Echoview release notes

Echoview 15 (released October 2024)

Highlights include

Support for new file formats and data types, including Kongsberg Discovery MS70 and impedance data for EK80
Automatic loading of platform and transducer parameters in Kongsberg Discovery EK60 and EK80 data
New Dataflow features, including Exporter objects
Dynamic naming options for variables based on their properties
The ability to create and use multiple platforms
Customize cruise tracks with line thickness and color options
New school region analysis variables, such as elongation
Extract Bottom Feature for graphing, exporting, or producing a table of bottom feature metrics
Helpful messages in virtual variables for blank echograms

Echoview 14 (released October 2023)

Highlights include:

Transect-based analyses to partition your acoustic datasets
Support for Lowrance sonar log data
Support for Kongsberg Gruppen kmall/kmwcd files
Support for Furuno split beam data recorded to version 2 of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) SONAR-netCDF4 standard
3D transducer geometry widget to orient your data
New operators: Join opposing pings, Ping time difference, Resample multibeam pings, and Combine fans
Simrad by Kongsberg EK80 feature updates

Echoview 13.1 (released May 2023)

Highlights include:

Updated calculations for Sv(f) in Simrad EK80 wideband data analyses
Corrected volume calculations for single target analyses
Settings to customize the appearance of regions
The ability to set independent Sa correction and transducer gain values for varying pulse lengths within the same fileset of Simrad data
Support for R2Sonic TruePix data
Support for Simrad EK80 files that contain blank ApplicationName values

Echoview 13 (released October 2022)

Highlights include:

Debut of machine learning, with a trained interfere model that detects a bottom exclusion line in single beam echograms
Added support for: Blueprint Subsea Oculus, R2Sonic, Teledyne Reson s7k record 7042, Simrad SU90, MF90, CS90, ST90, SX90 and SY50 omni sonar, and SN90 fishery sonar data in *.nc files, NORBIT Winghead and WBMS, Teledyne Odom MB2 and, Nortek Signature GPS
Easy and configurable export of publication-quality echogram images
New operators: Transient Noise Ping Removal, Background Noise Estimation, Signal to Background Noise Ratio, XxYxZ Statistic, Near-Field Depth Estimation virtual line, and Linear Offset virtual surface
Wideband noise estimation and removal
The Dataflow toolbox
A more useful raw variable list in the Filesets window
Better organization of new objects in the Dataflow window
Scripting of new virtual lines
Performance improvements and more multithreading

Echoview 12.1 (released December 2021)

Echoview 12 (released May 2021)

Highlights include:

New features in the Calibration Assistant, including sphere calculator, wideband calibration, live viewing, graphs and exportable report
Support for Nortek Signature echosounder data, Furuno FCV-38 split beam echosounders, Simrad EC150-3C transducer data, and Simrad ME70 v1.4.0 files
A more responsive interface and faster calculations
A more robust multibeam school detection algorithm for overlapping pings
Mouse pointer duplication across windows
Time-variable synchronization of ship acoustics and towed cameras
Added and improved tools for graphing and data synchronization

Echoview 11.1 (released October 2020)

Highlights include:

New export options for wideband frequency response analysis of Sv pulse compressed data
A new option to filter single targets based on off-axis angle
When exporting regions-based analysis, you can choose any combination of region classes
Improved calculations for minor- and major-axis 3dB beam angles and angle offsets in the Calibration Assistant
Support for Simrad *.bot files that can be recorded alongside *.raw files by version 2 of the EK80 software
New ways to open data files in Echoview

Echoview 11 (released April 2020)

Highlights include:

A major boost in performance across many processor and time-intensive tasks
The new Calibration Assistant, and new graphs for single targets showing uncompensated vs compensated TS
New ways to detect schools with distance mode options for single beam school detection
Live viewing support for BioSonics, Sound Metrics and some Kongsberg file formats
New color schemes (Inferno, Magma, Plasma and Viridis) for better visualization of continuous scalar data
Custom grid line colors and label sizes
Command Interface access to EV File Properties

Echoview 10 (released May 2019)

Highlights include:

A new virtual variable, the Code operator, with a built-in Python interface for algorithm development
Command interface & Console dialog box, for more automation of your workflow
Line-referenced echograms
Faster calculations for Simrad EK80 data
A new export compatible with the ICES acoustic trawl survey database in the CSV file format
New “echometrics” and altitude analysis variables

Echoview 9 (released June 2018)

Highlights include:

Transducer & frequency automation
New operators: XxYxZ Convolution, Line Range Bitmap, Wideband Frequency Subset, Wideband Frequency Select, Calibration Subset and, Threshold Offset virtual line
Additions to existing operators: More metrics for XxY Statistic, Complex data support for Mask & Processed Data and, Beam Media Filter 3x3 now licensed with the Essentials module
Detection and analysis of submerged vegetation
New properties calculated for multibeam targets
Wideband data processing additions: Improvements to the wideband frequency response graph, School detection on wideband data

Echoview 8 (released March 2017)

Echoview 7.1 (released May 2016)

Echoview 7 (released February 2016)

Echoview 6.1 (released December 2014)

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