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keizerh:
I had a XPLORE IX104 C2 Dual mode for this purpose including a port replicator and dock.
This ideal for this situation.
For sale round and about 500 to 600 US on ebay

In combination with an actisense or maretron nmea0183 and/or nmea2000 interface to usb
great toy's

hendrik

diver651:
Interesting thread.

I use a laptop computer running Global Mapper mapping software and have made a serial connector to allow me to connect a Humminbird AS GRHA GPS puck directly to the laptop serial port with a seperate 12v DC connection to power the puck.

The great thing about the Global Mapper software is that it allows you to download free aerial imagery for the area you are interested in directly into the file you have created, so it is like live google earth without an internet connection. I can also draw search grids and save waypoints with very high accuracy.

Mike

keizerh:
It's getting more interesting by the day.
Nice stuf for long winters.

Have to be quick now, because temperatures are rising.

Dow you make mappings with the bird sonar files?

Hendrik

Jolly Roger:
Indeed Hendrik,
the longer the winter the better the ideas. But the winter is long enough now and we need to get out and do some practical work with the units. Otherwise we will come out with star wars technology no one can pay  ;D.

That's what I like about this forum: People come up with different ideas and everbody throws in his thoughts and "Bang!", another good project to work on.

Hm, is this what is called a "Brain Pool"?


Regards / Harry

diver651:
I have "mapped" humminbird SI data using output from the sontoXTF converter, (or SIview - I can't remember) but because of the way the converter worked it botched the coordinates a bit  (the left and right side coordinates at the beginning and end of the scan were based on distance on the lat or lon axis, and not perpendicular to the track), but it did allow me to lay the HB image onto the aerial imagery.

If I can output the information from something as a georeferenced image it is a piece of cake. If the record (track) is a straight line I can re-reference any image file. Unfortunately, until one of the software programs allows us to "remove" the water column, you have to cut and paste to produce a true bottom image.

I had started to try the procedures written up by Barb, but got too busy with work to carry it through.

Mike

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