Sounding Manager

The 'Sounding Manager' can be used to apply operations on more than one sounding file at a time. The manager window lists all sounding files generated or imported in the project, and allows you to select multiple sounding files to toggle visibility, remove or export files. The list of sounding files also shows you the creation or recording date, the start time, the records count and file size.

The sounding manager shows a list of sounding files in the project.

Opening the sounding manager

The "Sounding Manager" can be opened from the "Project Explorer", which is normally situated on the left side of the main program window. If not visible, select 'Project Explorer' from the 'View' menu, locate the 'Soundings' folder in the 'Project Explorer', and right-click this folder. From the context menu which appears, select the "Manage Soundings..." option as shown below:

Right click the "Sounding" folder and select "Manage Soundings...".

Toolbar

The toolbar contains buttons for most of the options offered by the sounding manager. First, select the files in the list by clicking multiple items while holding the CTRL button. It is also possible to select a single item. To select all items on a touch screen device, simply press the 'Select All' button.

The tool bar contains buttons for commonly used operations on sounding files.

Edit Sounding

The 'Edit Sounding' button launches the Sounding Editor and loads the currently selected sounding file. This function can only be accessed when a single selection has been made. The "Sounding Editor" allows you to view sounding records (pings) in detail and it can be used to alter depth values or to remove pings.

The sounding editor can be used to alter depth values or to remove pings.

Remove Sounding(s)

You can delete one or multiple sounding file(s) from your hydrographic survey by clicking the "Remove Sounding" button. Before you can access this button, you must select one or multiple soundings in the sounding files list. Before soundings are permanently deleted, you must confirm by clicking the 'OK' button in the confirmation dialog that appears:

You always have to confirm removal of sounding files.

Activate Sounding

When a sounding is marked as 'Active', you can modify this sounding from the map display. You can right-click pings in the active sounding and select the 'Edit Sounding' data option to modify the raw high and low-frequency depths, drag pings to another position, or remove ping records from the sounding. You can only edit the sounding which has been set as active this way, All other soundings will remain 'Read-Only'. To change the sounding which is currently selected, select the sounding and click the "Activate Sounding" button.

Extra options for the activated sounding
in the map display window.

Select All

With the 'Select All' button, the current selection will be reversed, meaning that when none of the soundings is selected, clicking this button will select all soundings. This button has been added to the toolbar to allow touch screen users to select or deselect all soundings by simply clicking a button.

Toggle Visibility

Use the 'Toggle Visibility' button to toggle the visibility (show or hide) of the selected items in the sounding file list. From the "Project Explorer" it is possible to toggle visibility of sounding files, but you have to toggle them one-by-one, since there is no way to select multiple items at once. If you want to, for instance, hide all soundings, the easiest method is to open the sounding manager from the 'Project Explorer', then click the 'Select All' button followed by the 'Toggle Visibility' button.

Merge Soundings

To merge (or join) multiple soundings into a single sounding file, select the soundings to include in the new sounding file and click the 'Merge Soundings' button. The newly created sounding will be displayed in the sounding list. The first available name will be assigned to this sounding, but you will be able to change the name in the "Sounding Editor".

Show Echogram

Click the 'Show Echogram' button to display all echograms for the currently selected sounding. Depending on the echo sounder used, the digitized depths and the echo envelope will be displayed for the sounding. For more information on how to customize the echo envelope display, please have a look at the "Echogram settings" manual page.

Use the "Show Echogram" button to show both the digitized and echo envelope data.

Export Echogram

The "Export Echogram" button opens the "Export Echograms" utility, which allows you to export the echogram containing the digitized depth data as an image file. In addition to the digitized data, depending on the echo sounder used, it can also be used to export an image of the full echo envelope for high or low frequency soundings or sub-bottom return signals.

Export your digitized echogram and echo envelope data as image file(s).

Export ASCII

Using the "Export Soundings" tool, it is possible to store your filtered sounding data in plain ASCII format, so that sounding data can be imported in Microsoft Excel or other third party (GIS) software. You can export multiple sounding files at once, just select the soundings to export and click the "Export ASCII" button.

You can export multiple sounding files at once by selecting the soundings to export and clicking the 'Export ASCII' button.