| Brand |
GeoAcoustics a Kongsberg Company |
| Product |
GeoTexture |
| Year of initial development |
? |
| Latest version (year) |
? |
| Platform (Win, MAC, Unix, other); minimum computer requirements |
Win; Windows XP |
| Is the software stand alone or part of another package |
stand alone |
| Does it process proprietairy data? |
Yes {GeoSwath Plus MBES} |
| Included in hardware |
Optionally |
| Amount of supported systems? |
? {The package works particularly well with GeoSwath Plus MBES data as it uses the well defined beam pattern, attitude and bathymetry information.} |
| Open to other data formats? |
Yes, all relevant side scan data formats |
| Where is the software suited for? |
GeoSwath Plus MBES data |
| Requirement of independent samples? |
Yes {ground truthing is required to link classified image to seafloor type} |
| Possibility of ground truthing? |
Yes |
| What seafloor/riverfloor parameters are extracted by the method: |
Habitats (Question: more?) |
| Penetration depth |
surface image classification |
| Is the analysis carried out offline or is it real time applicable? |
Offline |
| Does the software allow for pre-processing data and quality control? |
? |
| * Backscatter measurements |
normalised backscatter measurements |
| * Segmentation |
Yes, supervised feature extraction and image classification |
| Create contouring charts |
N/A |
| Create profile sheets |
N/A |
| Create Reporting charts |
N/A |
| S57 ENC support |
N/A |
| Digital export data formats supported |
GeoTiff, data image, classified image and characterised textures, jpg, mod mosaic, mof GeoSwath Plus mosaic file |
| What is the typical application for your package? (max 30 words) |
Normalisation and image classification of side scan data for bottom classification, feature extraction and habitat mapping. |
