| The Bathy-500DF Survey Echo Sounder provides a high-contrast thermal chart record complete with alphanumeric annotation of important parameters such as geographic position, depth, speed of sound and offset for draft/tide. Real-time viewing of all parameters is provided to the user via front panel liquid-crystal display. Position input can be from either a standard C/A GPS receiver or differential GPS system. Depth data is available to external devices in digital form, via a versatile interface, whose format is selectable by the user using the front panel keypad. The user may obtain digital depth data output, in various industry standard RS-232/422 formats or NMEA-0183. The ability to accept external annotation input from various PC-based hydrographic software is standard in the Bathy-500DF. |