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Chesapeake upgrades SonarWiz software
Chesapeake Technology has added a new gridding engine to its widely-adopted SonarWiz software, enabling users to visualise in real-time vast amounts of bathymetry, sub-bottom and sidescan data in one place at one time.
The Californian company, which maintains a worldwide network of distributors including those in the UK and mainland Europe, says the latest capabilities allow users to quickly and easily create swathe bathymetry and amplitude grids using complex established algorithms. Resulting grids can be viewed and edited and then exported to 20 industry-standard GIS and visualisation formats.
According to the US company’s Chief Scientist, David Finlayson, the upgrade ensures substantial cost savings for customers by eliminating any need to purchase separate processing software for each sonar type used. Variants of SonarWiz are reportedly in widespread use with leading survey organisations and institutions as well as many of the world’s navies.
By David Goodfellow
