I am thinking of buying Cerulean Sonars… I need to use that for a Bathymetric Survey for that we intend to use Hydromagic Software.There is no direct compatible support for Cerulean Sonars in Hydromagic Software currently but there is support for Bluerobotics sonars
Hi @Gokul_123 -
Can you share what aspects / features of Hydromagic software you require / intend to use?
I believe Hydromagic only supports the Ping2, a simple single-beam sonar, that has it’s results reported via mavlink message (not including confidence metric however.) It also can control the vehicle via these mavlink messages, so is essentially a different mission planning tool (vs. QGround Control auto missions.)
The Cerulean Omniscan Side Scan uses SonarView (free!), which is run as a BlueOS extension to ensure that 100% of the data in a survey is captured onboard the vehicle, and not subject to the quality of the communications link. The log files can be played back in SonarView, including the desktop (mac/windows/linux) version, and exported to file formats compatible with ReefMaster and other software.
You could use Hydromagic to control the BlueBoat, and a Chrome tab to manage data collection in SonarView?
At the moment, no. While Cerulean Sonar devices use the same framing protocol and some of the same message definitions, there are many message definitions which are not presented in the json format which the Python library uses to generate its definitions.
That said:
- SonarView can export data in CSV format, which is designed to work with point cloud viewers and many hydrographic software packages today, as well as custom processing workflows. It’s under active development, so I recommend you give it a shot in our latest beta.
- This is on our radar. We’re working on better integration with hydrographic packages including HydroMagic. Please reach out to Hydromagic to indicate your interest!
If you have a particular device you’re looking to use, please let us know!
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