Norway: Kongsberg Releases EA SSM 1.8 Sidescan Sonar Software

The new acquisition and postprocessing software for EA sounders is available. The sidescan sonar mosaicing software has been developed extensively.

The software is available in three versions:

* Basic

* Professional

* Online

* Additional-Tool: Spot

The main tasks of EA SSM are:

* Planning and performing a survey.

* Processing survey data.

* Depth and height processing of EA raw data

* Processing XYZ data for hydrographic use and mapping

* Georeferencing of EA Sidescan Sonar data.

* Combining the results of several areas to one mosaic.

* Visualization of EA Sidescan Sonar data.

* Merging of bathymetric data with geo referenced sidescan data.

* EA SSM shows sidescan data in local coordinates produced on hand of high resolution grids.

* The results of EA SSM are geo referenced BMP/TIF files which can be plotted into maps and exported to other GIS software packages.

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Subsea World News Staff , December 02, 2011;  Image: Kongsberg