Triton Isis - Manual (Page 15)

June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 1 1
Chapter 1 Isis Overview
1.1 Introduction to Isis
Isis is a compact, low-cost, modular, shipboard data acquisition and image
processing system. The system is designed to acquire, process and store
multiple channels of side-scan sonar, and multibeam echo-sounder data. Isis will
also acquire and store any sensor having an RS232 serial output, including
navigation, towfish attitude information, depth, gravity, and magnetic data.
The Isis software runs under Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000 and allows
independent control of the processing and display of each channel of data
acquired. The operating system of choice is Windows 2000, and multiple monitor
options can be supplied. A wide variety of signal and image processing modules
is available. These tools include target and feature analysis, signal processing,
spatial and transform domain filters, manual and automatic TVG, and beam
pattern and grazing angle compensation. Most of these tools are available in real
time and can be used to enhance the output to a “map” or “Mosaic” file (see
1.2.4, ‘Combining Navigational and Acoustical Data’).
Chapter 1: Isis Overview