A Product Manufactured by Imaginex, Inc
The new SportScan sidescan sonar system is a truly remarkable breakthrough with price and performance for sidescan towfishes. This totally digital, full-featured system is complete and ready for connection to a host PC computer (including software), all for 1/10th the cost of other sidescan sonars! Like many other sonar systems the SportScan can be completely controlled from your laptop computer: ranges can be changed, gains set, images and data can be sent to your printer or stored on hard disk, all with the click of a mouse button.
The SportScan is designed from top to bottom for ease of deployment and use. A highly advanced Kevlar™ reinforced towfish cable (included with the standard unit) is light enough to eliminate the need for a winch. The towfish operates from a standard 12 Volt DC power supply or boat's battery, and the RS-232 connector plugs directly from the Kevlar™ towfish cable into the back of a PC computer or laptop. Simply load the towfish body with as much ballast weight as desired, lower the towfish over the side of the boat by hand, and start towing.
Sharp, high definition images of the sea-floor immediately roll onto the computer screen! Coral reefs, rock outcroppings, and submerged shipwrecks show up clearly as the towfish goes by. If mapping of underwater features is desired, the SportScan software can read GPS (Global Positioning System) data fed into the PC computer, display it on the screen, and use the speed over ground to adjust the aspect ratio of the sonar image. Objects can have their height and length determined with the click of a mouse. All data can also be stored to hard disk for later display and analysis. The accuracy and resolution of the SportScan combined with GPS makes returning to underwater features of interest easy. For further data processing and map plotting, optional software is available to convert SportScan data to XTF format, which is compatible with most mosaic programs.
