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Kongsberg Mesotech Rotary Sonar Data Product - SCAN Mode

Data files for Kongsberg Mesotech Rotary Sonar instruments are described here. In the SCAN mode, the sonar repeatedly images a particular sector of the of its full 360 degree sweep range. The parameters are set with a central azimuth and a half-width. To see these settings, navigate to the device details from step 2 of data search, i.e. http://dmas.uvic.ca/DeviceListing?DeviceId=12007, and then go to the attributes tab. If the scan mode is not active, no scan data products will be generated. The full SWEEP data product is also available and is always active when the device is active. This is why users may find the sweep data product returning data, while the scan mode returns with a 'No data found' message. The availability of the scan mode data product may be less than that indicated by the data availability graph.

Revision History

  • 20120519: Initial SMB product released
  • 20121002: Scan Mode enabled

Formats

This data is available in SMB format (the log file is a internal Neptune Canada format). Log files are created daily at midnight UTC from data acquired throughout the day. Shortly thereafter, the data products are processed from the log files and are made available to data search. Content descriptions are provided below.

SMB

This binary format is specific to the manufacturer. When using Kongsberg Mesotech data acquisition software, data is normally stored in this way. Although we use custom-built drivers to communicate with our instruments, we can use the raw data in the log file to produce the SMB file which can be interpreted by Kongsberg Mesotech MS1000 post-processing software.

This format is further described in the manufacturer's documentation: 900-00007904-2.1.pdf. A MATLAB library is available upon request to read the SMB file. This code will be used to create a MAT file data product in the future.

Please note, this is a brand new data product. It has only been tested in MS1000 version 4.51 (testing is in progress with version 5.0). It's availability may be limited, there may be data gaps. Daily data processing will begin around July 11, 2012. Some recent data is currently available. Historic data will be reprocessed and will become available in the near future. If a data search returns with 'No data found' when the data availability shows that there is data, please contact NEPTUNE support and we will make that data a priority for processing.

Viewing SMB Files

The MS1000 software (Kongsberg Mesotech, http://www.kongsberg-mesotech.com) is free to redistribute for playback of the data. Download the MS Windows version here: MS1000_V0520_unlocked.zip. Then unzip and run MS1000_V0520_Setup.exe. To view the data, run the MS1000 software and press the play button. Alternatively, double-click an SMB file to launch the software in playback mode. The fast-forward function is useful for viewing the data quickly.

Previous versions of the MS1000 software did not directly support the high sample high that our rotary sonars operate at. To make older versions work, right-click on the image and select 'Fit Image To Screen'.

MAT (COMING SOON!)

MAT files (v7) can be opened using MathWorks MATLAB 7.0 or later. The file contains four structures: meta, data, config, and units.

Meta: structure containing the following metadata fields.

  • deviceID: A unique identifier to represent the instrument within the NEPTUNE Canada observatory.
  • creationDate:Date and time (using ISO8601 format) that the data product was produced. This is a valuable indicator for comparing to other revisions of the same data product.
  • deviceHeading: Obtained at time of deployment (exception: devices on mobile platform will have NaN since they do not have a fixed heading).
  • siteName: Name corresponding to its latitude, longitude, depth position.
  • deviceName: A name given to the instrument.
  • deviceCode: A unique string for the instrument which is used to generate data product filenames.
  • locationName: The node of the NEPTUNE Canada observatory. Each location contains many sites.
  • samplingPeriod: Sampling rate of the instrument in seconds.
  • depth: Obtained at time of deployment.
  • lat: Obtained at time of deployment.
  • lon: Obtained at time of deployment.
  • dataProductVer: Version of data product.

Data: structure containing the ADCP data, having the following fields.

  • time:

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