SEASOFT for Waves - Win32

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SEASOFT for Waves^© - Win32 is program for use with the SEAGAUGE Wave and Tide Recorder -- SBE 26plus (current production) or SBE 26 (older version) -- and the SBE 53 BPR Bottom Pressure Recorder. SEASOFT for Waves is a modular program that includes:

• Plan Deployment (not applicable to SBE 53) -- Calculate pressure attenuation and predict surface wave analysis parameters for proposed wave sampling scheme.
• Battery and Memory Endurance -- Calculate expected battery and memory endurance for proposed sampling scheme.
• SeatermW -- Communicate with instrument to program for deployment and upload data.
• Convert Hex --
  -- For SBE 26 and 26plus: Convert uploaded data into separate wave and tide files, with output data in engineering units.
  -- For SBE 53: Convert uploaded data into separate tide and reference frequency files, with tide data in engineering units.
• Merge Barometric Pressure -- Remove barometric pressure from tide data.
• Process Wave Burst Data (not applicable to SBE 53) -- Calculate wave statistics.
• Create Reports (not applicable to SBE 53) -- Calculate surface wave time series and/or wave burst auto-spectrum statistics for each processed wave burst.
• Plot Data -- Plot data.

SEASOFT for Waves includes all the functions incorporated in SEASOFT for Waves - DOS, except for batch file processing. Features that were accessed in the DOS software using command line arguments have been incorporated in the dialog boxes for the Windows software, simplifying processing. Users will find the Windows terminal program module, SeatermW, a big improvement over the DOS terminal program, Term26, which did not perform well on computers running a Windows operating system. SEASOFT for Waves - DOS is not compatible with the SBE 26plus or the SBE 53.

Online Help is available with SEASOFT for Waves.

SEASOFT for Waves was written for use on systems running Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP; testing using Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32-bit) has not shown any compatibility problems.

If you discover reproducible bugs in SEASOFT for Waves, please document the steps taken to achieve them and send a report via e-mail to jbackes@seabird.com or Fax 425-643-9954 to John Backes. We welcome any suggestions for new features and enhancements.

NOTE
The instrument calibration coefficient (.cfg) files created by the DOS-based terminal program Term26 cannot be used by SEASOFT for Waves. If implementing SEASOFT for Waves for an existing SBE 26 that was set up with Term26, record the calibration coefficients from Term26, and then re-enter the coefficients in SEASOFT for Waves' Convert Hex module.

Last updated: 02 Feb 2011

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