Echoview Newsletter

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October 2009

What's in this issue:

> Echoview 4.80 has been released!
> Forum competition winner announcement
> Echoview training course wrap-up: Poland, September 2009
> Taiwan training opportunity cancelled
> Out and about in 2009: conferences and events
> Plans for Echoview 4.85
> Eonfusion update: version 2.0 release

Echoview 4.80 has been released!

The full version of Echoview 4.80 is now available - head here to download our latest release!

Echoview 4.80 contains many new improvements across a broad range of program features. We are excited to bring it to you in the knowledge that it is almost guaranteed to improve the depth and efficiency of your acoustic data post-processing, regardless of your processing methodology.

Please read the What's new in 4.80 post for full details on the new functionality. Happy processing!

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Forum competition winner announcement

Congratulations to Rebecca Thomas for winning the forum competition! Two bottles of tasty Tasmanian wine will be heading in your direction very soon.

See here for more information.

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Echoview training course wrap-up: Poland, September 2009

Briony Hutton and Patrick Schneider ran a 3-day Echoview training course in Gdynia, Poland in early September. The class was attended by 9 students from Poland, Latvia, Sweden and Germany with a wide range of skills and experience in acoustics.

Following the recent release of the Echoview technical manual, the first half of the course now takes participants through the various exercises in the manual in an immersive blend of presentations and hands-on work. Following this, the course takes a more in-depth look at multifrequency species identification and background noise removal techniques, before going on to explore Echoview’s scripting and 3D-visualization capabilities.

The course wraps up with exploration of example data that students are invited to bring to the course for this purpose, and a brief demonstration of Myriax’s new 4D data-visualization and analysis software package Eonfusion (eonfusion.com).

The Echoview training course is designed to provide value for all, regardless of experience, and can be tailored to suit your specific data analysis requirements. To enquire about training at your location, please see our training and consulting page.

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Taiwan training opportunity cancelled

The proposed training opportunity in Taiwan in November has been cancelled due to insufficient registration numbers.

We are, however, always keen to hear from those who are interested in receiving training or participating in workshops. So wherever you may be located, please contact us and register your interest.

For more information on Echoview training opportunities, head here.

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Out and about in 2009: Conferences and Events

If you would like the opportunity to chat to us at any of the up-and-coming events that we will be attending, please let us know or catch us at:

AFAS, Taiwan, China, November 9 – 10, 2009
Australasian Wildlife Management Society Conference, Napier, New Zealand, November 30 - December 2, 2009
AATMS Acoustic Telemetry Workshop, Sydney, November 2 - 4, 2009

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Plans for Echoview version 4.85

The recent release of Echoview 4.80 means that we will soon be moving on to the next release; Echoview 4.85. The key themes for 4.85 include:

Increasing support for the loading and viewing of multibeam data from an even wider variety of hardware, including the Simrad ME70.
Further developments to the classification functionality introduced in 4.80.
Ongoing developments for task automation via COM scripting.
Ongoing developments to our educational projects, including tutorials and the propagation of Echoview templates via our new website.

As always, to maintain the exceptional value and usability of Echoview for all of our users we will also be implementing a range of specific requests and other useful items with general appeal. If you have any feature suggestions please send them through to Echoview Support for consideration.

Alternatively, you can present and discuss new ideas via the user forum. Echoview development is largely driven by customer requests!

We're looking forward to bringing you yet another release of Echoview!

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Eonfusion Update: v2.0 Release

Version 2.0 of Eonfusion was released earlier this month. Amongst the many new features, it contains:

The Add-in development environment (an Application Programming Interface, or API) that allows any user to write operators, data sources and data writers. The API uses the C# programming language and is included with every Eonfusion license. User-developed “add-ins” can be shared with any other Eonfusion user.
Reprojection and general manipulation of raster geometry. This was available for vector data in earlier versions and is now extended to raster data.
A free-viewer mode that allows somebody without an Eonfusion license to explore your Eonfusion scenes.
Support for 3D models in COLLADA/DAE and OBJ formats. Adding 3D models to scenes can greatly increase the communicative power of data visualization.
A transparency option for all visualizers, which adds further visual richness to Eonfusion’s scene environment.
New operators that link neighboring vertices or raster cells together, enabling a huge range of spatial and proximity-based analyses.

Eonfusion V2.0 takes the vision of Eonfusion as a general purpose analysis and visualization tool to a new level of functionality and usability.

Our September newsletter also contained several items that might be of interest. To browse through it and other recent Eonfusion newsletters, go to the Eonfusion Newsletter Archive.