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Chapter 4: Making a DTM with BathyPro

What BathyPro Does

The purpose of BathyPro is to process single-beam and multibeam data,
resulting in an output of DDS_VIF files or DXF files that can be imported into
DelphMap as a digital terrain model (DTM).

In the course of using BathyPro to produce your DDS_VIF files or DXF files you
can:

• process and smooth navigation

• remove “spikes” or “glitches” from the motion sensor data

• process and edit the bathymetry data from multibeam, interferometric or

single beam sensors

• build a digital terrain model (DTM)

• extract depth contours

• generate a soundings chart in DXF format

• extract XYZ data to go into an ASCII file

• calculate volume differences between two DDS_VIF files

Patch Test. BathyPro also contains a patch test utility (Chapter 7, ‘Running

a Patch Test’

) having its own set of internal functions. With patch test you

can:

automatically calculate pitch, roll, yaw, latency and velocity parameters;

display 2-D color-coded data, which can be corrected with offsets that act
as a confidence check with computed corrections;

respond to operator-supplied coarse and fine adjustments as small as 0.01
and 1 millisecond;

show each iteration of the patch test process using a least-squares
computation

To run BathyPro and provide files to the program to use

1. Double-click the program named BATHYPRO.EXE or its icon.

Your initial BathyPro Editor display resembles the screen shown in Figure
10:

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