Transition from Echoview 4

Read calibration data from file.

Calculations use settings read from the data file, user specified settings and default settings

• Calibration settings on the Calibration page of the Variable Properties dialog box are different from those used in Echoview 4.90.
• Calibration 2 page of the Variable Properties dialog box is absent - this is a deprecated page.
• New Geometry section on Calibration page.
• New Calibration section on Calibration page.
• Calibration section displays SourceCal, LocalCal and Used by pings.
• Message box Default calibration setting messages.
• Single target echograms look odd - the Thickness factor has changed.

Calibration page settings

1. Note the settings used in Echoview 4.90.
2. Compare with the historical calibration settings that Echoview can extract.
   1. Help menu > Calibration Information
   2. Under Settings, drag to select text.
   3. Shortcut menu > Copy
   4. Paste to a file (in Notepad).
3. Calibration page - the Transducer list allows the selection of a transducer.
4. Calibration page - SourceCal displays the Calibration Source for the variable.
5. Calibration page - the LocalCal list allows the selection of LocalCal settings from an ECS file.
6. Calibration page - the Used by pings section displays the calibration settings used by the variable.
7. To modify the calibration settings, create a new ECS file using New in the Calibration section of the Filesets window.
8. Edit the ECS file (in Notepad) with the correct calibration settings.
9. Save the ECS file.

For detailed instructions refer to:

• Entering calibration settings: Using pre-Echoview 5 EV files
• Echoview Calibration Supplement files: Example.

Single target echograms

The Echoview 5 calibration and Properties dialog box changes may affect the display of single target echograms by changing the Thickness factor on the Data page of the Variable Properties dialog box.

You can modify the Thickness source and the Thickness factor to more suitable values.

• Complex calibration inheritance is not available.
• Transducer for complex virtual variable chains may change.

1. Virtual variable calibration settings are inherited from the first operand.
2. The Transducer for a virtual chain is the transducer of the first operand (and raw variable) at the start of the virtual chain.

• Can't change the onscreen setting with the mouse or keyboard.

1. Create a new ECS file using New in the Calibration section of the Filesets window.
2. Edit the ECS file (in Notepad) with the correct calibration settings.
3. Save the ECS file.

For detailed instructions refer to:

• Entering calibration settings: Using pre-Echoview 5 EV files
• Echoview Calibration Supplement files: Example.

New Echoview 5.0 COM EvCalibration

• Echoview 4.90 EvCalibration is not supported. Scripts using 4.90 EvCalibration methods and properties and EvVariables.Collection.UseCalibrationInheritance are broken.

• No increase in processing time.

• The multi-threading feature works under one or more computer cores. Multi-threading increases Echoview's responsiveness to user actions. Multi-threading and multiple cores offer faster calculation times.

• No increase in processing time.

• The multi-threading feature works under one or more computer cores. Multi-threading increases Echoview's responsiveness to user actions. Multi-threading and multiple cores offer faster calculation times.

The Echoview workspace extends outside of the Echoview window.

New docking model enables echogram and other windows to dock to each other.

• Windows tabs toolbar absent; it is deprecated.
• Windows functions toolbar; it is deprecated.
• Echograms or dialog boxes can be dragged to the desktop outside of the Echoview window.

1. Echograms, Scenes, Dataflow, Fileset Windows dock when opened. Drag to dock elsewhere or float or tab; anywhere on the desktop.
2. Many dialog boxes float, some dialog boxes dock to the Echoview window.
3. Docked items occupy a panel. Panels can contain panes.
4. Use Window menu > Arrange All, to optimize the panels and panes within the Echoview window.
5. Use Window menu > Arrange Panes, to optimize the panes in a panel.

For more details refer to Navigating in Echoview: Workspace and docking.

• Page tabs to the left.
• Calibration page has changed; can't edit within the page.
• Calibration setting names have changed.
• StThickness source setting is absent and has become a setting on the Data page.
• Calibration 2 page absent.
• Calibration page of the Transducer Properties dialog box missing.
• Display page has changed.
• Data page has changed.

• Calibration page incorporates settings that were on the Calibration 2 page and the Calibration page of the Transducer Properties dialog box.
• Calibration setting names have changed slightly. For detailed information refer to Common calibration settings and Settings specific to instruments or variables.
• Modify calibration settings with an ECS file added to the Fileset.
• The Display page has been simplified and evolved into
  Echogram Display, Alongtrack Display and Cruise track Display.
• The single target Thickness source (ST Thickness Source) is no longer a calibration setting. A setting for Thickness source is under the Single target settings section on the Data page of the Variable Properties dialog box. The other settings in this section were moved from the Display page.
  
  In addition, the Thickness factor on the Data page of the Variable Properties dialog box may have changed. You can modify the Thickness source and the Thickness factor to more suitable values.

• Page tabs to the left.
• Echogram page has changed.

• Echogram page - some settings and section names are simpler.

For more details refer to EV file Properties dialog box: Echogram page.

• Page tabs to the left.
• Startup page missing.
• Preferences page has changed.

• Startup features have migrated to the Preferences page.

For more details refer to Echoview Configuration dialog box.

Variables and Geometry window renamed to Dataflow window and features changed.

• Variables and Geometry window renamed to Dataflow window.
• Variables and Geometry window Legend is absent.
• Object shapes, colors and arrows changed by selecting a Theme.

• Name of window has changed but icon is the same.
• Two display Themes are offered use Shortcut menu View > View Properties > Theme. Note: Theme is removed in Echoview 8.
• The Echoview 5.0 theme
  • Shape
    • Rectangles show single beam variables.
    • Fans show multibeam variables.
    • Wavy rectangles show lines.
    • Ovals show position, attitude and distance variables.
  • Color
    • Objects of the same data type are the same color.
    • Red border indicates LocalCal settings are used.
• • Arrow
    • One arrow color

For more details refer to About the Dataflow window.

Default settings for new EV files.

• Whole excluded or no-data pings removed from ping count is selected on the Analysis page of the Variable Properties dialog box. In general, this setting would be correct to use. There is a case where this state may not be correct.
  For more information refer to About samples and echo integration:Integration calculations - Note.
• Weighting/Interpolation range selected (as a default) under the Mean resampling operation. This setting is necessary when the data range is shifted from its original value. Pre-Echoview 5.0 EV files are unaffected by this change.
• The default background color of new scenes is light gray.
• To facilitate single target detection, the single target detection operator (single, split, dual) default value for Minimum normalized pulse length is now 0.7.

These changes affect new EV files and new virtual variables. Pre-Echoview 5 EV files with existing virtual variables are unaffected.

However, please the consider the reasons for these defaults and whether they would benefit your processing and analysis.