Hydrographic Survey Software

Very affordable and easy to use

Hydromagic is a professional hydrographic survey package,
which can be used to map depth areas using an echosounder.

The software is very affordable and the learning curve is very short.
You can start creating your first sounding within a single day.

A free demo version is available for download on the download page.

Some application examples

Record sounding data using a (hydrographic) echosounder and GPS or RTK receiver;
Calculate volumes of river sections, pits, ponds, lakes and reservoirs, for instance in the mining industry;
Create depth contours and save them as AutoCAD DXF or Google Earth KML/KMZ files;
Create a regularly spaced grid(s) from sounding data, and export it as DXF, KML or ASCII file;
Calculate tide levels using a RTK receiver, using a provided antenna height and loaded geoid model;
Use the built in coordinate calculator to convert hydrographic data files between different map projections.

Support for GPS and RTK receivers

The software can communicate with almost any (NMEA0183 compatible) GPS or RTK receiver to retrieve your current position and height, and show it on one of the support raster or vector maps. In addition, with a RTK receiver, you can calculate tide levels in real-time.

Support for echosounders

Hydromagic offers support for a wide range of professional single and dual frequency hydrographic echosounders from popular brands like CEE HydroSystems, Odom, STN Atlas, SyQwest and more.

Support for other sensors

Besides GPS and echosounder, also other hardware, such as a tide receiver, magnetometer, motion or tilt sensor, heading sensor (compass) or an AIS receiver can be connected. for a full list of supported echosounders and other hardware click here.

Geodesy

To display a part of the globe on a display, a map projection is needed to prevent distortion of the map data. The software is shipped with a database containing over 5000 predefined local and global map datums and grids.

Top 10 tools and features

Built in raw data editor. Correct your raw data with echogram editor, position editor, table editor, filtering, latency correction and more;
Generate one or more depth contours as map overlay; Map contours can be exported as both AutoCad DXF and Google KML files;
Generate regularly spaced XYZ data (matrices) using triangulation and interpolation (TIN);
Create channel designs and show channel cross-sections;
Calculate volumes using DTM's (Digital Terrain Models) or cross sections;
Automatic (RTK) or manual tide correction;
Built in map downloading tool; Download maps for the survey area from Google Earth, Bing Maps or OpenStreetMaps;
Map calibration, to use your own downloaded or scanned GIF, PNG, BMP, JPG and TIF maps;
Dataview to display all incoming information retrieved from GPS, echosounder and other sensors;
Shoreline editor; Manually enter soundings or levels for places you cannot access with a boat;