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Hydromagic Introduction

Eye4Software Hydromagic is a hydrographic survey software tool, which can be used to map areas using a GPS and echosounder. Use the software to import, view and edit your maps, display your position and to record depths. The software will work with almost any GPS and echosounder, and can be used on any desktop, laptop or netbook computer running Windows XP or higher.

Some application examples:

• Record depth data using a GPS and echosounder;
• Show your current position and depth on a loaded map;
• Convert your soundings to a regularly spaced XYZ data (DTM);
• Convert your soundings to different file formats;
• Show cross-sections and calculate volumes;
• Design and generate theoretical DTM's (channel design);
• Create depth contours and save them as ESRI shapefiles;
• Add comments, symbols or routes to your maps;
• Perform realtime positioning on research and hydrographic survey vessels;
• Fishing industry, for instance to navigate inside the assigned fishing parcels;
• View GIS features on shapefiles, CAD and S57 (ENC) data;

Hydromagic Screenshots

Realtime position display and tracking on S57 ENCs.	Use the software with GeoTIFF maps.	Generate regularly spaced data (matrix) from your sounding.	Generate depth contours.
Use theoretical DTM's for volume calculation	Export cross-sections.	Profile editor / channel design.	Sounding editor.

Hydromagic Features

GPS Connection

The software can communicate with almost any GPS device to retrieve your current position and show it on one of the supported raster or vectormaps. Any GPS device supporting the NMEA0183 protocol is supportd. It is possible to record your movements and the measured depths to a track.

When a map is loaded, you can also calculate distance and course, add symbols, lines, boundaries and comments to your map and save and / or print them.

Map Formats

The software supports a wide variaty of both vector and raster formats including:

• GeoTIFF;
• IHO-S57 Electronic Nautical Charts (ENCs);
• AutoCad DXF CAD files;
• Microstation ISFF DGN files;
• MapInfo MIF/MID files;
• Arc/Info Export files;
• OpenStreetMap XML files, and OpenStreetMap PNG tiles through calibration;
• ESRI Shapefiles;
• BSB nautical charts;
• JPG files, through user calibration or JGW (JPEG World File);
• TIF files, through user calibration or TFW (TIFF World File);
• GIF Files, through user calibration or GFW (GIF World File);
• PNG Files, through user calibration or PGW (PNG World File);
• BMP Files, through user calibration or BPW (BMP World File);

Import and Export formats

Overlay data, such as comments, waypoints, matrix and track data can be imported from or exported to different file formats. File formats supported include ASCII XYZ Files, Topographix GPX GPS Exchange Files, Google Earth KML, Garmin Database, Maptech and OziExplorer PLT, WPT and RTE Files. You can export both manually added data as well as all data stored on your GPS device.

Tools

Some other tools and features the software offers:

• Built in track editor to edit or correct your soundings;
• Generate depth contours;
• Generate regularly spaced XYZ data (DTM);
• Show cross-sections;
• Calculate volumes using DTM's or cross sections;
• Automatic tide correction;
• Perform sound velocity corrections on soundings;
• Skyview;
• Map calibration, to use your own downloaded or scanned GIF, PNG, BMP, JPG and TIF maps;
• Attribute viewer for GIS files like ESRI shapefiles and ENCs;
• Dataview to display all information retrieved from the GPS device;
• Track recorder to save all movements and measured depths to a GPS track;
• Great circle calculations to perform distance and bearing calculations from point to point;
• Display your position on the map realtime;
• Display locations of other vessels around you using an AIS receiver;
• Support for Nadcon, HARN and NTv2 datum transformation files.

Map Projections

To display a part of the globe (ellips or sphere) on a display(plane), a map projection is needed to prevent distortion of the map data. The software is shipped with a database containing over 3500 predefined map projections. You can also delete, modify and add new definitions. The following map projections are supported:

• Transverse Mercator;
• Oblique Mercator;
• Mercator;
• Oblique Stereographic;
• Polar Stereographic;
• Albers Equal Area Conic;
• Lambert Conformal Conic;
• Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area;
• Krovak;
• Eckert IV;
• Eckert VI;
• Mollweide;
• Cassini;
• Polyconic;
• Miller;
• Bonne;
• Sinusoidal;
• Cylindrical Equal Area.

Requirements

To receive realtime GPS information, you need a NMEA-0183 compatible (D)GPS device (most GPS devices around support the NMEA-0183 protocol) attached to your computer using an USB, Bluetooth or RS232 serial connection.

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