What do we include in new versions of Echoview?
Please see below for notes describing recent Echoview releases.
For more details on the above releases or information on older releases, please refer to the Echoview help file.
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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
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
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
Highlights include:
- Support for Furuno FSV-30R and FSV-25 omnidirectional scanning sonars, and Teledyne BlueView v4.5 and v4.6 files
- Workspaces for templates
- More features in the Calibration Assistant
- New exports, shortcut keys, and Details window content
- Windows 11 compatibility
- Additional MATLAB exports
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
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
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
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
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
Highlights include:
- Attenuated Signal Removal operator
- Echoview data (EVD) file format
- An overhaul of multibeam surface functionality
- Updated support for Simrad EK60, EK80, AZFP, BlueView and Sonic file formats
- Single beam echogram export to QPS SD object files as curtains
Highlights include:
- Simrad EK80 live viewing
- Support for ASL Environmental Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler binary file format
- Support for Sonic KFC-6000/KSE-300 binary file format
- Various EK80 narrowband and wideband improvements
Highlights include:
- 64-bit edition
- Simplified module structure
- Windows 10 support
- New and improved operators:
- Impulse Noise Removal
- Transient Noise Removal
- Single Target Detection - Wideband
- Background Noise Removal operator accepts TS and Multibeam data types
- New graph features
- Various Simrad EK80 improvements
Highlights include:
- Improved echogram overview - see all data on one screen
- Preliminary support for *.raw data files from the Simrad EK80 wideband echosounder
- Support for the *.nwsf file format from WASSP multibeam sonars
- Adjust grid settings for multiple variables at once
- Alongtrack distance available in Cruise Track window
- Time Offset line operator
