SBE Data Processing & Seasave revisions

The Revision History describes each version of software -- including bug fixes, modifications, and new features. You may not need the latest version; our revisions often include improvements and new features which may have little or no impact on your operation. Review this site regularly to view the latest changes.

7.21d	7.20c	7.17	7.10	5.37a	5.32	5.28f (SBE Data Processing only)	5.27	5.25
7.21c (SBE Data Processing only)	7.20b	7.16a	7.0 & 7.0h (Seasave only)	5.37	5.31b (SBE Data Processing only)	5.28e	5.26f (Seasave only)	5.24
7.21b	7.20a	7.16	5.37m	5.36	5.31a	5.28d	5.26d (Seasave only)	5.23
7.21a	7.19	7.15	5.37e (SBE Data Processing only)	5.35	5.31	5.28c	5.26c (Seasave only)	5.22
7.21	7.18d	7.14e (SBE Data Processing only)	5.37d	5.34b (SBE Data Processing only)	5.30b (Seasave only)	5.28b	5.26b (Seasave only)	5.21
7.20g	7.18c	7.14d	5.37c (SBE Data Processing only)	5.34a (SBE Data Processing only)	5.30a	5.28a	5.26a (Seasave only)	5.2
7.20f	7.18b	7.14c	5.37c (Seasave only)	5.34	5.30	5.27c	5.26	5.1
7.20e	7.18	7.12	5.37b (SBE Data Processing only)	5.33	5.29b	5.27b	5.25b	5.0
7.20d	7.17a	7.11	5.37b (Seasave only)	5.32a (SBE Data Processing only)	5.29a	5.27a	5.25a (Seasave only)	Older versions

a. SBE 16plus V2, 16plus-IM V2, and 19plus V2: Support for WET Labs RS-232 sensor(s) added to configuration files.

a. Sea Plot:
- Plot legend can now be copied and pasted into a document (Word file, etc.).
- Overlay Setup Line Colors, Line Symbols, and Line Types dialog boxes modified, replacing Set with File in column headings to clarify.
- Warning is now provided if user specifies too many ticks in an axis (previously it provided no warning but did not draw axis properly).
b. Data Conversion:
- Now ignores a 'w' in conductivity sensor serial number in configuration file (indicating wide range conductivity calibration) when checking against serial number in data file. Previously, it would give an error message saying that serial numbers did not match.
- Now does not make a .ros file if no bottles have been fired, even if user specifies to output .ros file.

a. SBE 16plus V2, 16plus-IM V2, and 19plus V2: Support for WET Labs RS-232 sensor(s) added to configuration files.

a. Table Driven and Auto Fire bottle firing column headings modified, to clarify that bottle position numbers are entered in tables.

a. SBE 37-SI, SIP, SIP-IDO MicroCATs: .xmlcon configuration file accepts a (non-integer) 1.5 sec value for Sample Interval, to accommodate 1.5 sampling speed for MicroCAT with pressure sensor that is sampling continuously (SampleMode=3).

a. Seasave and SeasaveAcq now communicate via anonymous pipes instead of sockets, to resolve problems that some customers were having when running the software in a Windows 7 environment. This resulted in a modification of the TCP/IP Ports tab in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs.

a. SBE 9plus with 11plus Deck Unit: Added selection of Deck Unit (and firmware version) or Searam in configuration file.
b. NMEAtest (software that automatically installs when SBE Data Processing is installed): new features were added to test NMEA time.

2. MODIFICATIONS

a. Elapsed time in seconds was formatted as an exponential for time > 1,000,000 seconds, resulting in a loss in precision from the 3 digits to the right of the decimal place for smaller numbers. It is not formatted as an exponential now: format with 2 places to right of decimal for values between 1,000,000 and 10,000,000 seconds, and 1 digit to right of decimal for values between 10,000,000 and 100,000,000 seconds.

a. SBE 45: If configuration file was set to output salinity but not conductivity, software output 0 for all salinity values.

a. SBE 9plus with 11plus Deck Unit: Added selection of Deck Unit (and firmware version) or Searam in configuration file. For Deck Unit with firmware version > 5.0, Seasave can now send AddSPAR= command at start of data acquisition, based on whether Surface PAR is enabled or disabled in configuration file (previously, user had to send AddSPAR= to Deck Unit from Seaterm; if setting in Deck Unit was incompatible with setting in configuration file, Seasave indicated that there were scan length errors.).
b. SBE 9plus with 11plus Deck Unit: Status (DS) reply from Deck Unit is now output in header of data file created by Seasave, for Deck Unit with firmware version > 5.0 and operating with RS-232 interface.
c. Playback of archived data: Seasave can now display bottle fire lines when playing back archived data, if it finds a .bl file (of the same name) in the same folder as the data (.hex or .dat) file.

2. MODIFICATIONS

a. NMEA time is now available without RMC when a NMEA device is connected directly to computer. Systems UTC is used as date source.
b. Seasave now interprets cast headers (when playing back archived data) the same way as they are interpreted by SBE Data Processing's Data Conversion module.

a. SBE 45: If configuration file was set to output salinity but not conductivity, Seasave output 0 for all salinity values.
b. SBE 45: If NMEA time was set up to display in a fixed or scrolled display, and there was no NMEA time in data stream, display NMEA time field showed random numbers (instead of just remaining blank).

a. Added ability to select SBE 37 in Configure menu, to create or modify an .xmlcon file for SBE 37. Added ability to process SBE 37 .hex file data in Data Conversion.
Note: SeatermV2 version 1.1 and later create a .hex data file and an .xmlcon file for SBE 37 when you upload data from SBE 37 memory.

2. MODIFICATIONS

a. Modified ASCII Out's Data Setup tab to allow user selection from a wide range of output date and time formats.
b. Modified Data Conversion's Data Setup tab to allow user selection of the source of the start time to be placed in the output .cnv file header.
c. Modified Sea Plot to allow user selection of date and time format for output plot.

a. Added Wet Labs EC-BB and ECO-NTU to OBS/Nephelometer/Turbidity sensor list, and added Turner Cyclops and Seapoint Ultraviolet fluorometer to fluorometer sensor list. Software supports up to 2 of each of these sensors. Previously, the User Polynomial function in the software was used to define these sensors.
b. 16plus V2 and 19plus V2 in moored mode -- added ability to output or display instrument time in Julian days as well as in seconds since January 1, 2000.

a. 16plus V2 and 19plus V2 in moored mode -- Fixed display and scrolled display now shows instrument time in a day month year hour minute second form, instead of seconds since January 1, 2000.

a. Now allows selection of up to two Chelsea UV Aquatracka Fluorometers in the configuration (.xmlcon) file.

a. Glider Payload CTD: Soc coefficient for integrated frequency oxygen sensor was saved to .xmlcon file with insufficient significant digits.

a. Corrected a few minor bugs related to the user interface (no impact on data acquisition).

a. Data Conversion: Removed the line <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> from the part of the output header that describes the sensors (sensor type and calibration coefficients in XML format). This line was making it difficult for customers to import and process the output .cnv data in Excel. This line has been output by firmware versions 7.19 and higher (software released from July 2009 to now).

a. Corrected a few minor bugs related to the user interface (no impact on data processing).

a. Configuration report now includes 'scan length' where applicable, to assist in diagnostics when getting a scan length error (caused by a mismatch between the configuration file and the instrument's setup).

a. Corrected a few minor bugs related to the user interface (no impact on data acquisition).

a. Added compatibility with Glider Payload CTD (it is now on Configure menu).
b. Configuration report now includes 'scan length' where applicable, to assist in diagnostics when getting a scan length error (caused by a mismatch between the configuration file and the instrument's setup).

a. Corrected a few minor bugs related to the user interface (no impact on data processing).

a. Corrected a few minor bugs related to the user interface (no impact on data acquisition).

a. Bottle Summary: Added ability to enable/disable Tau correction for oxygen data, when calculating oxygen as a derived variable in Bottle Summary. Previously, Bottle Summary always applied Tau correction.

a. Data Conversion: Corrected bug that caused software to crash for certain circumstances when processing SBE 19 (not plus) data with data from an AFM.
b. Sea Plot: Corrected bug that caused Cursor Position window to show incorrect values for numbers with many digits when viewing plot on your monitor (did not have any effect on saved or printed plot).

a. Modified valid limits of temperature and salinity for Gordon and Garcia Oxsol calculation (used as an input for calculating SBE 43 Dissolved Oxygen). Previous limits were -2 < T < 40 and 0 < S < 42; new limits are -5 < T < 50 and 0 < S < 60. Outside of those ranges, software returns a value of -99 for Oxsol.
b. Bottle Summary: If primary temperature is not available, use secondary temperature to calculate SBE 43 Oxygen.
c. Nmea Test: Added options for DPT and DBT strings. Rebuilt using newer Microsoft compiler to eliminate problems with software not running on some PCs.

a. Configure Inputs, Configure Outputs, and Plot Display dialog boxes have been reduced in height; all dialogs can now be used with a screen resolution as small as 800 x 600 pixels.
b. Plot Display dialog box has been changed -- line colors for all axes as well as for bottle fire lines, mark lines, grid lines, etc. are now selected by clicking the Colors button on the Plot Setup tab (previously, each line color was selected independently).
c. Seasave now writes scan interval information to the output data file header for all instruments (previously, wrote this information to the header only for the SBE 9plus and 25).

a. SBE 25: Corrected archived data display of elapsed time, for SBE 25 data uploaded using SEATERM.
b. Corrected several small bugs causing software to crash, and provided clearer error messages.

a. Added ability to save instrument configuration files as xml files (with .xmlcon extension) instead of as .con files. Software will continue to also support .con files.
b. Added ability to plot differences, when differences are in input .cnv file (when 2 sensors are measuring the same parameter; for example, 2 SBE 43 dissolved oxygen sensors).
c. Sea Calc: Added capabilities to calculate Absolute Salinity as well as Practical Salinity (see Application Note 90: Absolute Salinity and TEOS-10). Note that all other modules only output Practical Salinity (PSU).
d. Data Conversion: Bottle position in water sampler is now available as an output variable, if information is available in input .bl file.
e. Instrument configuration (.xmlcon or .con) files can now be easily viewed by double clicking on the file name. A program that is installed automatically when SBE Data Processing is installed (DisplayConFile.exe) automatically opens configuration files from Windows Explorer; you do not have to open SBE Data Processing or Seasave to view or modify the file.

a. Data Conversion and Derive: Dialog boxes have been reduced in height; all dialogs can now be used with a screen resolution as small as 800 x 600 pixels.
b. Data Conversion: Data Conversion checks the scan interval defined in the input .dat or .hex data file against the scan interval defined in the .xmlcon or .con configuration file. If they are not the same, it gives an error message and does not process the data. Previously, it would process the data, but the results would be incorrect because of the mismatch in scan intervals.

a. Data Conversion: Previously, if bottles were fired in rapid succession (for example, at one depth), only the last bottle in the sequence had the full number of requested scans in the .ros file output by Data Conversion. Now each bottle has the full number of requested scans.

a. Added compatibility with SBE 16plus V2, 16plus-IM V2, and 19plus V2 interfacing with Aanderaa Optode RS-232 sensor.
b. SBE 19 (older instrument): Added ability to append NMEA data from a NMEA device connected to the computer (instead of being connected to the deck unit). Selection of whether NMEA data is coming through the deck unit or the computer is made in the configuration (.con) file. Output data format is not dependent on which method is used for acquiring NMEA data.
c. SBE 49: Added ability to append NMEA data from a NMEA device connected to the computer or to a deck unit. Selection of whether NMEA data is coming through the deck unit or the computer is made in the configuration (.con) file. Output data format is not dependent on which method is used for acquiring NMEA data.
d. Added command line option to automatically start Seasave V7 with a specified .psa file. This command line parameter does not start data acquisition or playback of archived data (both of which have previously existing command line options), it simply launches Seasave V7.

a. Modified the print option for printing in black and white (Print Options tab of Plot Display dialog). Previously this changed the background to white and all plot lines to black. Now it simply changes the background to white, while leaving all plot lines in their specified colors.

a. If playing back archived data which has S prompts (S>) in the file, Seasave V7 now ignores the S> and does not give scan length errors.
b. Corrected several small bugs causing software to crash, and provided clearer error messages.

a. Added compatibility with SBE 16plus V2, 16plus-IM V2, and 19plus V2 interfacing with Aanderaa Optode RS-232 sensor.
b. SBE 19 (older instrument, not plus): Added ability to append NMEA data from a NMEA device connected to the computer (instead of being connected to the deck unit). Selection of whether NMEA data is coming through the deck unit or the computer is made in the configuration (.con) file. Output data format is not dependent on which method is used for acquiring NMEA data.
c. SBE 49: Added ability to append NMEA data from a NMEA device connected to the computer or to a deck unit. Selection of whether NMEA data is coming through the deck unit or the computer is made in the configuration (.con) file. Output data format is not dependent on which method is used for acquiring NMEA data.
d. Data Conversion: Data Conversion now adds the calibration coefficients, in XML format, to the header of the output .cnv file.
e. Added Diagnostics in the Options menu of each module.

a. Data Conversion: If you are using the Merge separate header file capability, all of the header information in the output file will be taken from the separate header. Previously, there was some information from the existing header and some information from the separate header.

a. Command line option /IgnoreNMEAChecksum tells program to ignore checksum when a NMEA device is attached to computer directly (not thru deck unit). Eliminates problems associated with NMEA devices that incorrectly calculate check sum, and allows data to still be acquired by Seasave. Instead of shutting down, a warning appears in SeasaveAcq’s error log.

a. SBE 911plus -- Cleaned up handling of data with scan length errors.
b. Cleaned up handling of NMEA initialization problems and NMEA time in output .hdr file.
c. SBE 911plus/17plus with one dual sensor (T or C) -- previously allowed you to select output of some secondary derived variables, such as salinity, density, sound velocity, etc. No longer allows you to output secondary derived variables, unless you have a dual T-C pair.
d. Changed location of Seasave.ini, to provide better compatibility with computers running Vista. Seasave.ini contains location and file name of most recently used program setup (.psa) files.
e. Changed default location of .psa files to provide better compatibility with computers running Vista.
f. Changed default location of .txt diagnostic files to provide better compatibility with computers running Vista.
g. Seasave Remote -- Changed location of SeasaveRem.ini, to provide better compatibility with computers running Vista. SeasaveRem.ini contains location and file name of most recently used program setup (.psa) files.
h. Seasave Remote -- Changed default location of .psa files to provide better compatibility with computers running Vista.
i. Seasave Remote -- Changed default location of .txt diagnostic file to provide better compatibility with computers running Vista.

a. SBE 19plus V2 with SBE 38 RS-232 auxiliary sensor and Surface PAR enabled -- Surface PAR calculation was incorrect.
b. SBE 19plus or 19plus V2 in Moored mode, with Surface PAR enabled -- Surface PAR calculation was incorrect.
c. SBE 911plus/17plus with dual T-C sensors -- Secondary conductivity was calculated using primary temperature, even though there was a secondary temperature sensor.
d. SBE 21 with remote temperature sensor, density calculation – Density is a function of salinity (calculated from SBE 21’s T and C output) and temperature. Seasave incorrectly used temperature from SBE 21 instead of temperature from remote temperature sensor in density calculation.
e. Descent rate and acceleration – If descent rate was output for both metric and English units, both descent rate and acceleration were incorrect (was correct if only 1 was output). If descent rate in English units was output, and acceleration was output, acceleration was incorrect.
f. NMEA -- New position flag for NMEA data always stayed at 0, even if latitude or longitude changed. No impact on NMEA data itself, just the flag (if you chose to display it or output it) was incorrect.
g. Plume anomaly -- Calculation was incorrect if plume anomaly was only derived variable being output for shared file output, tcp/ip output, and/or serial data output.
h. Potential temperature anomaly -- Calculation was incorrect if Sigma-Theta was selected as A1 Multiplier on Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs.
i. All instruments except SBE 45 -- Software used IPTS-68 temperature in calculating conductivity; should have been using ITS-90 temperature (T68 = 1.00024 * T90). Bug caused extremely small error in output conductivity, well beyond any rounding error in most cases.

a. SBE 911plus/17plus with one dual sensor (T or C) -- previously allowed you to select output of some secondary derived variables, such as salinity, density, sound velocity, etc. No longer allows you to output secondary derived variables, unless you have a dual T-C pair.
b. Changed location of PostProcSuite.ini, to provide better compatibility with computers running Vista. PostProcSuite.ini contains location and file name of last saved program setup (.psa) file for each module.
c. Changed default location of .psa files to provide better compatibility with computers running Vista.

a. Data Conversion, SBE 911plus/17plus with dual T-C sensors -- Secondary conductivity was calculated using primary temperature, even though there was a secondary temperature sensor.
b. Data Conversion, NMEA -- New position flag for NMEA data always stayed at 0, even if latitude or longitude changed. No impact on NMEA data itself, just the flag (if you chose to output it) was incorrect.
c. Data Conversion, all instruments except SBE 45 -- Software used IPTS-68 temperature in calculating conductivity; should have been using ITS-90 temperature (T68 = 1.00024 * T90). Bug caused extremely small error in output conductivity, well beyond any rounding error in most cases.
d. Data Conversion -- If selected Binary output format, some precision was lost on NMEA time calculation.
e. Data Conversion, SBE 45 -- If selected output temperature in IPTS-68, deg F, software actually output ITS-90, deg C. This applied to data from SBE 45 itself as well as data from a secondary temperature sensor (SBE 38).
f. Data Conversion, SBE 45, specific conductance -- calculation was incorrect.
g. Data Conversion -- Could not process data if output variables included Fluorescence, Wetlab AC3.
h. Data Conversion, Density and Density Difference (density difference if dual T-C sensors) -- software always calculated sigma-theta, regardless of user selection for type of density (density, sigma-theta, sigma-t, sigma-1, sigma-2, sigma-4).
i. Data Conversion, Average Sound Velocity -- Latitude used in calculation was incorrect. Also, if you selected more than one Average Sound Velocity variable for output (available are Chen-Millero, Delgrosso, and Wilson, each in m/s or ft/s), all sound velocity data output corresponded to last one selected.
j. Data Conversion, SBE 911plus/917plus with dual T sensors -- Temperature Difference was incorrect; it always output a constant value.
k. Data Conversion, SBE 21 with NMEA data in input data file header only -- If outputting NMEA data in .cnv file, it output incorrect NMEA data.
l. Data Conversion, SBE 25 -- If selected “frequency2” for output (raw output of pressure sensor), it output incorrect pressure data.
m. Derive, Average Sound Velocity -- If you selected more than one Average Sound Velocity variable for output (available are Chen-Millero, Delgrosso, and Wilson, each in m/s or ft/s), all sound velocity data output corresponded to last one selected.

a. Add capability to create a TS plot (similar to TS plot previously available in SBE Data Processing's Sea Plot module).

a. Corrected several small bugs causing software to crash, and provided clearer error messages.

a. Add Tau and hysteresis corrections for oxygen data.
b. Added support for a second D&A OBS-3 backscatterance sensor.

a. Add Tau and hysteresis corrections for oxygen data.
b. Add GO 1016 Arm offset in Configure Inputs dialog box (Water Sampler tab).
c. Added support for a second D&A OBS-3 backscatterance sensor.

a. SBE 19plus, 19plus V2, 21, and 25: Added ability to append NMEA data from a NMEA device connected to the computer (instead of being connected to the deck unit). Selection of whether NMEA data is coming through the deck unit or the computer is made in the configuration (.con) file. Output data format is not dependent on which method is used for acquiring NMEA data.
b. Added selection in fixed display dialog to allow short names in display (to take up less room on screen).
c. Added command line option (/nodeckunit), providing smoother operation for SBE 9plus used without SBE 11plus Deck Unit.

a. Modified Sea-Bird equation (previously called Murphy-Larson equation) for SBE 43 dissolved oxygen.

a. Corrected bug related to dual Turner Scufa sensors and dual Turner OBS sensors.

a. Added support for a second WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer.
b. Added user configuration of % for auto paging on plot axis setup tabs.

a. Modified Sea-Bird equation (previously called Murphy-Larson equation) for SBE 43 dissolved oxygen.

a. Corrected bug related to dual Turner Scufa sensors and dual Turner OBS sensors.
b. 19plus: Corrected bug in system time calculation if you selected both System time added and NMEA depth data added.
c. Corrected several bugs that caused lock-up of the software.

a. SBE 9plus CTD: Added ability to append NMEA data from a NMEA device connected to the computer (instead of being connected to the deck unit). Selection of whether NMEA data is coming through the deck unit or the computer is made in the configuration (.con) file. Output data format is not dependent on which method is used for acquiring NMEA data.
Note: This feature will be added to configuration file setup for other instruments over the next few months.

a. Added ability to convert an output .xml file (from Shared File Out) to a tab-delimited .txt format that can be opened with Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet software. See Tools menu -> Convert shared file output .xml file to spreadsheet format.
b. SBE 9plus CTD: Added ability to append NMEA data from a NMEA device connected to the computer (instead of being connected to the deck unit). Selection of whether NMEA data is coming through the deck unit or the computer is made in the configuration (.con) file. Output data format is not dependent on which method is used for acquiring NMEA data.
Note: This feature will be added to configuration file setup for other instruments over the next few months.
c. Added ability to select whether to reset a deck unit (for SBE 16, 16plus, 16plus V2, 19, 19plus, 19plus V2, 21, or 25) to state 1 (echo only, no NMEA data) when data acquisition is complete. Previously, deck unit was automatically reset to state 1.
See Real-Time Data menu -> Start. In the Start Real-Time Data Acquisition dialog box, the new selection is at the bottom (Reset deck unit to state 1 when acquisition stops) if the selected .con file is for one of the applicable instruments and NMEA position data added was selected in the .con file.

a. ASCII In – If input data file had two temperatures (example: 9plus CTD with dual temperature sensors, or SBE 21 or 45 thermosalinograph with remote temperature sensor), column names for both temperatures were incorrect in output file. Other processing modules (such as Sea Plot) would not run if using this file.

a. NMEA data display dialog box was too narrow, sometimes resulting in truncation of lat / lon data.
b. Error messages received for data acquisition errors are corrected.
c. If using –u command line option, output .hex file was created in last directory visited with a File Open dialog. Software now prompts you for where to put output .hex file.
d. IOW Or Hydro-Bios water samplers set up for Auto Fire: after 12 bottles were fired, Auto Fire dialog showed “next bottle’ as #13, but these samplers cannot have more than 12 bottles.

a. Added audible tone from computer when a bottle fire confirmation is received. Configure and test tone on Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs.
b. Added computer alarms -- minimum and maximum pressure, altimeter, and bottom contact switch. Configure and test alarms on PC Alarms tab in Configure Outputs.
c. Added mixed mode bottle firing, to allow manual firing of some bottles when set up for auto fire (often used to obtain a water sample at one or more points with the water sampler held in a stationary position, typically at the actual bottom and top of the cast). Configure mixed mode firing in Auto Fire Table Entry dialog box (Configure Inputs / Water Sampler tab; set Firing sequence to Auto Fire and click on Auto-Fire Pressures & Positions button).
d. Added –Autostop=time command line option, to automatically stop real-time data acquisition and shut down Seasave after time. Can be used with a batch file script to create new data files on a defined schedule for continuous acquisition systems, such as a thermosalinograph or a towed vehicle.

a. Temporary (.tmp) files generated by Seasave are now placed in folder designated in your computer for all .tmp files. Previously, .tmp files were placed in same directory as active .psa file.
b. If a .con file was open (for example, in Notepad), you could not start data acquisition.

a. Sea Calc did not open in the previous release.
b. Sea Plot did not allow you to type the path for the input directory; it only was able to open a file if you browsed to the directory using the Select button.

a. Data Conversion -- If you select an output variable that requires miscellaneous additional information, a pop-up appears when you select the output variable. User-input value(s) in the pop-up is then automatically placed on the Miscellaneous tab.

a. Added compatibility with custom instruments, SBE 16plus V2 and 19plus V2.
b. Added Erase all plots feature in Display menu.

a. Data Conversion and Derive -- These modules erroneously calculated oxygen as 0 ml/l if all of the following occurred:
     (1) Using a .con file created and last saved before implementation of the Murphy-Larson equation for SBE 43 Dissolved Oxygen (Seasave V7 and SBE Data Processing version 7.10; Seasave-Win32 version 5.38),
     (2) The .con file includes SBE 43 oxygen and scan time added is selected, and
     (3) Using SBE Data Processing version 7.10 through 7.14e.
b. Sea Plot -- If creating plots for multiple files and selected File All ->JPG, the output .jpg file plots were not scaled correctly.
c. Sea Plot -- If creating TS plots for multiple files and selected File All -> JPG, only the plot that was in the window at that time would include contour lines in the output .jpg file.
d. Sea Plot -- If plotting Julian days or Elapsed time on the X axis, and selected Show as date/time, the dates displayed in the plot were all advanced 1 day from the correct dates.

a. Sea Plot -- Added Recent Setup Files selection in the File menu, to allow easy selection of the desired .psa file.

a. Batch file operation -- When running through batch file operation, the dialog box in modules that require a .con file now show the actual .con file that is being used. Previously, if Match instrument configuration to input file was selected, SBE Data Processing used the correct .con file in the processing but did not show the actual .con file name as it ran through the batch sequence.

a. Added Recent Setup Files selection in the File menu, to allow easy selection of the desired .psa file.

a. In Configure Outputs, on the Header Form tab, Seasave V7 ignored any non-blank lines after blank header lines, and did not save those lines to the .psa file.

a. Align CTD -- For computers set up for some other languages (not English), Align CTD would drop the decimal point or comma in the entered advance number. If this occurred, the incorrect advance value would be shown in the output file header. For example, an entry to advance a variable by 3.25 seconds or 3,25 seconds would be interpreted as 325 seconds; Align CTD would perform the analysis with a 325 second advance, and would show that it used a 325 second advance in the output file header.

a. Data Conversion -- For SBE 17plus, if the input file name (including the path) was longer than 100 characters, the data was not processed.

a. Incorrectly calculated pressure in psi for an instrument with a Druck pressure sensor. Pressure output to display, to serial port, to shared file, and/or via TCP/IP was actually in decibars, even if the label said psi.

a. Added command line option (/AutoFireOnDowncast) to allow for auto firing capability on downcast (Sea-Bird recommends bottle firing on upcast for almost all applications; this is a custom feature).

a. Added XML output formats as an option for Serial Data Output, Shared File Output, and TCP/IP output.
b. Added font size options for Fixed and Scrolled displays.
c. SBE 19plus -- Added support for NMEA depth selection in .con file.
d. Added Remote Bottle Fire (via TCP/IP) capability.
e. Created example Java applications to use for Remote Display (via TCP/IP) and for Remote Bottle Firing (via TCP/IP). These Java applications (.jar files) are installed automatically in the Seasave V7 directory when Seasave V7 is installed. See the Seasave V7 manual and/or Help file for details.

a. Include in the .psa file information on whether the NMEA display, bottle fire display, and/or mark scan control display are open, so that they don't need to be manually opened by the user each time Seasave V7 is launched.
b. Include ability to calculate Oxygen (ml/l) given just oxygen current (and not oxygen temperature) as the input for a Beckman or YSI-type sensor. Seasave sets the WT calibration coefficient to 0 when calculating oxygen. This capability was available in Seasave-Win32, but had been omitted from Seasave V7 until this revision.

a. Data Conversion -- For SBE 16plus, did not allow you to select Julian days as a output variable.

a. For SBE 21 Thermosalinograph integrated with a remote temperature sensor (SBE 38 or SBE 3), sound velocity calculation was incorrect. Seasave V7 was using SBE 21 temperature to calculate sound velocity, instead of using temperature from remote temperature sensor.

First official release version of Seasave V7. This and all future release of SBE Data Processing will have same revision number as Seasave V7.
Note: Sea-Bird recommends that all users upgrade to Seasave V7, but continues to supply and support Seasave-Win32. See the Seasave-Win32 Revision page for all future revisions of Seasave-Win32.

a. Added Import / Export buttons to calibration coefficients dialog boxes, to allow transfer of coefficients from one system to another without the need for typing and possibility of resulting typographical errors.
b. Added Murphy-Larson equation compatibility for SBE 43 Dissolved Oxygen Sensor (Sea-Bird will begin shipping SBE 43s with Murphy-Larson calibration coefficients in Fall 2007).
c. Added compatibility with SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler.

a. a. Added Scan time added option to configuration (.con) file setup for SBE 16, 19, 19plus, 21, 25, and 49, to append the time to each scan of data (Note: SBE 9plus already had this option; SBE 16plus automatically includes the time with each scan of data).

a. Data Conversion and Derive -- Added Miscellaneous tab in Data Conversion dialog box and Derive dialog box. Miscellaneous tab defines parameters required for output of specific variables (depth, average sound velocity, descent rate, acceleration, oxygen, plume anomaly, and potential temperature anomaly). Entries on this tab are used only if you are calculating and outputting the associated variable. Previously, these values were accessed using the Data button in the Select Output variables dialog box.

a. Incorrectly calculated dV/dt (derivative of oxygen voltage with respect to time for SBE 43) if user selected dV/dt as an output variable.
Note: dV/dt was calculated and used correctly within the equation for calculating oxygen (see Application Note 64 for the oxygen equation).

a. Derive -- Bug fix described for 5.37d was not actually implemented in 5.37d. Version 5.37e fixes this bug.

a. Derive -- For salt water depth calculation, Derive now uses latitude from the header if it is available (i.e., if NMEA data was appended in Seasave). Previously it always ignored latitude in the header and just used the latitude entered when depth was selected as a derived variable.

a. The allowable range for conductivity pcor is now -1.0e-06 to -1.0e-10 (previously it was -1.0e-07 to -1.0e-10). SBE Data Processing and Seasave-Win32 continue to check the allowable range, and reset pcor to the nominal value of -9.57e-08 if outside the allowable range.

a. Wndow Filter -- Window Filter was occasionally crashing when Exclude scans marked bad was checked and the filter type was a median filter.

NOTE: Version 5.37c is an interim version that applies to Seasave-Win32 only. Continue to use Version 5.37b of SBE Data Processing.

a. SBE 19plus CTD -- Seasave-Win32 could not acquire data if 19plus was used with an SBE 33 or SBE 36 Deck Unit.

a. Bin Average -- Bin Average was not excluding scans marked with the bad flag when determining the starting value for the first bin.

NOTE: Version 5.37b is an interim version that applies to Seasave-Win32 only. Continue to use Version 5.37a of SBE Data Processing.

a. If elapsed time was selected as a display variable for an SBE 49, Seasave-Win32 did not calculate it correctly.

a. Surface PAR sensor can now be selected as an auxiliary voltage sensor for SBE 21, instead of PAR sensor.

a. D & A OBS-3+ was added to list of auxiliary voltage sensors that can be defined.
b. Support for NMEA depth data to be appended to SBE 21 data string in 90488 Interface Box was added.
c. PAR sensor can now be selected as an auxiliary voltage sensor for SBE 21.

a. Sea Plot – If a user-defined variable name was input in ASCII In, Sea Plot will now display the user-defined variable name.
b. Data Conversion -- Can process .hex files written for a 911 or 911plus by an in-house development version of Seasave.

a. ASCII Out – Julian days conversion did not work for the SBE 16plus or 19plus.

a. ASCII Out – Added command line option to label date column with mon/day/yr and time column with hh:mm (customer request for compatibility with their software).

a. Loop Edit -- Added ability to mark scans associated with an initial surface soak, so that surface soak data can be eliminated in further processing.
b. Bin Average -- Added ability to average by depth, with interpolation (previously could average by depth, but without interpolation).
c. ASCII Out -- Added ability to convert elapsed and/or system time to mm/dd/yyyy format (Example: April 11, 2005 would be output as 04/11/2005).

No changes were made to Seasave; the revision number was changed to keep it consistent with SBE Data Processing.

a. ASCII Out -- Added /x parameter for use when running from the Command Line Options dialog box, from the command line, or with batch file processing:
/xascii_out:first_column_value=string
where string = value (maximum of 11 characters) placed in each row of column inserted before first column of data.
b. Help files -- Added more equations defining how derived parameters are calculated.

1. BUG FIXES:
a. SBE 31 -- Seasave-Win32 would not allow you to set number of scans to average in the Deck Unit (in Acquire and Display Real-Time Data Setup dialog) to anything except for 1.

2. ADDITIONS:
a. Help files -- Added equations defining how derived parameters are calculated.

NOTE: Version 5.32a is an interim version that applies to SBE Data Processing only. Continue to use Version 5.32 of Seasave.

a. Data Conversion -- Data Conversion did not convert data correctly from an SBE 38 Remote Temperature Sensor used with an SBE 21 Thermosalinograph. This bug affected only versions 5.28 through 5.32.

a. SBE Data Processing would not convert .psu files created with Version 5.29b or earlier to .psa files.
b. ASCII In -- Negative numbers were output in .cnv file without a leading space in column.
c. Data Conversion and Derive -- If you selected CPAR, program prompted for angle from sun. This information was not needed or used, and prompt has been removed from software.

a. Header notes with line lengths greater than 95 characters would cause Seasave-Win32 to crash.

NOTE: Version 5.31b is an interim version that applies to SBE Data Processing only. Continue to use Version 5.31a of Seasave.

a. Sea Plot -- When plotting elapsed time (hours, minutes, or seconds), the actual units plotted were always minutes, but the axis label was always seconds, regardless of which units you selected for the plot. This bug affected only versions 5.31and 5.31a.

a. All Modules -- If you deleted the directory that held the last used .psu or .psa file for a module, you would get an error message to contact Sea-Bird when next trying to open the module.
b. Sea Plot -- If you ran Sea Plot in batch mode with a w/, Sea Plot did not automatically print the output plot.

a. When using an SBE 45 MicroTSG and a PN 90402 SBE 45 Power, Navigation, and Remote Temperature Interface Box, and acquiring navigation data: If acquisition was started and stopped, and then restarted without exiting Seasave, the time written into the header line for NMEA UTC (Time) for the second and subsequent files was incorrect. In post-processing of the data, Data Conversion (in SBE Data Processing) would then use this incorrect time with the correct date to compute Julian days. This bug affected Seasave-Win32 versions 5.28a through 5.31.

Note: Raw data files created by Seasave-Win32 that have this problem can be corrected by deleting the data between the first date and last time on the NMEA UTC (Time) line in the header. Once you have edited the raw data file, rerun Data Conversion to correctly compute Julian days.
Example: Start and stop acquisition 4 times without exiting Seasave.
The line below is an example from the header of the fourth file acquired without restarting Seasave:
* NMEA UTC (Time) = Sep 03 2003 21:06:18 2003 03:17:23 2003 05:24:53 2003 06:34:18
To correct the file, delete the information in bold, so the line looks like this:
* NMEA UTC (Time) = Sep 03 2003 06:34:18
Caution: See Application Note 67 for information on the correct method for editing a .hex data file with a text editor. If you do not follow these instructions, you may corrupt the data file.

a. Command line utility, ConReport.exe, has been added to software. This program provides same reports generated using Report button on CTD configuration dialogs. ConReport accepts wildcards for file names, so multiple reports may be produced in a single invocation and reports may be placed into a specified directory. ConReport is installed in the same directory as SBE Data Processing during SBE Data Processing installation.

a. New program setup files are ASCII text, formatted in XML (extensible markup language). Files may be viewed and edited in any text editor or XML editor. Old binary setup files (.PSU) can be read, but not written; all setup files will be written in the new XML format (.PSA). Old binary setup files will remain, until manually deleted.
b. Sea Plot -- Sea Plot always generated Scan Count data and added it to the variable box, even when Scan Count was already included in the file. This would present 2 selections for Scan Count. Now scan count is generated only when it is not already present in the file.

a. Filter – Did not always filter selected variables. The file header always listed the actual variables that were filtered.
b. Sea Plot --
-- Sea Plot now allows processing of duplicated data variables. For example, you may want to convert salinity 3 times in a file, and then apply 3 different filters to salinity data. You need ability to select and differentiate from these modified salinities in plots. A duplicate count suffix is appended to duplicated variables (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc). This should not be confused with duplicate sensor numbering - for example "Salinity, 2 [PSU], 1st" and "Salinity, 2 [PSU], 2nd" would be duplicated salinity conversions based on secondary temperature and conductivity measurements from a 911 with secondary CT sensors. Prior versions would only plot the first instance of a duplicated variable appearing in a header. This was misleading, as you could select, for example, the third salinity in the variable box, but the first salinity would be plotted with no indication (except perhaps the plot shape) that something was wrong.
-- Sea Plot sometimes crashed when switching between TS and non-TS plots.
-- Values below 1.0 would not plot on a log scale. Very small values, down to 1.0e-8, may now be plotted on a log scale.
-- Some older converted headers had a 2-digit year in the 'start_time' entry, newer headers use a 4-digit year. The routine that parsed the header would fail when reading this 2 digit year (a Y2K problem). Sea Plot can now handle both 2- and 4-digit years.

a. Seasave's algorithms were not changed; this revision incorporates minor changes to the Help files, and keeps the Seasave-Win32 revision number in line with the SBE Data Processing revision number.

NOTE: Version 5.30b is an interim version that applies to Seasave-Win32 only. Continue to use Version 5.30a of SBE Data Processing.

a. When using an SBE 45 MicroTSG and a PN 90402 SBE 45 Power, Navigation, and Remote Temperature Interface Box, and acquiring navigation data, the month shown in the NMEA Data display (Seasave's View menu, NMEA data display) was incorrect. Note that the data written to the saved .hex data file was correct.

VERSION 5.30a
30 October 2003 (SBE Data Processing) and 24 November 2003 (Seasave)

a. Window Filter did not work -- this bug applied to version 5.30 only.
b. Some Help file links did not work properly -- this bug applied to version 5.30 only.

a. Dr. Haardt Fluorometer with voltage level gain range selection did not switch between ranges -- it always used the low gain range.

a. Sea Plot -- Added ability to create TS plots with density or thermosteric anomaly contours. Note that this is an official release version (not a Beta version) of Sea Plot. Because of major changes, the Sea Plot setup file, seaplot.psu, is not backward compatible with previous versions of Sea Plot. Sea Plot will create a new default .psu file the first time version 5.30 is run.

a. Run menu was re-ordered to list common processing modules first, in the order they are typically used, followed by less common modules.
b. Rosette Summary module was renamed Bottle Summary.

a. SBE 25 .con file -- If user selected bottom contact switch for an A/D channel, software saved selection of bottom contact switch to a different channel.

a. SBE Data Processing (Data Conversion, Rosette Summary, and Derive modules) and Seasave-Win32 -- now use secondary salinity to compute secondary potential temperature if secondary conductivity is available in SBE 9 / 9plus data. Previously software used primary salinity in calculation.

a. Added Bottom contact switch to list of available A/D sensors for SBE 19plus in .con file.

a. Sea Plot -- did not let users select more than approximately 15 files (only affected V 5.29a).

a. Output latitude and longitude from a NMEA navigation device with up to three digits to right of decimal point.

a. Sea Plot -- Added overlay plot capabilities, so data from multiple files can be viewed on one plot.
b. SBEBatch Batch processing --
- Program names and options can be separated by any combination of space and tab characters. Previously, only a space character was accepted.
- W option added, to pause processing at start of a module to allow user to review setup before processing data.
- D option added, to pause processing at end of a module to allow user to review output before continuing with rest of processing.
- SBE Batch can now launch system commands, such as copying or renaming a file, deleting a file from an intermediate step, etc. Additionally, it can launch non-Sea-Bird programs.

NOTE: Version 5.28f is an interim version that applies to SBE Data Processing only. Continue to use Version 5.28e of Seasave.

a. Data Conversion -- For 911plus, pressure for first scan was computed with a pressure temperature of 0.0. This bug affected only version 5.28 to 5.28e.
b. Sea Plot -- Versions 5.28d and 5.28e were inadvertently built with a development version of Sea Plot.

b. Seasave-Win32 was not storing SBE 49 temperature serial number in the header.

a. Data Conversion -- Program would not calculate pressure temperature output for 16plus, 19plus, and 49.

a. Seasave-Win32 and Data Conversion -- SBE 49 temperature coefficients were not stored correctly. Three lines were added to .con file:
    Line     Description
     245       SBE 49 temperature sensor serial number.
     246       SBE 49 temperature sensor calibration date.
     247       SBE 49 temperature sensor A0, A1, A2, A3, slope, and offset
b. Seasave-Win32 and Data Conversion -- SBE 49 conductivity was not computed correctly.

a. Archived data with header line lengths greater than 100 characters were not processed correctly. Header lines can now have up to 300 characters.

a. When configuring an SBE 25 with one or more A/D voltage sensors, software did not correctly save all configuration information. This bug was present in version 5.27 and later.

a. Start initial playback of archived data at a faster rate than it was set for in version 5.28a.

b. Added additional control of playback speed for archived data: No Wait in ArchivedData menu (or type Ctrl N). This plays back data at rate at which it was acquired.

a. Wild Edit: If input .cnv file contained scan count, time, byte count, or pump status before variables that user selected for Wild Edit, then output variables were not ones selected.

a. A duplicate copy of SBEBatch.exe, our batch file processor, is now placed in Windows system folder. This allows user to run SBEBatch.exe from anywhere without having to specify path. Previously, SBEBatch.exe was only placed in same directory as SBE Data Processing (default location c:/Program Files/Sea-Bird/SBEDataProcessing-Win32).

a. After Seasave-Win32 synchronized .hex or .dat file and the .con file, user was brought to prior .con file when selecting or modifying .con file.

b. If path name had a '.' when selecting an archived data file, Seasave-Win32 replaced everything past '.' with '.dat'.

c. View Data Header button did not work in Start Archived Data Display dialog box.

a. Seasave-Win32's .cfg file now remembers whether NMEA Data Display and Fire Bottle Control displays were open.

b. Seasave-Win32 now warns user if they are trying to save to a .con file that is read only (for instance, trying to save to a .con file on a CD-ROM).

c. Seasave-Win32 now turns off SBE 11plus Deck Unit alarm when data acquisition is halted.

a. Added -ss command line option, allowing user to start Seasave-Win32 and view data, but to delay writing data to a file until user prompts to begin saving data.

b. Added ability for user to control playback speed of archived data (select Faster or Slower in ArchivedData menu).

b. Added support for SBE 45 MicroTSG thermosalinograph and optional 90402 - SBE 45 Interface Box.

c. Added support for SBE 38 secondary temperature sensor for SBE 21 thermosalinograph.

a. If SBE 21 or SBE 45 has a remote temperature sensor, remote temperature is now used to calculate density and sound velocity.

b. Changed WetLabs ECO-AFL description to ECO-AFL/FL to cover WetLabs' new instruments.

VERSION 5.27c
20 December 2002 (for SBE Data Processing) and 22 January 2003 (for Seasave)

a. Seasave-Win32 sometimes crashed when clicking the Select Variable button in a Display Variables Setup dialog box.

a. Sea Plot sometimes crashed after plotting one file, if the user then selected a file that had a different set of variables.

a. Loop Edit -- Used depth rather than pressure when both were in the input .cnv file, if depth followed pressure. This caused too many scans to be marked bad if the user had low pass filtered pressure, but not depth, prior to running Loop Edit.

c. Align CTD, ASCII Out, Filter, Rosette Summary, Strip, Wild Edit, and Window Filter -- On the Data Setup tab, you click a button to select the output variables, specify filter values for variables, etc. In the dialog box that appears, if the number of variables in the header is large enough so that a vertical scroll bar is needed to display all the variables, the scroll bar was not displayed and not all the variables could be seen. This bug only affects SBE Data Processing V5.27 and 5.27a.

a. Data Conversion -- Now uses NMEA time for Julian days if NMEA UTC (Time) in the header contains both date and time. Previous versions used system time for Julian days. Seasave-Win32 versions prior to 5.27 wrote NMEA date and time into the system time line in the header if NMEA date and time was available, so this modification only affects SBE Data Processing V5.27 and 5.27a.

a. If the NMEA message contained time but not date, and time in the message had fractional seconds, then NMEA UTC (Time) was incorrect.

a. Sea Plot Beta 1.2 version did not work and would not plot. Sea Plot revision was rolled back to version 1.1.

VERSION 5.27
30 October 2002
November 1: A bug was found in this version and it was removed from the FTP site. All additions and modifications in 5.27 are included in 5.27a.

a. Support for new sensors: Capsum METS methane, Seapoint Rhodamine, Sequoia LISST-25 Suspended Sediment, and WETStar CDOM.

b. Support for new sensor for SBE 16plus only: Pro-Oceanus Gas Tension Device (GTD) for dissolved oxygen and/or nitrogen.

c. Support for secondary sensors for: PAR, WET Labs WETStar, Seapoint Turbidity, and Turner SCUFA.

e. User-input descriptive text for User Polynomial sensors makes sensor identification easier in data file.

a. Seasave; Data Conversion and Derive in SBE Data Processing: Use harmonic mean to calculate Average Sound Velocity; convert pressure to depth for calculation (with user-input latitude).

a. Command line parameter allows you to automatically start Seasave-Win32 and data acquisition.

b. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to start data acquisition or display of archived data without using a mouse.

a. System Upload Time in data file header is now always computer time and date, regardless of whether a NMEA navigation device is connected.

a. Derive: Was using depth for pressure when both were in .cnv file and depth followed pressure.

b. Derive and Rosette Summary: Was ignoring match instrument configuration to input file check box selection on File Setup tab.

c. Data Conversion: Both BL file and AFM file appeared in header as source of bottle scan range information.

b. Bin Average: Parameter for run options, command line, or batch file processing allows user to set center value for first bin.

a. Align CTD: Maximum allowable number of scans to advance is increased to 1000.

NOTE: Version 5.26f is an interim version that applies to Seasave-Win32 only. Continue to use Version 5.26 of SBE Data Processing.

NOTE: Version 5.26d is an interim version that applies to Seasave-Win32 only. Continue to use Version 5.26 of SBE Data Processing.

a. When Lat/Lon was not appended to every scan, Seasave-Win32 used a latitude of 0.0 for depth calculation, even if a different value was specified. This bug applied to real-time data acquisition only; playback of archived data was not affected.

NOTE: Version 5.26c is an interim version that applies to Seasave-Win32 only. Continue to use Version 5.26 of SBE Data Processing.

a. The ASCII shared file was not closed when displaying archived data if the Generate Shared File option was enabled in the ASCII Output Set Up dialog box (Configure menu, ASCII Output). This caused the message Error, could not open shared file: filename to appear the next time real-time or archived data was displayed.

NOTE: Version 5.26b is an interim version that applies to Seasave-Win32 only. Continue to use Version 5.26 of SBE Data Processing.

a. NMEA date and time data was not correctly displayed for an SBE 11plus Deck Unit transmitting data to the computer using the RS-232 interface.

NOTE: Version 5.26a is an interim version that applies to Seasave-Win32 only. Continue to use Version 5.26 of SBE Data Processing.

a. An invalid bottle number or communication error message displayed, and bottles were not always fired, for a system with all of the following setup parameters (problem occurred only if all of these setup selections were made):

Configure menu, NMEA (lat/lon) Interface -- Store Lat/Lon in Data File selection is Add to Header Only.
Configure menu, Water Sampler Configuration -- Firing Sequence selection is Table Driven.
Configure menu, Instrument Configuration (old or new) -- NMEA position data added is selected.
RealtimeData menu, Start Acquisition -- Store on Disk is selected.

a. For systems with two SBE 43 Dissolved Oxygen Sensors -- In the configuration (.con) file, calibration coefficients for the secondary dissolved oxygen sensor were overwritten by the primary dissolved oxygen sensor coefficients.

a. Sea Plot Beta Version 1.1
-- Numerous enhancements were made, including: logarithmic plotting; multiple file operation; date/time plotting; calculation and plotting of salinity and density if C, T, P in file; and batch processing. Additional features will be added to Sea Plot over the next few months.

b. SeacalcW
-- A Windows version of Seacalc was added to SBE Data Processing. SeacalcW is a seawater calculator that computes a number of derived variables from one user-input scan of temperature, pressure, etc.

a. Seasave-Win32 was not closing serial ports correctly. In Win XP this caused the following message to display: Cannot initialize comport 0. In Win XP it also prevented SEATERM from opening the COM port.

b. SBE 16 and 19 (not 16plus or 19plus) with Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensor -- Pressure temperature was not being computed correctly. This bug was introduced in Seasave-Win32 version 1.20.

a. Data Conversion
SBE 16 and 19 (not 16plus or 19plus) with Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensor -- Pressure temperature was not being computed correctly. This bug was introduced in SBE Data Processing Beta version 1.3.

NOTE: Version 5.25a is an interim version that applies to Seasave-Win32 only. Continue to use Version 5.25 of SBE Data Processing.

a. SBE 19 (not 19plus) and 25 -- When real-time data acquisition was restarted without exiting Seasave, the CTD would wake up before the message to switch on the CTD with the magnetic switch was displayed. This prevented it from starting logging.

a. Sea Plot Beta Version
-- Sea Plot module, for plotting converted data (C, T, P as well as derived variables and data from auxiliary sensors), was added to SBE Data Processing. Sea Plot can plot up to 5 variables (1 Y-axis and 4 X-axes or 1 X-axis and 4 Y-axes) on a single plot. Sea Plot allows you to view plots on screen, and then print or save to a file or the clipboard. This release is a Beta version of Sea Plot -- additional features will be added to Sea Plot over the next few months.

a. Data Conversion
-- Potential Temperature Anomaly description was incorrect in the output header.
-- When 'Create bottle (.ROS) file only' was selected, the start time was omitted from the output .ROS file.

b. If computer is communicating with deck unit using GPIB interface, change logic to determine if NMEA data is available from deck unit.

a. Rosette Summary
-- The value -1.#IND000 was sometimes displayed in the standard deviation field if all values were the same.
-- If the .ros input file (created in Data Conversion) contained depth, or contained pressure followed by depth, Rosette Summary used depth instead of pressure to compute derived variables. In doing so, it treated the depth as if it were pressure. For example, it interpreted 5 meters as 5 decibars, resulting in small errors in variables derived from pressure. Note that if both pressure and depth were in the file, but the pressure column was after the depth column, the error did not occur.

a. Seasave-Win32 sometimes crashed if a file path name was longer than 80 characters.

b. Label for Oxygen, SBE, percent saturation incorrectly just said Oxygen, SBE.

c. On some computer monitors, field to view NMEA Date/Time in NMEA Data dialog box (View menu / NMEA data display) was not large enough. Field was changed from 1 line to 2 lines.

a. Added command line argument -nmeatime. For NMEA messages that contain time but not date, -nmeatime directs Seasave-Win32 to use the system date and NMEA time for the System Upload time.
Time in the header has been modified to be:

a. Configuration (.con) file
-- secondary SBE 43 calibration date was being overwritten with primary SBE 43 calibration date.
-- PAR serial number was being written to line for IFREMER nephelometer serial number.

a. Align CTD -- Line length for list of aligned variables in header was not long enough.

b. Bin Average -- Scans per bin was being added after flag column instead of before.

a. Added CNV37.exe and CNV39.exe to SBE Data Processing. These programs are used to convert SBE 37 MicroCAT and SBE 39 data to formats compatible with SBE Data Processing. Note that CNV37 and CNV39 are not available in SBE Data Processing's menus; the .exe files can be found in the same folder as SBEDataProc.exe.

a. SBE 19plus -- Comm port configurations was not prompting for baud rate between SBE 32 and CTD and baud rate between SBE 33 and computer.

b. SBE 16plus and 19plus -- Configuration (.con) file for instruments with NMEA did not have correct number of bytes per scan.

b. When tabbing through fields on File Setup tab, file and directory change dialogs will not unexpectedly pop up.

c. Input file drop down on File Setup and Header View tabs was made non-editable.

b. Valid variable was not switched to x-axis #3 if overlay display x-axis #3 was set to none and x-axis #4 was set to a valid variable.

a. Data Conversion, Rosette Summary, and Derive -- Offset for SBE 43 was being read as 0.0 from the .con file.

a. Data Conversion -- Temperature and pressure were not found when processing SBE 16plus or 19plus data files.

a. Added logic for overlay plots to rearrange x-axis variables if none is selected for one x-axis and a variable to plot is selected for a higher numbered x-axis.

NOTE: For this and all future software releases, the Windows software real-time data acquisition and analysis software (Seasave and SBE Data Processing) will have the same version number. The 4.0 series and below indicates SEASOFT-DOS; the 5.0 series and above indicates SEASOFT-Windows.

a. Data Conversion -- Added support for SBE 19plus used with Auto Fire Module (AFM).
b. Data Conversion -- Added command line, run options, and batch file processing /xdatcnv:pump and /xdatcnv:nomatch.
c. Derive -- Added command line, run options, and batch file processing /xderive:pump.
d. ASCII In -- data in input files can now be separated by spaces, commas, or tabs (or any combination).

a. Data Conversion -- If Append to .NAV file was selected in Seasave's Configure/NMEA Interface, and Data Conversion could not find the .nav file, Data Conversion would crash.

a. Added an option to display both the bottle number and pressure to the Bottle Line Configuration.

a. New style .con file changes did not take effect until .con file was looked at a second time or until Seasave-Win32 was restarted.
b. Lat/Lon configuration could be modified by information in header when displaying an archived data file.

When the Windows versions of Seasave and SBE Data Processing were incorporated in SEASOFT and began having the same revision number:

If NMEA Message Includes	-nmeatime Included in Command Line?	Information in System Upload Time in Header	Information in NMEA UTC Time in Header
date and time	(no effect)	NMEA date and time	NMEA date and time
time only	no	computer date and time	NMEA time
time only	yes	computer date and NMEA time	NMEA time
no date, no time	(no effect)	computer date and time	(none)

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