Sounding Better!

HYPACK® 2017: Changes Since HYPACK® 2016

By Judy Bragg

HYPACK® SHELL/SYSTEM

MODULE MANAGEMENT
• Modules with identical 32- and 64-bit • SIDE SCAN MERGE
versions, together, have only 1 icon/menu MOSAICS
option and HYPACK® automatically chooses • MAPPER
according to the computer operating system • SORT
(OS).
• SUB-BOTTOM PROCESSOR
• HYSWEEP® EDITOR has two menu items,
• TIN MODEL
but one icon that launches the version
according to your OS. • HYSWEEP® EDITOR

• Smart SURVEY icon automatically launches the correct SURVEY modules according to
the current HARDWARE configuration.

HYPACK® HYSWEEP® SIDE SCAN

HARDWARE SURVEY SURVEY SURVEY
Single Beam X
Multibeam X X
Side Scan X X

PROJECT ITEMS LIST

• Rename files via right-click menu.
• Data Files: If you rename a data file, HYPACK® also updates catalog files in which
the file resides.
• Geo-referenced Images: If you rename georeferenced images (TIF, JPG, PNG or
SHP), HYPACK® also renames the associated files.
HYPACK® does not allow you to rename S57, S63, ARCS or VPF charts.
• Display configuration options:
• Displays only user-defined folders.

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 • Show or Hide empty folders.
• Temporarily sort files in each folder by name, date or file type.
FIGURE 1. Sort by Name (left), Type (center) and Date (right)

UPDATED QUERY FUNCTION

• Query information window is now a dockable panel.
• S57 Query supports JPG as well as TIF in S57 Attribute view.
• Query all objects in a user-defined rectangular area.
FIGURE 2. HYPACK® Queries—Edited All Format Data (left), S57 Objects (right)

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PREPARATION

GEODESY
• OSTN15/OSGM15: New UK grid transformation & geoid.

CHARTS
• DXF/DGN layer display affected in the Project Items list.
FIGURE 3. DXF Layer Display in Project Items

• KML/KMZ support as background charts.

• AutoKMZ: HYPACK® to update the KMZ charts drawn in the
project as they are added to or removed from a user-defined
location.
• DG2 EDITOR: Add Hatch to Polygon Areas.

PLANNED LINES
• Mission Planning:
• Merging Offset Lines: The LINE EDITOR provides options that automatically join the
end line point to the start line point of the next line, forming one continuous survey
line. In addition, it can automatically calculate the arc for these joining segments.
FIGURE 4. Appending Parallel Offsets to a Single Line

• Export: MAVLink, Moos, GPX, ZRP

• Import: MAVLink, GPX
• Import SHP files to the LINE EDITOR, converting polylines to LNW format.

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• Revised path preview with waypoint relocation. In cursor mode, the LINE EDITOR
displays two copies of the currently loaded line file: the original and an editable version.
The editable version includes the waypoints and arrows indicating the direction of each
line. When you use the cursor to drag a waypoint to a new position, the interface shows
the original and modified path. When your modifications are complete, return to the LINE
EDITOR interface and save the modified file.
FIGURE 5. The LINE EDITOR Shows the Original and Modified Versions of your Line File

HARDWARE
• Save and restore all HARDWARE settings with one file: FILE-EXPORT-ALL
SETTINGS stores the settings for all devices in your current hardware configuration to a
ZIP file stored to your project folder. To restore the same configuration, select FILE-
IMPORT and select the ZIP file.
• Supports simultaneous multiple sonar:
• Two instances of the same driver (Create your own dual head driver.)
• Multibeam and LIDAR
• Two different multibeam sonars

HYPACK® DRIVERS
• **NEW** Autoline.dll
FIGURE 6. Autoline.dll at Work

Get complete multibeam

coverage without predefined
planned lines. Enter the swath
width (degrees) and SURVEY
uses the data from the matrix to
create the next line.
• **NEW** CanonIntf.dll: Canon EOS Image Capture Driver
• **NEW** KongsbergNetwork.dll: Supports EA400 and EA440
single beam echosounder.
• **NEW** NOAA CO-OPs.dll displays real-time weather information from the nearest
weather station.
• **NEW** SBG.dll for SBG Systems Ekinox Inertial Navigation Systems. "Output to
UDP" option passes serial messages onto the network for HYSWEEP® via UDP port
5656.

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 • **NEW** Seapath.dll for Kongsberg Seapath 130 INS. Parses the "binary 26"
message for position, motion, and RTK tide.
• **NEW** SonTek_M9_HS.dll:
FIGURE 7. Sontek M9
HydroSurveyor
Displays

• Added vertical
view.
• Supports DVL
for positioning.
• Logs ADCP
data.
• Support for
Wireless Radio
Modem
connection:
Playback:
• **NEW**
WindDriver.dll:
HRP string +
weather station.:
Created a Driver to
read a comma
delimited string from
a weather station
and display the wind
information

FIGURE 8. Sample
WindDriver Display

• Adcp.dll: Added Model select option.

• AutoPilot.dll: Added VTG support.
• Delph.dll: When shared memory has no cable out
information, fall back to reporting distance
between boat & mobile--WHICH DRIVER?
• GPS.dll: Suspend Logging options removed from
the Alarms tab of the driver setup. These options
have caused confusion and best practice is to log
everything then clean data as necessary in post-
processing.
• Magnet.dll: Add an option which draws the mag
response as an overlay in the map window.
• NMEAOutput.dll: Added WPL NMEA message.
• NTRIP.dll: Initiate ntrip.dll with user-defined lat/lon.
• Orion.dll: Manufacturer request to add fields to SOL message.

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 • Sonarmite.dll: Support for DFX format.
• Sub-Bottom.dll:
• Support for 143,SEGY message from SyQwest provides higher resolution data.
• Individual filter for each channel.
• Towfish.dll: Added support for LCI-80x.

HYSWEEP® DRIVERS
• **NEW** Kongsberg Seapath INS: It outputs proprietary data via serial or UDP.
HYSWEEP® only reads the MRU & gyro data. The positioning is handled by a
corresponding survey driver, seapath.dll.
• **NEW** PicoMBES: Supports the PicoMBES-120 & PicoMBES-40 from Picotech.
• Reson T20 and T50: Dual head support. Works with version 2 datagrams and
simultaneous ping mode.
• IXBlue INS drivers:
• Support for a new, binary NAVIGATION LONG output message.
• Added UDP mode

SIDE SCAN DRIVERS

• Kongsberg PulSAR: Detects the ping rate from the ping timetags and wait between
network reads.
• Imagenex 878 RGB: Uses separate addresses for each frequency.

TARGET EDITOR

SPREADSHEET CONFIGURATION
Choose the displayed properties by selecting and deselecting them in the Columns menu.
A Select dialog enables you to more easily configure multiple columns:
Items available are listed on the left, while items selected are listed to the right. Select items
in either column then use the [Add=>] and [<=Remove] to include or omit them from your
spreadsheet display...

NOTE: The list of items available is maintained in alphabetical order. The list of items selected
shows the order that the columns will be displayed in the spreadsheet. Normally, they
will be listed in the order that they are selected. To reorder the selected items, use
the cursor to drag and drop items in the list.

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FIGURE 9. Select Dialog—Classic
Defaults

Tip: Use the Default button for

your project type to automatically
configure the spreadsheet to
display the target name, position
and the attributes specific to the
project type.
FIGURE 10. Select Dialog Defaults—
Side Scan (left),
Magnetometer (center)
and Sub-Bottom (right)

IMPROVED SYMBOL HANDLING

The Recent Symbols feature menu keeps track of the ten most
recently used symbols. so those common items are always just a
click away. There are multiple methods to access the Recent
Symbols menu:
• In the main menu
• Right-click on the Symbol area in the Details tab
• Right-click in the Symbol column on the Spreadsheet tab.
This also works with Spreadsheet multi-selection. If you select a
block of targets and assign a recent symbol, it will apply to the
entire selection at once.

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FIGURE 11. Sample Spreadsheet View

DIFFERENCE TOOL
The Difference routine compares the target database (targets.db) from the current project
with a second target database. For example, you can compare targets in your project
between your survey and office computers, or historical and current target data.
The routine compares the targets by name, position or both. Each target (row) is color-coded
based on how it compares to those in the project targets:

TABLE 1. Target Comparison Color-coding

Color Comparison Results

Red Missing (No match in the project targets.)
Green Match
Yellow Partial match: When comparing both name and
position, only one of the two criteria matches.

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FIGURE 12. Initial Comparison—Project Targets.db (left) and Second Targets.db in the Difference Dialog

You can then, optionally, import targets from the second file based on how they compare
to the first. The imported targets are copied to the Default target group.

DATA ACQUISITION

SURVEY OR DREDGEPACK®

SIMULTANEOUS REAL-TIME AUTO-MATRIX AND REAL-TIME MOSAIC DISPLAYS

We introduced the auto-matrix technology in HYPACK® 2016.
(Available in HYPACK® SURVEY only; not DREDGEPACK®)
Auto-matrix logs hydrographic or topographic matrix data to a
binary data file, as it draws previews of matrix files, for each
data type, in your Survey Map window according to the user-
defined options. When you close the SURVEY program,
HYPACK® generates the matrix files to fit your survey data.
Real-time Mosaic (aka Side Scan Matrix) for side scan data
works using a similar technology, but when SURVEY closes,
HYPACK® uses the binary data to generate geo-TIF mosaic
files. (Notice the default cell size in the Side Scan Matrix
configuration settings is much smaller to improve the resolution
of the resulting mosaic.)

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In HYPACK® 2017, we have expanded on this technology:
• Use auto-matrix to simultaneously draw and log one or more of the supported data
types: multibeam (bathymetric or backscatter), topographic, and side scan data.
FIGURE 13. Automatrix—
Simultaneous
Multibeam
Bathymetric
and
Topographic

Figure 13 shows
simultaneous auto-
matrix displays of
multibeam hydrographic data (500 cells/MTX generated while logging) and Topographic
(100 cells/MTX generated regardless of logging status).
• Auto-matrix for side scan backscatter data, so now you can generate multibeam
matrices from the backscatter together with the geo-TIF mosaic files from the side scan.
• Draw the multibeam and side scan data in separate Map windows through your
selection in the MB_MTX drop-down in the Map window toolbar.
• Draw the multibeam and topographic data in separate Map windows through your
selections in the Layer Manager for each display.

RANGE OPTIONS
Range options on the Area Map toolbar allow you to quickly scale the map display. Just
select a range in the SURVEY or DREDGEPACK® toolbar. SURVEY or DREDGEPACK®
automatically scales the selected Map window so the length of shortest side displays the
selected real-world distance. Each subsequent window resize adjusts the scale accordingly,
but any zoom action will cause the range to revert back to "None".
The default values are 500, 1000, 2000, 3000 and 5000 survey units, but you can customize
this list for your needs in each project:
1. Select the Edit option from the Range drop-down list. A dialog appears with a list of
the current zoom ranges.
2. Modify the list as needed and click [OK].
FIGURE 14. Map Zoom Ranges—Default (left),
Edited (right)

ANCHOR SWEEPS
An Anchor Sweep is the area defined by
the anchor drop position, the anchor raise
position, and the positions of the anchor
attachment point over the time the anchor
is deployed on the bottom. SURVEY or
DREDGEPACK® stores all anchor sweep areas to an anchor sweep chart (Anchors.DG2) in
the project folder. You can display the anchor sweep chart in the Map window and other
programs that support DG2 charts.

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FIGURE 15. Sample Anchor Sweep—In HYPACK® SURVEY (left) and the Resulting Anchors.DG2 HYPACK®
(right)

SURVEY LOG
• Configurable Spreadsheet:
• Select columns. Right-click on the spreadsheet header and select/deselect them
from a pop-up menu.
• Adjust column widths. Drag the dividers.
• End Line Time added to report
• Real-time Notes: Add remarks to the current line, before the line is finished
• Export to Excel *.XLS format as well as to PDF.
FIGURE 16. Sample Survey Log in Excel

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COG VS HEADING DEVICE FUNCTION
Typically, HYPACK® SURVEY orients your boat shape according to heading data received
from your sensor (GPS or compass) configured in HARDWARE with the heading function. If
no driver is configured to read heading, HYPACK® SURVEY calculates the heading based
on course over ground (COG).
The Use COG for Heading option in the Vessel Setup dialog (VESSELS menu) enables you
to ignore heading sensor data and use COG until you close HYPACK® SURVEY or deselect
this option in the Vessel Setup dialog.
If you check the Use COG
checkbox when your heading
device is enabled, a warning
appears:

IMPORTANT! Each time you open

HYPACK® SURVEY,
the program automatically resets this option according to your HARDWARE
configuration.

To permanently use course over ground and ignore your heading data, close your
SURVEY programs, return to HARDWARE and deselect the Heading function.

MATRIX CONTROLS IN REMOTE VIEW

When there’s an active matrix in SURVEY, the remote view window provides a drop-down
menu where you can change the value used to color-code your matrix display (average, min,
max, etc.)

SIDE SCAN SURVEY

SONAR CONTROLS
• Standard side scan controls added to the SIDE SCAN SURVEY window. You can
control your sonar settings from SIDE SCAN SURVEY. Device controls in the interface
directly control sonar pinging, and can change the sonar range.
FIGURE 17. Ping Range Tools (from right to left) —Start/Stop Pinging, Range Controls, Device Controller
Access

• Shortcut button to full controller window: For more complex setting

changes, the controller icon accesses the full device controller window. (These
tools unavailable in playback mode.)

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TARGETS
• Adjust the captured image display in the Targets dialog. When you double-click in the
Side Scan Waterfall display to mark a target, the Targets dialog appears with several
target properties and an image of the current waterfall display. The Percent of Swath
option has the effect of zooming in to the target location. Less than 100% shows the
specified portion of the side scan channel display centered over the target position.

NOTE:For display purposes only. The captured image always shows the full swath.

FIGURE 18. Targets Dialog Image Display—100% (left) and 40% (right)

• Target Sharing: When you mark a target in SIDE SCAN SURVEY, the Share button in
the Targets dialog sends an email or text message through your email account with the
target coordinates and its associated image (if you captured one). This requires some
initial configuration with email addresses and server settings.
• Targets generated with captured
images. When you save JPG and
geo-TIF screen captures of a user-
defined area in the Side Scan
Waterfall display, SIDE SCAN
SURVEY generates a target
centered in the defined area with a
name matching the image file name.

HYSWEEP®
• Automated Bluetooth download of SonTek CastAway CTD sound velocity data. The
HYSWEEP® routine converts the data to a HYPACK® Sound Velocity file (*.VEL) and to
HYSWEEP® SURVEY, which writes the information to the headers of the raw (*HSX)
data files. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5EmhE_korQ)
• Real-time Cloud Window:
• Measure Tool: Click at two locations in the real-time cloud display. The status bar
displays the coordinates of the two locations and the distance between them.
• New display options:
• Topographic and Multibeam (bathy) or both

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 • Clip data above/below a user-defined channel file. If you choose to display the
channel itself, it is translucent so to provide unobstructed viewing of the
soundings.
• New color options:
• By Intensity
• By Depth and Intensity: Use depth colors to color the intensity values. When you
have points of equal depth, those with stronger intensity appear brighter,
producing a 3-dimensional effect.
• WATER COLUMN PLAYBACK: Support for dual-head sonar.
• 3D WATER COLUMN PLAYBACK: Click at two locations in the cloud display. After the
first click, gray line shows you the measured path until you click the second location, and
the distance appears (in survey units) in the upper right corner of the screen.

ADCP IN SITU
Sound Velocity Calculation if the ADP file does not supply it. ADP files sometimes store
data other than the sound velocity in the designated sound velocity field. If ADCP IN SITU
finds a value outside of the expected sound velocity range (< 1300 m/s or > 1700 m/s), the
program calculates sound velocity from salinity, temperature, & pressure inputs.

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PROCESSING

**NEW** 64-BIT SINGLE BEAM EDITOR (SBMAX64)

FIGURE 19. 64-bit SINGLE BEAM EDITOR

• More flexibility, and easier to edit.

• Supports multiple transducer data.
• Designed with the SonTek HydroSurveyor in mind, to capture all 9 beams in a single
session.
• Choose one or more beams to view and edit.

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FIGURE 20. Profile Window Display—Beam 5 with Points (top), Beam Selection Dialog (center), 5 Beams with
Lines (bottom)

• All filter options in a single page setup.

• Save formats:
• HS2x output allows you to re-edit and adjust offsets.
• All2 format output for backward compatibility.
• XYZ: One XYZ per input file or all data in one XYZ.

SIDE SCAN

SIDE SCAN CONVERTER

• YDFF to RAW format conversion to provide support for legacy SonTek HydroSurveyor
files.
• Process RAW files in the SINGLE BEAM EDITOR for bathymetry.
• Process YDFF in ADCP PROFILER for velocity and discharge.

TARGETING AND MOSAICKING (HYSCAN)

• Direct input support for non-HYPACK® formats: Klein SDF, CMax CM2, EdgeTech
JSF

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• Catalog List shows save status. When you load a catalog of data, the Catalog List
shows which member files have previously been saved to the project Edit folder.
• Spreadsheet column configuration: In the Spreadsheet tab of the view, items available
are listed on the left, while items selected are listed to the right. Select items in either
column then use the [Add=>] and [<=Remove] to include or omit them from your
spreadsheet display.
• Limiting your Mosaic:
• In the Tracklines display, you can temporarily mark areas to be omitted from the
mosaic. Use your cursor to mark a rectangular area, then use the Hide Inside or Hide
Outside icon to omit either portion of the data. To restore the hidden areas, use the
green Show Imagery buttons in the same manner.
• Clipping track lines in the Track Lines window (Stage 1) omits the data from the
output mosaics.
• Clipping side scan range to NOAA guidelines: For any towfish height below 8
percent of the range scale in use, the effective scanning range is defined to equal
12.5 times the towfish height.
• User-defined Tiles: You can manually define tiles, sizing and positioning them to suit
your needs. This can be handy if, for example, you want to generate a higher
resolution geo-TIF of isolated areas in your dataset.
• Warns you if the current output settings will overwrite files, which enables you to
abort and change the output file name.

64-BIT HYSWEEP® EDITOR

• Simultaneously load and edit topographic data with hydrographic data.
FIGURE 21. Topographic Data Shows Sailboats with Wrecks Shown by Hydrographic Data Beneath

• Enable/disable multidetection in the Survey Tab of the Read Parameters.

• Dual-head Dynascan using two instances of the driver for the single-head device.
Improved patch offset corrections to support large yaw offsets.

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• Sweep window extents are outlined in
Survey window display to provide context and
orientation in your work.
FIGURE 22. Survey Window with Sweep Window Extents
Outlined (top right)

MAGNETOMETER EDITOR
The target type—
monopolar, dipolar
or multicompo-
nent—is stored to
the Class Name
attribute in the tar-
gets database.

ADCP PROFILE
• Supports SonTek M9 HydroSurveyor: Process YDFF in ADCP PROFILER for velocity
and discharge.
• New Track View tab shows the track lines and a 2-dimensional display of each ensemble
with each bin averaged for speed and direction
FIGURE 23. Sample Track View

• Clip discharge values to a

border to restrict the data
drawn in the track lines display,
as well as the area for which the
Discharge Report is calculated.
(It does not affect the Profile
view.)
• Use the Draw and Remove
Border tools in the track
lines display to define a
rectangular area.
• Load a border file (*.BRD)
in the Discharge tab of the
View Options dialog.

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CLOUD
• Targets: Mark selected soundings as targets that you can then display in any HYPACK®
program that supports them. CLOUD generates a target at each selected sounding
position and stores it in the CLOUD target group. CLOUD targets are named "Cloud
Depth".
• Golden Soundings: Use the sounding selection tools to select the soundings you want
to mark then click the Golden Sounding icon. Golden soundings display as gold pixels.
• Support for third party point cloud data:
• Reads and writes LAS/LAZ and pts formats.
• Reads E57 point cloud files.

FILTERS
CLOUD provides filters with which you can reduce your data set. The filters you use depends
on your data set and your goal in performing the reduction.
BEWARE! Use these filters for point cloud display purposes only. Filtered data can not be
used to calculate accurate volumes.
• Minimum Depth and Maximum Depth removes
soundings shoaler and deeper than the user-
defined levels, respectively. This can be used to
remove data that is outside of a known depth range.
• Minimum Intensity and Maximum Intensity
removes points of lesser and greater intensity than
the user-defined levels, respectively.
• Reduce by Percentage and Limit to Number are
used to mathematically reduce the file size by
thinning the data:
• Reduce by percentage thins the data by the
specified percentage of the total number of
points.
• Limit to Number thins the data to the specified number of points remaining.

HIDE NEAR POINTS OPTION

Hide Near Points produces an effect similar to if you physically moved into the point cloud
toward the designated cloud center. When you reach a high enough zoom scale, CLOUD
removes the points closer to the edge of the point cloud allowing you to see objects in the
center of the cloud more clearly. Without this option, all soundings remain in the display.
In the following figure, the tree in the center foreground is removed from the display when the
option is selected.

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FIGURE 24. Hiding Near Points—Distant Display (left), Near Points Removed (center), Near Points Remain
(right)

COLOR POINT CLOUD BASED ON GEO-TIF COLORS

You can apply the colors from a geo-TIF to the soundings or multibeam backscatter in
CLOUD. Points beyond the geo-TIF image area will continue to be colored based on the
project colors. You can save the results to a HYPACK® XYZ file or to an LAS format file for
use in third-party point cloud programs.
Each record in the XYZ output contains 6 or 7 values: X, Y, Z, intensity (if we have it), R, G,
B; both have an XYZ extension. The LAS format includes fields for intensity and the new
RGB color definition for each sounding.
CLOUD can now color either of these output formats based on the RGB Colors from the geo-
TIF, intensity (if the data was available), depth, or by file according to your selection in the
drop-down list.
FIGURE 25. Geo-TIF in IMAGE GEO-REFERENCED (left) and Soundings in CLOUD (right), Point Cloud in
RGB Colors (center)

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SUB-BOTTOM PROCESSOR
• Directly load EdgeTech JSF format.
• Shows scale range. The labels always appear, in 10ms increments, on the right side of
the display. The Show Range Markers option in the Display tab toggles horizontal lines for
each label.
• Use the scroll arrows to scroll horizontally through the line. [80%]
and [100%] sets the amount of the acoustic rendering scrolled for
each click.
• [Auto Range, TVG, and Bottom Track] tries to find the best
dynamic range, TVG, and bottom track settings for your dataset. When you click the
button, the program enables TVG, the range is clipped, and an initial bottom track is
determined based on a calculated threshold value. This feature is unlikely to work well in
noisy datasets, but it can give you a place to start and you can make further adjustments.
FIGURE 26. Auto Adjust—Before (left) and After (right)

FINAL PRODUCTS

EXPORT
• Project Files list has been updated to match the HYPACK® Shell. It now includes Side
Scan Images, Real Time Mosaic, and Post Processed Mosaic.
• Added FILE-CHECK ALL and UNCHECK ALL to enable/disable all files in the project
that are available for the chosen output.
• Added Line Name as a user-defined output field.

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HYPLOT-MULTI
Configure each plotting sheet (PLT) in the Layout independently. There are two parts
configuring a PLT: the project and data files, and the control panel options.
• Project and Data Files:
a. Enable and disable files, as needed, in the HYPLOT-Multi Data Files and Project
Files lists. (DRAW-DISABLE FILES disables all files in all plotting sheets.)
b. Apply the settings. To store these file selections only for the selected PLT, check the
Save Background Chart option in the Plot Sheets tab of the control panel; otherwise,
HYPLOT-Multi displays the same files in all of the plotting sheets in the layout.
• Control Panel (F9)
a. Add the other chart objects (for example, a compass rose, scale, graphics or text)
b. Set all display options.
c. Apply the settings:
To draw only the current PLT according to the Control Panel settings, click
[Apply].
To draw all of the plotting sheets in the layout according to the Control Panel
settings, click [Apply Tab to All PLTs].

UTILITIES

HSX SPLITTER
In the HSX SPLITTER, you can generate new data sets containing the data either inside or
outside of the defined area.
FIGURE 27. HSX SPLITTER—Main Window (top left), Display Window (top right), Results (bottom)

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FIGURE 28. HSX SPLITTER Results

3D MESH
The 3D MESH program generates a surface model from XYZ data using a 3D Poisson Mesh.
This method takes longer to generate than the TIN model, but it generates a more accurate
representation of vertical and concave surfaces.
You may save the model to a HYPACK® 3PC file in order to quickly restore the same model
in 3D MESH at a later time.
FIGURE 29. 3D MESH Interface

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NEW HYPACK® PACKAGES

SUB-BOTTOM REDUCED PACKAGE

The HYPACK® Sub-Bottom software package takes input from a GPS and a sub-bottom
sonar, and provides real-time navigation and collection of sub-bottom data. HYPACK® Sub-
Bottom stores the navigation data with the raw acoustic sonar data in the SEGY (SEG-Y)
format. This is an industry “standard” format that you can process either in the SUB-BOTTOM
PROCESSING program (included) or in other industry packages to determine reflective
layers and targets.

REDUCED GEODESY/HARDWARE
HYPACK® Sub-Bottom has a combined GEODESY/HARDWARE program where you set
your projection grid, and configure your equipment.
FIGURE 30. Geodesy/Hardware

• Select your projection from the three choices provided. (To operate on a projection
other than UTM or NAD-83 requires a HYPACK® SURVEY license.)
• UTM North (Northern Hemisphere)
• UTM South (Southern Hemisphere)
• State Plane NAD-83 (USA)
• Configure the GPS. Just enter the connection information.
• Configure the Sub-Bottom Sonar.

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 • Specify what type of side scan sonar.
• Enter connection information.
• Configure fixed or variable layback (Layback button).
FIGURE 31. Layback Dialog

SUB-BOTTOM PROCESSING
HYSWEEP® Sub-bottom includes the same SUB-BOTTOM PROCESSOR that appears in
the standard HYPACK® package. It displays SEGY sub-bottom data and provides tools with
which you mark targets, and digitize your layers. The SUB-BOTTOM PROCESSOR converts
the digitized points to multiple formats, primarily the HYPACK® All2 format, which may then
be displayed with the targets in the HYPACK® Sub-bottom screen or loaded to CROSS
SECTIONS AND VOLUMES where you can overlay the layers in profile view and export
them to a plotter.

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FIGURE 32. Sub-Bottom Processing

HYPACK® FOR UNMANNED SYSTEMS

The current proliferation of robotics systems into the surveying and mapping world can likely
be attributed to a few things: advancing technologies, increased communication
(connectivity), smaller and more optimized systems. The nexus of these technologies will
undoubtedly advance the unmanned systems community and we are excited to be part of it.
HYPACK® 2017 includes developments we have made to expand your options for collecting
data. The following table summarizes the general capabilities of each type of system in
HYPACK® 2017.

Aerial Surface Underwater

HYPACK® Feature
(UAV) (USV) (UUV)
Photogrammetry (processing only) X X
Web Maps X X
Mission Plan X X X
Remote Control Logging X X X
Remote View/ X X X
Real-time Cloud X X
Auto-matrix X X

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HYPACK® Feature
(UAV) (USV) (UUV)
Real-time Mosaic X
Targeting X X X
Supported Devices:
GPS/INS X X X
Multibeam X X X

LIDAR X X
X X
Side Scan
X X X
MRU
Output:
XYZ X X X
LAS/LAZ X X X
Pts X X X
Export to Web X X X
Volumes Analysis X X X
XYZ/TIN MODEL Surface Comparison X X X
Photogrammetry: In multibeam surveys, photographic images, captured during acquisition,
are synchronized with your point cloud display in the 64-bit HYSWEEP® EDITOR.
Web Maps: Georeferenced PNG files downloaded through Web servers in the HYPACK®
interface.
Mission Plan: Planned mobile path configured in one of the supported industry standard
formats: MAVLink *.waypoints, GPX, MOOS Ivp-BV, Teledyne ZRP.
Remote Viewing: View your survey from devices other than your Survey computer. The
method depends on the type of mobile and the survey type:
• Aerial Systems: A Web browser display shows the map window, a left-right indicator, a
non-configurable data display window and up to three Target windows at a time.
Alternatively, the Windows® Remote View enables you to see and manipulate all
SURVEY windows and controls.
• Underwater Systems: The HYPACK® computer is connected via an Ethernet cable to
the survey computer that runs the UUV software. A HYPACK® driver (Hydroid.dll) reads
the data from the UUV system and creates a HYPACK® SURVEY display.
• Surface Vessel Systems:
• Single beam data can be logged through wireless connections to a HYPACK®
survey computer on shore, but you may also use a Web browser or Team Viewer to
view an onboard survey computer.
• Multibeam and side scan data must be logged on board, as data volume exceeds
the capabilities of wireless connections. Use a Web browser or Windows® Remote
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Remote Control Logging:
• Aerial Systems and Surface Vessel Systems: Use the Survey controls through a
Windows® Remote Desktop Connection or the Web browser Remote View.
• Underwater Vessel Systems: Use the controls through the survey computer.
Real-time Cloud: The Real Time Cloud window shows topographic and hydrographic
soundings in a scrolling point cloud display.
Auto-matrix: A method by which hydrographic or topographic matrix data is logged to a
binary data file and drawn in real time in HYPACK® SURVEY. When you close the SURVEY
program, HYPACK® generates matrix files according to user-defined options, and the right
dimensions to fit your survey data. This eliminates the need to size one or more matrix files
over your survey area in the MATRIX EDITOR.
You may use Auto-matrix to log both hydrographic and topographic data simultaneously from
HYSWEEP® SURVEY, but you must configure them separately and SURVEY generates
separate matrix files for each data type.
Real-time Mosaic: Uses the same technology as Auto-matrix, but the resolution is higher
and it generates geo-TIF tiles in place of matrix files.
Targeting: Mark points of interest in your project area. Each target include, at least, a name
and the XY position, but it can also include other metadata.
Export to Web: You can export a CLOUD display, in HTML format. Use the exported HTML
files to provide remote viewing of your current data in a browser or incorporate them into a
Web page. Use your cursor to zoom, pan and rotate the display for optimal viewing.
Volumes:
• TIN MODEL: Create surface models from XYZ data files then calculate volumes by
comparing the difference in elevation of each node in the TIN Model, as it is projected
onto the comparison surface — a level, a channel or another surface.
In addition, you can use TIN MODEL to cut sections and export the resulting HYPACK®
All2 format, which you can then load to CROSS SECTIONS AND VOLUMES.
• CROSS SECTIONS AND VOLUMES: Use any of the numerous Average End Area
calculation methods or the Standard HYPACK® method to calculate volumes. CROSS
SECTIONS AND VOLUMES also displays and plots the profile view at each survey line.

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