overlays [adding/removing] through the menu items in the project explorer tree now cause the plan view to redraw.

  10. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- The plan view and project explorer tree were being refreshed after each bathy file imported in a multi-file operation; now, these refresh only once at the end of the full operation.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Change import SSS warning message box about frozen navigation from a standard modal message box to a timed message box. The reason
    is if users start a big import process and walk away we don't want this modal message box to hold up the processing. The message is also added to the
    log file which was not being done before.

  12. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix bug in the Review Patch Test settings dialog.

  13. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add new option for sounding density grid generation in the Post-processing->Bathy Exports->Export Bathy Grid

  14. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Add SSS Sensor Depth and SBP Sensor Depth to the list of available variables that can be used in the output device tool.

  15. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- In the post-processing bathy menu, there is now a menu item that will toggle display of historical bathy area selections that have been made for editing or gridding.

  16. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- An error in the explorer tree could cause the tree's selection to not match the selection in the plan view, resulting in incorrect context menus being shown; this is fixed.

  17. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- A dockable toolbar has been added with the items in the bathy post-processing menu.

  18. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- An icon is drawn in the plan view to mark the location of each enabled tide file and sound velocity file in the project.

  19. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- If the file manager was opened for a project having no CSF files, the file name column would be invisible, even after files were imported. This is changed so that the column width isn't set to 0 if there are no files.

  20. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Under certain circumstances the bathy merge operation could cause the progress bar at the bottom of the main window to become stuck; this is fixed.

  21. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- External navigation files, tide files, and sound velocity files could accidentally appear in a project they weren't intentionally added to, when that project was opened/created while a project having those items was open; this is corrected.

Version 5.06.0035 27 SEP 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Implement first cut at new SBP and SSS Export Regions to allow users to better define the SSS and SBP regions used in the Batch Image Export tool.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add new option to Bathy settings dialog to apply the current settings to a user seleced set of other bathy files.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add new columns to the Info at Cursor dialog in the SBP Digitizer view to show sensor depth, heave, antenna height and datum separation.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add checkbox to the CSF to SEGY export utility to generate SEG-Y files that start at a constant time and contain the same duration for all of the files selected.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add checkbox to the CSF to SEGY export utility to generate SEG-Y files that adjust the output SEGY file's sensor depth to reflect the datum separation computed in the Datum Align SBP Utility.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Minor cleanup to the SBP Datum Align utility and dialog.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Fix crash problem that occurred when stopping recording of SBP files.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix problem with mixing of Hypack HSX heading and attitude messages in Japanese dataset.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Fix problem with CSF to SEGY rectifying bipolar data to unipolar. The converter now preserves the original sign of the SEGY samples.

Version 5.06.0034 13 SEP 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Implement Auto-split for SBP files.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add new SEGY utility for renumbering pings in a SEGY file.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Minor enhancements to the bathymetry gridding setup dialog to better name the grids and recall last used settings.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- On those export functions that export a single file and open the destination folder in the Windows file explorer, now
    the single export file will appear as selected in Explorer.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- A new action option in the Bathy Grid output option has been implemented to open the containing folder (and select the new grid file).

  6. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix problem in JSF bathy importer where invalid positions were being added to the raw position intermediate file.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS/SBP:MINOR -- Extend the Report function in the Sonar File Manager to include Pct of Cable Out, Sheave Offset X, Y and Z, and the state of the NOAA Display Range option.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add an option to the CSF to SEGY Export utility to override the current setting for heave compensation in the output SEGY files. Previously, the export function would
    observe the setting for each CSF file with respect to applying heave compensation. So if some files had heave comp enabled and others did not then that's how they would be exported. This new checkbox
    allows users to ovverride the heave compensation and force it to be on or off on the CSF files selected for export.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Triton changed XTF specification for Event Number back in 2004 to store events as an unsigned 32-bit integer. When they did that they eliminated CurrentLineID another 16-bit integer from the XTF
    spec in order to double the size of the event number. Until now we have been continuing to write the event numbers as 16 bits and allowing the storage of the current line ID as before. This has become problematic
    for some users to process the SonarWiz XTF event numbers. For that reason we are dropping the conformance to the old event number spec and adapting to the current spec. SonarWiz post-processing will continue to detect and handle either
    format but the acquisition side will now only record the 32-bit format event numbers.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- The XTF format store water depth in a a16-bit unsigned integer. To accomodate higher precision echossounders we now store the floating point precision depth in the XTF AuxVal1 field.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR -- Minor tweaks to the serial port driver to try and eliminate buffer overruns.

  12. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- The CSF to SEGY tool now stores the delay in two locations. Bytes 109-110 stores the millisecond delay with the microsecond remainder going to bytes 181-182. The delay is also stored as meters in bytes 49-52.

  13. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Minor enhancements to the bathymetry patch test functions to better support single heade MBE and dual channel interferometers.

  14. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Minor enhancements to the bathymetry menu button to clean up unused functions.

  15. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- The drawing modes for SSS and SBP were conflicting with each other. This should be fixed now. Also reomved the Coverage Mode option for SBP--not relevant.

Version 5.06.0033 6 SEP 2013

  1. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Fix settings initialization in merge wizard dialog.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add new SEG-Y utility for resetting the date/time stamps of SEG-Y traces.

  3. BUGFIX:NavInjectorPRO:MINOR -- The time parser was not correctly handling the differences between the time formats HHMMSS.sss and HHMMSSsss where the former has a delimeter before the millisecond value.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:NavInjectorPRO:MINOR -- Add a button in the About box to allow users to launch a text editor directly on the AsciTemplates.ini file.

  5. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- The Make Others Like this function was not correctly setting the gain curves on the 'other' files. Fixed.

  6. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Fixed launching of SV Editor utility.

Version 5.06.0032 30 AUG 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add support for extracting raw bathy packets from R2Sonic .R2S files recorded by Hypack. There is no navigation in these R2S files so an external
    navigation and attitude file would need to be imported and merged with the raw bathy data. We don't do this yet but it's coming.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Hook up the sound velocity dialog to the sound velocity editor so that users may now import and edit SV files.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The checkbox that controlled the sidescan Destripe function was not getting updated correctly. Fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- The tide correction was being applied in the wrong vertical direction. Fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Realtime waterfall display window title bars should update to reflect the three app states now--Recording, Playback or Idle.

  6. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- Trim, obscure, and "select section for export" operations would sometimes operate on a file other than the one selected. They operate on the selected file now.

  7. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- Menu items to clear obscuring could sometimes be unavailable, even if some files were obscured. The clearing functions are available now if the current (for clear obscuring on current file) or any (for clear obscuring on all files) file is obscured.

Version 5.06.0031 23 AUG 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Many more minor bathy updates including improvements to the gridded bathy drawing.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- There was a problem displaying the event number in some XTF files during playback of an XTF file. Fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Bathy point editor now supports re-using an existing instance of the editor when SonarWiz selects subsequent areas to edit. Previously, this
    action was opening a new instance of the bathy editor.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- The info at cusror dialog now displays the actual raw amplitude from the acoustic file instead of the pixel value under the cursor.

  5. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- After a merge operation, bathy status icons in the file explorer tree would not be updated; they are updated now at the end of the process.

  6. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Bathy would not draw in some builds if the overlap mode was set to anything other than Cover Up. Overlap mode does not affect bathy drawing now.

  7. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- The depth scale window previously would sometimes try to scale the current depth palette far beyond a reasonable range, when there was no bathy data in a project, or if a valid depth range was unable to be determined from that range. This resulted in the window appearing full of digits with no color scale visible. The window will no longer attempt to scale the palette at all if a reasonable depth range cannot be found, or if the "Scale to Processed Bathymetry" option (available in the scale's right-click menu) is not set.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- When bathy points are edited (accepted/rejected) via an external editor (CTI 3D editor), only the portion of the plan view affected is redrawn.

Version 5.06.0030 16 AUG 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Many minor bathy updates including new plan view drawing logic and initial support for R2Sonic bathy logged in XTF format.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- There was a problem recovering from network drive based projects where if the network connection goes down during the course of a SonarWiz
    session the project file may have been corrupted. In this build we have a partial but not yet complete solution for that issue. More to come next week.

Version 5.06.0029 09 AUG 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Display the 'factory' level bathy profiles in bold in the Bathy Settings dialog drop down list.

  2. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- The Hypack HSX reader was not correctly storing the position and attitude intermediate files when loading.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Improve the bathy properties dialog.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add new option to the Export->Bathy->Grid to support a new Interpolation mode: Average.

  5. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- When the sonar range was very short (less than 20m) and the speed was less than 1.5 knots a condition was existed where the contact picker
    would create a contact image that was the length of the entire file for a single channel. This has been corrected.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:XTF:MINOR -- Add new Tools->XTF->Extract XTF File Header utility to dump the contents of any conforming XTF file to a simploe text file.

  7. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The sidescan file import dialog contained radio buttons for selecting the source of the sonar heading data--course made good or towfish heading. The user
    interface code allowed both radio buttons to be simultaneously enabled. Fixed.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- The depth scale legend has been partially updated so that background bathymetric charts will draw using the same color
    map selected for bathymetry under the View panel. This is a work in progress.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:FEATURES:MINOR -- Add a comma separator between the date and time in the ASCII file export format.

Version 5.06.0028 02 AUG 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:GEODESY_TOOL:MINOR -- When exporting a coordinate system to a GXP file, we also now silently generate the .PRJ file for the same coordinate system

  2. ENHANCEMENT:GEODESY_TOOL:MINOR -- The Coordinate Test dialog now remembers and initializes itself with the last coordinates and coordinate systems that were used.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The SSS digitizer view was not correctly loading the ping index table after the first viewing of a file. This caused apparent misalignment of contacts and features in the waterfall view.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:3D:MINOR -- The 3D Viewer now supports the ability to drape any georeferenced image on top of a grid. Access this new function through the scene manager
    and choose from previously loaded image files to apply them to the grid.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- The bathy file context menu can be accessed either through a right click on the tree control or a right click on the plan view now.

  6. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- The bathy perimeter drawing is working correctly again.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- The bathy database redesign is mostly complete and now all bathy data sets can store their own merge and filter settings.

Version 5.06.0027 26 JUL 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- While inserting manual bottom tracking points, the SBP digitizer would switch into features, contacts, or cores mode if a click landed near one of those objects, stopping the bottom tracking process. This is fixed; no attempt is made to select items when bottom tracking point insertion mode is active.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The "Apply to all" functionality was not copying the "percentage of range to map" mode correctly; the "use NOAA rules" setting, in particular, was not being copied. The mode and percentage are copied now.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The "Update parameters in XTF file" function could in some circumstances have some amount of skew between the CSF and XTF ping numbers being operated on, resulting in values from the CSF files ending up on the wrong records in the XTF file. A new method of keeping the file records synchronized has been put in place, lessening or eliminating this behavior.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- Downsampling XTF files on import could cause erratic ping number sampling due to the presence of non-ping records in the XTF file. Downsampling now only considers ping record counts when choosing which records to import, so in a normal file, the sequence will be predictable: 10, 20, 30, 40...

Version 5.06.0026 19 JUL 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Fix problem SES CODA SBP files not importing correctly. The sample interval was not getting set correctly on the very first ping.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Image-building (for the digitizer, etc.) and SegY-exporting functions for SBP data were building images based on the percentage of range to map specified for the last file imported, not necessarily the file being processed. They now operate off of the percentage specified for the file being processed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- The "Save bottom track as reflector" feature is available outside of the SBP digitizer, and can be used on multiple files at once. It appears in the right-click menu for singly- or multiply-selected SBP files that have been bottom tracked in the project explorer. A downsampling number is prompted for at the beginning; the number entered will apply to all reflectors saved.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Points on the edge of a thickness feature could be interpolated incorrectly with the image flipped end-to-end. This is fixed now.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- The waterfall window's screen capture function is now enabled for realtime data.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- The waterfall window's toolbar now has a button to bring up a "jump to ping/time" window, which can be used to jump the currently-playing XTF file to a user-specified ping number or date/time stamp within the XTF file.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:JSF:MINOR -- The JSF export utility now includes the weighting factor, ADC gain values and some statistics on the raw sample values in the JSF.

Version 5.06.0025 12 JUL 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- Fix problem with batch image export when the following 4 conditions were true: a) event anntotation enabled b) force first and last ping annotation check box on and c) flip image checkbox on, the first event number was being printed twice.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- When playing back an XTF file, there are now visual indicators in the waterfall window showing the first, current, and last ping numbers and date/times in the XTF file playing, just above the slider bar that indicates position.

  3. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- The quick thickness feature was crashing after the second point was chosen; this is now fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Manual bottom tracking points in SBP files can now be inserted via a "click-and-drag" motion similar to how reflectors can be digitized.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- When reordering SSS/SBP files via drag-and-drop in the file manager dialog, the order of the files within the file explorer tree is kept up-to-date, modulo differences caused by grouping.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- The file manager dialog has a "Type" column added in the second position, which shows "SSS" for sidescan files and "SBP" for sub-bottom files.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- The "Make Like Selected" dialog has an option for bandpass filter copying, and has been rearranged a bit.

Version 5.06.0024 05 JUL 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- On the Open File dialog for sidescan import, there's now a checkbox to allow far-field transparency; this will allow zero samples found in the far field of e.g., Hummingbird imports to remain transparent. Any zero samples found closer to the nadir than the farthest-out non-zero sample in any channel will be made non-transparent as before.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- A toolbar button in the SSS/SBP waterfall window has been added that, when pressed during playback with a project open, will record PNG images of the visible channels within the window and write them to a folder called Images beneath the project folder.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- The sidescan gain settings dialog will now allow EGN to be used for data appearing in the waterfall, e.g., real-time gathering and XTF playback.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- When playing back an XTF file, a horizontal slider is available in the waterfall windows that shows visually the position within the file, and allows for it to be changed.

Version 5.06.0023 21 JUN 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Internal development continues on merge processing and database. No user impact yet.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Updated main window title to show current SBP file during playback, if any; previously, it would show the name of the last SSS file played, even during SBP playback.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- "Scans per frame" setting in general page of preferences now controls the number of pings drawn at a time during playback; the setting was unused before.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Modified the SEGY logging code to always start the file with the first ping number equal to 1 and incrementing sequentially. Previously, the
    ping number came from the SBP server and because of the network interface sometimes the files did not start at 1.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add export of digitized reflectors in IHS Kingdom Suite format X,Y,Line,Time,Amplitude

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- The EA400 SBP file format reader was not detecting the sampling interval correctly. This is now fixed.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Improve the contrast on the EA400 SBP images.

Version 5.06.0022 14 JUN 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:REPORTS:MINOR -- Allow users to select the old contact report generator instead of the default newer generator by using the Options->Advanced dialog and checking the box to Use older contact report generator. Some users, like
    the formatting of the older report generator and it is also the only way to generate an Open Office document.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR -- Additional logic was added to sanitize file names from multi-byte languages to produce pure ASCII only CSF and related intermediate file names. (Aero Asahi).

  3. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Several customers reported that the SBP amplitude scaling did not look right after reprocessing older projects with newer versions of software. I think I found and fixed that problem today.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- The Make Others Like This dialog now checks to see if any actions have been selected at the top of the dialog and if at least one file in the bottom of the dialog has been selected. The user is prompted to
    correct this situation when it occurs.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Store the fix (event) numbers in bytes 5-8 in addition to bytes 17-20 of the SEGY trace header when converting CSF files to SEGYs.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- The Klein 3000 SBP stored in XTF files was displaying correctly in plan view but not profile view. This has been fixed.

  7. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- The SEGY delay fields in bytes 109-110 and 11-112 were not scaled correctly. This has been fixed.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR -- The realtime output options now allow users to select both the sidescan and sub-bottom altitude for transmission. The field labeled altitude represents the GPS antenna height abve the geoid.

Version 5.06.0021 7 JUN 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Hook up dialogs to Import Tide and SV menus.

  2. BUGFIX:RT:MINOR -- The formatted navigation file specified in the Navigation setup dialog was not being created. Fixed. This and the other raw auxilliary sensor data are
    now written into a project sub folder named Sensors.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR -- The raw sensor recorded files were being written into the XTF folder of the project. They have nw been moved to the Sensors sub folder of the project.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- When bottom tracking a dual frequency sidescan that presents the LF and HF with a different number of samples per channel there was a bug in the Towfish altitude display
    that caused the displayed height to bounce between the LF and HF values. Fixed.

  5. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR -- Remove the channel suffix values from the names of the bathy files.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Fix the way that heave was stored in the SEGY file and also the way it was recalled during playback.

  7. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- If heave compensation correction was enabled but no heave data was being supplied, SonarWiz attempted to compute heave from the bottom tracking data. This feature has been disabled.

Version 5.06.0020 31 MAY 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Add support for selecting and loading XML tide files. No user impact yet.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Clean up the heading smoothing function used in real-time mosaic drawing to make it more responsive.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- When a contact was digitized in the real-time waterfall window the color used was always blue and not the default contact color in the Options dialog. Fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- If a user enabled replication or decimation in the SBP profile view and then attempted to export to the Fledermaus SD file the resulting SD file was being created incorrectly. Fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- Re-arranged and added few new bathy UI items for new vessel, tide and SV files. No user impact yet.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The Export Selected Section and Batch Image Export tools were failing to create an image properly when the speed correction option was enabled. Fixed.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- New contact feature allows users to digitize points, lines, polygons, circles and rectangles all within the contact editor.

Version 5.06.0019 24 MAY 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- When the AGC gain function was combined with other gain functions it was not starting with the output samples of the prior stage. This is now fixed.

Version 5.06.0018 17 MAY 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- In real-time SBP data acquisition the display of SBP fish position was not updating correctly. Fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- When post-processing Hypack HSX files containing dual frequency sidescan data the CSF files were not assigning the channel names correctly. Fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- The digitizer view did not always format the high resolution format of the sidescan data correctly. Fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add code to extract the roll, pitch and speed information from Klein SDF files.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR -- Add support for record 3-channels OF SBP data (envelope, real and imaginary) when working with the Edgetech chirp system.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Add code to CSF-to-XTF utility to carry over speed, roll, pitch and heave if available in CSF.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:3D:MINOR -- Add first cut at new options for kinetic gestures in 3D viewer.

Version 5.06.0017 03 MAY 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR -- The 3D viewer now supports a 3D profile generator tool that can be used with bathymetric grids.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Initial implementation of the Applanix POS/MV navigation interface.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR -- Implement new options for adjusting the plan view displayed range. In addition to the full range and the user specified range, we now support the
    NOAA guidelines for sidescan sonar surveying where if the ratio of altitude-to-sonar_range drops below 8 percent then the displayed range is limited to the altitude multiplied by 12.5.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR -- Add support for Turkish language to contact and web reports.

  5. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR -- Fix crash problem when selecting High Resolution sidescan waterfall mode in Digitizer View.

Version 5.06.0016 26 APR 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- CSV to SEGY was creating SEGY files that were incompatible with SMT. Fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR -- Thickness computation over areas of highly varying sensor depth were not being computed correctly. Fixed.

Version 5.06.0015 19 APR 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The contact manager Export to Google Earth button was not resizing with the browser.

  2. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR Non-enabled bathy files are no longer selected via mouse click in the plan view.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Changing the "data type" ribbon combo box between types that use LUT palettes and types that use CLR palettes would not reload the combo box containing the palettes, so the wrong palette name could be shown; changing the "data type" combo box refeshes the palette list now.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Clearing transparency or trimming from current/all sidescan files now causes a reprocess/redraw.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Reflectors in the SBP digitizer can be drawn by clicking and dragging in addition to the old way of left clicking on the inflection points.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Highlighting of the currently-active reflector in the SBP digitizer can be toggled by pressing & releasing the shift key; turning highlighting off while digitizing via a mouse drag removes the vertex markers that can get in the way.

  7. BUGFIX:WEB:MINOR The save as website dialog was not correctly querying for html contact reports. This is now fixed.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Three new preferences are available in the digitized features section of the preferences dialog that will enforce minimum horizontal, vertical, and total (hypotenuse) distance differences between adjacent digitized points created by mouse drag in SBP feature digitization.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR First cut at implementing the graphical splitting of SBP files similar to the way we do SSS files.

  10. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Contact ReportGenerator header may now be left empty and a footer will be created with footer text filled in, for a PDF reportt, for exmaple.

Version 5.06.0014 5 APR 2013

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR When a project was relocated some of the links in the corer files were broken so that the core symbols drew on the plan view
    but not on the SBP profile view. This is now fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:RDF:MINOR Recent updates to the bathy processing caused a slow down in the SSS post-processing from RDF files. This has been fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR In the prior version (0013) a bug was errantly introduced that caused a problem capturing and reporting on contacts. Sorry, it is fixed now.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR The partial perimeters drawn on the plan view corresponding to the visible portion of the bathy file in the waterfall view is now drawn as a quadrilateral connecting the far-field coordinates of the starting and ending pings, instead of tracing the far field.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Partial bathy perimeters on the plan view are drawn with a "glowing" effect similar to selected survey lines.

  6. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The palette selected in the ribbon combo box would not always changed after a different palette was chosen in the palette dialog; the ribbon palette is synchronized now.

Version 5.06.0013 29 MAR 2013

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Report Generator for contacts was not correctly displaying the units and labels. Fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR CM2 sidescan file reader was not correctly handling the changes in range. Fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The new field in the contact CSV export for eporting the distance between the ship and the fish was not appearing in this export. Fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The 3D export for sidescan files was not correctly constructing the configuration file for the 3D viewer. Fixed.

Version 5.06.0012 22 MAR 2013

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Report Generator for contacts was not correctly observing the Display checkbox in the Contact manager. Fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Depth color map names in bathy waterfall settings dialog match those in palette editor dialog available from ribbon

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Bathy waterfall color maps default to "waterfall 1" values chosen in palette editor dialog

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Bathy waterfall maps depths to available depths in CLR palette; resulting image has better contrast/clarity

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Bathy files in plan view have partial perimeter drawn around them corresponding to what's visible in the bathy waterfall window; work in progress

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Bathy waterfall "info at cursor" window styled to look like similar windows in other parts of system

Version 5.06.0011 15 MAR 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Updated the FeatureNames.txt file to actually contain some default names.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Replaced the color selection tool in the Add ESRI Shapefile dialog with the standard windows color picker.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Minor tweaks to the the font code in the report generator dialog.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR First phase of supporting Klein SDF in bathy post-processing by implementing sdf bathy reader code. No user impact yet.

  5. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR fix a potential crash bug in the histogram code used in the sidescan thresholding dialog.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Add new bathy post-processing items in ribbon to support re-processing. No user impact yet.

  7. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Fix problem with web export not linking the PNG image correctly in the HTML.

  8. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Fix problem with web export and batch image export not preserving the annotation and vector layer colors in exported imagery.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:WEB:MINOR In the Save Project as Website dialog, do not display contact default HTML contact reports that do not have an associated file in the list of
    available contact reports. Annoying.

  10. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The bottom tracker window was displaying the waterfall image was using speed correction flag from the app settings but the window was not set
    up to deal with the speed corrected image.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add new font control for plan view grid annotation.

  12. BUGFIX:MB41:MINOR Fixed a problem with processing backscatter from Seabeam MB41 files related to the projection of far field coordinates.

  13. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add new option to Feature Manager Export function to generate a surface from sub-bottom reflector points.

  14. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR A few tweaks to the Tools->CSF->Copy CSF Parameters utility to prompt the user to save a project before attempting to use the copy utility.

  15. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Implement navigation plot drawing mode for bathy data.

  16. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Implement survey line importer to read the survey line files generated by the Klein SonarPro software.

Version 5.06.0010 08 MAR 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR A user pointed out that the contact images that were exported to GeoTiff did not contain the embedded geodesy tags like our mosaic Geotiff images. This is now corrected.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR Made some improvements and bug fixes to the CSF files that were generated during real-time data acquisition that was related to their limits.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:3DViewer:MINOR By pressing ESC key while 3D view is in focus user can deselect a selcted object and remove highlighting from it.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:3DViewer:MINOR Default object highlighting option is now Border instead of Border and color tint.

Version 5.06.0009 5 MAR 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add Preferences->General settings to allow user to change the geodetic coordinate display format. The settings are decimal degrees, degrees
    and minutes and degrees, minutes and seconds.

Version 5.06.0008 01 MAR 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Minor tweak to the PI5600 cable counter interface.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The CSF trim function for SSS files was temporarily disabled in the previous release. That has been restored here.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The Project Summary report was offsetting columns if the sonar file name contained a comma character in the name. Fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR In prior releases the SBP window was limited to displaying 65K shots. This limit has been removed in this build.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Improve the perimeter generation code for bathy files.

  6. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR Fix drawing code that would continue to attempt to access a bathy dataset after it was deleted.

Version 5.06.0007 23 FEB 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Minor performance enhancement on reducing file IO unless it cannot be avoided.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add new feature for removing small gaps from adjacent SSS files. Select multiple files and right click. Then choose the _Fix small gaps" option.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Add new toolbar and setup dialog for configuration of cross track display. Work in progress.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:WEB:MINOR Change the web export file type from JPG to PNG to support SSS files containing more than 65K pings in a web browser format.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Enhance the digitized feature schema to support additional indexing on coordinate values stored in the feature database. This has a huge impact on
    project loading speed when projects contain more than a few features.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add new cable counter interface for C-MAX cable counter--needs testing. Any volunteers out there.

  7. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Fix a bug in the contact report database system that failed to create a default data template the second time a SonarWiz project was created.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add new fields to CSF files extracted from some acoustic file types to maintain ship position.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add new fields to contact database to record ship position and offset between ship and fish at the location of a contact--required for NOAA reporting.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Add new manufacturer flags filter so that SonarWiz can now filter the bathy samples according to the way the manufacturer has recommended. 4600 only to date.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Modify the simple downsampling filter to allow the user to select equi-distant or equi-angular modes of downsampling to enhance seafloor vs water column features, respectively.

  12. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add new utility function useful when working with dual frequency sidescan files that makes it simple to copy bottom tracking, cable out, navigation, layback etc from one set of CSF files to another.
    This copy operation may be done within a single project or using two different projects.

Version 5.06.0006 16 FEB 2013

  1. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR Add flags to bathy settings dialog to observe or not the manufacturers flags on bathy samples.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Change downsampling mode to work in either equidistant or equiangular to allow mapping of both horizontal and vertical features.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add new button to Contact Manager to allow direct export of SSS sonar contact images directly to Google Earth.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Exported contact Geotiff and KMZ images are now exported into GeoTiff and KMZ folders under the Target folder of the users project. Previously, GeoTiffs
    were exported to the <MyProject>\GeoTiff folder which is now just used for mosaic geoimages.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Upon export of geotiff or kmz contact images the folder containing those exported images is now opened automatically.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add additional fields to contact database in preparation for adding layback distance to exports and reports.

  7. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR The bathy Patch Test menu was grayed out when it should have been enabled. Fixed.

  8. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR The manual deletion of bottom tracker points did not work correctly when the SBP image was constructed with Topographic correction enabled. Fixed.

  9. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR The digitized feature export to XYZ and XYZ Topo files was not correctly observing the users settings for individual reflectors. The effect was even though the user selected
    exporting reflectors into their own named files, all of the XYZ points from all reflectors would be written to individual files when either XYZ or XYZ Topo file types were selected. Fixed.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Previously it was not possible to view SSS files with more than 65K pings in the waterfall viewer. This limitation has been removed.
    Version 5.06.0005 8 FEB 2013

  11. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR Debugging real-time interface to 4600.

  12. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR The buttons in the toolbar and ribbon in the SBP digitizer window are now highlighted to reflect the current editing mode; i.e., the reflector "Add" button is highlighted while points are entered, the bottom track point removal tool is highlighted while point regions are selected, etc.

  13. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add support for reading in single channel SDS files.

  14. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Fix Export Mosaic as tiles problem that failed on some 64-bit windows systems.

  15. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Minor cleanup work to palette and color map editor.

  16. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Minor work to the palette logic so that changing the palette does not automatically change the controls such as contrast, brightness, etc. Those settings are
    now only changed when the user clicks on the Default Palette button.

  17. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR The selected magnetometer file on the plan view can be deleted with the Delete key

  18. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR One too few horizontal scale lines in the SBP digitizer would be drawn; this has been corrected

  19. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Sometimes distance-based scale lines in the SBP digitizer would not be drawn, possibly in conjunction with flipping the image end-to-end; they are drawn now, and significantly faster

  20. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR The flip image end-to-end annotation option defaults to off now for user- and project-level settings

  21. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR The SBP digitizer window would sometimes be repositioned when the Next and Prev buttons were used; this feature was changed to only operate when a new digitizer window is opened, to prevent this behaviour when the same window loads another file

Version 5.06.0004 01 FEB 2013

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR New user-defined tile option output was building tiles with too much surrounding data making the images unnecessarily large. This is fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The recent upgrade to feature grouping in the project explorer broke the restoring of features when the project was re-opened. Fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR The preview option for exportig mosaic tiles now adds the tile map as a magenta colored overlay map layer. In the previous version, the map layer
    was added with a blcak color and was difficult to see when a black background color was selected for the plan view.

Version 5.06.0003 01 FEB 2013

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Correct crash problem in 3D viewer.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Implementation of new user-defined tiled export mosaic option.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add new 1 dB/100m import TVG option for XTF files.

Version 5.06.0002 01 FEB 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Initial implementation of Edgetech 4600 bathy server.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Allow eval users access to bathy post-processing functions.

Version 5.06.0001 04 JAN 2013

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MAJOR First release of beta bathy enabled build.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR First cut at datum alignment of SBP profiles to a bathymetry grid. Work in progress.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Reworked Patch Test dialog. Work in progress.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Disabled the Split function for SBP files imported into a SonarWiz project because it is problematic. The recommended procedure is
    to use the Tools->SEGY->SEGY File Splitter utility.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Implemented new Color vs Depth editor for creating, editing and saving bathymetric color maps.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Fixed problem with JSF reader when it encounters port/stbd channels of SSS containing different numbers of samples for the same subsystem.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Added option to Save Project as GeoImage to allow users to disable the compression option for GeoTiffs. Apparently this is helpful for AutoCAD users.

  8. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Fixed problem with thickness and plan view polygon features getting garbled when reloaded after re-opening a project.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Implement grouping of features in the Project Explorer window.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:3D:MINOR Complete rewrite on the Scene Manager so it now makes more efficient use of the space and utilizes a project explorer style tree control for various objects.

  11. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Fixed problem with out of memory error when generating mosaic images.

  12. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add the French language option to contact and web reports generated by SonarWiz.

Version 5.05.0029 23 DEC 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add support for post-processing GeoAcoustics GCF sub-bottom data files.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Implement code for generating contour lines from bathymetry grid.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Update Klein SDF code to support backscatter from both high and low frequencies of UUV3500 BathySettsonar.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add new Import TVG control in the File Specific Options for SDF files. Useful for some of the new UUV3500 SDF files.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Replace the bathy settings dialog with new logic for displaying, editing, storing and creating new collections of settings.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR Fix a problem with real-time mosaics where some existing snar files were not drawn when zoomed way in.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:HSX:MINOR Add option to Hypack HSX preferences to allow users to override the sound velocity in the Hypack RSS (sidescan) record.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:HSX:MINOR Add option to Auto-Contrast the HSX sidescan on import. When using this checkbox users should not need to use any other import gain settings.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR The CSF files constructed during data acquisition now use the same file suffix nomenclature (-CH12 or -CH34) as is done in post-processing.

  10. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR The first event number changes in the file were occasionally mis-numbered. This is now fixed.

  11. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR Corrected problem in decoding the JSF DEVSituationType packet. This was causing the Get From File button in the Project Setup dialog to
    occasionally return the incorrect approximate position for the JSF file.

Version 5.05.0028 14 DEC 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Keep the SBP Gain Settings dialog always on top of the SBP Frame Window whenever its open.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:MAP:MINOR Update the button icons on the Maps tab.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Major rewrite of the palette UI and color mapping code to provide better support for color mapping between various windows and data types.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add new table to contact database to prepare for user defined contact reports. No user impact yet.

  5. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR: The CSF to SEGY utility was not functioning correctly when the AGC gain option was enabled. Fixed.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:HUMMINBIRD:MINOR Add support for processing Humminbird files recorded with the Auto Range setting where a single file may contain multiple sonar ranges.

  7. BUGFIX:RT:MINOR: During the recent workshop we discovered that sending large blocks of survey lines to the NavWiz (the Helm Display) was dropping some of the packets and
    all of the lines were not reaching their destination. This has now been fixed.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR: Minor pdates to bathy post-processing waterfall view and cusor tracking windows.

  9. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR: PL3180 -- If an SBP reflector was edited subsequent to the initial creation of that reflector, the reflector points were not guaranteed to be drawn in the ping order they were acquired in. Fixed.

  10. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR: PL3219 -- When processing JSF SBP files from two different sonars (216 and 512i) within the same project an optimization problem was fixed that caused the scaling of one or the other
    of the data files to be viewed incorrectly in the SBP Digitizer post-processing editor.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR: Modify the real-time navigation dialog checkbox Use SonarWiz Computed Speed to also cause the SonarWiz computed course made good to be used.

Version 5.05.0027 30 NOV 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR The New Reflector dialog did not save the reflector name correctly if a description was chosen after the the name was entered. Fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Internal changes to the way that SBP files are written into CDF. No user impact yet.

  3. BUGFIX:NETWORK:MINOR Fixed bug in multi-user network dongle implementation inadvertently introduced in V5.05.0024 that prevented SonarWiz
    from running on network dongles.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The Backup button was not executing correctly in Feature Manager dialog. This is now fixed.

Version 5.05.0026 23 NOV 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Set the default state of the contact capture to use the processed imagery. Previously this was set to use the raw imagery.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Finish the implementation of the independent drawing modes for SSS, SBP and Bathy data types.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Minor tweaks to the sonar threshold dialog to make it a little easier to use. Adjusting the range using the graph control
    now correctly updates the slider and the numeric values. Also, the control is now initialized to the min/max values found in the selected file(s) after
    reading the file histogram data.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The feature editor dialog when launched through the feature manager was not correctly saving edits that the user made the the Edit button. Fixed.

Version 5.05.0025 16 NOV 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR The 3D viewer now correctly supports displaying a bathymetry grid that is larger than the texture image that is being draped upon it.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Finished implementation of Benthos Chirp 3 Telemetry interface for sending event number.

  3. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR The real-time interface for the scrolling seismic window was smearing the event number.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add option to Waterfall Digitizer to apply an average filter to the sidescan waterfall images. This has no effect on the mosaic, its strictly intended to assist with diminishing noise when capturing contacts in post-processing. Default state is OFF.

  5. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The chinese language resource DLLs were being installed in theincorrect folder. Steve has corrected this.

  6. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The coordinate system resource database coordsys.csd was being installed on some systems as a read-only file preventing users from creating and adding their own custom coordinate systems. Steve has corrected this too.

  7. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Fix problem with Parameter Incorrect message box appearing the first time an SBP contact report is being run on a project.

Version 5.05.0024 09 NOV 2012

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR The Fledermaus SD generator ustility was not correctly setting the transparency on the SBP profile images. Fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:NAV:MINOR Add new C and C navigation interface for supporting multiple sensors on the same port.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The System Info Panel allowed users to format the font and color of the various parameters in the SystemInfo panel however the save
    function has never worked as designed. This has been fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR Implement new independent bottom trackers for sidescan and sub-bottom data acquisition. Each tracker now has its own indpependent
    settings to better support tracking two different sonar systems during data collection.

Version 5.05.0023 02 NOV 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Enhance the SBP amplitude export to allow users to specify the start and end time of the export array.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR The Layout Manager button was disconnected from its code. Fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Modify the text describing the import geodesy on all 4 of the import file dialogs to better represent when the user needs to set the import geodesy section.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Correct a problem in the importing of sonar files containing time gaps.

  5. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Correct a problem in the SEGY Datum Shifter utility when files do not contain the number of channels in the binary header.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add Server name an version number to EBCDIC header of SEGY files recorded by SonarWiz.

  7. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Fix bug related to EGN table corruption that caused problems re-opening the project after a crash related to EGN.

  8. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Occasionally the first segy trace number in a file does not start with number 1. Added some logic to attempt to correct that.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add new nadir transparency option that sets the nadir transparency using a percentage of the sonar altitude.

  10. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The Display Slant Range Corrected check box on the real-time sidescan displays was not being processed correctly. Fixed.

Version 5.05.0022 19 OCT 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Improve the cursor tracking code in the new web generator waterfall displays.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR CSF-to-XTF Converter has been enhanced to write out XTF files with XY or Lat/Lon Coords as decided by user.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Allow the framework for partially updating bathy grids.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Implement new CSF Amplitude Extraction utility for sub-bottom SBP files.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Implement first cut at batch mode SBP reflector thickness computation tool.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add new Palette Edit button to the view tab that allows users to set palettes for any sonar display window from one single dialog.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR It is now possible to select a bathy file graphically by clicking on it in the plan view.

  8. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR Fix color map assignment when creating new bathy projects.

  9. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Fix missing DLL problem in installer for 3D Viewer.

Version 5.05.0021 12 OCT 2012

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR There was a local time offset being applied to the Post-processing->Exports->Project Reports->Sonar File Summary Report. Fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Fix a time formatting problem in the XTF Navigation Extractor tool.

  3. BUGFIX:NIP:MINOR Fix problem with NavInjectorPro when not using the interpolation method false problems reported in the navigation analysis.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR The contact files are now always stored in JPEG format except for the exporting of GeoTiff image files. This is to better support various reporting tools.

  5. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR The SBP Contact image width was occasionally computed incorrectly.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Enhanced the SEGY reading code to add better support for reading files recorded in little endian byt eordering.

  7. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR Bathy data now draws on image exports.

  8. BUGFIX:BATHY:MINOR Crash related to bathy file deletion from file explorer tree [seems to be] fixed (looks like consequence of 7 above, but unconfirmed as of yet).

  9. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Bathy files have perimeters drawn around them on the map view when they're selected in the file explorer tree.

Version 5.05.0020 5 OCT 2012

  1. BUGFIX:RT:MINOR Occasionally the first ping of a SEGY file would not start with ping number 1. This should be corrected now.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR Set default plan view bathy rendering to depth not amplitude.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:MINOR When exporting a bathy grid, automatically generate the PRJ file for the grid.

  4. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR When using the NMEA coordinates when importing a JSF file there was a bug that caused a small gap between adjacent files. This is fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Implemented new web generator engine option to build Google Maps styled web site reports. Give it a try.

Version 5.05.0019 22 SEP 2012

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Flipping the SBP digitizing view caused a crash. Corrected.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Improvement in SBP File Importing speed.

Version 5.05.0018 21 SEP 2012

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Using the drop down list in the Waterfall Viewer to select contacts captured from other files did not always scroll to the correct location. This should be fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add the Back and Forward arrow buttons to allow the user to step back and forward through previous zoom levels. Previously this control was only available on the View tab.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The Add Core button in the tool bar was not working. Fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The Export Image of Selected function was not observing all of the settings in the annotations option dialog. Fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR When the Batch Image Export function ends, the export folder is now opened so the user can view the exported files.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Improvements to the speed correction algorithm used to generate sidescan waterfall images.

Version 5.05.0017 18 SEP 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Modified the CSF to SEGY function to split the SEGY into multiple files when the input file contained a variable number of samples per channel.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Fixed problem with Make Like Selected function not applying the change correctly against all files with Transparency and Displayed Range.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Using the drop down list in the Waterfall Viewer to select contacts captured from other files did not always scroll to the correct location. This should be fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add the Back and Forward arrow buttons to allow the user to step back and forward through previous zoom levels. Previously this control was only available on the View tab.

  5. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The Add Core button in the tool bar was not working. Fixed.

Version 5.05.0016 14 SEP 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Added Make like selected... menu items for singly-selected SSS/SBP files.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Some context menu items for SSS/SBP that would previously have been disabled with multiple selection are now enabled.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Flip end-to-end option in SBP annotation now flips the image in the digitizer view, instead of just for exports.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Bug that would sometimes cause distance interval-based scale lines in SBP digitizer to not show is fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR Add new navigation interface for SGU to support the string that was formerly sent to their old Isis system.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add hot keys for measurement buttons in sonar contact editor to speed up processing of contacts.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:BUGFIX The SonarWiz installation application has been revamped to install the Full .NET framework which is needed for the
    new report generator tools.

  8. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Bug regarding strange reflector drawing due to digitizer image end-to-end flipping fixed.

  9. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Bug regarding non-working bottom track point removal tool due to end-to-end flipping fixed.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Minor drawing speed improvements in SBP digitizer for reflectors

  11. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Holding the Shift key down at SonarWiz startup now stops the application from trying to reload the previous project.

  12. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Feature export XYZ/Amplitude, XY/Time (s) and XY/Time (ms) text output formats all previously wrote all features to each output report file and wouldn't group seafloor reflectors into the same file if requested; this differed from the other formats, which could put individual features into files named for themselves and group seafloor reflectors together; this is changed, and these three formats operate the same way as the others.

  13. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Small enhancements the contact filter builder dialog to make it easier to use.

Version 5.05.0015 31 AUG 2012

changed to Aug. 31, as there was no Aug.
24 build; if I'm wrong about this, and there was an Aug. 24 build, #s 2
and 4 (at least) below should be in a new changelog above, for Aug. 31.

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add support for sorting contacts numerically or alphabetically. For example, consider a project that contains a set of contacts named 1, 2, 11 and 22. If these
    contacts are sorted alphabetically, the result would be 1, 11, 2, 22. If the same set is sorted numerically the result would be 1, 2, 11, 22. Clicking the Name column header in
    the Contact Manager Window cycles through each of the 4 possible sort states i.e. alpha ascending, alpha descending, numeric ascending and numeric descending. Using the Sort button in the
    Contact Manager dialog provides the option to sort the name either alphabetically or numerically. Numerically sorting a list of contacts name with alphabetic characters produces an
    undetermined order.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add support for creating sub-groups of sonar contacts. To create a sub-group, right click on the Contacts branch of the tree control and select the Create Sub-group menu item.

  3. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR The logic involved in reading certain types JSF sidescan records (primarily from AUVs) contained an 10X scaling error. This is now corrected.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Drawing sped up; minor effect in most cases, but noticeable with coverup mode and/or CSF stored in v17 format.

Version 5.05.0014 21 AUG 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add support for mosaic background color choice, and GeoTIFF export background color choice (more than black & white available; same colors as elsewhere in program).

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Initial support for using different colored backgrounds in the view and also in the GeoImage export. This is a work in progress.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The previous release 0013 (unlucky 13) introduced a bug in the XTF navigation processing that prevented imports of XTF data stored in geodetic coordinates. This release corrects that.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Correct a problem with the X & Y axis on individual GeoTIFF exports.

  5. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Fixed a problem in the export individual image dialog causing the radio buttons not to work.

Version 5.05.0013 17 AUG 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SDF:MINOR Add support for processing the Klein SDF layback position when it is present.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SDF:MINOR Add support for generating backscatter data from raw I/Q data in Klein Hydrochart files recorded without the sidescan or backscatter data.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add option to GeoImage Export to exclude the generation of empty tiles that would contain no sonar data.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add option to GeoImage Export to stop after tile generation, that is, there will be no single GeoTiff image created only tiles.

  5. BUGIX:ALL:MINOR The motion sensor raw file was not being recorded to a standalone ascii file. This is now fixed.

  6. BUGIX:DXF:MINOR When exporting digitized features to the DXF format only points and poltgons were being selected. Points were omitted. This has been corrected.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SDF:MINOR Add ability to apply datum shift to SDF files during sidescan import.

Version 5.05.0012 10 AUG 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add support for adding point features from a command sent by a remote application on the network.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Fix the upside down seismic ribbon export problem for Fledermaus SD files.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR A defect that would cause paused playback windows to begin playing on mouse movement is fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Extended the number of supported Hypack RAW file device codes from 10 to 32 to allow selection of devices in magnetometer and other post processing options.

Version 5.05.0011 3 AUG 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR More languages (Finnish, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish) added to report generator.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Report generator now support user specified header and footer text as well as background image (watermark) and opacity control.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Fix start-up delay and other issues with the CTI 3D Viewer.

  4. BUGFIX:DXF:MINOR Fix problem with DXF export not using feature names correctly.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:NAVINJECTORPRO:MINOR A couple of minor bug fixes related to injecting nav into multi-channel segy files and also injecting geodetic coordinates into any segy file.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR: Fix for thickness reflectors not drawing correctly in the digitizer window.

Version 5.05.0010 27 July 2012

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Fixed a problem with the Starfish ScanLine LogDoc file importer.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Fixed a minor problem with the grequency labels displayed at the top of the sidescan waterfall windows.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add Culture column to contact report table to support future contact reports in multiple languages.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:JSF:MINOR Add start and end ping frequency to output of navigation data.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add support for Coda XTF files in which only a single channel of sidescan is written into each ping record.

  6. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Tweaks to the Google Earth KMZ exporter to fix problem with transparency when white is used as background color.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR First implementation of new multi-language sonar contact report generator.

  8. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Fix offset problem related to digitizing reflectors in new SBP window when less than 100 percent of the file was imported.

Version 5.05.0009 13 July 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Scour measurements in the Contact editor are no longer constrained to the direction of insonification as they previously were.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR: The previous release limited the palette selection when viewing SBP data in raster mode (draft) in the plan view. This is now corrected.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR: Y-axis mouse lock removed from scour tool on sidescan target editor. Change mouse behavior to snap it to 45 degree increments when shift is down.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR: The Intersection serialization now writes out intersections the same for debug/release builds, and at the same size as before; it can correctly read ones that were written erroneously by prior builds.

  5. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR: Fix for image resolution problems on GeoTiff export with cropping.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR: Correct issues with drawing reflectors with new variable sound velocity per reflector code.

  7. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR: Correct a problem with channel naming when importing dual frequency SonarWiz XTF files recorded from an Edgetech sonar where the LF and HF
    channels were recorded at different sampling rates or ranges.

  8. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR: Correct a problem when mixing JSF and split frequency XTF files together in the same project.

Version 5.05.0008 29 JUNE 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR More minor tweaks to CTI 3D viewer.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR When SSS and SBP files have been bottom tracked, make the font in the tree control display as bold (just like in the Sonar File Manager).

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The recent updates to the feature database caused a fatal crash problem when exporting features shapefiles without checking the export by name option.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR The updated SBP bottom tracker was not working correctly for SEGY files stored in IBM floating point format. This is now fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Minor tweaks to the CCSTR3 output datagram.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add current line heading to available options for System Info.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add disk space available to system info parameters.

  8. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR When a user bottom tracks an SBP file, it was not setting the font bold in the File manager. Fixed.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR The same logic that turns the font bold for bottom tracked files in the File Manager is now applied to SSS and SBP files listed in the tree control.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Right-click on Project Explorer Tree control branch SSS, SBP or MAG tree and import files of that type. Done.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Right-click on SSS/SBP/MAG top level node should show File Manager menu option. Done.

  12. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR Make bottom track line thicker in real-time waterfall window.

Version 5.05.0007 22 JUNE 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add support for reading the JSF sheave offset settings.

  2. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR The recent updates to the JSF reader added some tests for validity of the various parameters. Those JSF validity flags seem a little suspect. We have gone back to ignoring them for now.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The mosaic crop to feature function was broken during a recent upgrade. That function is now fixed again.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The Move Contact function in the contact editor was not working correctly in the north south direction but is now fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP::MINOR The CTI 3D Viewer now supports transparency when displaying SBP profiles that have been bottom tracked.

  6. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Fix problem in Feature database when loading a very large number of reflectors. The previous version crashed when more than 1000 reflectors with
    more than 600K points were being loaded. This update fixes the crash problem but the loading is still very slow. We have more to do here yet.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR If the templated mag file does not supply a line name, use the input file name as the name of the line.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Implement the first cut at providing sound velocity values for each reflector point.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR Add new output device CCSTR3.
    10.ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add a Smoothing Filter checkbox to the SBP Bottom Tracker ribbon and mplement a new SBP Bottom Tracker Smoothing function.

  10. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The recent update on the feature database caused a problem storing the closed polygon flag and points. This problem is corrected in this version.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add an overwrite check in the Save Project as Geo Image to warn if users are about to overwrite one geo image with another.

Version 5.05.0006 15 JUNE 2012

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Fix problem with 8-bit SBP data bottom tracker related to incorrect raw file generation when opening project with existing file.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Restore the functionality of the right-click button when manuall inserting points into the SBP bottom tracker the right mouse
    button can be used to delete/interpolate without having to click on the Remove Points button.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:JSF:MINOR Add support for extracting KP (Kilometer Point) from Edgetech JSF files.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Restore the Batch Image Export Option for annotating the scale line intervals at start and end of lines only.

Version 5.05.0005 08 JUNE 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Improve the post-processing bottom tracker capability for sub-bottom files stored in floating point sample format.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR Add support for Trimble GGK Navigation datagram.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR Add support for remote controlled logging when using the FGSI SonarWiz SBP navigation interface.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add the sonar altitude and geoid height to SEGY files that are exported through the CSF to SEGY utility.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add the XTF specific TVG function under the File Specific Options for the XTF tab. This is really useful for working with the XTF files produced
    by the Edgetech Discover software.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add a new Back and Forward button to the View Tab to allow users to recall previous zoom levels they have recently used.

Version 5.05.0004 02 JUNE 2012

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Sorry folks, found a problem with the SBP image generator after we posted the previous build. This corrects that issue.

Version 5.05.0003 01 JUNE 2012

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR When creating a project using a non-automatically selected coordinate system, the state of the Automatically Select Coordinate
    system checkbox was not saved correctly. This is now fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR The Compute Thickness reflector button was MIA from the new SBP dialog. It is now back in action.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR The Cursor Info and Signal Trace widgets in the SBP window have been improved to better keep their position and state from run to run.
    The signal trace window now displays the cursor depth location.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add ping number to the XTF Navigation Extractor utility output. Not sure how we missed that one.

  5. BUGFIX:CODA:MINOR Fix a problem with the navigation data at the end and start of lines when importing multiple Coda .COD files.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR Add new magnetometer file template TeslaOffsore-MAG-1.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add new Previous and Next buttons to toolbar to load previous and next files in list.

Version 5.05.0002 29 MAY 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Exclude include SBP files in EGN dialog.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR JSF importer was not allowing both frequencies to be imported into the same project. This is now fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add new Tools->File Utilities button to extract navigation data from Coda files.

  4. BUGFIX:MAP:MINOR Some basemaps were slightly misaligned with the overlying sonar data. Corrected.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR The digitized features file storage has been upgraded to use a relational database. This transparent upgrade
    will provide better extensibility to the features area of the software as it continues to evolve.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add option for Coda files to offset the recorded amplitude by some value. Apparently the zero_offset in some files at least does not fully compensate
    for the way the Coda A/D records bi-polar data.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Minor tweaks to the bottom tracker code in both post-processing and data acquisition mode should help with tracking in noisy bottom types especially in SBP.

  8. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR Splitting a sonar file with the mouse was splitting the file using the raw fish coordinates not the laid back coordinates. This is now fixed.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Signal trace graph now displays full resolution raw signal where possible--when not possible the image data is used to populate the signal trace.

Version 5.05.0001 18 MAY 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MAJOR There have been many upgrades to the SBP digitzing window including an new user interface, signal amplitude trace window and Spectrum display.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Set the binary header sort value in bytes 25-26 to 1 to indicate data is as recorded.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR NavInjectorPro: Add support for SBET navigation format.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR NavInjectorPro: Add ability to inject navigation etc into Klein SDF file format.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR NavInjectorPro: Improve resizing capabilities of GUI.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Modified the Towfish altitude control to allow the user to display SS, SB or both sonar altitudes.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Added support for several new (to us at least) Coda (.COD) files for the Edgetech 4125, 2400 and 2000 sonars.

Version 5.04.0032 04 MAY 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR Add new Magnetometer export format to include the XYZ data from all of the files selected and write it into a single output file.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR When converting contact images to GeoTiffs there was an error in the reprojection if the contact image had been formerly zoomed in the contact editor. This is now fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The enhancement in the previous version relating to the new ARC and POLY shapefile export had a minor problem in that it generated a duplicate arc feature for every closed polygon. Fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add support to Knudsen KEB (B9) format for units. Previously the import function only supporte dfiles recorded with metric units.

Version 5.04.0031 01 MAY 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Enhance the exporting of shapefile features such that closed polygons are now stored as POLYGON shapefiles, non-closed polyline are stored as ARC shapefiles.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR The import function for Fugro Line file and the ASCII CSV file was swapped. Now fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The cursor tracking from the MAP view to the SSS Waterfall view was broken during a recent update for controlling the resizing of the window. Fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The same bug also caused a problem with annotating the waterfall view. Also fixed.

Version 5.04.0030 20 APR 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Update Kongsberg ALL file processing to work better with the seabed image datagram.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add new Tools->ALL file menu button and functions for extracting navigation and summary information from Kongsberg .ALL files.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Update the CSF to SEGY utility which was failing on some SBP files that were imported from JSF files.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Several users had requested a change to the way the manual bottom tracking delete points rubber band box works. We now implemented an
    updated rubber band delete points box that only deletes a point if both the X and Y value lie within the box. The deleted points are then interpolated to their
    non-deleted neighbors. Previously, this function did not consider whether the Y value was inside the box or not. It blindly interpolated from the left side of the box
    to the right side of the box.

Version 5.04.0029 16 APR 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Replace old style color selector combo box on vessel configuration dialog.

  2. BUGFIX:SS:MINOR Repaired real-time sidescan contact capture in waterfall.

Version 5.04.0028 13 APR 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Configure the target tool so that the procedure for capturing an SBP contact starting at the plan view is exactly the same
    as capturing a SSS contact.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR The recent upgrades to the SBP Digitizer view broke the scale line drawing--this is now fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:JSF:MINOR When working with different types of JSF files SonarWiz was not remembering the different import scalars used for the various files
    making it difficult to work with different flavors of JSF files. Now the CSF header stores the manual JSF import scalar to help mitigate that problem.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR Add Offset Cable Out function to allow users to offset their sidescan cable out to account for a mag that is piggbacked onto the sidescan.

Version 5.04.0027 6 APR 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Change Offset Cable Out dialog to say Offset Cable Out in the title bar instead of Set Cable Out.

  2. BUGFIX:RT:MINOR The parsing function for the Watson EG&G navigation string was using the incorrect values. Fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:MAG:MINOR Fixed yet another bug in the magnetometer processing code related to feet and meters when working with mag data read in from Hypack raw files.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Improvements to the SBP Digitizer window with the addition of the tab control window to better organize the digitizing, bottom tracking and SBP contact functions.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR Magnetometer file templates processing enhanced to allow MM-DD-YY formats where MM/DD/YY formats were allowed before. Any separator charecter is ok now.

Version 5.04.0026 30 MAR 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:MST:MINOR Add support for reading single channel MST files. SW5 now correctly assigns the data to the appropriate channel and sets the missing channel data to transparent.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SC:MINOR When the user disables a single channel of sidescan in the mosaic, force the seabed classification tools to also ignore these channels.

  3. BUGFIX:3D:MINOR When using the internal CTI 3D Viewer, there was a problem creating the files if the checkbox for launching the viewer was not checked. This is now fixed.

  4. BUGFIX:MAG:MINOR When applying layback to the Hypack RAW files there were a couple of problems with the coordinate conversion functions that caused the layback calculation to fail. Fixed.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR Added a set of value scalars to use when working with Hypack RAW and HSX files when working with depth, magnetometer and cable out.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add a new SEGY Utility to extract the date, time and navigation data from a SEGY file.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Add new field to all contact reports that shows water depth. If the original acoustic data file contained water depth then that will be the source of the water
    depth value for the contact. If there is no water depth in the CSF and a user has loaded a bathymetry map the contact water depth will be extracted from the map layer.

Version 5.04.0025 23 MAR 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR The Isolate function was taking a really long time to turn off all of the other lines except the selected one. Fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR Add some code to split mag files when time gaps occur in the middle of a file.

  3. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR The Tools->XTF->Update XTF Parameters utility was hanging up on some XTF files that contained non-sonar records. Fixed.

Version 5.04.0024 20 MAR 2012

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Clear the initial value of the Set Cable Out, Set Sensor Depth and Offset Cable Out dialogs which was causing confusion.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR When a user resets the checkbox in the Advanced Preferences dialog labeled Build SSS Waterfall Images with oldest data at the bottom
    SonarWiz now resets this option in each file in the project so that the next time any file is opened it will show the ping order that matched the checkbox setting.
    NOTE: Users may still override this setting on individual files by using the local checkbox in the Options dialog on the Waterfall Digitizer view.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR The Flip Image check box in the Target Report Generator dialog is now initialized using the state of the Flip Waterfall Image checkbox described in the item above. The logic
    being that if a user wants to see the waterfall images upside down then they probably want to also see the target images the same way. The user may override this option for any report
    and overriding this report generator option has no effect on the way the full waterfall images are subsequently rendered in the Waterfal Viewer.

  4. BUGFIX:SBP:MINOR Fix the dongle recognition problem with the GeoAcoustics Digital Chirp SBP server.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR. The contact editor and the contact manager windows are now both sizable.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR. In the contact editor, holding the shift key down while making a Length or Width measurement now locks the cursor to the nearest 45 degree angle.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR. Add link to Contact Report Generator to contact right-click context menu.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR. We made the mousewheel zoom work the same way that Google Maps works.

  9. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR. When reading some Isis XTF files with the Teledyne Benthos C3D sonar, our XTF reader would occasionally not find a sidescan packet because of the density of attitude packets in the file. This lead to a crash in post-processing. Fixed.

  10. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR. Start initial support for Sonardyne Solstice .SWF8 file format for sidescan processing.

  11. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR. Add option to toggle auto-scaling on floating point SEGY files. Previously, auto-scaling of the display was always done for floating point SEGY data and this is still the default setting.

Version 5.04.0023 16 MAR 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:PP:MINOR Several users complained about the flashing disk icon that shows up on the status bar. That icon has now been removed for office based systems.
    It will still appear when running on a dongle that enables one or more data collection interfaces.
    minor changes to the target cursor selection.

  2. BUGFIX:PP:MINOR The FindNearestItem function in the MAG file section was not considering whether files had been disabled in the tree contril. Fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR Several users commented that it was unclear where the hot spot on the Capture Contact cursor was. We simplified this cursor to remove any
    ambiguity.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add support for reading in Fugro FLF files as map based polyline features.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:MINOR Add radio button selection in SBP Preferences dialog to allow users to choose their default 3D viewer. This default is now used when building 3D intersections.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR When batch exporting SSS images with full resolution the scale lines were not drawn correctly. Fixed.

Version 5.04.0022 9 MAR 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:RT:MINOR Add two radio buttons to the Vessel setup dialog to allow the user to control what angle is used to render the vessel on the plan display.
    Historically this has been ship heading but several users have asked if we could implement a course made good option when a heading input is unavailable. That option is now implemented.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:MINOR Add new magnetometer import template called Balaswamy-MAG.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MEDIUM First release of new 3D viewer.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR Add Toolbar button for NavInjectorPro utility on Tools panel.

  5. BUGFIX:NAVINJECTOR:MINOR NavInjectorPro did not correctly inject navigation into the new V18 CSF files. This is now fixed.

Version 5.04.0021 2 MAR 2012

  1. BUGFIX:JSF:MINOR Fix problem with JSF TVG db/100 meter setting not getting stored correctly.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Fix problem with GeoPDF export. We got out of sync with the PDF library.

  3. BUGFIX:MAG:MINOR Fix problem with MagReportGen not generating anomaly report.

  4. BUGFIX:SSS:MINOR Fix problem when saving individual GeoTiff or other images to single files. We think we have this issue fixed but it is one of those intermittent
    bugs that has been hard to stomp.

Version 5.04.0020 28 FEB 2012

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR. Fix problem with memory for files included in sub-groups formed in left-side tree selector.

Version 5.04.0019 25 FEB 2012

  1. BUGFIX:RT:ALL:MINOR. Fix problem with survey line range calculations at east-west lines in southern hemisphere.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:ALL:MINOR. Add basemaps and overlay maps to tree control in Project Explorer dialog.

Version 5.04.0018 17 FEB 2012

  1. BUGFIX:ALL:ALL:MINOR. Fix problem with new tree control listing of features that led to crashes when features were added.

Version 5.04.0017 10 FEB 2012

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. Fix XTF reader crash bug introduced during version 5.04.0012 updates to detect long range XTF files. My bad.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. Continue the migration of project elements into the Project Explorer tree controls. This week we moved Maps, Digitized Features and Mag Anomalies.

Version 5.04.0016 03 FEB 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:BATHY:ALL:MINOR. Continue development on bathymetric displays and interfaces.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:ALL:MEDIUM. Enhance the sonar contact display in the waterfall images to show contacts that were picked from other
    sonar files but fall within the bounds of a different sonar file. The files that were picked from a different sonar file are drawn in italic
    font and also have appended the file name of the sonar file from which they were originally digitized.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:ALL:MINOR. When viewing the sidescan waterfall in full resolution mode the aspect ratio of the length of the waterfall image is now adjusted to maintain
    the aspect original ratio.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:MAPS:ALL:MINOR. Add new button to create S-63 ENC User Permit files on the Map Manager. This permit file is needed when ordering some of the license restricted ENC
    charts sold by some vendors in Japan and other locations.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:ALL:MEDIUM. Add the contacts to the Project explorer tree control.

Version 5.04.0015 27 JAN 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. The aggregate function was not correctly deleting the individual files that were aggregated. Fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. The contact manager was not updating the total and enabled counts at the top of this dialog. Fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:SBP:PP:MINOR. The sensor depth was not being read correctly when importing SBP data from some of the Klein XTF files.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add sensor depth to the XTF utility Extract Nav from XTF File.

Version 5.04.0014 23 JAN 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:PP:MINOR. In previous versions the EBCDIC to ASCII translation only represented the first 127 characters of the ASCII table. Now all 256 characters can be translated.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. Remove the redundant Close Polygon checkox when adding or editing a rectangle or circle feature.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add support for the new Klein UUV3500 dualy frequency SDF files tha record in 32-bit integer format.

Version 5.04.0013 20 JAN 2012

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. Fix the channel handling on importing Coda sidescan and SBP files. Previously on multi-frequency sidescan files the frequency selection was getting
    all mixed up.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. Add new dialog to allow users to split any SSS or SBP file by specifying a ping number or time at which to split the file.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add new Tools menu button for Klein SDF files to allow users to dump out the navigation contents of Klein SDF files.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:PP:MINOR. Remove warning message not a seabeam file occasionally seen when importing certain sonar formats.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Improve the logic that handles both the shine through and average drawing overlap modes. Also, some general color palette improvements along the way.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:PP:MINOR. Previously, it was not possible to use the SonarWiz split tools to split sub-bottom CSF files from certain acoustic file types like JSF. Spliting imported
    sub-bottom files from SEGY and from JSF are now supported.

Version 5.04.0012 06 JAN 2012

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. The control for using towfish heading vs using course made good in the right-click menu of SS files was not signaling a reproject correctly. Fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add ping number parsing to Hypack HSX files. Previously the ping numbers were just assigned as ordinal numbers.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. Add tracking of minimum and maximum sensor depth to the CSF file header and to the project summary report.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:PP:MINOR. The SBP digitized feature editing functions and thickness computation did not work across changes in sensor depth when the image was in topo corrected mode. This should now be corrected.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add auto-thresholding option for processing Coda .COD files.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:PP:MINOR. Add new mag import template to support the default logging file format for MAG recording in SW5

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add logic to detect long range XTF files like the Williamson AMS-60, AMS-30 and presumably their new SAS system.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:PP:MINOR. Add new radio buttons to the SBP annotation dialog to select the annotation line style. The original default "Dashed Line" is still available as is the
    new setting for drawing cross hair marks on the intersection of annotation points.

Version 5.04.0011 30 DEC 2011

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:RT:MINOR. Replace the color edit controls in the Feature Editor, Contact Editor, Survey Line Editor, Survey Line Manager, Contact Strip Settings and Contact Preferences dialog with a standard windows color picker instead of the
    previous color selector that displayed the names of the colors such as Papaya Whiff.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. Add support for the box rotation angle parameter in the Fugro box (.BXF) format.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:ALL:MINOR. The display of the KP value from SEGY files in playback and real-time was incorrectly formatted. Fixed.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:ALL:MINOR. SW was not remembering the SEGY trace header source byte location for KP when program exited. Fixed.

  5. Small mods to SBP Contact editor.

  6. Database revision to add new columns for SBP and SSS contacts: SonarDataType, ChannelNumber, MeasuredDepthBelowSeafloor, CaptureMode and SonarServerName.

  7. Start the migration of various project collections to the File Explorer control. In this update we have now included the SBP intersections on the tree control. Other entities
    such as contacts, features and more to follow shortly.

Version 5.04.0010 16 DEC 2011

  1. BUGFIX:MAG:PP:MINOR. Fix the Lat, Lon, MAG template for reading in Magnetometer data.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:PP:MINOR. Fix the ZEdit function for saving cable out values back into the CSF file.

Version 5.04.0009 09 DEC 2011

  1. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. Add support for importing rectangle features from Fugro BXF files.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:MINOR. Projects opened with 5.04.0008 experienced a DIG file corruption error, and this has been repaired.

  3. ENHANCEMENT: NavInjectorPro 5.01.0009 PDF documentation now describes the new AppData primary search folder for the
    AsciiFilTemplates.ini file

Version 5.04.0008 02 DEC 2011

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add mosaic and map export format NITF. The National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) is
    a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal Intelligence Community (IC) suite of standards for the exchange, storage, and transmission of
    digital-imagery products and image-related products.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. Fix problem with GeoPDF mosaic and map output images.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. Add new checkbox to single and individualy GeoImage export dialogs to allow the user to make the background color of the mosaic transparent.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. Creating a new sub-group in the file explorer opens every branch in the tree even if they were previously closed. This has been corrected.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. In a project with sub groups each containing multiple files, if the checkbox on the sub
    group was cleared to hide all of these lines, each line was redrawn one more time before it was hidden.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. The x pixel location of symbol drawn by the contact report generator was incorrect causing the symbol location in the contact report to be misplaced. This is corrected.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add Next and Previous buttons to bottom tracker window to load next and previous files.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add logic to detect when a file has already been viewed in the bottom tracker window and display a small text label near the top
    of the bottom tracker window that says Previously Viewed.

  9. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:PP:MINOR. Add logic to XTF reader to process the TimeDelay field from XTF files that contain SBP data to allow Topo Correction.

Version 5.04.0007 18 NOV 2011

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:RT:MINOR. Fix problem with batch image export utility not observing the flags for flipping the SSS image top to bottom and for swapping the port and starboard SSS channels.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:RT:MINOR. When capturing contacts in real-time the image brightness did not match the same level as the waterfall display. This has been corrected.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:RT:MINOR. Increase the sensitivity of the AutoTvg control to allow a broader range of settings.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:ALL:MINOR. Increase the sensitivity of the manual UGC and manual TVG controls to allow a broader range of settings.

Version 5.04.0006 11 NOV 2011

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:RT:MINOR. Fix problem with real-time CSF perimeter generation. When a file was selected in the map view while it was being recorded the perimeter
    would sometimes get weird points around it.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:RT:MINOR. Fix problem selecting real-time generated CSF files in the plan view using the mouse.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:RT:MINOR. Add two new columns to the CSF to CSV conversion which are the corrected (layback applied) fish x and fish y. The columns headers are
    Corrected Fish X and Corrected Fish Y, respectively.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add new entry for 200m pressure depth sensor for Klein SDF files.

  5. BUGFIX:ALL:RT:MINOR. Fix problem with pressing the Escape key in the real-time waterfall window.

Version 5.04.0005 04 NOV 2011

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:PP:MINOR. Make a few small tweaks to the SDGen utility and its invocation to do a better job of matching the batch file settings specified by the user.

  2. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. With the new high resolution digitizer view, if a contact was capture on the starboard side in full resolution view the contact symbol was incorrectly drawn. Fixed.

  3. BUGFIX:SBP:PP:MINOR. The swell filter and topographic correction did not display the image correctly when horizontal decimation or replication was enabled.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. Add x-axis time ticks to Manual UGC gain control.

  5. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. When importing V17 CSF files the system would hang when trying to open the Digitizer View when speed correction was enabled. This was a problem related to the recent 2X resolution enhancement.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. The system would hang when deleting the last Output device object. This is now fixed.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:ALL:MINOR. Minor cleanup of internal workings of the SBP gain dialog.

Version 5.04.0004 28 OCT 2011

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:RT:MINOR. The previous versions would allow the user to override the suggested file name and overwrite an existing XTF or SEGY file without warning. The warning is now in place.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MINOR. The Sonar File Manager column widths are now computed correctly based on their content.

  3. BUGFIX:ALL:PP:MINOR. Fix a few issues with the new modeless Sonar File Manager dialog and the way it handled multiple background processing threads. The user
    is now prompted to halt or continue the current background processing thread before launching a new round of processing commands that would have been in conflict with the current processing thread.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. With the new high resolution SSS format the web export SSS waterfall image function was creating huge JPG waterfall images that were choking Google Chrome and IE web browsers. These have been scaled
    back to 1024 samples wide as they were in previous versions but just for the web export.

  5. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. Recent enhancements to the Swipe single and multiple sonar file function inadverdently changed the drawing order of the sonar files such that when a user selected a file in the map
    view that lines was brought to the top of the drawing stack. This is now fixed.

Version 5.04.0003 21 OCT 2011

  1. BUGFIX:SBP:PP:MINOR. The default vertical scaling with High Res images did not scale the SBP images correctly. This is now fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:ALL:ALL:MINOR. The Pan button on the toolbar was not updating the map as the drag operation was progressing. Fixed.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:MAG:PP:MINOR. The default button on the mag editor was the Auto Pick Anomolies. This has been changed to the Manual pick anomalies as requested.

  4. BUGFIX:ALL:PP:MINOR. The Browse Coordinate System dialog did not always poulate the Coordinate System Keys correctly when it was first launched. I think this is now fixed.

  5. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. The layback cable out drop down control was not working correctly in the new modeless sonar file manager dialog. Fixed alaong with a few other nagging
    problems that were lurking even in the modal SFM.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:RT:MINOR. Add new navigation sensor support for GeoMarineTech.

Version 5.04.0002 14 OCT 2011

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:ALL:MINOR. Fix a few problems relating to contact images captured on the high res imagery.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:ALL:MINOR. Improve the Preview option on the sidescan sonar file import dialog to support for all sidescan file formats.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:PP:MINOR. Start development on SBP contacts.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Implement support for XTF V31 that includes support for reading sidescan stored in floating point format.

  5. BUGFIX:SSS:PP:MINOR. Fix small 1 pixel gap when exporting single GeoTiff images.

  6. ENHANECMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Add option to apply TVG when importing Edgetech JSF files. The advantage of using the TVG on import is to produce a better
    first cut on the data.

Version 5.04.0001 07 OCT 2011

  1. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:ALL:MAJOR. This 5.04 release marks the expansion of the internal CSF file format which now doubles the resolution of
    mosaics, waterfall images and contact images on new projects where the original sonar data contains more than 1024 samples per ping.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:RT:MINOR. Store heave copmensation values into XTF file. Previously only written for SEGY.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:RT:MINOR. Add option to Survey Line Manager to clear all survey lines from the helmsmans display ie NavWiz.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:PP:MEDIUM. Add new JSF file auto scaling option to get a better looking record for JSF files when importing.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:PP:MINOR. Enhance the SSS speed correction algorithm to provide finer scale tracking of speed variations.

  6. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:ALL:MINOR. Change the default setting for the contact sonar images to use the processed data instead of the raw data which is what it was previously using.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:PP:MINOR. Add new DXF High Resolution output for SBP reflectors. Now instead of just outputting the clicked XYZ points a new option is available
    to output the XYZ points in between and including the click points in the reflector.

Version 5.03.0032 22 SEP 2011

  1. BUGFIX:MAG:POST-PROCESSING:MINOR. The Mag Anomaly editor was not displaying the correct X/Y of the chart cursor when layback was applied. Fixed.

  2. BUGFIX:SBP:RT:MINOR. Correct the usage of the SEGY survey scal factor that is used applied to all quantities in SEGY trace bytes 41-68 to give true value.

  3. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MINOR. Eliminate a few log messages that were meaningless to anyone.

  4. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR. Add better diagnostic message when opening an XTF file that contains no sonar channels.

  5. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:MINOR. When a file is selected in the file explorer tree control but it is currently unchecked the perimeter of the file was not highlighted for unchecked files. This has been
    enhanced to show the perimeters of both checked and unchecked sonar files to make it easier to identify a file in the mosaic with a file in the explorer view.

  6. BUGFIX:SSS-SBP:MINOR The navigation plot mode of the Drawing Mode was broken during some recent updates. This drawing mode has been restored with this fix.

  7. ENHANCEMENT:SBP:RT:MINOR. Add support for sending SBP Towfish Altitude in the Output section of the Data Aquisition panel.

  8. ENHANCEMENT:ALL:MEDIUM. The Sonar File Manager dialog is now modeless. That means you can keep it open and still interact with other windows while the Sonar File Manager window is open.

Version 5.03.0031 09 SEP 2011

  1. BUGFIX:SSS:POST-PROCESSING. The Browse button on the S-57 contact export dialog was not working. Fixed.

  2. ENHANCEMENT:SSS:POST-PROCESSING. Improvements to the S-57 export utility now allow it to work when connected
    to either a networked dongle or when using an evaluation code.

  3. BUGFIX:MAG:POST-PROCESSING. The Mag Editor window was not displaying the correct X/Y of the chart cursor when layback was applied. Fixed.

Version 5.03.0030 31 AUG 2011

  1. BUGFIX Fix import problem with Syqwest Hydrobox ODC files.

  2. ENHANCEMENT Add support in the Output Device dialog to transmit output messages on a user selectable interval that starts on a user selectable time. For example,
    it is now possible to send out any message every 5 minutes on the even minute interval. This request allows users to annotate external devices on even intervals for example
    like at: 12:00, 12:05, 12:10, etc. Previously we could generate the message every 5 minutes but there was no way to synchronize it on the even minute mark. The value to the customer
    is that the annotations are now nice and even on the minute.

  3. BUGFIX Fixed a nagging problem with the sonar contact GeoTiff export function that was applied to contacts after layback was applied. The bounding coordinates of the
    target image were not being correctly computed.

Version 5.03.0029 19 AUG 2011

  1. Enhance the magnetometer reader for Hypack raw files to extract the event number information from the Hypack FIX records.

  2. Extend the precision of floating point values stored in the SQLLite database which affects the exports and other areas.

Version 5.03.0028 08 AUG 2011

  1. Add support for storing RTK GPS info in the SEGY file header in real-time SW5 systems. The geoid height is stored in centimeters in bytes 171-174 of the segy trace header. ?2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
    The geoid separation in centimeters is stored in bytes 175-176 as centimeters.

  2. Add support in the Coda file processing to use the corrected heading, easting and northing when the appropriate corrected flags are present.

  3. Add support for post-processing GPS antenna height stored in SonarWiz collected SEGY files.

  4. Improve the veracity of the Restore Factory Defaults button under the help panel. The previous version was leaving substantial settings behind which should be cleaned up with this update.

  5. On fresh installs, set the left hand dockable window to the file explorer widget. Previously, we were using the System Info Panel which several users complained as not being very useful.
    I have to agree that the System Info Panel is really only useful during data acquisition when one wants to monitor a user-definable set of parameters. If you still want the System Info Panel
    to open at start up, just open it and on subsequent starts SonarWiz will open your window layout as you left it.

Version 5.03.0027 29 July 2011

  1. Fix some problems with denial of license for customers using multiple licenses hosted on a central dongle license server.

Version 5.03.0026 22 July 2011

  1. UNH had some SEGY files that recorded the number of samples and the sample interval only in the binary header and not in the trace header. We've modified the SEGY
    reader so it will now check in the binary header if these values are not where they should be.

  2. Update to Swipe tool. The Swipe tool now allows users to select one or more sonar files and only those files will be swiped. This is a big help for change
    detection applications and makes it very easy to compare adjacent lines. When no lines are currently selected the tool works the way it previously did that is all lines were swiped.

  3. Fix problem with batch bottom not applying the smoothing function as set by the user in the interactive tracker.

  4. Upgrade to latest GMSDK 137.

  5. When exporting contact images as GeoTiff draw the contact point location and draw the label as configured by the contact manager.

  6. Tweak one of the labels on the AutoSplit dialog to make the parameters more understandable.

Version 5.03.0025 15 July 2011

  1. Fix problem with not being able to turn off the feature labels in the plan view.

  2. The magnetometer editor now provides the abilty to edit (usinging the interpolation tool) the imported mag data with the option to save it.

  3. Fix a problem in the Feature Manager dialog with the way it was handling the checkboxes for drawing and labeling.

  4. Fix library linking problem in coverage report generator that caused the utility to fail to start. Set the default colors to something other than black.

Version 5.03.0024 08 July 2011

  1. In previous versions when the ribbon was minimized, the various View category slider color controls did not work correctly. This is a know issue with the Microsoft
    library that has been reported since 2008. We have implemented a work around for it to get the sliders working all the time now.

  2. We've added a few more drawing optimizations to improve the performance when drawing reflectors in the SBP digitizer.

  3. Fix the cursor tracking in the mag editor dialog.

  4. Improve the mag anomoly graphic editing by making the mag anomaly duration handles easier to get a hold of.

  5. Add auto export and import of user defined Coord system definitions that are used in projects. This is to make sure that a user defined coord sys definition
    goies with a project when the project is copied or moved from on PC to another. Strategy: when a project that uses a user defined CS is opened, the CS definition
    is silently exported in a CTI .gxp file to the project root folder. If a project is opened and it's coordinate system is not in the geodesy database, then Sonarwiz will
    automatically try to find a .gxp file for it in the project folder, and if found will import the coordinate system. The import and export of are handled by
    the CTIGeodesyTool utility which must be V1.02.02 or higher.

  6. Fix a problem with CMAX CM2 files that were recorded at 37.5 meter range scale. The definition for this range code was added by CMAX after our initial integration.

  7. When filling a polygon with survey lines and setting the bearing of the lines to 90 degrees the line generator code was not working correctly. This is now fixed.

  8. The System Information panel was not updating the heading and cable out parameters when playing back an XTF file. Now fixed.

  9. Add new Autopilot APB option that emits distances in nautical miles (nm) and bearings as floating point values instead of integers. This was added to satisfy the requirements
    of the Simrad brand of autopilot which did not handle the metric distances and integer values for bearings.

Version 5.03.0023 19 June 2011

  1. Fixed problem with double datum shift operation when PLR magnetometer files were read in a coordinate system that was different than the projects coordinate system.

  2. Enable dongle-based evaluation licenses for SB and magnetometer progessing.

  3. Added support for accepting cable out through the sonar interface. Currently the only server that has this is the Klein 3000.

  4. Fixed a bug in the cable out serial port interface that prevented SW5 from accepting cable out through a serial port--this happened when the UDP interface was implemented for cable payout meters a few weeks ago.

  5. Correct problem with contact coordinates that showed up in high sonar altitude situations.

  6. Added GPS antenna height to CSF file. Populate from XTF ping header OceanTide value when reading in XTF data.

  7. Added GPS antenna height to CSF to CSV export.

  8. Increased the export precision of sonar altitude in CSF to CSV export.

  9. Added user control to allow downsampling of ping records that are written into a polyline shapefile in the Build Shapefiles utility. Previously this was hardwired to take every 50th ping.

Version 5.03.0022 07 June 2011

  1. Fix small display problem in Simplified Coordinate system view.

  2. Fledermaus (and other 3D formats) were not using the layback offsets when generating x/y positions. Fixed.

  3. Fledermaus (and other 3D formats) were not converting the Z vaue from the internal metric value to other units when the user coordinate system was in something other than meters. Fixed.

  4. The function for filling a closed polygon with survey lines was not converting the units correctly in projects that were in units other than meters. Wow a big units day, eh?

Version 5.03.0021 27 MAY 2011

  1. Allow support for older CSF files where the sample count was not set correctly in the file header.

  2. In previous versions if you played a file back, that file was added to the project even if the Add to Mosaic checkbox was unchecked. That is now fixed.

  3. Add new Simplified View of the coordinate system selection dialog. The simplified view shows only those coordinate systems that have been enabled by the user in the CTIGeodesyTool.
    Several users requested a way to eliminate the plethora of coordinate systems from the selection dialog so that they would only be presented with the ones that were appropriate for their geographocal areas. This is now
    possible running the CTIGeodesyTool and setting the enabled checkbox on only the coordinate systems you want SonarWiz to work with.

  4. Tweaked the Coda .COD file reader to support extracting the sensor depth and KP values.

  5. The recent shift from 8-bit to 24-bit SBP profile images introduced a bug where overlaid annotations and vectors to be drawn in gray scale in the JPEG format. This is now corrected.

  6. Fixed problem with contact links being broken when project was moved multiple times.

  7. Fix a problem with importing contacts from another project related to referencing the CSF and image data from the original project.

  8. In some rare cases where users do not have access rights to create a new folder SW5 would fail to create a project and emit an error message. This message was only displayed in the log window and the system
    behaved as if there were a valid project open. This issue is now handled correctly.

Version 5.03.0020 27 MAY 2011

  1. A few more minor speed enhancements to SBP digitizer window

  2. When playing back files the Playback button continued to show the stop sign icon even after the playback ended. Fixed.

  3. Fix the contact import dialog to allow the user to select all importable items in the list by using the check box in the header control. Also, now the importable
    items are displayed in black and the non-importable items are displayed in grayed out text.

  4. Add a column containing KP to the CSF to CSV export function.

  5. Redesign the layout of the Feature Export dialog to provide a wider display of feature names. Convert the export file format selection
    from a set of radio button to a drop list to make more efficient use of the space.

  6. Add a checkbox to the Edgetech JSF file specific options to allow for swapping the X/Y coordinates which were present in some JSF data collected by a customer using Discover.

Version 5.03.0019 25 MAY 2011

  1. Speed up the SBP digitizer windows drawing of reflectors. This was something that users have complained about especially with large files and many reflectors.

  2. The SBP digitizer view was incorrectly displaying the label of features that were scrolled out of view (towards the right hand side). Those labels should not have been visible
    in either the plan view or the digitizer view. This is now corrected.

  3. On very large SBP files, the graphics library occasionally ran out of memory when transforming the SBP image from the vertical mode (which is how it is constructed) to horizontal mode
    (which is the way it is viewed). We now have a back up strategy in place that kicks in if the primary transformation fails. This has been tested on some long SBP files and seems to work quite well.

  4. The drawing mode of the view is now stored at the project level so if you are working with project A that is drawing in Navigation Plot Mode and then open Project B which was last saved
    in Draft Mode each project will open the way you left it. Previously this was a global setting and the last used view would carry over to the next project which was sort of annoying.

  5. Previously, if one double clicked on an MML file, SW5 would not open the project. This is now fixed. Similarly in Windows 7, files that are pinned to the application icon also now open correctly.

Version 5.03.0018 15 MAY 2011

  1. Implement new survey line feature around a target location. The new function generates a 4 line search set at a user specified range and length centered on a target location.
    The 4 lines are automatically grouped and can immediately be rotated into a more favorable survey orientation if needed. Mike, you will like this one. Details here: http://www.chestech-support.com/download/ctisupport/Training/SonarWiz-LineSet-Around-a-Contact.avi

  2. Several customers requested that we implement the efficient survey pattern option when filling a closed polygon with survey lines. That is now implemented.

  3. Modify the real-time waterfall viewer window to obey the user configuration settings for which channels are to be viewed. Previously SW5 was attempting to automatically pick the channels to view and it
    was not working all that well. Now the settings configured by the user are guaranteed to always be applied regardless of what type of data is being viewed.

  4. Small tweaks to palette control for allowing each waterfall window to have its own palette selection that is independent of the main map window. The post-processing watervall digitizing
    windows always match the palette settings of the main map window.

  5. Add the KP value to the SEGY processing. Records may now be annotated with KP in the SBP viewer as well as exported imagery.

  6. NavWiz got a new check box that allows users to toggle the left-right steering indicator.

Version 5.03.0017 28 APR 2011

  1. Added survey line import function for Hypack line files.

  2. Implement new polygon generation function for seabed classification function. New polygon function exports DXF, SHP or KMZ vector files--user selectable.

  3. Add support to digitizer windows for custom color palette edits. Prior to this version, the images in the target editor, SSS bottom tracker, the Digitizer (SSS and SBP), batch exported images
    and 2D and 3D exported images all used the standard color palette but not any of the adjustments to invert, hue, saturation, contrast or brightness. This update corrects that deficiency.

  4. Fix crash bug caused when opening survey line manager with multiple lines and groups selected and deleting all from within the line manager dialog.

  5. Improve the load performance of several of the manager dialogs especially the survey line manager.

Version 5.03.0016 21 APR 2011

  1. Revved SonarWiz and all supporting utilities to updated geodesy library Rev 1836. This fixes a problem with user-defined coordinate systems (UDCSs)
    that were based on user-defined datums (UDDs). UDCSs based on standard datums were OK but UDCSs based on UDDs produced errors. This is now corrected.

  2. The color of the map overlay vector files were all getting set to the last color used such that they all displayed with the same color.
    This is now corrected so that each vector map layer may be rendered with a unique color.

  3. Enhanced target editor now opens contact images with the image processing the way you left it.

  4. New version of target report generator fixes a lot of small problems like the inverted text, missing colons and more.

Version 5.03.0015 12 APR 2011

  1. The EGN correction function was causing some transparency problem in the shadow areas. This has been corrected.

  2. Don't allow user to split files that have been trimmed unless they untrim first.

  3. Add UDP port support for cable out devices.

  4. Add ORE BATS interface template to use the Y value from the string as cable out.

  5. When importing sub-bottom data from Coda SEGY files, add a new option to import KP as event number.

  6. Fix a small slant-range correction error bug that caused the mosaic to be mapped at a slightly smaller range than it should have been.

  7. When all the new survey line stuff was added we lost one of the previous editing tools on survey lines--the ability to adjust the
    range of a line without changing its bearing. That function is now available again by dragging the line endpoint with the Alt key depressed.
    As a reminder Ctrl+drag rotates a line, Shift+drag adjust lines length and snaps to 15-degree angles, Ctrl+Shift+drag rotates a line and snaps to nearest 15 degree angle.

  8. Modest improvements to the classification legend tool and the basemap color gradiant legend.

  9. When a user created a custom output datagram and specified easting and northing as the output parameters the output was correct when a sonar device was connected but
    not when only using the navigation features of SonarWiz ie with no sonar connected. This has been corrected.

  10. Add new mag file template for the Longitude Latitude Magnetometer value.

  11. Rearrange to preferences dialog so it fits on displays with less than 900 pixels high (like mine!).

Version 5.03.0014 11 APR 2011

  1. Fix right-click context menu text in waterfall window for launching bottom tracker.

  2. Correct installation script problem that was sourcing the incorrect version of the CoverageReportGen utility.

  3. Start implementation on unique color palettes for each sonar display window. Work in progress.

  4. When importing XTF files, always read in the sheave offsets from the XTF header CHANINFO record.

  5. Correct the seabed classify (SC) code to use the layback values (if any) when generating classification maps.

  6. Modify the seabed classification class manager dialog to invoke the class editor by simply double clicking on a row.

  7. Modify the contact manager query builder window to sort the variable names alphabetically.

  8. In SC, if a merged map is being updated and is also selected as a backround map the update would fail because SW5 had the map file open.
    This is now corrected.

  9. Add a checkbox to the SC warning dialog to stop asking if you want to continue. At least now you'll only see it once per invocation of SW5.

  10. Fix the import of magnetometer files that did not contain time and date such as the XYZ format.

  11. On request of a user, we added the AVG or MAX downsampling option back but its now in the Advanced preferences dialog. This option controls
    how data is sampled upon import.

  12. The Aggregate menu items was missing from the right-click multiple file menu selection. Its back now!

Version 5.03.0013 31 MAR 2011

  1. Add SEGY File Splitting Utility to Tools panel under the SEGY button in the File Tools section.

  2. Tighten up the logic that was falsely reporting position and velocity errors in valid files where the time stamping was accurate only to the nearest second.

  3. Remove the Group Files menu item that was inadvertently left in the previous release from debugging the new file explorer tree control that does support grouping.

  4. SonarWiz.MAP had a nifty utility for building a text file from the raw navigation data contained in an XTF file. This utility has been ported to SW5 and maybe found
    under the XTF button in the File Utilities panel of the Tools ribbon category.

Version 5.03.0012 25 MAR 2011

  1. First release of new V5 helmsman display application that supports better integration with SonarWiz 5. Survey lines may be synchronized from
    the survey line manager window. Selecting a line to steer in SonarWiz also selects the same line in the remote helm display.

  2. Fix problem with the color coded magnetometer wiggle trace plot in post-processing. The wiggle trace was using the uncorrected mag position instead of the layback position.

  3. Add support for new SEA SwathPlus SXR files that contain SONAR_DATA3 records.

  4. Increase the reporting threshold on missing .cin and .egn files. These were reported as errors when a project was first opened but they are not errors because
    the files have not yet been created in a new project or when intersections and egn have not yet been executed.

  5. Fix bug in Mosaic File Manager dialog that did not correctly set the EGN flag upon exit.

  6. Implement tree control replacement for separate checkbox file viewers SSS, SBP and MAG that allows the user to create sub groups for SSS, SBP and MAG files. Tree control
    uses smart checkboxes to allow the user to enable/disable entire groups of files with a single click.

  7. Update implementation of color gradiant legend (bathy maps) and distinct legend controls (classification maps) to allow the user to select the loaded basemap to associate with.

  8. Add Remove From Basemap button to the Seabed Classification manager dialog to facilitate easier iteration.

  9. Fix problem with sensor graph not updating with fathometer input when no sonar device was connected.

  10. Revert at least for the first to earlier proximity clustering algorithm in seabed classification that seems to work better than the newer gaussian method.

  11. Add option to Preferences->Advanced tab to allow user to select which remote helm application is being used. With this release is included our new Helm display application
    NavWiz. Users may select either the older SonarWiz.NAV client or the newer NavWiz client. We will not be distributing SonarWiz.NAV going forward but we recognize that
    some customers may want to continue with this older client for a while longer.

  12. Update handling of Simrad EM302 and EM1002 backscatter records. The new code improves things a bit but still not happy with it.

Version 5.03.0011 08 MAR 2011

  1. Implement code to support gridding and contouring external XYZ files that are in the same coordinate system as the project.

  2. Modify GridGen to support contour interval less than 1 unit.

  3. Fix problem in web export dialog when using a basemap behind SBP sonar data the program was not choosing the correct limits for the exported image.

  4. Implement new Shapefile Export option on the Tools Panel to generate a shapefile containing a single polyline feature with limited attribution.

  5. Modified the shapefile export dialog to automatically open the SHP folder of the SonarWiz project is it successfully generated the SHP files.

Version 5.03.0010 28 FEB 2011

  1. Added code to the preview section of the file playback dialog for SEGY files to display the map units in which the coordinates are stored in a SEGY file.

  2. When the gridding and contouring function completed the generated contour map was not being added to the project. This is now fixed.

  3. Modify the Extract CSF Navigation tool to use leading zero formatting for the month, day and millisecond time values to make it easier to use in the Caris generic data parser tool.
    Note, the X/Y data in this file is smoothed fish navigation. The lat/lon values however ar the original imported values from the sonar file.

  4. Modify Vessel Setup dialog to allow for draft, vessel reference position and more. Most of this will come into play when the update to the sensor package is released.

  5. Tweak the EM302 and EM1002 file importers to transparently display sections of the swath that contain no data points.

Version 5.03.0009 27 FEB 2011

  1. Initial implementation of processing backscatter from Simrad EM302 and EM1002 .ALL files.

  2. The survey line Lane tolerance graphics was drawn on top of ship icon. Fixed.

  3. In the update to efficient survey pattern the order of the lines was not correct when drawing on both sides. Previously, it drew the first line
    with the major line spacing and then the minor and then major etc. It has been corrected to be minor first, then major, then minor etc

  4. Survey Line Manager: groups are now correctly saved to & loaded from MML.

  5. The latitude/longitude, X/Y, and Z coordinate panes in the status bar get resized whenever their text changes.

  6. The zoom in & out functions operate with inverse factors, so, say, zooming in five times, then out five times will leave the map with the same limits it started with.

  7. Preliminary color legend useful when displaying bathymetric or magnetometer grids. Work in progress.

  8. Preliminary distinct class legend useful when seabed classification maps. Work in progress.

Version 5.03.0008 27 FEB 2011

  1. Modify the Contact preferences dialog and associated logic to allow contacts to be transmitted via a UDP port during real-time data acquisition.
    Previously this function was only available on a serial port.

Version 5.03.0007 13 FEB 2011

  1. Start looking into adding support for processing backscatter from EM302 and EM1002 multibeam files in Simrad .ALL file format.

  2. More enhancements to Seabed Classification (SC) user interface.

  3. Add ability to generate class legend overlay on SC images.

  4. Survey line drawing fixes route-drawing related, lines and text against different colored backgrounds, line settings changed during highlight
    addition, others.

  5. Some sidescan mosaic drawing performance improvements.

  6. Add support for new XTF v29 navigation (type 42) and gyro (type 84) time stamped position and heading packets. The user may now opt to use this navigation source instead of the
    navigation data that is recorded with the actual XTFPINGHEADER. This would seemingly only apply to data collected with Isis and probably only with multibeam echo sounders or interferometers.
    We have first seen these new records in Isis data with the Benthos C3D.

  7. One of our miltary customers requested a quick button for recording data through turns at the end of a normal survey line. We thought it was probably something that others could use
    as well and so this version introduces the Quick Record Turn button that uses the standard file user-defined file naming but prepends the auto generated line name with the text Turn to make
    these files easily identifiable from normal survey file.

  8. Add a Default Palette button to the View Category Color and Contrast panel that can be used to reset the defaults of a palette after it has been adjusted using any of the slider controls.

Version 5.03.0006 03 FEB 2011

  1. When the user changes the real-time mosaic options adjust the files that are displayed when the dialog is closed.

  2. Fix problem with View panel contrast slider control which stopped working when we moved to the new VS2010 compiler.

  3. Add new Post-processing->Export->Project Reports->Sonar File Summary Report

  4. When importing magnetometer data from Hypack raw files, process the LNN mnemonic to populate the line name.

  5. Modify the mag anomaly report to eliminate the data labels on the chart and to correctly pull the description field from the anomaly record.

  6. When the annotate by distance SBP function was added, the function that allows the user to write new event numbers back into the CSF file was never updated to support the distance function. This has now been corrected.

  7. Flesh out some more of the seabed classification manager dialog. work in progress.

Version 5.03.0005 27 JAN 2011

  1. Fix the keep ship centered problem. Previously, SW5 did not always obey the state of the keep-ship-centered button. This only applies to real-time users.

  2. The mag post-processing feature that highlighted the nearest map feature to an anomaly (like a pipeline or structure) was never working in V5. It is now.

  3. In the old line tracker code, when a survey line was selected for steering the selected line was drawn with a thicker pen. Can you please restore that functionality?

  4. Fix the background drawing problem where when dragging the survey line endpoints, the range/bearing text background is not restored until the next paint message.

  5. Add accelerators to the undo, cut, copy and paste functions, Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, respectively. Ctrl-Z is currently used as the hot key to invoke the rectangle zoom; this (and any other conflicting accelerators) should be reassigned to Ctrl-Shift-Z or Alt-Z as available.

  6. The arrow drawn at the start of line point is drawn on the wrong side of the actual start point. Can you fix it so that the arrow starts on the correct side of the start point? See below:

  7. Modify the route line naming such that lines are named along track first and then along the adjacent reciprocal tracks next as shown below: where the text “Line “ above would be replaced with the name the user enters in the route dialog.

  8. Eliminate the line label drawing from the top left corner of the waterfall displays.

  9. Implement smaller arrows on survey lines.

  10. Line editor no longer initializes with the correct color entry. I did not test the line styles or thicknesses they may have a problem too.

  11. Implement a new Survey Line Toolbar that allows the user to select the next and previous lines, ster the selected line, reverse the selected line, toggle the line tracker and delete a line from the list of
    survey lines. When the Next or Previous button is pressed the next or previous line in the list is selected relative to the line that is currently selected for steering. If no line is selected for steering select the first line in the list. The other buttons will connect to existing code and resource IDs as shown below. Please add an option in the View Panel->Toolbars menu button to toggle the display of this toolbar. I have checked in 3 new toolbar bitmap images named SurveyLineToolbar_32.bmp, SurveyLineToolbar_24.bmp and SurveyLineToolbar_16.bmp below for your use. The numeric suffix indicates the size of the image in pixels. I suspect you will probably just need the 24 and 16 pixel images. As I write this I realize that I forgot to add the last button on the end that will allow the user to choose between the 24-pixel and 16-pixel toolbars. We have this in our Map toolbar so I think you can just copy the button and code from the map toolbar implementation. Below is an image that describes the mapping between the

Version 5.03.0004 21 JAN 2011

  1. Reduce the size of the fixed vessel drawing shape outline.

  2. Fix the real-time problem where the map would refresh itself before the vessel reached the threshold boundary set by the user.

  3. Fix the real-time problem that started in V5 where small gaps would show in the real-time mosaic until the window was refreshed.

  4. Onsite in Orange Beach and detected a few problems with the real-time mosaic option that limited the number of files to a user specified value. This is now fixed.

  5. Also onsite in Orange Beach and detected problem with updated waterfall windows not handling the contact capture button correctly. Fixed that too.

  6. Modified the Fathometer and Motion Sensor dialog initialization code to use the newer (and much faster) serial port detection code.

  7. Added Motion Sensor template for NMEA VTG string. Not currently used for anything yet but this section will likely expand when Mark finishes the new sensor model.

  8. The survey line selected for steering was not drawing in bold on the map like it used to. Fixed.

  9. The name of the selected line did not update in the left-right steering indicator when the line to steer was changed within the Line Manager. Fixed.

  10. When editing a survey line, the color control was not initialiazed to the currently color of the line being edited.

  11. Enhanced the Autopilot APB message computation to include a user specified sensitivity value. The higher the sensitivity the more aggressive the autopilot will be in trying to hold the line.

  12. Add right-click popup menu to left/right steering indicator to allow user to select the position source of the line tracker computation. The two current selections are ship position and sidescan position.
    We will update with any sensor position once Mark finishes the new sensor model updates.

Version 5.03.0003 15 JAN 2011

  1. In the SSS and SBP real-time and playback waterfall windows there is a new splitter control that allows the user to change the size of the oscilloscope trace.

  2. Add Cable out sensor index selection and CAB record processing for importing Hypack Mag files. This is useful when the Hypack raw file contains more than one cable handling device.

  3. Fix Hypack raw file mag importer to not start writing until valid navigation records have been encountered.

  4. Add min/max cable out to CSF file header, properties page and Sonar File Manager Excel report.

  5. Output Control now supports sending various outputs to a collection of output devices. Previously, this was limited to one device.

  6. There was a small error when measuring very sonar contacts when the contact editor window was zoomed in really far. Fixed now.

  7. Display a message box when importing sonar files that do contain a large block of pings with invalid or the same navigation data.

  8. Modest enhancements to the beta seabed classification module to allow the user to output polygons in several formats. The classification map is also now
    generated as a geotiff instead of a BMP file. Allow user to select among several options for characteristic types for classifying the seabed.

  9. Small tweaks to new geodesy library to prevent reported crash problem during redraw.

Version 5.03.0002 05 JAN 2011

  1. Allow the error handling message for missing user-defined coordinate systems to produce the pop up message box.

  2. Add Autopilot messages APA and APB to output device message options.

  3. Move the cross track error text in the line tracker window under the need to improve visibility.

  4. Contacts may now be captured using fully processed or raw sonar data using the new selection in the Contact Preferences tab creatively labeled: Use processed data for contacts. (Unchecked uses raw)

  5. Fix problems with reopening some of the dockable pane windows.

  6. Update survey line UI to include cut/copy/paste/undo.

  7. Update Survey Line Manager to include filtering of selected line groups.

  8. Add Description, FishCmg, Heading, PortOrStarboard, SymbolIndex, Vessel as quaryable fields in contact database filter builder.

  9. Add checkbox to Navigation setup dialog to allow user to ignore NMEA checksum values and still attempt to parse the payload of the NMEA sentence
    even if the checksum is invalid.

Version 5.03.0001 19 DEC 2010

  1. Port from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010 to correct a lot of problems related to dockable windows and the layout manager.

  2. Enable beta Seabed Classification (SC) functions with warning. SC functions are currently enabled on any license that has the sidescan post-processing enabled.

  3. Fix problem with exporting individual GeoImages that was discovered during workshop 2010.

  4. In the bottom tracker make the waterfall image control the default so that the user can use the mouse wheel and arrow keys without having to select the control first.

  5. Same as above but for the SSS Digitizer view

  6. Set the default output device com port to COM1.

  7. When importing the GeoSwath+ backscatter data use the echogram depth as the initial towfish altitude.

  8. Implement basic Fledermaus SBP reflector export into SD files containing 3D lines.

  9. The recently added distance annotatation option for marking SBP records with distance downline did not work when the SBP image was flipped end to end. That has been corrected.

  10. The import function for Stratabox and Bathy 2010 files was not supporting the percent of range to map contrl. This is corrected.

  11. fix problem when importing CH1 and Ch2 SBP files--previously the CSF file did not know which channel it had been created from so it would read in the project level setting. This worked OK when only one of the 2 channels were being processed but faild if the user was mixing them up.

  12. First (beta) release of new survey line planner that allows grouping and ungrouping of survey lines and routes. Line creation is now done by a left-click and a mouse move. It is no longer necessary to drag the line; rather the line is created by a left click at the start and a left click at the end.
    The range and bearing of the line is displayed as it is drawn during creation or editing. Individual lines may be streteched as before but with the additional functionality of holding the Shift key while
    dragging will lock the line on the nearest 15 degree angle. Ctrl-Drag on a line endpoint will free rotate the line about its midpoint. Ctrl-Shift drag on a line endpoint will rotate to the nearest 15 degree angle about midpoint.
    When lines are grouped the group may be rotated and streteched by dragging any of the handles on the selected group. Holding the Shift key while rotating a group locks it onto nearest 15-degree angle. Holding the shift key on any of the corner handles
    scales the lines equally in the X and Y directions.

  13. It is now possible to pan during the creation of a survey route without losing the route. Use the middle mouse button to pan the map during the route creation process.

  14. New implementation of efficient survey line pattern for mine counter measure surveys allows the operator to specify a major and minor line separation distance.

Version 5.02.0008 23 NOV 2010

  1. Tweak MST reader to better handle files that start out with bogus navigation.

  2. Tweak RDF reader to read the time stamp from the ping header which seems more reliable than the navigation header.

  3. Correct problem in MAG processor where the input and output X/Y coordinate systems were not the same.

Version 5.02.0007 10 NOV 2010

  1. Tweak the CSF to SEGY Export binary header information to make SeiSee happy.

  2. Add the log decompression update code from Marine Sonic when working with the SDS files. It should help
    eliminate the overdriven data in the near field.

  3. Fix crash problem when opening a project that used a user defined coordinate system that was not in the coordinate system DB.

  4. Fix problem in CSF to SEGY export where the heave compensation values were not being applied to the output SEGY file.

  5. In the GeoImage export dialog when the user selects a feature to crop to, the dialog now resets the limits of the exported area to the limits of the cropping feature.
    This allows faster creation of high-resolution sub-images without zooming the view down to the limits of the selected cropping feature.

  6. Add option to export GeoImage to set the background color of the exported image to white or black.

Version 5.02.0006 09 NOV 2010

  1. Optimize the Humminbird reader and add more error checking for corrupted files which there seem to be a lot of.

  2. The recent addiotion of the circle feature stomped on previously existing feauture entity codes. This corrects that mistake.

Version 5.02.0005 07 NOV 2010

  1. Enhance the thickness computation tool to use reflectors from any channel of the acoustic data file in thickness computations. Previously,
    this function only allowed computations on reflectors that were digitized on the same channel. Now the user may mix and match reflectors when a multiple channels
    of the same acoustic file have been imported.

  2. There was a small error in the starboard channel reading of Tritech logdoc files that caused a slight offset in the starboard channel. This has been corrected.

  3. Eliminate the cause of a potential crash bug associated with the closing of the sonar file manager dialog.

  4. Implement new circular feature digitizing function on the map view. Circular features may be added using the Add Feature menu in the Post-processing ribbon.
    Existing circular features may be graphically edited and filled with survey lines, and used to clip an exported geo image just like any other closed polygon.

  5. Implement new CSF to SEGY export function under the Tools ribbon and the CSF menu button. This export function will convert any of the imported SBP files
    regardless of the source file type (JSF, SEGY, KEB, ODC, etc) to a full resolution 16-bit fixed point SEGY file that contains all of the gain settings, navigation ajustments, layback, swell filtering
    and heave compensation. The original acoustic file is required for (just as it is for SBP post-processing) for this feature to work.

Version 5.02.0004 28 OCT 2010

  1. Fix re-projection problem reported when heading rotation is applied.

  2. Update support for Knudsen B9 and D0-D3 SBP data formats.

Version 5.02.0003 27 OCT 2010

  1. Small improvements to the Humminbird data processing.

Version 5.01.0049 25 OCT 2010

  1. Merge in seabed classification code update--not released yet.

  2. Add logic to extract the heave from the JSF SONAR_MESSAGE_DATA packet for sub-bottom post-processing.

Version 5.02.0002 24 OCT 2010

  1. Modify geodesy related tools - first release to support site after preliminary testing

Version 5.01.0048 24 OCT 2010

  1. Small tweaks to JSF processing related to 5-channel JSF files.

  2. Add support to NavInjectorPro for inserting navigation data back into JSF files.

  3. Improve the color resolution of Benthos 16xx data stored with unsigned integer format.

Version 5.02.0001 20 OCT 2010

  1. Modify geodesy related tools buttons. Add a single button to invoke CTIGeodesyTool.

  2. The humminbird update released yesterday containned an error for files collected in western longitude. This is now fixed.

Version 5.01.0046 18 OCT 2010

  1. Add checkbox to JSF file specific options tab to optionally apply the AGC gain from the JSF packet. This seems to
    be necessary when processing the new Chirp 4125 JSF files.

  2. There is a feature in the SBP real-time an playback dialog that allows surveyors to click on a point
    in the SBP waterfall window and have that feature automatically added to the map. This is a handy way to map a pipeline.
    This feature was not working correctly after migrating to SW5 but now its available again.

  3. Correct the link to the former terra server maps. The link is now microsoft research maps.

  4. Importing of Humminbird .DAT files is now working.

Version 5.01.0045 05 OCT 2010

  1. Display the COM port number or UDP port number in the sensor staus dialog.

  2. Modify survey line editor to allow user to define a run-in and run-out distance for each pre-planned survey line.

  3. If user tried to apply EGN before building table SW5 crashed. The crash is now averted and the user is prompted to build the EGN table before attempting to apply it.

  4. Enhance the SSS, SBP and plan view cursor tracking so that no matter where the cursor is, all of the open SSS and SBP waterfall windows
    will attempt to display the cursor from mouse movement in any of the other windows.

  5. Fix an interesting bug encountered with the GeoAcoustics DSSS interface when the digitizing rate is set to 50kHz or higher and the range is set to 500 meters
    or longer the number of samples exceeded the capacity os a signed short integer.

Version 5.01.0044 28 SEP 2010

  1. Make sure _NEW_GEOD build looks in the correct place for all geodesy related files.

  2. Enhance the Save Individual Geotiff function so that it will export any of the supported GeoImage files types
    such as GeoJPG, ECW, GeoPDF etc.

  3. Fix bug in SEGY coordinate input related to recent SEGY Rev-1 updates.

  4. Update KMZGenV5 and GridGenV5 to use latest libraries.

  5. Implement simple NMEA output datagrams for GGA, GLL, RMC amd XTE.

  6. Enhance JSF importer to add selection for the source of the heading value. There are now 5 potential sources for the heading
    we support: 1) the ping, 2) the DVL packet, 3) the NMEA packet, 4) a situation packet and 5) the ping where the heading is not scaled to .01 deg (JAMSTEC).
    The file specific options for JSF have add these options added to the user interface.

  7. Add 2 new SBP Ddigitized reflector export formats XYTime (milliseconds) and XYTime (seconds).

Version 5.01.0043 22 SEP 2010

  1. Fix problem with importing MAG data from a Hypack RAW file stored in EC2 records.

  2. Tighten up the range checking code to detect smaller range changes in high frequency sonars that run at very short ranges.

  3. Correct average overlap mosaic drawing mode problem.

  4. Implement support for reading the SEGY Rev1 coordinates in decimal degrees and degrees minutes and seconds.

  5. The split button on the waterfall window was not working correctly. Fixed.

  6. Add provisional support for reading Kongsberg EK60 sub-bottom files. Work in progress.

  7. Add Enhanced Ascii export for magnetometer data that includes much more detail on each observation.

  8. Improve the text rendering on magnetometer event numbering.

Version 5.01.0042 16 SEP 2010

  1. First Reson s7k images processed from USGS system.

  2. The Trim CSF to Polygon function handler was unintentionally grayed out a couple of builds ago. Mea culpa.

  3. Correct small positioning error in contact recompute function in the Contact Manager.

  4. The contact manager function for recoputing target positions after a layback adjustment was not updating the
    bouding coordinates used in exporting contact geotiffs. This has been corrected in 0042.

  5. The system info panel was not being updated when in auto hide mode. This has been corrected.

Version 5.01.0041 14 SEP 2010

  1. First cut at supporting backscatter from Reson .s7K not yet functional.

  2. Update to new GM library in preparation for Geodesy update.

  3. Update GeoTiff Export dialog in prep for Geodesy update.

  4. Fix color quantizer problem in image export that restricted the number of colors in the output image to 6 bits.

  5. Some exported Geotiff images contained small areas in the data where the background color was used. This caused problems when
    setting the background color transparent in Google Earth and in ArcGIS. This has been corrected.

Version 5.01.0040 13 SEP 2010

  1. Do not allow user to enter a negative value for Sheave height above water line in Sheave Offset dialog.

  2. Fix problem with X/Y Grid overlay not appearing at some scales.

  3. Add new My Info button to Help Panel for customers to quickly access their customer information when requesting support.

  4. Add support for post-processing MAG data from Hypack 2010 Raw Files recorded using the EC2 record and with no PRD or SMI records.

Version 5.01.0039 8 SEP 2010

  1. Stubbed out seabed classification GUI and hooks in debug build.

  2. Fixed SBP file flip option using user specified bearings to control which files get flipped.

  3. Fixed problem in contact images when using a projection with non-metric units.

  4. Fixed problem with creation of empty NavPlot.lut folder under Windows XP systems.

Version 5.01.0038 August 31, 2010

  1. Fix the DXF export function to preserve the colors of the digitized feature when opened in AutoCAD.

  2. The recent changes to the slant range correction function improvements for contacts caused a small gap at the edge of sonar files in the mosaic.
    This is now fixed.

  3. Add support for importing C and C Boundary files as rectangle features.

  4. Create new simple text export report that lists the file name, first event number, last event number.

  5. Add missing EGN and AutoTvg status to project summary report.

  6. Create sub menu to contain miscellaneous project reports under Post-Processing->Export->Project Reports.

  7. Initialize the vector map (points, lines, areas, labels) drawing checkboxes to true.

  8. Ditto for Auto Clip default settings dialog--they were previously zero.

  9. Once a user sets the Launch Viewer check box image in the Export GeoImage dialog, remember that setting for future invocations.

  10. Add support to Hypack HSX file processing to extract speed over ground from GPS message.

  11. Implement new magnetometer option that allows users to select for display only those lines that fall within a polygon feature.

  12. Implement new magnetometer navigation tool that automatically detects any navigation spikes that fall outside of a polygon feature and interpolates
    the navigation data across the spike.

  13. Rewrite the mag auto anomaly picker to do a better job at identifying anomalies.

  14. The mag file enabled flag was not being stored and retrieved correctly. Fixed.

  15. Improve the color support for vector map overlays like DXF and S-57 to better use and restore the original colors in the map file.

Version 5.01.0037 August 22, 2010

  1. Implement a new GeoImage export function that allows users to crop the exported mosaic image to any closed polygon in their project.

  2. The GeoImage Export checkbox to launch the viewer on the output image file was not always working. That should be fixed now.

  3. Implement a new annotation interval that allows users to annotate the SSS and SBP records at a user specified distance along track. This works in
    both the digitizer view and in the batch image export tool.

Version 5.01.0036 August 18, 2010

  1. Fix the CSF file Split function which was broken when the new undo-able Trim method was implemented.

  2. Improve the performance of the mag file manager check box selection logic. It was taking too long to select a set of files
    using the checkboxes before.

  3. Fix problem with adding existing CMF files in the mag file manager using the Add Files button.

Version 5.01.0035 August 12, 2010

  1. increase the memory allocated to the mag file import dialogs.

Version 5.01.0034 August 11, 2010

  1. Modify the web export dialog to read the names of the existing contact HTML reports from the database so that the user does not have to go
    hunting around for them. The most recently generated contact report is shown at the top of the list. The last item in the list is an option for
    not including hyperlinked contacts.

Version 5.01.0033 August 7, 2010

  1. When the next or previous file is selected in the mag editor, highlight that file in the plan view and the mag file list viewer.

  2. When trimming sonar files to the bounds of a polygon a new dialog is now presented to control how the non-intersecting files will be handled.
    The options for the non-intersecting CSF files are: do nothing, hide, remove from project or delete CSF file.

  3. Fixed bug that caused app to crash after exiting Contact editor if the editor was automatically displayed after
    contact was digitized.

  4. The Trimming function has now been enhanced so that it is now possible to Undo trimming. This works both with the trimming of files
    using the mouse or trimming files to the bounds of a polygon. The Trim tool now has 3 options just like the Move tool which include Trim this file using mouse,
    Undo the Trims on the selected file and Undo Trims on all files.

Version 5.01.0032 August 6, 2010

  1. Files changes were made for mag editing repair: CTIDevCommon/CTIDataFactoryLibV5 and LibV5d, and
    SonarWiz_5 area files ImportMagDlg, MagDefs, and MagEditorDlg, all by John Gann.

  2. Rework the mag editor toolbar sizing and content--suspected in window resizing problems.

  3. Target editor now keeps the target inside the zoomed area.

  4. Fixed slant range correction errors related to contact positioning.

  5. Fixed problem with the Imagenex SportScan file reader that misinterpreted the version number and hence the number for samples per channel

  6. Some of the controls in the contact manager dialog were not being correctly adjusted when the window was resized. This is now fixed.

  7. Fixed intermittent problem in Mag Editor window where the size of the mag editor sometimes went crazy.

  8. Fix problem with geotiff and other image generation on 64-bit Windows 7.

  9. Slightly improved the mouse editing on mag anomaly duration. Works best if you zoom in on anomaly first.

Version 5.01.0031 July 28, 2010

  1. Files changes were made for mag editing repair: CTIDevCommon/CTIDataFactoryLibV5 and LibV5d, and
    SonarWiz_5 area files ImportMagDlg, MagDefs, and MagEditorDlg, all by John Gann.

Version 5.01.0030 July 27, 2010

  1. The new status message that displays the progress of the application start-up and project load process was interfering
    with the evaluation code entry process. This only affected new evaluation users but they were unable
    to launch SonarWiz 5 with an evaluation code. This did not affect dongled users or users with an existing
    evaluation code. This is now corrected.

Version 5.01.0029 July 26, 2010

  1. More bug fixes in the new magnetic anomaly picking chart library,

  2. When importing a SBP file treat the depth field in the JSF packet as sensor depth.

Version 5.01.0028 July 21, 2010

  1. Small changes to chart control library to address crashing problem when editing th eduration of a mag anomaly.

Version 5.01.0027 July 19, 2010

  1. Fix problem that stopped program from finding the sonarwiz.ini file in the app folder. This prevented
    network dongles from being found.

Version 5.01.0026 July 18, 2010

  1. When reading magnetometer data from Hypack RAW files eliminate measurements that had the same time stamp.

  2. Implement a simple Sniff button on the Hypack file specifc options tab to allow users to quickly open a RAW or HSX file and view the device assignments.

  3. The real-time heave compensation was not enabled in the waterfall window. This has now been corrected.

  4. The UTC time was not being correctly displayed in all cases in the System Info Panel. Fixed.

Version 5.01.0025 July 12, 2010

  1. Implement cool new feature that allows users to clip the mosaic bounds to any closed polygon. Draw a closed polygon
    or rectangle feature around the sonar data that you want to keep. Right-click on the polygon and choose the menu option labeled
    Trim the Sonar Data to Feature Extents. Quick easy cropping.

  2. Implement a new popup status window that shows the progress status when SonarWiz is first launched and when a project file is being opened or created.

  3. Add new option to 3D SBP Export dialog to specify either V6 or V7 SD files for Fledermaus.

  4. Add new file option tab for the Klein SDF format. The new tab currently has controls for configuring the pressure transducer scaling.

  5. This build includes the new SDGen utility to handle both the old and new Fledermaus file formats.

  6. Move palettes and pick lists into the COMMON_APP_DATA folder so that they are available regardless of which user account ran the installer.

  7. Add popup message box whe user attempts to create a report that exceeds the recommended maximum number of contacts in the report.

  8. Fix some import problems with the GeoAcoustics GCF file format.

Version 5.01.0024 July 1, 2010

  1. The template for the SWM-MAG 882 contained the wrong date format.

  2. Fix Bathy-2010 reader problem where ping rate was less than 4 seconds.

  3. Fix crash problem with updated MAG editor

  4. Implement the magnetometer trimming within a polygon function.

  5. Modify the DXF SBP profile so that each reflector added to the profile is drawn relative to the start of line.
    That is, the X axis starts at zero and each reflector is plotted in its relative distance downline from the start of line.

  6. The code that reprojected a CSF file when the user changed the coordinate system did not work correctly. Fixed.

  7. Fixed crash problem that occurred when the Contact Editor was invoked from the Contact Manager dialog and one or
    more contacts were then deleted by using the delete button in the editor. When the editor dialog was dismissed
    the application would crash.

Version 5.01.0023 June 20, 2010

  1. When importing magnetometer data that does not have a full date/time stamp the CMF processing was choking on these incomplete timestamps. Corrected.

Version 5.01.0022 June 17, 2010

  1. Fix crashing problem with XTF utility to reinsert time stamps onto pings.

  2. Fix issue with navigation time out message when navigation is coming in through sonar interface.

  3. Fix problem caused by addition of new chart library in previous release that caused a crash when
    accessing the threshold Sniff button on the sonar file import dialog.

Version 5.01.0021 May 19, 2010

  1. The main window title was not updating correctly when new projects were opened.

  2. The right-click menu in the SBP file view docking window was missing entried to access the digitizer view. These have been added.

  3. Remove .ODC file format from sidescan import dialog filter.

  4. Fix map points, lines, areas, labels check box problem in Map Ribbon.

Version 5.01.0020 May 18, 2010

  1. Add choice of rendering options for real-time and post-processed magnetometer data. The user may now choose between the basic navigation trace of the mag data
    or the color coded segment length. The choice of drawing mode options affects both the real-time and post-processed display of magnetometer data in the plan view.

Version 5.01.0019 May 14, 2010

  1. Fixed problem in multi-tile 8-bit geotiff export. Portions of the tile that did not contain sonar data would be painted with the wrong background color.

  2. Fixed problem with SBP plan view drawing in both draft mode and high resolution mode.

  3. Add function to automatically recompute magnetometer anomalies any time that the layback is adjusted.

  4. Add Recompute button to the Magnetometer Anomaly list window to allow the user to re-position anomalies in the projects where the layback was applied after the anomalies were picked. As noted above
    this now happens automatically whenever the layback of a magnetometer line is adjusted.

  5. Mag File List dialog was not loading correctly when project was loaded. Fixed.

Version 5.01.0018 May 13, 2010

  1. The real-time sidescan sonar gain control did not provide a convenient way to select the gain settings
    for low and high frequency sonars. This has been modified for the real-time implementation to have a simple radio
    button allow the user to select which sonar frequency to apply the gain settings to.

  2. Ditto for the real-time SBP settings dialogs.

  3. The port and starboard heading rotation values in the gain settings dialog were not initialized correctly in all cases.

  4. The mosaic did not always display when first opening a project until the refresh or other controls were pressed. This is now fixed.

  5. SonarWiz requires a project to do anything useful yet up until now the app allowed users to do all kinds of stuff without first
    creating a project. This lead to some ugly situations. The UI now forces the user to open or create a project before almost anything can be done.

  6. Add a button to the map toolbar to zoom to the extents of the sonar data. We already had the one that zooms to the extents of everything.

Version 5.01.0017 May 8, 2010

  1. Modified the function Update Parameters in XTF file to use time as the copmaring index instead of ping numbers which failed for dual freq systems
    where the ping rate of one frequency can be different than the other frequency.

  2. Fix problem in navigation smoothing code that was causing problems on file import.

Version 5.01.0016 May 4, 2010

  1. Add support for post-processing the backscatter data from GeoAcoustics GeoSwath RDF files.

  2. Add code to read the event numbers from Edgetech JSF data files.

  3. Fix playback printing bug where the sub-bottom zoom settings were not being sent to the plotter.

  4. Enhance the ODC to SEGY converter to support Bathy 2000 ODC files in addition to the standard StrataBox files.

  5. Improve the real-time magnetometer recording so that the logged file automatically builds a CMF file and loads it into the project.

  6. Enhace the magnetomter logging so that the navigation of the magnetometer displays in the map view behind the vessel.

Version 5.01.0015 April 25, 2010

  1. Add new CSF header definition for long range sonars such as the AMS-60, AMS-30 and the SeaBeam 2100. These sonars
    can produce swath widths over 10km per ping and there are a few places where we need to adjust sanity checks to allow for these longer ranges.

  2. Modest improvement to sonar drawing thread by replacing the full CSF class with its lightweight version.

  3. Real-time only: Add preferences setting to control when the map view recenters the ship in the plan view. The user now has
    four options for when the ship is recentered in the plan view based on the distance from the center to the edge of the map window as a percentage.
    For example, at 100 percent the display will not recenter until the ship drives out of the window. At 50 percent, the display will recenter
    when the ship travels 50 percent or more from the center of the map window. The available settings are 100, 75, 50 and 25 percent.

Version 5.01.0014 April 23, 2010

  1. SEGY reader was not loading the heading and the speed from the user defined area of the trace header for SonarWiz files.

  2. The ellipsis button beside Classification 1 in the Set Attributes on Multiple Selected Contacts was not enabled correctly. Fixed.

  3. Add missing logic to read water depth from SonarWiz generated SEGY files.

  4. Implement a median filter on the post-processing bottom tracker to eliminate small spikes in the tracking process.

  5. More tweaks to EGN.

  6. Fixed problem with Disk Space Alrm not warning the user when available space was low.

  7. Add Klein SBP channel definitions for the CODA .COD file format reader.

  8. Mag depth was mislabeled as Mag Field Strength.

  9. The sensor graphs were not updating in real-time when no sonar data was being recorded. Fixed.

  10. If the digitizer view windows, in the options dialog if the main annotation check box was unchecked radio buttons
    that controlled how the image is annotated were all grayed out except forthe last radio button. It should have be enabled/disable along with the others.
    Worse, if this radio button was selected the application crashed. This is now fixed.

  11. Reduce the height of gain settings dialog to better fit wider but shorter displays.

  12. Implement status bar monitors for the motion sensor and the cable payout meter.

  13. Implement user-defined logging formats for fathometer and magnetometer data streams. User can now select from a set of system parameters to build a custom log file for both of these sensors.

  14. The Record and Quick Record button now support acquiring fathometer or magnetometer data when a sonar is not being used. The user may now start and stop the magnetometer or fathometer recording independently.
    The Quick Record button allows the user to log any of the active sensors using the pre-configured file naming options in the preferences dialog. For the moment, all recorded data
    is still written to the XTF folder. The default file extension for magnetomter data is .mag and for fathometer data is .dep.

  15. The previous real-time release was not storing the NMEA position string selection for RMC, GGA or GLL. This is now fixed.

Version 5.01.0013 April 9, 2010

  1. Fix contact export bug - pressing the Export button in the TargetManager dialog was having no effect if OS was WinXP.

  2. Fixed problem in LoadProject() that caused the CSF file path fixup to fail sometimes after a project had been moved. This was caused by not taking into account the fact that the CString replace method is case sensitive.

  3. Update contact database to new schema V1.08. This new schema has tables for storing the paths to ContactImage files and Csf files independent of the contacts themselves. The update function makes these tables and then populates them using the existing full file paths in the ContactData table records. The new schema enables much easier and reliable management of files referenced by contact processing.

  4. Improvements to the functions that handle updating a project from V4 to v5 contacts.

  5. Improvements to the functions that handle the resolution of contact image file and csf file paths when a project is moved.

  6. Add test export function in waterfall digitizer window to export the samples from a single ping channel into the CSF folder when the user
    left-clicks with both the Alt and Ctrl keys held down. This function will probably not stay in the program.

  7. Add JSF file specific option to allow the user to skip past the first N sonar pings in a JSF file. This is useful for skipping past errantly
    positioned pings in a JSF file.

  8. Fix bug in IntersectionManagerList dialog that did not select the default folder correctly.

  9. Samples in the SeaBeam MB41 backscatter data are now byte swapped.

  10. Add popup message box to warn operator when navigation data is no longer being received.

  11. Add checksum processing to NMEA message handling. NMEA messages without valid checksums are rejected.

  12. Update the processing logic for sonar sensors that also provide position information. If a valid position is received from
    a sonar sensor and no other position sensor is configured for operation in SonarWiz then this position will be used if
    in fact the position is valid and changing.

  13. Fix memory leak in the redrawing of the map view.

  14. Add real-time status animated icons in the status bar that indicate the status of the sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, navigation source, fathometer, magnetomer and data recording. So there, Mike!

Version 5.01.0012 April 2, 2010

  1. Fix units bug in the application of sheave offset. This worked correctly when the project was in meters but not in other units.

  2. In the AutoSplit dialog, hide the advanced controls under the >> expansion button. These controls are not yet documented and not recommended for the casual user.

  3. Remove out of date controls from SBP preferences dialog.

  4. Add support for Klein 5000 V2 SDF sonar files in post-processing.

  5. Correct the rendering of some GeoTIFF basemap images that used one particular method of positioning that caused the Y coordinates to get flipped.

  6. Fix crash that occured when opening the thermal printer dialog for the second time.

  7. Add SSS Sensor depth, SSS Event Number and SBP Event number to System Info Panel display options.

  8. Fix scale line and event mark annotation in SSS and SBP real-time and playback waterfall windows.

  9. Add Add Survey Line and Add Feature buttons to map toolbars.

  10. Remove Customize button from Map Toolbar.

  11. Remove all user choices related to converting the contacts in a version 4 project to version 5 when the project s opened in SonarWiz 5. Contact format conversion is now mandatory and automatic.

  12. Modifications to make version 4-to-version 5 contact conversion consistent and reliable in all situations, including when a version 4 project is moved to a new folder and then immediately opened with SonarWiz 5.

  13. Add alitude smoothing to EGN table generation.

Version 5.01.0011 Mar 30, 2010

  1. More updates to EGN gain function.

  2. Enable limited (10Hz updates) cursor tracking from the map to waterfall windows. This was disabled in V4
    because of performance issues in large projects. This new implementation limits the CPU usage of this tool.

  3. Improve the performance of the Sonar File manager dialog upon exit through use of a leaner CSF file class for manipulating various settings in the CSF header.

Version 5.01.0010 Mar 26, 2010

  1. Update to EGN gain function. Fixed some bugs and improved the interpolation to reduce the banding problems seen in some data sets.

  2. Fix Bug Report 689: When deleting a contact from the map view display the name of the selected contact in the confirmation dialog.

  3. Add option to Preferences->General to optionally draw event number locations in map view.

  4. Fix bug in CSF logic that detects whether event numbers are counting up or counting down. Some XTF loggers like to store a -1 in the event
    number slot in the run-in part of the file and this was causing the ascending or descending logic to get lost.

  5. Display computer name and OS version in log file.

  6. Add a check to prevent a new project from being created in a folder that already contains a project.

  7. Modify the Digitized Feature DXF Profile plot to use the distance downline as the scale for the X-Axis.

Version 5.01.0009 Mar 20, 2010

  1. Add Fish Lat/Lon to real-time serial or Ethernet output options.

  2. Add JSF SBP processing option to read the delay value startDepth from the JSF file.

  3. Fix problems in SBP Profile DXF Export tool which generates a DXF plot of the reflectors in each SBP file. The X-axis scaling was broken.

  4. Fix problems related to average and shine through mosaic overlap drawing modes.

Version 5.01.0008 Mar 18, 2010

  1. Tweak the threading engine to improve the drawing performance in large projects.

  2. Test and verify the Marine Sonic HDS post-processing format. Integrate Chris Fs latest decompression code.

  3. Implement a few changes to improve the mosaic rendering speed as well as the vector layers on top.

Version 5.01.0007 Mar 16, 2010

  1. Fixed problem with NMEA sentence selection for heading and position was not being stored correctly in the INI/XML file.

  2. Fixed issue with JSF file TimeStamp structure which took on a different size in the new compiler.

  3. Fixed multiple coordinate display problems in the system info panel.

Version 5.01.0006 Mar 03, 2010

  1. Filenames are now displayed on the map in all modes (draft, hi-res, etc). The switch for this is still on the general preferences dialog.

  2. Fix issue with ribbon slider bars that did not update correctly when the host panel was in a compressed state.

  3. Add Invert color palette button to color panel on the View Category.

  4. Add Palette Compression slider control in the color panel on the View category.

  5. Add new multiple contact editor. The new multiple contact editor allows users to select any set of contacts and then in one dialog change a subset of attributes
    on all of these selected contacts in one step.

Version 5.01.0005 Feb 25, 2010

  1. Delete temporary BMP, CSF and CSV that are created when a file if previewed from the Sidescan Import dialog (this was actually in .0004)

  2. Import Bottom Track data (File manager dialog): (i) make it work for multiple file selection, (ii) improve error and info messages.

Version 5.01.0004 Feb 24, 2010

  1. UG-13.1 SBP 3D viewer replaced with new CTI3D application.

  2. UG-13.3 Connect the Coverage Report Gen button to the utility.

  3. UG-13.5 Remove CSF Files->CSF Variable editor menu item--functionality provided by navigation editor.

  4. UG-13.6 Remove CSF Files->Properties menu item--misplaced.

  5. UG-13.9 Selecting multiple files in the Map window and right clicking brings up the multiple files dialog. In this menu Bottom Track and
    Navigation are (correctly) greyed out which begs the question why are they in this menu. Replaced dialog with context menu and eliminated irrational items.

  6. Validate the JSF sidescan files that contain errant altitude data that exceeds the range of the sonar so that the altitude can not exceed the range of the sonar.

  7. UG-12.1.a Contact Report Generator Browse in Title Image is not working. Fixed.

  8. UG-12.1.b Contact Report Generator PDF report generator stalled. Fixed.

  9. UG-12.1.c Contact Report Generator PDF report generator stalled. Fixed.

  10. UG-12.2 Contact Manager Option Slant Range Correct Targets has been moved to only be in contact preferences only.

  11. UG-12.5 The Drop down list under the Cores button is always greyed out even if there are cores in the project. Fixed.

  12. UG-12.6 Intersections: Remove Editor button from the Intersection Manager.

  13. Fix the mag file manager list control to allow a selected group of rows to have thir respective checkboxes enabled or disabled with a single click.

  14. Ditto for the Feature Manager dialog.

  15. UG-12.7.a Mag File Manager Top info section (Project Name/Number of files…) are not populating with information. Fixed.

  16. UG-12.4 Feature Manager Export Dialog does not populate the default destination with the current project directory. Fixed.

  17. Update various export functions throughout the software to use the project path or some derivative for the default export path.

  18. Change the timed event setting from decimal minutes to integral seconds.

  19. UG-11.10. Exit button alternate text.

  20. UG-11.12a. Event Setup bar change yellow text to blue.

  21. Updated User Guide.

Version 5.01.0003 Feb 18, 2010

  1. Fix the Browse button on the Contact Report Generator dialog to select a cover page image.

  2. Fix degradation of Digitized Viewer SSS images.

  3. Fix contact move problem when slant range correction was enabled and the port channel contact was moved the contact would be drawn
    on the starboard channel after a move operation.

  4. Viewing contacts by selecting from the target pull down window, if contact is greater than 2/3 from the end of
    the record, sonarwiz will only scroll to the 2/3 location. Fixed.

  5. Fix waterfall cursor tracking onto map view.

  6. The color palette in the waterfall window was not being properly intialized during real-time and playback operations.

Version 5.01.0002 Feb 12, 2010

  1. Recompile and link with IPP V6.1

  2. Tweak installer to support partial IPP installation.

  3. Edit source and install script to relocate PaletteBuilder.exe back into {app} folder.

Version 5.01.0001 Feb 11, 2010

  1. First release version.

  2. Clean up tab order and alignment on Create New Project dialog.

  3. Adjust Displayed Range was not functioning.. Now OK.

Version 5.00.9033 Feb 8, 2010

  1. When a grey color palette is chosen disable the sliders for saturation and hue.

  2. Minor typographical corrections throughout.

  3. Supply missing keyboard accelerator for Selecting the Next Survey Line.

  4. Shrink the very tall SSS and SBP File import dialogs to fit on smaller displays.

  5. Enlarge the Contact Manager buttons to better fit their text content.

  6. Fix problem Mike found when resizing Batch Image Export and other similar dialogs.

  7. Update Sonar Selection dialog with option to record raw JSF or GCF data from Edgetech 4200 and GeoAcoustics DSSS sonars.

  8. Update the GridGen utility to use library for gridding of XYZ data.

  9. Add roll, pitch, heave and swell to the CSF to CSV data converter.

  10. Begin the process of adding bitmap images to all menu items.

  11. Add new preliminary Histogram Thresholding section to Sidescan File importer.

Version 5.00.9032 Jan 31, 2010

  1. Fix crash problem when importing large XTF files (ie Sheet E 0004-88E.xtf) with AutoTvg on.

  2. Continue to move data files from Program Files sub folder to app data to conform to Vista and Windows 7 security.

  3. Implement new larger toolbar images for the main map floating toolbar and the Digitizer window for the sidescan post-processing.

  4. Add button on Tools panel to open the folder where all of the log files are stored.

  5. Gain settings dialog on the SBP Digitizer window was not opening. This is fixed.

  6. Target strip was not clearing out when a new project was opened. This is fixed.

  7. Maps: When loading a Vector Overlay, area features are filled regardless of the state of the “Draw Area Features” check box when you first load the chart. Refreshing or clicking on “Draw Area Features” check box does nothing to un-fill the areas. You must go into the map manager and then exit the map manager to toggle the area features to un-fill. This was an issue in SWM too. See attached which is a screen grab immediately after opening the project. This is now fixed in V5.

  8. Maps: The Styles pull-down command is greyed-out in the Vector Map Controls group

  9. Maps: When first opening a project the Map Manager does not seem to remember the display state of all VECTOR maps when the project was closed. All Vector maps are enabled when you open a project. Fixed.

  10. Manual Cable Out was not being correctly displayed on the System Info Panel.

  11. Add tooltips where needed in SSS, SBP and MAG digitizer windows.

Version 5.00.9031 Jan 27, 2010

  1. Eliminate the sync system time to navigation time option--problematic.

  2. Integrate TSS01 real-time heave interface and correction code.

  3. Add optional XTF logging to separate LF/HF files for 4200 and other dual frequency sonars.

  4. Add Check All/Check None button to file check list windows.

  5. Add Capture Contact button to sonar waterfall window.

  6. Fix bug in XTF reader that was miniterpreting the split frequency setting.

  7. New release of TargetreportGen2: V3.06.001

  8. New release of SwizWebGen: V2.00.003

Version 5.00.9030 Jan 24, 2010

  1. Fix problem with acquiring contacts during real-time data acquisition.

  2. Correct problem with Google Earth export missing title, URL and description with new KmzGenV5.

  3. Fix problem with vector layer not getting exported with the geo image.

  4. Add more variable options for the system info bar

  5. Add button to show/hide the header information on the system info panel

  6. Add settings button and dialog to control the sonar contact strip window.

  7. Sort out some color issues when loading GeoImage basemaps.

Version 5.00.9029 Jan 16, 2010

  1. Add thermal printer section to data acquisition panel.

  2. Add Target Strip Window

  3. Fix problem with low resolution map info button contact tool tip image.

Version 5.00.9028 Jan 15, 2010

  1. Minor updates to the system info panel

  2. Make the waterfall window pop open when a file is opened for playback.

  3. Drag and drop Project create dialog now updates the project folder with the project name just like the standard New project dialog.

Version 5.00.9027 Jan 13, 2010

  1. I think the new layout manager is now working, phew!

  2. The System Info Panel has been updated with more variables and custom renderings.

  3. The installer script now contains a small utility to remove potentially conflicting settings left over
    from previous invocations.

  4. SBP Playback should now work.

Version 5.00.9026 Jan 10, 2010

  1. Initial implementation of System Status Panel.

  2. Eliminate Ship, Fish and GPS panels everywhere.

Version 5.00.9025 Jan 7, 2010

  1. Move settings from registry to ini file in APPDATA.

Version 5.00.9024 Jan 4, 2010

  1. Move the log file to the APPDATA folder.

  2. Add geodesy label to status bar.

  3. Add Geodesy and Geodesy key to output table mostly as an example of how to support tring types for Hans work.

  4. Rearrange panels and buttons to fit workflow recommended by Mike.

  5. Update system time values when not in playback mode.

Version 5.00.9023 Jan 2, 2010

  1. Provide fix for Network Dongle Timeout problem. This bug caused some users to experience
    premature program termination when running with a network dongle.

  2. Eliminate the Dashboard (Outlook Bar) container. All widgets are now managed by the Toolbar button
    and layout manager.

Version 5.00.9022 Dec 27, 2009

  1. Small tweaks to the waterall window info button.

  2. Make the layout manager load the most recent configuration at start up.

Version 5.00.9021 Dec 24, 2009

  1. Adjust the waterfall window settings so that it better initializes to channel display settings
    to the incoming data stream either in real-time or in playback.

Version 5.00.9020 Dec 23, 2009

  1. First release of Layout Manager -- more to come.

  2. SBP data is now displayed in the SBP waterfall window in playback and acquisition.

  3. Minor changes to the Dashboard.

Version 5.00.9019 Dec 21, 2009

  1. Disk Monitor

  2. Tooltips in waterfall windows

  3. More real-time testing.

Version 5.00.9018 Dec 11, 2009

  1. Partial implementation of updated waterfall view and new dashboard.

Version 5.00.9017 Dec 4, 2009

  1. Partial implementation of updated waterfall view and new dashboard.

Version 5.00.9016 Nov 25, 2009

  1. Lots of changes to the UI in the last 2 weeks.

  2. Tree control has been removed and replaced with the Dashbord outlook bar control.

  3. Updated the contact manager to use SQL query tool

  4. At least partial implementation of the real-time sonar and navigation interfaces.

  5. XTF File data record now works.

Version 5.00.9015 Nov 12, 2009

  1. Add new SEGY utilities

  2. Imporved performance by reducing the status bar progress control updates.

  3. Added GCF file support for post-processing.

Version 5.00.9014 Nov 5, 2009

  1. Integrate Hans fixes for drawing ClearText.

  2. Fix the TriTech StarFish drag and drop problem.

  3. Fix type in Aort Redraw Tooltip

  4. Remove two anomaly related menu items from IDR_POPUP_MAGNETOMETER

Version 5.00.9013 Oct 28, 2009

  1. Remove GeoFunc.cpp and .h. Rebuild with CTIgeoLib V1.5

Version 5.00.9012 Oct 26, 2009

  1. Integrate 1.7.4 tree control changes

  2. Add Magnetometer ribbon button control

  3. Add Mag files to tree control

  4. Fix scroll to position bug in waterfall viewer when speed correction was enabled. This is the code that automatically scrolled the contact into
    view after a new contact was added or when a contact was selected in the drop down list.

Version 5.00.9011 Oct 16, 2009

  1. Tree control now supports multiple selection and drag and drop for reordering.

  2. New project dialog creates the folder name based on the project name.

Version 5.00.9010 Oct 10, 2009

  1. Contact reports - first working hookup using new multiformat report generator.

  2. Various changes by JG

Version 5.00.9009 Oct 02, 2009

  1. Contact reporting and code cleanup in progress.

Version 5.00.9008 Oct 01, 2009

  1. Contact reporting and code cleanup (removing old V4 stuff) in progress.

Version 5.00.9007 September 30, 2009

  1. First STANDALONE release. (de-coupled from SonarWizMAP 4)

Version 5.00.9006 September 27, 2009

  1. Add elevation (depth) cursor tracking.

  2. Add Survey Time button and function to Survey Line Manager. This allows user to estimate the approximate
    time to conduct the selected survey lines at a given speed and turnaround time.

  3. Partial implementation of new Google Earth export that supports tiling.

  4. Fix all the small memory leaks. This was caused by the ExitInstance method calling CWinApp:ExitInstance instead of CWinAppEx:ExitInstance

Version 5.00.9005 September 22, 2009

  1. Add support for the average and shine through drawing modes.

  2. Fix the tooltip code for the map info tool.

Version 5.00.9004 September 16, 2009

  1. Add many new output types for the mosaic beyond GeoTiff. This version now supports

  2. Add toolbar menu button to view menu to allow toggling of various dockable and other displays and windows.

Version 5.00.9003 September 13, 2009

  1. Add new tree control dockable pane that stores (for now) the SSS, SBP and MAG files in a project. Files may
    be quickly displayed or hidden using the check box control. Right clicking on the filename in the tree control accesses the
    settings context dialog for that file. The plan is for this to eventually eliminate the need for the Sonar File Manager dialog.

  2. Start on new configurable navigation and status display. Currently only hooked up in real-time. Right click to select which fields you want displayed.

  3. Move Batch Image Export and Coverage Report generator under Post-processing->Export button menu and out of Sonar File Manager.

  4. Many other minor things.

Version 5.00.9002 September 9, 2009

  1. Update many of the original software icons with something more representative.

  2. Update preferences dialog to use more modern dialog style.

  3. Add Dongle Info button to Tools Panel

Version 5.00.9001 September 7, 2009

  1. Start Keeping version history. Set the build number portion of the version to 9000 to indicate a pre-release version.
    This number will be reset to 0000 when we release the first version.

  2. Remove Project Settings tab from ribbon menu.

  3. Add logic to add (or not) the data acquisition ribbon depending on whether or not dongle licenses real-time components

  4. Add Project Setting button to bottom og file menu

  5. Replace small icons on Project Settings and Project Options (formerly Preferences) buttons.

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