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New Version of SonarWiz Offers Fast Processing

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Chesapeake Technology will release SonarWiz 7.4 in April 2019, with updates to many of the software modules. Side scan updates include automatic processing and real-time directory monitoring to enable unattended workflows, along with two new bottom-tracking algorithms designed to work better in noisy environments. New file compression reduces project size by as much as four times and vastly improves export

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SonarWiz Used in BentProp Project To Discover Seafloor Wreckage

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Chesapeake Technology, the company that makes SonarWiz data collection and post-processing software, has renewed its multi-year partnership with the BentProp Project, which has used SonarWiz software since Dec. 2010 to create and review sonar images to identify high-likelihood search targets such as planes on the seafloor. Hundreds of images are scanned each day during a typical one-month project. Since 2014,

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GeoHab Brings Together Geological and Biological Mapping Experts

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GeoHab (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) is an international association of marine scientists studying biophysical (i.e. geologic and oceanographic) indicators of benthic habitats and ecosystems as proxies for biological communities and species diversity. The GeoHab 2018 annual conference will be held in Santa Barbara, California at the Fess Parker Resort from Monday May 7 to Friday May 11, 2018. The annual conference brings geologists, biologists,

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