Technical information
Telegramformats
Proprietarytelegramsandformats
ThesearetheproprietarytelegramssupportedbytheEK60.Thesetelegramformats
haveallbeendenedbySimrad.Thetelegramsarelistedinalphabeticalorder.
Topics
•SimradEK500Depthtelegramonpage185
•KongsbergEMAttitude1000onpage186
•KongsbergEMAttitude3000onpage187
•DBSDepthoftrawlbelowsurfaceonpage188
•HFBTrawlheadropetofootropeandbottomonpage188
•PSIMP-DPISensordataonpage188
•PSIMDHBBottomhardnessandbiomassonpage190
•SimradSounder/TSS1Motionprotocolonpage190
•SimradATSAnnotationonpage192
SimradEK500Depthtelegram
ThisproprietarySimradtelegramwasdenedfortheEK500scienticechosounder.
Itprovidesthecurrentdepthfromthreechannels,aswellasthebottomsurface
backscatteringstrengthandtheathwartshipsbottomslope.Thistelegramhasbedened
foroutputoneitheraseriallineoralocalareanetworkEthernetconnection.
Seriallineformat
D#,hhmmsstt,x.x,y.y,t,s.s<CR><LF>
Seriallineformatdescription
1D#=identier,canbeD1,D2orD3forchannels1,2or3.
2hhmmsstt=currenttime;hour,minute,secondandhundredthofsecond
3x.x=detectedbottomdepthinmeters
4y.y=bottomsurfacebackscatteringstrengthindB
5t=transducernumber
6s,s=athwartshipsbottomslopeindegrees
Ethernetformat
TheEthernetlineoutputisspeciedusinga“C”programminglanguagestructure.Note
thatthisformatdoesnotincludecarriagereturnandlinefeedcharactersattheendof
thetelegram.
structDepth{
charHeader[2];
charSeparator1[1];
charTime[8];
charSeparator1[2];
floatDepth[4];
floatSs[4];
164692/D
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