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MDCS data acquisition systems
MDCS is a software package for survey planning, real-time mission
support and data collection. It is specifically designed to support
bathymetric and marine geophysical surveys.
MDCS can interface with a wide variety of survey equipment and sensors,
and supports concurrent acquisition of bathymetry, marine seismic and
side-scan sonar data.
Survey planning
MDCS
contains graphical tools for survey plan management (i.e.,
background chart information, definition of survey areas and survey
lines).
Survey data acquisition
The survey software
also allows management of environmental
data (tide,
sound velocities), as well as acquisition and logging of the
observations from external systems such as:
- sub-bottom profilers
- seismic reflection profiling systems
- side-scan sonars
- bathymetric echo sounders
- positioning systems
- motion, attitude and heading reference systems
MDCS is being used around the world with a wide variety of
survey equipment configurations, and additional instruments interface
easily with the system.
Real-time survey support
MDCS provides support for vessel steering and survey quality
control.
Through MDCS, the surveyor is also provided with unique
capabilities
to control and monitor the sonar system. Depending on the type of the
survey, different real-time presentations of the sonar data are
available.
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Operating platform
The MDCS real-time survey software runs on both stand-alone and
multiple networked PCs with Windows XP Professional or Windows 7
Professional operating system.
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