Teledyne UI User manual

User Manual
SeaBat Sonar UI
Version 1.4.7
June 2017
Teledyne RESON B.V.
Stuttgartstraat 42- 44
3047 AS Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: [phone]
www.teledyne-reson.com

Amendment Record Sheet
Rev.
Date
Reason for Modifications
1.4.7.
02/06/2017
Quick Guide: Add text to set IP sonar processor on SUI.
Operation: Add text to rotate depth gate.
Add text Sidescan and Snippets waterfall data range.
1.4.6
20/10/2016
Operation –Screen - Sidescan: Text modified.
Operation –Screen - Detect: Text modified.
1.4.5
27/09/2016
Operation - Dual head: Text modified.
Appendix A Dual head (master slave): Text modified.
Quick guide: OpenGL requirement added.
1.4.4
02/02/2016
Appendix Copyright information added.
1.4.3
13/11/2015
Operation: Figure Snippets data modified.
1.4.2
11/11/2015
Operation: Text modified ‘Vernier parameters’.
1.4.1
19/10/2015
Operation: Section added “Vernier parameters”.
1.4.0
16/10/2015
Quick Guide: Text modified.
General information: Text modified. New functions SUI panes added.
Operation: Text modified. New functions SUI panes added.
1.3.5
24/08/2015
Operation: Text added ‘Maintain swath coverage’.
1.3.4
28/04/2015
Service: Text added.
1.3.3
08/04/2015
Quick Guide: Text modified.
Operation: Text modified.
1.3.2
25/03/2015
Operation: AUV text added.
1.3.1
26/02/2015
Operation: Record text modified.
Service:figures modified.
1.3.0
19/02/2015
Manual updated after review
1.2.1
14/01/2015
General information: Added text Wake up.
Operation:Text modified leds toolba.r
1.2.0
11/12/2014
SeaBat User interface becomes Sonar User interface as different sonar.
types will use the SUI.
1.1.9
27/05/2014
Text modified ‘Restore factory settings’ .
1.1.8
22/05/2014
Text modified sonar network connections..
1.1.7
22/05/2014
TT10530. Text modified remote desktop.
1.1.6
13/05/2014
Section ‘General Information’ text ‘Application settings dialog’ modified.
1.1.5
30/04/2014
Appendix ‘Dual Head’ text modified.
Section ‘Operation’ text modified.
1.1.4
25/04/2014
Appendix ‘Dual Head’ text modified.
Dual head: Ping delay. Text added.
1.1.3
07/04/2014
Snippet window added in section ‘Operation’.
1.1.2
28/03/2014
Appendix ‘RDR’ added.
1.1.1
07/03/2014
Text modified section ‘Equi-Angle’
Appendix ‘Dual Head’ added.
1.1.0
15/11/2013
Major update to SeaBat UI version 4.1.0.5
1.0.6
14/03/2013
Updated to SeaBat UI version 4.0.0.10
1.0.5
12/10/2012
Updated to SeaBat UI version 4.0.0.8

1.0.4
05/07/2012
Updated to SeaBat UI version 4.0.0.4
1.0.3
04/06/2012
Minor updates
1.0.2
24/05/2012
Updated to the latest SeaBat UI version
1.0.1
14/05/2012
New items added to the SeaBat UI User Manual.
1.0.0
26/04/2012
First version of the SeaBat UI User Manual.

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Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 SeaBat Sonar UI.....................................................................................................1
2 Quick Guide 3
2.1 Introduction.............................................................................................................3
2.2 Steps.......................................................................................................................3
3 General Information 5
3.1 Introduction.............................................................................................................5
3.2 Arranging the Panes...............................................................................................5
3.2.1 Panes............................................................................................................5
3.2.1.1 Opening and hiding Panes..................................................................6
3.2.1.2 Docking................................................................................................6
3.2.1.3 Floating................................................................................................7
3.2.1.4 Tabs...................................................................................................11
3.2.1.5 Context Menu....................................................................................11
3.3 Sonar UI Toolbar..................................................................................................12
3.3.1 Application Settings Dialog.........................................................................12
3.3.1.1 Lay-out...............................................................................................12
3.3.1.2 Sonar System....................................................................................13
3.3.1.3 Sonar Network Connections..............................................................14
3.3.2 About Dialog ...............................................................................................15
3.3.3 Licensed Features Dialog...........................................................................15
3.3.4 Help File......................................................................................................16
3.3.5 Sonar Address ............................................................................................16
3.3.6 Service Mode..............................................................................................16
3.3.7 Operation Mode ..........................................................................................16
3.3.8 Save JPG Screen Snapshot .......................................................................16
3.3.9 Start Record AVI.........................................................................................16
3.3.10 Start Record RDR.....................................................................................17
3.3.11 Start the Tracker .......................................................................................17
3.3.12 Pitch Stabilization......................................................................................17
3.3.13 Roll Stabilization .......................................................................................18
3.3.14 1PPS.........................................................................................................18
3.3.15 Normalization............................................................................................18
3.4 Screen Toolbar and Context Menu ......................................................................19
4 Operation 21
4.1 Introduction...........................................................................................................21
4.2 Main......................................................................................................................23
4.2.1 Range..........................................................................................................23
4.2.2 Power..........................................................................................................24

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4.2.3 Gain............................................................................................................ 24
4.2.4 Pulse Length............................................................................................... 25
4.2.5 Gate............................................................................................................ 25
4.2.6 (Ping) Max Rate.......................................................................................... 25
4.2.7 Tile.............................................................................................................. 26
4.3 Advanced ............................................................................................................. 27
4.3.1 Beam Mode ................................................................................................ 27
4.3.1.1 Equi-Angle......................................................................................... 27
4.3.1.2 Intermediate...................................................................................... 27
4.3.1.3 Equi-Distant....................................................................................... 28
4.3.1.4 Flexmode .......................................................................................... 28
4.3.2 (Horizontal) Steering................................................................................... 30
4.3.3 Coverage Angle.......................................................................................... 31
4.3.4 Frequency................................................................................................... 31
4.3.5 Beam width................................................................................................. 32
4.3.6 Pulse Type.................................................................................................. 32
4.3.7 Absorption .................................................................................................. 32
4.3.8 Spreading ................................................................................................... 33
4.3.9 Sound Velocity............................................................................................ 33
4.3.10 SVP Filter ................................................................................................. 33
4.3.11 Temperature............................................................................................. 34
4.4 Messages............................................................................................................. 34
4.5 IO Module............................................................................................................. 35
4.5.1 Sound Velocity............................................................................................ 36
4.5.2 Clock........................................................................................................... 37
4.5.3 Attitude........................................................................................................ 37
4.5.4 Depth.......................................................................................................... 37
4.5.5 Position....................................................................................................... 37
4.5.6 Heading ...................................................................................................... 37
4.5.7 Pan and Tilt ................................................................................................ 37
4.6 Detection.............................................................................................................. 38
4.6.1 Depth Gate ................................................................................................. 38
4.6.2 Range Gate ................................................................................................ 40
4.6.3 Adaptive Gate............................................................................................. 40
4.6.4 Tracker........................................................................................................ 41
4.6.4.1 Coverage angle................................................................................. 41
4.6.5 Snippets...................................................................................................... 41
4.6.6 Multi-detect................................................................................................. 42
4.6.7 Vernier Parameters .................................................................................... 42
4.7 Display.................................................................................................................. 44
4.8 Recording............................................................................................................. 47
4.8.1 Raw Data Recording .................................................................................. 47
4.8.1.1 File storage ....................................................................................... 47
4.8.1.2 Record Selection............................................................................... 48
4.8.1.3 Compressed Water Column.............................................................. 49
4.8.1.4 Status................................................................................................ 49
4.8.2 Images and Movies .................................................................................... 50
4.9 Hardware.............................................................................................................. 50
4.9.1 Deck Mode ................................................................................................. 50
4.9.2 Motion Stabilization .................................................................................... 50

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4.9.2.1 Roll Stabilization................................................................................51
4.9.2.2 Pitch Stabilization..............................................................................52
4.9.3 PPS Configuration ......................................................................................52
4.9.4 Trigger Configuration ..................................................................................53
4.9.5 Advanced Settings......................................................................................53
4.9.6 Dual Head...................................................................................................54
4.9.6.1 Dual head using two sonar systems (Master –Slave)......................54
4.9.6.2 Integrated Dual head.........................................................................56
4.9.7 Bracket........................................................................................................56
4.9.8 Normalization..............................................................................................57
4.9.9 AUV.............................................................................................................58
4.9.10 Cable.........................................................................................................59
4.10 Pipe.....................................................................................................................59
4.10.1 Survey Settings.........................................................................................60
4.10.2 Pipe in Sway Detections...........................................................................60
4.10.2.1 Pipe detect diameter .......................................................................60
4.10.2.2 Maximum free span filter.................................................................60
4.10.2.3 Detection threshold filter..................................................................60
4.10.2.4 Statistic threshold filter ....................................................................60
4.10.2.5 Filter brightness...............................................................................61
4.10.2.6 Filter colinearity ...............................................................................61
4.10.3 Pipe Parts Creation...................................................................................61
4.10.3.1 Pipe segment length........................................................................61
4.10.3.2 Maximum detection distance...........................................................61
4.10.3.3 Maximum number of predictions .....................................................61
4.10.3.4 Quality test.......................................................................................62
4.10.3.5 Depth test ........................................................................................62
4.10.3.6 Number of detections test ...............................................................62
4.10.4 Pipe Route Creation..................................................................................62
4.10.4.1 Maximum pipe parts used in routing ...............................................62
4.10.4.2 Join segments test...........................................................................62
4.10.5 Pipe Steering ............................................................................................62
4.10.6 Five Points Environment...........................................................................63
4.10.6.1 Environment sample width ..............................................................63
4.10.6.2 Maximum sample offset ..................................................................63
4.10.7 Pipe Detection Considerations .................................................................63
4.10.8 Dual Head Pipe Detection Considerations ...............................................64
4.11 Screens...............................................................................................................64
4.11.1 Screen Toolbar .........................................................................................65
4.11.2 Screen Context Menu...............................................................................67
4.11.3 Zoom Functions ........................................................................................68
4.11.4 Wedge.......................................................................................................69
4.11.4.1 Info Layer.........................................................................................69
4.11.4.2 Saturation indicator .........................................................................69
4.11.4.3 Multibeam Data Color Mode............................................................69
4.11.4.4 Contrast...........................................................................................69
4.11.4.5 Show History ...................................................................................69
4.11.4.6 Measurement...................................................................................70
4.11.5 Water Column...........................................................................................71
4.11.6 Detect........................................................................................................72

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4.11.7 Sidescan................................................................................................... 72
4.11.8 Snippets.................................................................................................... 73
4.11.9 Helmsman ................................................................................................ 74
5 Service 77
5.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 77
5.2 Diagram................................................................................................................ 78
5.3 Information ........................................................................................................... 79
5.3.1 Status.......................................................................................................... 79
5.3.2 Details......................................................................................................... 81
5.3.3 IO Module QC............................................................................................. 83
6 Appendix Dual head (Master –Slave) 87
6.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 87
6.2 Setup.................................................................................................................... 87
6.3 Control.................................................................................................................. 90
6.4 BITE ..................................................................................................................... 92
7 Appendix Raw Data Recording (RDR) 93
7.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 93
7.2 Scenarios ............................................................................................................. 93
7.2.1 RDR on a Gx processor ............................................................................. 93
7.2.2 RDR on an external (customer) computer.................................................. 94
7.2.3 RDR on a Network Attached Storage device............................................. 95
7.2.4 T20 RDR on an external computer in a local network (E.g. Workgroup)... 96
7.2.5 T20 RDR to external computer in a Domain .............................................. 97
7.2.5.1 Additional notes................................................................................. 97
7.3 Creating a workgroup........................................................................................... 98
7.4 Setup correct IP address and Subnet mask. ..................................................... 100
7.5 File sharing......................................................................................................... 102
7.5.1.1 Additional settings........................................................................... 105
7.6 SUI record and file path selection...................................................................... 107
7.7 Remote connection............................................................................................ 107
7.8 Start RDR........................................................................................................... 108
8 Appendix Copyright Information 111
8.1 Glew................................................................................................................... 111

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Figures
Figure 2-1 Selection and Start of New Sonar UI...................................................................................3
Figure 2-2 Sonar UI shortcut.................................................................................................................3
Figure 2-3 Cable length dialog box.......................................................................................................4
Figure 3-1 Tabs.....................................................................................................................................6
Figure 3-2 Display pane in Docking mode............................................................................................6
Figure 3-3 Guide diamonds ..................................................................................................................7
Figure 3-4 Placeholder..........................................................................................................................7
Figure 3-5 Re-dock settings pane placed above bottom pane.............................................................8
Figure 3-6 Re-docked settings pane placed from right guide diamond................................................9
Figure 3-7 Re-docked bottom pane with the center guide diamond...................................................10
Figure 3-8 Re-dock bottom pane from the bottom guidance diamond and an opened settings
pane...................................................................................................................................10
Figure 3-9 Settings pane with tabs. ....................................................................................................11
Figure 3-10 Context menu ....................................................................................................................11
Figure 3-11 Toolbar of the Sonar UI.....................................................................................................12
Figure 3-12 Application settings dialog.................................................................................................12
Figure 3-13 About Sonar UI dialog .......................................................................................................15
Figure 3-14 Licensed Features dialog ..................................................................................................15
Figure 3-15 Toolbar in one of the views pops up automatically. ..........................................................19
Figure 4-1 Cable length dialog box.....................................................................................................21
Figure 4-2 Sonar UI with four screens................................................................................................22
Figure 4-3 Main Pane with Control and Tile settings..........................................................................23
Figure 4-4 Range................................................................................................................................23
Figure 4-5 Power ................................................................................................................................24
Figure 4-6 Gain...................................................................................................................................24
Figure 4-7 Pulse Length......................................................................................................................25
Figure 4-8 Gate modes with Depth gate selected (highlighted) .........................................................25
Figure 4-9 (Ping) Max Rate.................................................................................................................25
Figure 4-10 Tile with Wedge, Water Column and snippets screen switched on (button highlited)
but Sidescan screen off (button greyed ) ..........................................................................26
Figure 4-11 Double arrow and cross to resize screens........................................................................26
Figure 4-12 Advanced Controls............................................................................................................27
Figure 4-13 Custom checkbox ticked to set the number of beams ......................................................27
Figure 4-14 Custom checkbox ticked to set the number of beams ......................................................28
Figure 4-15 Custom checkbox ticked to set the number of beams ......................................................28
Figure 4-16 Illustration of the flexmode ................................................................................................29
Figure 4-17 Setting the Outside spacing ..............................................................................................29
Figure 4-18 Slides in the wedge to change the high density spacing...................................................30
Figure 4-19 Steering .............................................................................................................................30
Figure 4-20 With a swath of 120° the maximum steering is ±25° (85°-(120°/2))..................................31
Figure 4-21 With a swath of 60° the maximum steering is ±55° (85°-(60°/2))......................................31
Figure 4-22 Coverage Angle.................................................................................................................31
Figure 4-23 Frequency..........................................................................................................................31

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Figure 4-24 Frequency slider................................................................................................................ 32
Figure 4-25 Beam Width....................................................................................................................... 32
Figure 4-26 Pulse type ......................................................................................................................... 32
Figure 4-27 Absorption......................................................................................................................... 32
Figure 4-28 Spreading.......................................................................................................................... 33
Figure 4-29 Sound velocity with Override checkbox............................................................................ 33
Figure 4-30 Sound velocity with Filter set to Normal............................................................................ 33
Figure 4-31 Temperature...................................................................................................................... 34
Figure 4-32 Messages.......................................................................................................................... 34
Figure 4-33 IO Module pane................................................................................................................. 35
Figure 4-34 Clicked in the ‘Driver Name’ field of the Attitude device to have the attitude driver
list available....................................................................................................................... 36
Figure 4-35 Input Distribution............................................................................................................... 36
Figure 4-36 Detection pane.................................................................................................................. 38
Figure 4-37 Depth gate......................................................................................................................... 39
Figure 4-38 Wedge with depth gates displayed................................................................................... 39
Figure 4-39 Wedge with maximum depth gate not displayed. Pointer moved to Nadir outer
range of wedge and maximum depth gate dragged back into the wedge........................ 39
Figure 4-40 Depth gate with a depth gate tilt of 0° (left) and 15° (right)............................................... 40
Figure 4-41 Range Gate....................................................................................................................... 40
Figure 4-42 Adaptive gate parameters................................................................................................. 40
Figure 4-43 Tracker.............................................................................................................................. 41
Figure 4-44 Coverage angle................................................................................................................. 41
Figure 4-45 Snippets............................................................................................................................ 41
Figure 4-46 Multi-detect........................................................................................................................ 42
Figure 4-47 Vernier parameters ........................................................................................................... 42
Figure 4-48 Display pane ..................................................................................................................... 44
Figure 4-49 Display pane with Detect and Water Column settings...................................................... 45
Figure 4-50 Multibeam Data Color Mode ............................................................................................. 46
Figure 4-51 Recording pane................................................................................................................. 47
Figure 4-52 Set path for the file............................................................................................................ 47
Figure 4-53 Record selection ............................................................................................................... 48
Figure 4-54 Compressed Water Column.............................................................................................. 49
Figure 4-55 Status raw data recording................................................................................................. 49
Figure 4-56 Deck mode........................................................................................................................ 50
Figure 4-57 Hardware part for the Motion Stabilization........................................................................ 50
Figure 4-58 Swath under zero roll conditions....................................................................................... 51
Figure 4-59 Laterally displaced swaths under roll conditions............................................................... 51
Figure 4-60 Reduced usable swath width ............................................................................................ 52
Figure 4-61 Swath under roll stabilization ............................................................................................ 52
Figure 4-62 Hardware part for the PPS Configuration ......................................................................... 52
Figure 4-63 Hardware part for the Trigger Configuration..................................................................... 53
Figure 4-64 Example of trigger output with Delay = 0 and Pulse length = 1........................................ 53
Figure 4-65 Hardware part for the Ping Settings.................................................................................. 53
Figure 4-66 Hardware pane with dual head (Master-Slave) ................................................................ 54
Figure 4-67 Connect checkbox ticked................................................................................................. 55
Figure 4-68 Integrated dual head properties from Harware pane....................................................... 56
Figure 4-69 Hardware Configuration for the active frequency ............................................................. 56
Figure 4-70 Bracket configuration drop-down list................................................................................. 57
Figure 4-71 Normalization Details for the active frequency ................................................................. 57
Figure 4-72 AUV................................................................................................................................... 58