• Simrad EK80
  • About this manual
  • Simrad EK80
    • Important
    • System description
    • System diagram
    • Main system units
      • Display description
      • Computer description
      • Ethernet switch description
      • Transceiver Unit description
      • Transducer description
      • Simrad EC150-3C
    • Network security
    • Support information
  • Getting started
    • Starting normal operation
    • Basic operation
    • User interface introduction
      • User interface familiarization
      • Echogram views
      • Velocity measurement (ADCP) views
      • Top bar description
      • Information pane
      • Menu system
      • Working with depth layers
    • Setting up the EK80 Wide band scientific echo sounder for the first time
    • Setting up the EC150–3C for ADCP in EK80
    • Assembling a portable EK80 system
      • System diagram, portable
      • Battery power cable
      • GPT Transducer plug connections
      • 12-pin Amphenol plug
  • Operating procedures
    • Getting started
    • Choosing operating mode and key transmit parameters
    • Controlling the gain and range settings
    • Defining the environmental settings
    • Recording and replaying raw echo data
    • Recording and exporting processed echo data
    • Saving and recalling screen captures
    • Setting up the echogram presentation
    • Using the information panes to collect data from the echoes
    • Working with depth layers in the echogram views
    • Exploring water velocities using ADCP
    • Adjusting the ADCP quality parameters
    • Setting up the ADCP presentation
    • Working with advanced sequences
    • Working with pings, ping groups and ensembles
    • Setting up presentation modes and views
    • Defining settings related to user preferences and individual customizing
    • Saving, retrieving and handling user settings
    • Adjusting the transceiver parameters
    • Interfacing peripheral equipment
    • Installing transducers and transceiver channels in the user interface
    • Installing an ADCP transceiver in the user interface
    • Setting up the EK80 system for synchronized operation
      • About synchronization
      • Synchronization modes
      • Synchronization using Clear To Send (CTS) and Request To Send (RTS) signals
      • Synchronization sequences
      • Serial port synchronization signalling
      • Auxiliary port synchronization signalling
    • Installing and maintaining software
    • Maintaining the EK80 system
      • Rules for transducer handling
    • Installing and troubleshooting Network Time Protocol (NTP)
    • Noise measurements at sea
      • Collecting and checking noise data
  • Target strength calibration
    • Calibration for target strength measurements
    • Calibration spheres
    • Calibration procedures
    • Calibration functions and dialog boxes
      • Calibration Wizard dialog box #1 (Start)
      • Calibration Wizard dialog box #2 (Select Channel)
      • Calibration Wizard dialog box #3 (Select Sphere)
      • Calibration Wizard dialog box #4 (Import Data)
      • Calibration Wizard dialog box #5 (Process Data)
      • Edit/Add Sphere dialog box
      • Calibration Description dialog box
      • Single Target Detection dialog box
  • ADCP calibration
    • Calibration for ADCP
    • Calibration procedures for ADCP
    • Calibration functions and dialog boxes for ADCP
      • Calibration Wizard dialog box #1(Start)
      • Calibration Wizard dialog box #2 (Select Channel)
      • Calibration Wizard dialog box #3 (Process Data)
      • Calibration function
  • User interface
    • User interface familiarization
    • Top bar
      • Top bar overview
      • Logo and product name
      • Menu
      • Screen Capture
      • Record indicator description
      • Event
      • Information panes overview
      • Navigational information
        • Geographical position read-out
        • Heading read-out
        • Speed read-out
        • Distance read-out
        • Salinity read-out
        • Motion read-outs (roll, pitch and heave)
        • Depth read-out
      • Messages
      • Help button description
      • Operating system functions
    • Information panes
      • Recording information pane description
      • History information pane description
      • Colour Scale information pane description
      • Depth information pane description
      • Bottom Hardness information pane description
      • TS Histogram information pane description
      • Target Position information pane
      • TS(f) information pane description
      • Biomass information pane description
      • Sv(f) information pane description
      • Numerical information pane description
        • Transducer list
        • Transceiver list
        • Environment list
        • Background layer list
        • Layer list
      • Zoom information pane description
      • Transceiver Power Supply information pane description
      • ADCP information pane
      • External Sensors information pane
    • Echogram views
      • About the echogram views
      • Surface echogram description
      • Bottom echogram description
      • Pelagic echogram description
      • Trawl echogram description
    • Velocity measurement (ADCP) views
      • About the velocity measurement (ADCP) views
      • Beam Velocity views
      • Vessel Velocity views
      • Geo Velocity views
      • Backscatter views
      • Correlation views
      • Error Velocity view
      • Percent Good view
    • Lines and markers
      • Annotation markers description
      • Bottom Line description
      • Labels description
      • Scale Lines description
      • Trawl Line description
      • Vertical Tick description
      • White Line description
      • Biomass Line description
    • The EK80 menu system
    • Bottom bar description
    • Replay bar description
    • Working with depth layers
    • Screen capture browser description
    • Context-sensitive online help
  • Menu system
    • About the menus and menu buttons
    • Using the “smart” menu buttons
    • Main menu
    • Operation menu
    • Display menu
    • Setup menu
    • Active menu
    • Extras menu
  • Functions and dialog boxes
    • Main menu; Functions and dialog boxes
      • User Settings dialog box
      • Range function
      • Start Range function
      • Minimum Level function
    • Operation menu; Functions and dialog boxes
      • Operation function
      • Normal Operation dialog box
      • Select Sequence function
      • Ping function
      • Ping Mode function
      • Ping Interval function
      • Record RAW function
      • Record Processed function
      • Output dialog box
    • Display menu; Functions and dialog boxes
      • Screen Brightness function
      • Transparency function
      • Display Options dialog box
      • Colour Setup dialog box
      • Presentation Modes dialog box
      • Docking Views function
    • Setup menu; Functions and dialog boxes
      • Environment dialog box
      • Manual Annotation dialog box
      • Calibration function
      • Calculation Interval dialog box
      • Advanced Sequencing dialog box
      • Installation dialog box
      • Language function
      • Diagnostics dialog box
      • About dialog box
    • Active menu; Functions and dialog boxes
      • ADCP Colour Span function
      • Ping Average function
      • TVG (Time Variable Gain) function
      • Echogram dialog box
      • Beam Direction function
      • New Layer dialog box
      • Layer Properties dialog box
      • Delete Layer function
      • Bottom Detection dialog box
      • Single Target Detection dialog box
      • Information Pane Options dialog box
      • Combined View Settings
      • ADCP View Settings dialog box
      • ADCP Editing dialog box
    • Secondary functions and dialog boxes
      • Replay File dialog box
      • Add Window dialog box
      • LAN Port Setup dialog box
      • Serial Port Setup dialog box
      • Port Monitor dialog box
      • Add Serial Port dialog box
      • Messages dialog box
      • Transducer Parameter Form Control dialog box
    • Pages in the Output dialog box
      • File Setup page
      • I/O Setup page
      • Processed Data to Output page
      • Processed Data to File page
      • Relay Output page
    • Display Options dialog box
      • General page
      • Tooltip page
    • Pages in the Environment dialog box
      • Water Column page
      • Transducer Face page
      • Profile page
    • Pages in the Advanced Sequencing dialog box
      • Ping page
      • Ping Group page
      • Ensemble page
      • Sequence page
    • Pages in the Installation dialog box
      • Transducer Installation page
      • Transceiver pages
      • Transceiver Installation page
      • Transceiver IP Address page
      • Sensor Installation page
      • Sensor Configuration page
      • Synchronization page
      • Units page
      • Trawl page
      • Annotations page
      • Remote Control page
      • Remote Control: Application Information page
      • Remote Control: As Server page
      • Client Server Configuration page
      • Software License page
    • Pages in the Diagnostics dialog box
      • Processor page
      • Sensors page
      • Transceiver page
      • Transducer page
      • Noise page
      • Ping Time Monitor page
    • Pages in the Information Pane Options dialog box
      • Bottom Detection dialog box
      • Single Target Detection dialog box
      • Calculation Interval dialog box
      • Colour Scale page
      • TS Histogram page
      • Sv(f) page
      • TS(f) page
      • ADCP page
      • External Sensors page
    • Pages in the Echogram dialog box
      • Lines page
      • Echogram page
      • Horizontal Axis page
    • Pages in the ADCP View Settings dialog box
      • Horizontal Axis page
      • Lines page
      • View Selection page
  • Concept descriptions
    • Vessel coordinate system
    • Installation angle compensation
    • About ramping
    • Sound speed algorithms
    • Absorption algorithm
    • Observation range versus operational frequency
    • About bottom echoes
    • About sound wave propagation
    • What is sampling?
    • Acoustic noise
      • Contributing factors
      • Self noise
      • Ambient noise
      • Fishing gear noise
      • Electrical self noise
      • Some means to reduce acoustic noise
    • Acoustic Doppler current profiler
      • ADCP Introduction
      • Doppler shift
      • Depth cells
      • Current velocity
      • ADCP data
      • Ping average using sliding average