SDE-28S Digital Echo Sounder

User Manual
 Contents
Chapter 1 Preview ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
1.1, Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3
1.2, Echo Sounding Principles .............................................................................................................................. 3
Chapter 2 SDE-28S+ Hardware ................................................................................................................................. 5
2.1, Front components......................................................................................................................................... 5
2.2, Side components .......................................................................................................................................... 6
2.3, Accessories ................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.3.1, Transducer ........................................................................................................................................ 7
2.3.2, Transducer pole................................................................................................................................ 7
2.3.3, Power supply cable/adapter ........................................................................................................... 8
2.3.4, I/O devices ........................................................................................................................................ 8
2.3.5, Instrument case ................................................................................................................................ 9
Chapter 3 Software................................................................................................................................................... 10
3.1, EchoSounder ............................................................................................................................................... 10
3.1.1, EchoSounder main interface ......................................................................................................... 10
3.1.2, Menu................................................................................................................................................ 12
3.1.3, Toolbar ............................................................................................................................................ 23
3.2, HySurvey ..................................................................................................................................................... 25
3.2.1, Main interface ................................................................................................................................. 25
3.2.2, Menu................................................................................................................................................ 26
3.2.3, Toolbar ............................................................................................................................................ 73
3.2.4, Navigation info/GPS1 plot ............................................................................................................. 75
3.2.5, Message window ............................................................................................................................ 76
3.2.6, Depth curve window ...................................................................................................................... 76
Chapter 4 Hardware installation............................................................................................................................. 77
4.1, Transducer installation ................................................................................................................................ 77
4.2, GNSS receiver connection........................................................................................................................... 78
Chapter 5 Specifications .......................................................................................................................................... 79
Chapter 1 Preview

1.1, Introduction

KOLIDA SDE-28S+ echo sounder is a kind of industrial control and digital echo sounder which is
integrated with the 12.1-inch TFT-LCD color screen, industrial control unit, echo sounding unit,
data processor, internal memory unit and kinds of interfaces and I/O devices. The special design
can protect it from dust, water, and strong vibration. It collects depth measurement, graphical
navigation, positioning data, water depth data acquisition together. All these features make the
instrument strong compatibility, stable performance and reliable accuracy. The machine comes
with a12.1-inch TFT-LCD color touch-screen which supports clearly visible under bright light. It
has a built-in operating system embedded WIN XP，which can connect to external keyboard,
mouse and other external USB devices. Dominant frequency of the CPU is 1.6GHZ with 2GB
internal memory and built-in 8GB SSD storage. SED-28S+ can connect to GPS from any
manufacturers for positioning, also the users can run different hydrographic surveying softwares
(support embedded Win XP version) on it. It is an ideal instrument for sea, river, or lake water
depth measurement together with the port, waterway dredging project.

1.2, Echo Sounding Principles

The principle of echo sounder is to use ultrasound spread through dielectric, and on different
media surface produce reflective phenomenon, using ultrasonic transducer (probe) launches
ultrasound, and then measure delta-T between the emission wave and the reflected wave.
Acoustic propagation velocity in water is V, transducer (probe) transmits ultrasound, acoustic
emission by the probe to the bottom of the sea, reflected back by the bottom and received by the
transducer, then measure the round trip time the acoustic experienced by t, then: Z = Vt / 2; At
the same time, read the scale on the junction pole to get the value of the draft(draft is the value
between the water surface and the bottom of the transducer), as Fig.1-1.
 Fig.1-1 Echo Sounding Principles

The signal frequency of the high-frequency transducer is about 200KHz, that of the low-
frequency transducer is about 20KHz. Low frequency signal has a longer wavelength, strong
diffraction function, so strong penetration capacity, the general penetrate a certain thickness
of silt.
Chapter 2 SDE-28S+ Hardware
Reading this chapter, you will grasp the detail information about every hardware component of
SDE-28S+.

2.1, Front components ②

①

Fig.2-1 Front components

Ref Component Description

① Logo Brand logo label

② Handle Carry the device

③ Screen Display the operation contents

④ Base adjustment Fix the device at a certain angle

⑤ Power button Switch on/off device

2.2, Side components

① ③

⑥
②

Fig.2-2 Side components

Ref Component Description

① SN label Serial number of device and the bar code

② Transducer port Connect the transducer to echo sounder

③ VGA port Connect to external display

④ RS232 port Connect to the GNSS receiver

⑤ USB port Connect with the USB devices

⑥ Power supply port Connect with AC or DC power

2.3, Accessories

2.3.1, Transducer

The transducer is a hardware that can transmit ultrasonic waves and receive the reflected
ultrasonic waves. The echo sounder is to use the ultrasonic waves speed and the delta t between
the transmitting wave and reflected wave to calculate the depth of water.
Transducers are divided into single-frequency and dual-frequency according to the purposes or
applications, since SDE-28S+ is a single-frequency echo sounder, it is equipped with the single-
frequency transducer.

Fig.2-3 Single-frequency transducer

2.3.2, Transducer pole

The poles are use for connecting the transducer and sinking it into water. The poles are divided
into 3 parts in order to facilitate transport.

Fig.2-4 Transducer pole

2.3.3, Power supply cable/adapter

The cable with red/black clips is used for connecting with 12V external accumulator. Please pay
more attention to this cable that while using it, the red clip should be connect to the positive of
the accumulator, and the black clip connects to negative, otherwise, the instrument would be
burn if the cable connects to wrong node.
The adapter is mainly used to connect to the AC power supply.

Fig.2-5 Power supply cable/adapter

2.3.4, I/O devices

Keyboard and mouse are convenient for input operations on the instrument, such as new project,
setting parameters, etc.

Fig.2-6 Keyboard/mouse
2.3.5, Instrument case

The instrument case for SDE-28S+ contains two layers of packing: the inner layer is filled with
anti-collision foam, the host and other accessories can be dispersed and embedded; the outer
layer is a hard instrument case, sealing-strong, wear-resistant anti-wrestling. This instrument
case can effectively protect the instrument from vibration, and convenient to carry it.

Fig.2-7 Instrument case

Chapter 3 Software
The software on SDE-28S+ contains EchoSounder and Hysurvey, doing the marine survey job,
EchoSounder is mainly for depth measurement and Hysurvey is mainly for the project. In this
chapter, there would be detail description for these 2 pieces of software.

3.1, EchoSounder

3.1.1, EchoSounder main interface

EchoSounder software is mainly used for configuring the transducer sounding parameters,
collecting the echo wave raw data, transmitting the data depth data to the Hysurvey software.
Below is the main interface of EchoSounder.

Menu Transmitting pulse signal

Shortcuts

Restraining depth line(red)

Depth graphic display
interface
Echo signal

Enforcement
intervention
Ruler

Fig.3-1 EchoSounder main interface

Menu
The menu here contains File, Setting, Depth range, View and Help.
Shortcuts
The shortcuts include Open file, Parameter, HF survey, LF survey, Start/Stop, Mark, Record,
Register, Deep and Shallow.

Depth graphic display interface

The depth graphic according to the echo is displaying on this window, and the depth measured
by high frequency waves would be display intuitively.

Enforcement intervention
The enforcement intervention operation is mainly used in some tough environments, then adjust
the transmitting power of pulse according to the different environment.

Ruler
The ruler can indicate the depth value from the reflected waves, and the scale of which can be
zoomed in and out.

Transmitting pulse signal

The long and narrow window at the right side is for the transmitting pulse signal strength
transmitted by the transducer.

Restraining depth line

There is a red line under the transmitting pulse signal, it is for eliminating the aftereffects of
transmitting pulse.

Echo signal
Echo pulse waveform indication, and the signal amplitude. The echo can reflect the depth.
3.1.2, Menu

The menu includes File, Setting, Depth Range, View and Help.

Fig.3-2 Menu

3.1.2.1, File

Under File menu, there are New, Recently opened files, Page Setup, Print preview, Print to PDF,
Print and Exit. The file menu is mainly to use to create a new depth file and print the depth file.

Fig.3-3 File menu

New—click on this option, a new file dialog pop-up, input a name for the file, and click save
button to save the file. Please notice that the depth data file format is with .data extension name.

Fig.3-4 New file

Recently opened files—move the mouse cursor onto this option, there would list the recently
opened files at the right side, move the mouse cursor on the file and click on it to open the file.

Page Setup—click on page setup option, a print settings dialog would pop-up, it is mainly for the
data files print settings.

Fig.3-5 Page setup

Print preview—preview the echo wave print.
Print to PDF—print the data file as pdf format.
Print—click on it to print the data file directly.
Exit—exit the software.

3.1.2.2, Setting

Under setting menu, there are Survey Setting, Communication Setting, Device Setting, Rec Speed,
Unit, Device Type and System setting. The Setting menu is a very important menu that it is related
to whether the echo sounder can work properly or not.

Fig.3-6 Setting
Survey Setting—click this option, there is a dialog pop-up, the draught value, sound velocity,
shallow alarm and echo alarm parameters can be set on this dialog.

Fig.3-7 Survey setting

1, Draught, it is the depth of transducer sank into water, the value should be measured from the
water surface to the bottom of transducer. The draught is about 0.5m usually, however, to prevent
the fake depth caused by bubbles generated by the movement of transducer in the water, the
draught should be increased if the ship speed is too fast.
2, Velocity, this is the sound velocity, in different seasons and different waters (including
different temperature) will have a different velocity, the velocity of fresh water and sea water are
different, so requests to check the echo sounder before each measurement. There are various
ways for this check, but the common is two ways: one is Check bar which will be introduced in
followed sections. The other way is to measure the sound velocity by sound velocimeter on the
spot，sound velocimeter not only measure the sound velocity but also the water depth, then
together with the water temperature and depth the user can get the sound velocity after
calculation，then input this sound velocity into the software.
The following table is a reference sound velocity according to the different temperature.

Temperature Sound velocity Temperature Sound velocity Temperature Sound velocity

（℃） （m/s） （℃） （m/s） （℃） （m/s）

0 1402.74 18 1476.35 36 1522.06

1 1407.71 19 1479.55 37 1523.93

2 1412.57 20 1482.66 38 1525.74

 3 1417.32 21 1485.69 39 1527.49

4 1421.96 22 1488.63 40 1529.18

5 1426.50 23 1491.50 41 1530.80

6 1430.92 24 1494.20 42 1532.37

7 1435.24 25 1497.00 43 1533.88

8 1439.46 26 1499.64 44 1535.33

9 1443.58 27 1502.20 45 1536.72

10 1447.59 28 1504.68 46 1538.06

11 1451.51 29 1507.10 47 1539.84

12 1455.34 30 1509.44 48 1540.57

13 1459.07 31 1511.71 49 1541.74

14 1462.70 32 1513.91 50 1542.87

15 1466.25 33 1516.05

16 1469.70 34 1518.12

17 1473.07 35 1520.12

3, Shallow alarm, this is a protecting depth value for echo sounder, if the measurement depth is
lower than this input value, the echo sounder would alarm, this is mainly to protect the
transducer from the shallow.
4, Echo alarm, this is the function to setup an alarm for echo sounder, activate this function, echo
sounder would sound an alarm if there is no echo received by transducer under the situation of
incorrect parameters setting, too large tilt angle of transducer, or the measured depth exceeds
the range measured by the echo sounder.

Communication Setting—click this option to enter the setting dialog, output depth, heave
sensor, tide gauge, mark style and sounder parameters can be set here.
 Fig.3-8 Communication setting

1、Output Depth, there are two cases here.

At first, when the customer connects GNSS receiver to echo sounder, the echo sounder works as
a computer to run the EchoSounder and Hysurvey software, both of these pieces of software
communicate each other through processes, so we don’t need to do any settings on this part.
Second, if customer runs EchoSounder and Hysurvey software on a laptop or desktop computer,
the echo sounder works as a depth data output device, then the depth data output port should
be set as an external serial port behind the instrument, such as COM11.
2、Heave Sensor, connect with heave sensor device to correct heave real time for customer, after
connecting to the sensor, click on port setting to set the port parameters and click modify button
to apply this port, then choose the correct data format.
3、Tide Gauge, connect with radio tide gauge to monitor tide real time for customer, after
connecting to the sensor, click on port setting to set the port parameters and click modify button
to apply this port, then choose the correct data format.
4、Mark Style, it is to set the mode for mark, here are manual, automatic and timer for option.
5、Sounder, it is the inner port for data transfer between the internal boards.

Device Setting—click on this option to enter the dialog of settings, Survey Mode Setting,
Transmitted intensity and Received intensity are included. It is also a most important setting for
the surveying job.
 Fig.3-9 Device setting

Ⅰ, Survey Mode Setting, there are auto and manual for option.
Ⅱ, Transmitted intensity, it includes the adjust of pulse length and blanking.
Pulse length, pulse length indicates the transmitted pulse duration with the millisecond unit,
and its value ranges from 0.01 to 1.2. The intensity of the transmitted pulse becomes stronger
along with longer pulse. The figure width of the transmitted / received pulse means the pulse
intensity, and the figure length of the transmitted / received pulse means the pulse length.
If the pulse length is too long, the signal duration is too long, it may cause the error because of
the overlap of the transmitted pulse and the echo wave when measure in shallow water.
If the pulse length is too short, then the signal duration time is too short, when measure in deep
water or the absorption power of the water is too strong, may appear no echo because the
transducer can’t receive strong enough echo signal. So, we should adjust the pulse length value
according to depth real time. The default value of pulse length is 0.1ms. If we work on the sea,
we should increase the pulse length properly, since the higher salinity water absorbs ultrasound
strongly.
Blanking, the experiment proves that the ultrasonic lasts out even if the Pulse Length time is
over, and that is said remaining ultrasonic signal. And this signal will affect the return signal from
the bottom, and the blanking pulse length can clear the remaining signal to get precise depth.
Blanking Pulse Length must be one millisecond longer than the Pulse Length except extreme case.
Ⅲ, Received intensity, it contains TVG curve, start gain, threshold, gate depth and gain.
TVG Curve, when the sound waves propagate in water, the sound intensity attenuates
exponentially, in order to keep the signal amplitude stable, TVG will control the receiving
amplifier to increase the amplification factor according to the opposite law, which is the time
gain control.

Fig.3-10 TVG curve

Start Gain, in actual work, due to the weakness of the echo signal, the signal must be amplified
before processing, that is to increase the amplitudes of signal by amplifier circuit. This function
is not only to enlarge the echo signal, clutter also enlarge together, so an appropriate value is
necessary to be set in order to make the instrument can maximum identify the effective echo
signal.
Threshold, it decides when the timer using for accumulating the echo continuous time stops
working, and to start picking up return signal. When increasing the threshold value, feebler
signal may be picked up, but the signal is more possible unwanted.
Gate Depth, the purpose of this parameter is to control the rate of change of two adjacent
measurements. In generally speaking, we can think about that the bottom of water change is
continuous, as long as the time interval between the two measurements is relatively short, the
change of the depth will not too big, then the received echo time difference too big as well, so this
can be set a percentage, such as 10%.
Gain, gain value means the enlargement factor of the return signal. It is useful to increase the
gain when the return signal is feeble, but the noise is enlarged as the gain is increased. So the
gain must be set considering the vantage and disadvantage. The Gain should be increased or
decreased until the digitizer finds the correct bottom.
transmitted intensity Sensitivity Filter setting
Depth range
Pulse length Blanking pulse Power Gain threshold Gate depth

1—20m 0.2ms 1.4ms Low 2 1 10%

20-50m 0.3ms 1.6ms Low 3 1 10%

50-100m 0.5ms 1.6ms High 3 1 10%

100-300m 0.6ms 1.8ms High 3 1 10%

Rec Speed—the default recording speed of the software is ×1, when ×2 is selected, the software
will record echo data at double speed.

Fig.3-11 Rec speed

Unit—select the unit for depth, here are metric and inch for option.

Fig.3-12 Unit

Device Type—select the correct device type here according to the using echo sounder, and the
EchoSounder software would display the corresponding interface.

Fig.3-13 Device type

System setting—here is mainly to set the font size and the font color for depth.
 Fig.3-14 System setting

3.1.2.3, Depth Range

In the depth measurement, different depth measurement use different frequency, in order to
obtain higher sampling rate and echo image resolution, an appropriate depth gear should be
selected as far as possible, If the selected gear is less than the actual water depth, the system will
automatically adjust the transmission frequency to a suitable gear, in this case, the underwater
section diagram cannot be fully displayed on the screen, while the scale is still fixed at the current
gear, but the accuracy of the measurement results is not affected by anything.

Fig.3-15 Depth range

3.1.2.4, View

There are color mode, display setting, ruler increment and status bar under View menu.

Fig.3-16 View
Color Mode—this is the color setting for signals, here are gray and color for option.
 Fig.3-17 Color mode

Display Setting—clear the screen before replay, hide the mark information when replay, display
parameter and display digitized line are contained in this menu, select the proper option
according to the need.

Fig.3-18 Display setting

Ruler Increment—select the time for ruler increment, the software will mark automatically
according to the setting time.

Fig.3-19 Ruler setting

Status Bar—check or uncheck on this option to display or hide the status bar.
 Fig.3-20 Status bar

3.1.2.5, Help

Under help menu, there are register and device information.

Fig.3-21 Help
Register—registration is the process of registering each instrument for use, after user receives
the echo sounder, there will be around 30 hours for trial period, so before it expires, please
register the instrument for further use.

Fig.3-22 Register
Enter the register echo sounder dialog, there is the software ID, and remaining use time, and the
used time, if the trial period is going to expire, contact with KOLIDA staff and ask for the license,
then enter it into SN blank.
Device Information—click on this option to check the device information on the pop-up dialog,
like disk space, hardware information, and the software information as well.

Fig.3-23 Device information

3.1.3, Toolbar

Below the menu, a series of shortcut buttons are listed in the shortcut menu, they are open,
parameter, HF survey, start/stop, mark, record, register, deep and shallow. Click on the
corresponding button, we can enter the setting dialog quickly.

Fig.3-24 Toolbar

Click on this button to open the depth data file saved in DepthData folder on device. Open
the file for replaying, checking and appending the record.

Fig.3-25 Open
 Click on this button to enter the survey setting dialog, and set the parameter for draught,
sound velocity, shallow alarm and echo alarm.

Fig.3-26 Survey setting

Click on this button to enter the device setting dialog, make the corresponding settings
according to the actual work.

Fig.3-27 Device setting

After the correct parameters have been set, such as draught, sound velocity and so on,
click this button to start the measurement.

It is the button to mark the user graphic file with an event mark manually, the software
will mark on the screen once if click on this button one time.

Click on this record button to save the data of transmitting wave, echo, device parameters
and so on after starting the measurement, and the file name would be saved as the current date,
in order to print and look up in the future.

Click on this button to quickly enter the registration dialog.

If the measuring depth is out of range, the graphic may not be fully displayed on the screen,
so click on this button to quickly extend the depth range.

Click on this button to shrink the depth range.

3.2, HySurvey

Hysurvey is KOLIDA new generation of measurement software integrating water depth data
collection and post-processing, easy to use. And the operation flow is completely consistent with
the user's actual work flow. Its strong scalability can let it connect to all kinds of GPS receivers
and depth sounding equipment. HySurvey is a good choice for ocean depth surveying, river
channel surveying, engineering exploration positioning, piling, reef blasting, geophysical drilling
and seismic lofting.

3.2.1, Main interface

Below is the main interface of HySurvey software.

Menu Toolbar

Navigation info
Display window

Message window Depth curve window

Status bar

Fig.3-28 Main interface

3.2.2, Menu

All the corresponding functions and settings are contained in the menu, like project, setting,
design, survey, view, tools, processing, help and layout.

Fig.3-29 Menu

3.2.2.1, Project

Under the project menu, there including new project, open project, modify project, import,
export, save and exit.

Fig.3-30 Project
New project—Click on this option to create a new project on the pop-up dialog, enter the project
name and click OK button, and start to configure parameters for the project on the project wizard.

Fig.3-31 New/Open project

At the Basic tap, enter the information for the project, change the storage path, builder, location,
project date, operator and something else, then click Next button to the next parameter
configuration.

Fig.3-32 Basic info

At Coord tap, if there are no the local coordinate system in the list, click New button to create the
local coordinate system.

Fig.3-33 Coordinate system

Enter a name for local system in order to identify easily, then choose the correct ellipsoid,
projection type, and the projection parameters. If there are the transformation parameters for
the local system, click Parameters button to enter the dialog and input the parameters.

Fig.3-34 Edit coordinate system

Fig.3-35 Parameters
After finishing the coordinate system settings, click Next button to go to Device tap, here choose
the correct COM port for GPS1 and Echosounder, then check the box of Enabled.
 Fig.3-36 Device
GPS1 config, click Setup button to enter the dialog, choose GNSS type under the dropdown list, if
the GNSS receiver is an unknown type, choose other option, and use the default data format.
Move to serial parameter tap, choose the correct COM port and baudrate. The parameters of
Parity, Stop bits and Data bits modification should be under the guidance of the professional
technician, generally, all of these parameters are used as default. After that, click Test button to
check if there is data stream comes from GNSS receiver.

Fig.3-37 Device setup

Echosounder config, on SDE-28S+ echo sounder, the echosounder config would be default as
using the internal device.

Click the Next button or the collect tap at the right side to go to configure the data collection
conditions. According to the connected GNSS receiver positioning accuracy, for example, we
choose RTK option if we connect an RTK receiver. And the mark method would be auto and
manual (using space button), and mark interval can be with time or distance, distance interval is
generally used, the coordinate and depth would be marked in every assigned distance. Auto and
manual mark method can be chosen together.

Fig.3-38 Collection condition

Click Next button to go to the Ant.H interface to configure the antenna height for the connected
GNSS receiver, then click Finish button to complete creating a new project.
 Fig.3-39 Antenna height
Open project—Click on this option, choose the project file which saved in the instrument, then
click OK button to open it, or double click on the data file to open it.

Fig.3-40 Open project

Modify project—Click on this option to enter the project wizard, basic information, coordinate
system, device, collection and antenna height parameters can be modified here for the current
project.
 Fig.3-41 Modify project
Import—Here can import the base map into project, HySurvey supports CAD2000 dxf format,
KOLIDA dat and ssd format, Hypack xyz and mtx format, as well as S57 format electronic chart.

Fig.3-42 Import
Export—This function is able to export the base map as CAD2000 dxf graphic, the elements
exported including points, lines curves, broken lines and the planned lines.
 Fig.3-43 Export
Exit—Exit the HySurvey software.

Fig.3-44 Exit

3.2.2.2, Setting

Setting menu contains all kinds of settings, like coordinate system, survey devices, data collection,
store setting, data transmit and so on.

Coordinate system—New a local coordinate system for current project, including system name
modification, ellipsoid, central meridian and the transformation parameters.
 Fig.3-45 Coordinate system
Survey devices—Here can make the connection settings for connected GNSS receiver and echo
sounder, like the COM port and baudrate, then click setup button to test the communications.

Fig.3-46 Survey devices

Data collection—Like on the project wizard, here is able to set the data collection conditions.
GPS acquisition condition:
According to the connected GNSS receiver positioning accuracy, for example, we choose RTK
option if we connect an RTK receiver.
Marking method:
Mark method would be auto and manual(using space button), and mark interval can be with time
or distance, distance interval is generally used, the coordinate and depth would be marked in
every assigned distance. Auto and manual mark method can be chosen together.
 Fig.3-47 Collection condition
Store setting—In this store setting interface, we can set the line name, line number and naming
method of points for measurement file according to our needs.

Fig.3-48 Store setting

Name: The line name represents the command prefix for the file, and along with line number
forms the file name.
Number: The line number indicates which file is to be measured, and along with line name to
form the file name, for example, Ln1 and Ln2, where Ln is the line name, and number 1 and
number 2 are the line number.
Default: Each time clicking on the measure button, the line number will increase by one, and the
point number in the file will be counted again from 1, as shown in the figure below, there are 3
files measured, Ln1, Ln2 and Ln3.

Fig.3-49 Default naming

Continuous: Each time clicking on the measure button, the line number will increase by one, and
the point number in the file will increase according to the last point name. As shown in the figure
below, there are 3 files measured, Ln1, Ln2 and Ln3, in file Ln1, 3 points were measured and the
point number would be 1, 2, 3; then in file Ln2, there are 4 points and the point number starts
from 4, then increase to 5, 6,7; in file Ln3, 4 points were measured and the point number would
be 8, 9, 10, 11.

Fig.3-50 Continuous naming

Survey line+pt name: Each time clicking on the measure button, the line number will increase by
one, and the point name will increase by line number + point name, for example, as shown in the
figure below, there are 3 files, the point number is Ln1_1, Ln1_2, Ln1_3 in file Ln1, and Ln2_1,
Ln2_2, Ln2_3 in file Ln2.

Fig.3-51 Survey line + pt name

Data transmit—It means that the software transfer the acquired GNSS data to the other port or
network server through the serial port or network, for the other software or devices use. Here
are 3 kinds of data source for transferring, GPS1 data, GPS2 data and custom string data. Which
data source needs to be transferred, check the enable box and click Setup button for further
settings.
 Fig.3-52 Transmit setting

EchoSounder path—It is the location where EchoSounder software installed.

Fig.3-53 Echosounder path

Correction wizard—The purpose of correction is to correct the base coordinate from the other
coordinate system to local coordinate system. To activate this function, a GNSS receiver should
be connected and used.
Offsets—The offset setting is to set the relative offset of the GNSS receiver antenna and the
measuring point in the ship center coordinate system. After the ship's center coordinate system
is established, the position of the GNSS antenna and GNSS measurement point needs to be
calculated into the ship's center coordinate system. In general, if there are 2 GNSS receivers, the
one set at rear of the ship is GPS1, and the one set at front of the ship is GPS2.
Please note that if there are 2 GNSS receivers used to determine the ship’s course, no matter how
GPS1 and GPS2 are placed, the final course is from the stern to the bow, and the offset of the 2
antennas in the coordinate system needs to be accurately measured and filled into the offset
setting.

Fig.3-54 Offset setting

Beacon—It is to configure the beacon signal as long as the V series of compass is connected.
Antenna—Here can set the antenna height for GPS1, and this height is the vertical height, which
is the distance from measurement point to receiver antenna phase center.

Fig.3-55 Ant.H

Shallow alarm—It is to set a threshold of shallow water alarm, enter a proper value for the
threshold and check the box of Enabled to apply the settings, while the measuring depth is less
than the assigned value, the shallow water alarm will be triggered, and the alarm information
would display in the message window.
 Fig.3-56 Shallow alarm

Device latency—When using a single-beam echo sounder for depth measurement, since the
positioning system and the sounding system are two independent systems, a systematic delay is
generated and becomes an error in the depth measurement. So this setting is a compensation for
this delay.

Fig.3-57 Device latency

Ship mode setting—Here is for the configuration of vessel display on the screen.

Fig.3-58 Ship mode setting

Orientation mode—It is a setting of ship’s position displayed on the screen, there would be 4
modes for option, center, heading up, center beyond the screen and none.

Fig.3-59 Orientation mode

Center: The ship will always display in the center of screen, while its azimuth would be update.
Heading up: The bow will always face directly above the screen, and the ship’s position will move
with the changes of GNSS receiver coordinates.
Center beyond the screen: The position and direction of the ship displayed on the screen will
change with the changes of GNSS receiver coordinates, if the ship’s position is out of the screen,
the ship will return to the center of screen and continue.
None: At the beginning, the ship will move with the coordinates within the screen, when the
ship’s position is out of the screen, the software will no longer move the ship to the screen
automatically.
Navigation info—This is able to set the display items and the font for the navigation info window
which locates at the left side of main screen, as well as the content color.

Fig.3-60 Navigation info

Plotting mode—Here are two methods for plotting, one is point lofting and the other one is by
coordinate. If choose point lofting, points, lines, broken lines, circles, curves can be drawn by the
mouse moving or clicking on the screen. If choose by coordinate, enter the corresponding
information on the pop-up dialog for drawing the points, lines, broken lines circles and curves.

Fig.3-61 Plotting mode

View properties—There are the object snap and filter for option.
 Fig.3-62 View properties

Object snap: Choose this option, while choose properties under tools menu, then use the mouse
to select the point, line including straight line and broken line, the software will pop up a dialog
which displays coordinate, type, color and layer about the object.

Fig.3-63 Object snap mode

Filter: If choose this for the view mode, while click properties under tools menu, the software
will pop up a query dialog, enter the entity name, choose the layer and type, click Query button
to check the information of the entity.

Fig.3-64 Filter mode

Object snap—If the plan lines are going to be drawn manually, such as the border of a complex
area, and the most of reference points should be considered, choose this function to make the
plan lines.

Fig.3-65 Object snap

Object snap mode—The object snap mode includes endpoint, midpoint, perpendicular and
nearest.

Fig.3-66 Object snap mode

Endpoint: Capture the node of the element.

Midpoint: Capture the central point of the element.
Perpendicular: Capture the points perpendicular to an existing element.
Nearest: Capture the points of the mouse to an existing element.
Speed unit—This is the unit for the speed of ship, there are Kn, Km/h and m/s for option. Choose
one of the units, the speed would display on the navigation info window with the corresponding
unit.

Fig.3-67 Speed unit

Display mode—The software has normal and night mode for the display mode.

Fig.3-68 Display mode

Night mode setting—As long as night mode is selected, this option would be activated, then
click on this option to set the brightness for the screen.
 Fig.3-69 Night mode

System setting—It can set the background color of the software, color of ship on the screen,
depth font size and color, and the measurement point, etc., at the meantime, the mark key can be
customized here, as well as software automatic start, automatic open the recent project when
the software starts. When “Use color table” is checked, the depth data will display with different
color according to the different depths.

Fig.3-70 System setting

Workspace switching—This is used to set the software working interface, here are classic and
simple for option.

Fig.3-71 Wordspace switching

3.2.2.3, Design

The design menu is mainly use for drawing and planned lines design.

Fig.3-72 Design menu

Undo—Return to the previous step if there is an operation error, use undo to return to the
previous operation interface.
Redo—If click the undo button, use redo to return to the previous operation interface.
Draw point—This is used for drawing the auxiliary mark points with mouse or coordinate. If
choosing coordinate method(choose coordinate option in plotting setting under setting menu)
for drawing points, the point name, coordinate, elevation and the other parameters are required,
and the layer, line type, line width, color should be defined. Or select the point from the library.
 Fig.3-73 Draw point

Draw line—It is used to draw a straight line with mouse or coordinate. If choosing coordinate
method(choose coordinate option in plotting setting under setting menu) for drawing line, enter
the line name, starting point, ending point and the other parameters, and select the
corresponding properties for the line, such as layer, type, width and color, then click OK button,
the software will draw a straight line according to the settings.

Fig.3-74 Draw line

Draw polyline—It is used to draw a polyline mouse or coordinate. If choosing coordinate

method(choose coordinate option in plotting setting under setting menu) for drawing the line,
enter the line name, points coordinate and the other parameters, click Up or Down button to
adjust position of point, and add or delete point for polyline. After that select the corresponding
properties for the line, such as layer, type, width and color, then click OK button, the software will
draw a polyline according to the settings.
 Fig.3-75 Draw polyline

Draw circle—It is used to draw an auxiliary circle with mouse or coordinate. If choosing
coordinate method (choose coordinate option in plotting setting under setting menu) for
drawing the circle, enter the circle name, center point coordinate and the radius. After that select
the corresponding properties for the line, such as layer, type, width and color, then click OK
button, the software will draw a circle according to the settings.

Fig.3-76 Draw circle

Draw arc—It is used to draw an auxiliary arc with mouse or coordinate. If choosing coordinate
method (choose coordinate option in plotting setting under setting menu) for drawing the arc,
enter the arc name, center point coordinate, radius and the starting angle and ending angle. After
that select the corresponding properties for the line, such as layer, type, width and color, then
click OK button, the software will draw an arc according to the settings.

Fig.3-77 Draw arc

Annotation—It is able to annotate the elements on the map with mouse or coordinate. Enter
the content of the text, coordinate, layer and the annotation style, or self-define the coordinate
by clicking on Select button.

Fig.3-78 Annotation

Point symbol—It is able to draw a variety of point symbols, such as measurement points, buoys,
bright reefs and so on. Click on this option, the software pops up a dialog, then enter the point
name, coordinate, or select the point from library, and then select the corresponding properties.
 Fig.3-79 Point symbol

Align feature—It is able to draw various linear symbols, such as ridges, coastlines, seawalls and
so on. Click on this option, then enter the line name, nodes coordinate, or select the point from
library, and then select the corresponding properties, like line type, width, color, attribution and
symbol.

Fig.3-80 Align feature

Move—This is used for moving the element’s position on the map.

Delete singly—Delete the drawn point, line, straight line, curve, point symbol and the other
graphic data one by one.
Delete by area—Delete the drawn point, line, straight line, curve, point symbol and the other
graphic data within the selected frame.
Delete all—Delete all the drawn point, line, straight line, curve, point symbol and the other
graphic data.
Channel design—This channel design is mostly used for the depth survey in inland waterways.
This way only needs to draw the central axis, then the working lines would automatically
generate according to the input channel width and survey width, as well as the line spacing.
There are 3 ways to draw the channel central axis, (1), enter the nodes coordinate and click Add
button; (2), use mouse to draw the axis on the screen; (3), select the existing channel axis on the
screen by clicking Select button.

Fig.3-81 Channel design

 Channel width

Survey width

Line spacing

Fig.3-82 Channel design

Area design—It is suitable to the reservoir, or the specific enclosed areas. On the pop-up dialog,
enter the boundary point coordinates, or click Draw button to draw the boundary lines, or click
Select button to select the existing lines on the screen, then enter the inclination angle and
spacing. (0°--north; 90°--east; 180°--KOLIDA; 270°--west)
 Fig.3-83 Area design

Vertical design—This is similar to the channel design, and the difference is that the width of
channel design is same on the left and right, and the corners were processed. Vertical design is
simpler that it draws the vertical parallel lines only according to the specific baseline and the
spacing, and the width of left and right can be different. It is suitable to the project plan line
design which only knows one side coordinates.
 Fig.3-84 Vertical design

Parallel design—This is to draw the planned lines on both sides base on the drawing central
axis. On the pop-up dialog, enter the nodes coordinate for the axis, and the number of planned
lines on the both sides, and the line spacing.
 Fig.3-85 Parallel design

Sector design—This is more convenient for curve channel planned line design. Only need to
know the center point coordinates and the inner and outer radius to determine the position of
the planned lines, then enter the starting and ending angles, and the left and right offsets of the
sector from the center line. The starting angle of the axis is the angle between the starting edge
and the true north, and same definition to the ending angle.

Fig.3-86 Sector design

VesselDesigner—This includes the vessel data, anchor and offsets. It is in order to better
simulate the shape of the ship, and determine the relative spatial position between anchor, GPS
antenna position and the measurement points, which can intuitively and comprehensively reflect
the status of the entire measurement system.
 Fig.3-87 Vessel designer

3.2.2.4, Survey

Under the survey menu, there are some operations related to the measurement, such as re-
handshake, device connection, record, pause_survey, stop record, auto record, stakeout point,
stakeout line, heading, compass and replay.

Fig.3-88 Survey meni

Re-handshake—Reconnect the devices.
Device connection—If user configured correct COM port and baudrate for GNSS receiver and
echo sounder in new project or survey devices, click this option to establish communication with
devices, and the receiver coordinate will display on the navigation info window, and the vessel
will appear on the screen.
Record—Clicking on this option, the software will collect the coordinates and depth data
according to the GPS collection conditions and marking methods set by user, and send marking
commands to the echo sounder software.
Pause_survey—Pause recording the data.
Stop record—Stop recording the data.
Auto record—The software will automatically collect data in the planned area according to
preset conditions while the ship moves to the area, like in the area of channel design or parallel
design. If the ship goes out of the area, the software will stop recording data.
Stakeout point—Stakeout the point by mouse select or coordinate. And the stakeout point
information will display at the bottom left of the main interface.

Fig.3-89 Stakeout point

Stakeout line—Stakeout the line by auto or manual.

Fig.3-90 Stakeout line menu

Auto: In this mode, user needs to set the locked distance that if the vertical distance between GPS
measurement point to the planned line less than the locked distance, the planned line would be
locked as the current measurement line.

Fig.3-91 Auto mode setting

Mouse select: In this mode, the mouse cursor as a small box, use this box to select a planned line
as a measurement line. And the stakeout line information will display at the bottom left of the
main interface.

Fig.3-92 Mouse select mode

Heading—It is for self-define the heading.

Fig.3-93 Heading

Compass—Display the compass on the main interface.

Fig.3-94 Compass

Replay—The software will replay the coordinate data measured in the current project and the
ship’s trajectory, etc.

Fig.3-95 Replay
3.2.2.5, View

Under view menu, there are the operations for the graphic, such as pan, zoom in, zoom out, rotate
to degree, display trackpoint and so on.

Fig.3-96 View menu

Pan—Click on this option, the mouse cursor will turn into a hand shape, then press and hold the
left button at one point on the screen, move the mouse and the mouse movement direction
represents the screen movement direction, and then release the left button at another point. To
exit the pan operation, right-click in the view window.
Zoom in—Use this screen to zoom in the screen, the screen will zoom in at the center while
clicking on it each time.
Zoom out—Use this screen to zoom out the screen, the screen will zoom out at the center while
clicking on it each time.
Zoom window—Click on this option, the mouse cursor will turn into a cross shape, then press
and hold the left button at the upper left corner of the area to be enlarged, move the mouse, and
release the left mouse button at the lower right corner, the contents of this rectangular area will
be enlarged. To exit the zoom window operation, right-click in the view window.
Zoom all—Click on this option, all the graphics will be displayed on the screen.
Zoom 1:1—Click on this option, the view window will be displayed on a scale of 10 meters per
square.
Rotate to degree—Rotate the map by entering a rotation angle, enter a proper angle, then click
OK button, the map will rotate counterclockwise according to the input angle.

Fig.3-97 Rotation angle

Clockwise rotation—Each time click on this option, the base map will rotate clockwise by 10°.
Contra rotate—Each time click on this option, the base map will rotate counterclockwise by 10°.
North up—Click on this option, the rotated map will recover to true north.
Grid switch—The grid function is to display the coordinate ratio of the entire graph and provide
a reference for the base map in the software. The grid function is default turned on, to hide the
grid lines, click this option or the shortcut tool on the toolbar.

Fig.3-98 Grid

Display trackpoint—Click on this option, the track of the ship's movement will be displayed in
the form of small black dots. As shown in the figure below, the small black dots between point 1
and point 2 are the track of ship.
 Fig.3-99 Display track point

Display pt number—Click on this option to display the point number or hide the point number.
As shown in the figures below.

Fig.3-100 Display point number

Fig.3-101 Hide point number

Trace display—Click on this option, the software will pop up the survey line selection window.
Choose a line in the list then click OK, and the navigation track of the selected survey line will be
displayed on the screen.

Fig.3-102 Trace display

Tracelines—Click on this option, the software will connect the sailing track of the ship with line
segments, as shown in the figure below.

Fig.3-103 Tracelines

Scale text—The scale text function can uniformly zoom the text displayed in the project, as
shown in the figure below, drag the middle slider to scale the text.

Fig.3-104 Scale text

3.2.2.6, Tool

The tool menu contains many kinds of utilities, like the coordinate conversion, system
parameters, measure, properties view and so on.

Fig.3-105 Tool menu

Geo calculator—This calculator can complete the conversion between the geodetic coordinate,
spatial coordinate and the local coordinate.
 Fig.3-106 Geo calculator

System parameters—Click this option to check the projection parameters, 4 parameters,

correction parameters, 7 parameters and the fitting parameters or the current project.

Fig.3-107 System parameters

Measure—This is one of the commonly used tools, it can conveniently measure the azimuth
angle and distance between points, lines, and points to the lines on the screen. To cancel the
measure, right-click in the view window.
 Fig.3-108 Measure

Inquiry area—This is a tool to calculate the area. To cancel this tool, right-click in the view
window.

Fig.3-109 Inquiry area

Properties—Click on this option, the mouse will turn into a small red box. Use it to click on the
point, line, arc, circle and other graphics on the screen, the software will pop up a window to
display various attributes of the graphics, such as the name, the starting point coordinates, end
point coordinates, type, width, color and other elements.
 Fig.3-110 Properties

Raw data—Click on this option, the software will pop up the survey line selection dialog, select
a line in the list and click OK button, the raw data of the selected line can be displayed. The raw
data includes survey line, collection time, point name, longitude, latitude, altitude, X, Y, h, heading,
high frequency measuring depth, low frequency measuring depth, solution status, HRMS, VRMS
and other information. At the same time, the software also supports the export of raw data, and
the export formats include txt, org, csv, etc.

Fig.3-111 Raw data

Base station coordinate view—Click on this option to check the base station coordinate.
 Fig.3-112 Base coordinate view

Symbol manager—This option is able to add, delete and edit the symbols of point or line.

Fig.3-113 Symbol manager

Coordinate point library—Click this option to enter the local coordinate library, and it also can
add, delete, edit the local coordinate here, and the other operations.

Fig.3-114 Local coordinates

Geo library—This is the place where the geodetic coordinates are saved.

Fig.3-115 Geodetic coordinates

3.2.2.7, Processing

Single beam editor, post-processing, file export, tide station and trace export are contained in
processing menu.

Fig.3-116 Processing menu

Single beam editor—This editor is able to modify the problematic values in the original
measured depth data, and take out the required coordinates and depth values according to the
assigned sampling method and interval.

Fig.3-117 Single beam editor

Edit depth(H): This is used for the modification of depth measured by high frequency. If there
are some abnormal depth points, use the mouse to flatten the abnormal depth points according
to the changing trend of the depth.
 Fig.3-118 Edit depth

Post-processing—The software will record the detail information of the points in the survey
line file during the measurement, including the WGS84 coordinates of the measuring point.
Generally, the coordinate conversion should be completed before the measurement, in the case
of incorrect parameters were used, the coordinate conversion can be performed through the
post-processing. And there are 2 methods for the processing, one is to use parameters file(*.cot),
the other one is to use the current project parameters.

Fig.3-119 Post-processing

File export—The survey line saves all the original data of the survey point, such as point name,
date, time, coordinates, satellite number and solution status, etc. At the same time, the data
should be adjusted according to the requirement, such as echosounder adjustment, dynamic
draft adjustment and so on. After the survey line data is corrected, not all the information is
needed.
 Fig.3-120 File export

Click on this option, the software will pop up a dialog, then select or customize the output format
of the results according to the requirement. After that, choose the measurement line and
adjustment items, and click Export button. A dialog will pop up, then select the name and path of
the result and click Save.
Echosounder: With the different depth, the error of the depth value measured by the
echosounder is also different, enter the depth value and the corresponding correction number
in the list.

Fig.3-121 Echosounder adjustment

Dynamic draft: During the measurement, the ship has different drafts with different speeds, the
user can use the error parameters obtained from field measurement or look-up tables to enter
the speed and the corresponding positive draft in the list.

Fig.3-122 Dynamic draft

Coordinate system error: In the actual work, user can work in a custom coordinate system, then
correct the custom coordinate system to the standard coordinate system through the coordinate
system error correction.

Fig.3-123 Coordinate system error

Depth system error: If there is a fixed error in the entire depth measurement, enter the correction
value in the ds box. If there is a multiple relationship between the depth error and the depth
value during the entire depth measurement, enter the multiplier in the dMs box.
 Fig.3-124 Depth system error

Tide station: It is able to choose an edited tide gauge station to correct the depth data.

Fig.3-125 Tide station adjustment

Tide station—Here is to new or edit a tide gauge station data.

Fig.3-126 Tide station edit

Trace export—It is to export the coordinate of measurement lines, choose the line and click OK
button to export a dat format file.

Fig.3-127 Trace export

3.2.2.8, Help

The About interface contains the information of software version, expire date, copyright,
company website and email

Fig.3-128 About
3.2.2.9, Layout

This is to define the information window display or hide.

Fig.3-129 Layout

3.2.3, Toolbar

The toolbar contains a variety of shortcuts.

shortcuts Description

New project

Open the existing project

Save the graphic

Re-handshake, for reconnecting the device

Connect to the device

Start measurement
Pause measurement

Stop measurement

Move the screen

Zoom in

Zoom out

Zoom window

Zoom all

Zoom 1:1

Grid switch

Undo

Redo

Draw point

Draw line

Draw polyline

Draw circle

Draw arc

Annotation

Point symbol

Align feature

Move the elements

Delete singly

Delete by area
 Delete all

Select point by mouse

Select line by mouse

Measure distance and azimuth

Inquiry area

Property information

Object snap

3.2.4, Navigation info/GPS1 plot

Navigation info window and GPS plot window are located at the left site of the main interface.
This window displays position coordinate, depth, heading, ship speed, solution type of GNSS,
locked satellites, satellites SNR and the other information.

Fig.3-130 Navigation info/GPS plot

3.2.5, Message window

The message window is located at the bottom left corner of software, it is mainly for the
operation log.

Fig.3-131 Message window

The GPS1 Yaw and GPS2 Yaw windows are at the same place with message window, they reflect
the information of GPS receiver speed, yaw angle and distance.

Fig.3-132 GPS Yaw

While stakeout points or lines, this window can display the stakeout information, such as the
yaw distance and angle, distance to the starting point, distance to the ending point, difference of
X and Y coordinates.

Fig.3-133 Stakeout info

3.2.6, Depth curve window

This window can display depth value and curve real-time.

Fig.3-134 Depth curve window

Chapter 4 Hardware installation

4.1, Transducer installation

The location of the transducer is very important for maintaining reliable bottom tracking
performance of the equipment. Avoid installing transducers in locations where the transducer
will be subjected to turbulent water, air bubbles, or vibration. It is preferable to mount the
transducer on the side of the hull where the propeller blades are normally moving downwards.
The upward motion of the propeller can generate pressure waves, which push air bubbles up
against the hull. By mounting the transducer on the downward side, the hull will tend to protect
the transducer from this effect. The transducer should be mounted on, or adjacent to, the ship’s
centerline. Wherever practical, the transducer face should be parallel to the waterline. In
addition, there should be sufficient room to permit use of the necessary tools to facilitate the
installation-mounting requirements.

Fig.4-1 Transducer installation

To fix the transducer, the best location is in the middle side of the hull, thus reducing the influence
and interference of the traffic surge to the transducer. When the speed of the ship is fast, then the
juction pole connected with the transducer must be tilted slightly backwards, which is carried
out by increasing the reinforcement of the forward rope and the backward rope, considering the
drag force from the flow and the gesture of the driving boat. Working at sea, to put the transducer
into water a bit deeper is necessary; faster the boat, the deeper the transducer into water. In
general, working at sea, the transducer draft is better between 1.2 and 1.4 meters; in inland river,
the transducer draft is more than 0.5 meters (considering the length of pole and the operational
needs). At sea, if measure under larger surge conditions, transducer draft muse be deepened, to
avoid massive depth errors caused by surges. When mounting the transducer, must keep the
juction pole vertical, reinforce and prevent loosening of the probe.

4.2, GNSS receiver connection

Mount the GNSS receiver onto the pole, then connect it to COM1 or COM2 on SDE-28S+ via serial
cable. Switch on the receiver and configure it to achieve the reliable solution, then go to the
HySurvey software to configure parameters to receive data stream from GNSS receiver.

Fig.4-2 GNSS receiver installation

Chapter 5 Specifications

Measurements

Frequency 200 KHz

Beam Angle 5°

Depth Resolution 0.01m/0.1ft

Accuracy ±0.01m±0.1%D(0.1% of depth value)

Ping Rate Adjustable, Maximum 30Hz

Sound Velocity 1300m/s～1700m/s

Depth Range 8m, 15m, 30m, 60m, 120m, 240m, 300m, Automatic shift

Draft 0.0m～20m

Gain Control AGC and TVG, depth and gain, a double door tracking

Output data format KOLIDA, SDH-13D, DES025, INN455, ODOM etc.

Physical

Operating -30℃～60℃
Temperature

Output Power Up to 300W

Power Supply 10V～30V DC; 110V～260V AC, 50～60Hz

Waterproof/Dustproof IP67

Humidity 5%～90% non-condensing

Dimension 340mm×280mm×130mm

Weight 6.5kg

Hardware

System Windows XPE

CPU 1.6GHz Dual-core

Internal Memory 2G DDR3, 800MHz

Storage 8G high-speed Solid State Disk (SSD), supports to extend higher

USB 3x standard USB2.0

Serial Port 2x RS-232

VGA Interface 1x VGA

Display 12.1-inch color LCD touch screen

Protection Interface protection

Transducer

Cable 15m standard (customized)

Pole 2m standard (customized)