Plans for Echoview version 5 and beyond
Posted on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 | Permalink
Since we brought you Echoview 4.00 in September 2006, we’ve been building on implemented technological changes to bring you major new features such as COM automation; region classification; improvements to single beam, multibeam and imaging sonar; improvements to lines and line editing, performance, and calibration; support for new instruments and formats, and user interface and usability changes in many areas. We aim to provide the best new features we can for a wide range of customers, and keep Echoview on a solid technological and scientific foundation.
After four years of working on Echoview 4, we are now planning Echoview Version 5! As with the release of Echoview 4, we intend to focus on the core technological architecture of Echoview to give us a solid base for the next five years of development. We want to keep bringing you the most useful and advanced acoustic visualization and analysis software in the world.
New features to appear in the next release are still under consideration, but some specific features that we are currently planning to focus on include:
• Fundamental changes to take advantage of modern multi-core hardware. This will result in massive performance improvements, especially for virtual variables, over the next versions of Echoview.
• Fundamental changes to Echoview’s architecture. Most of these changes are unlikely to be very visible but will result in great improvements in what we can create within Echoview.
• A review of all technical terms in Echoview. The aim is to bring consistency to terminology and updates to match any recent changes in the acoustic community.
• User interface changes. To ensure you get clear and accurate access to your data, and let you perform data analysis and manipulation easily and simply.
Echoview 5 is currently planned to be released in late 2010.
We are interested to hear your opinions on features, if added to Echoview, which would enhance your work or provide avenues to expand your work.
As always we will be implementing a range of specific requests and other useful items with general appeal. We look forward to bringing you yet another value-packed Echoview release.
We also seek feedback about your requirements and future plans. Suggestions for specific features and outlines of your future data processing priorities are always welcome, and can benefit the whole community. Please continue to send your suggestions and ideas to Echoview support.
