🚨PINGMapper v5.0🚨

This open-source mapping utility now supports:

💧Garmin RSD AND Cerulean Omniscan 450SS svlog files!!💧

If you have and collect data with these systems, why not take a look 👀 at this open-source option?

* Please report issues on GitHub!

cameronbodine.github.io/PINGMapper/

Interested in hunting ghost crab traps? 🦀 Want to learn how to use fishfinders for aquatic sonar surveys? 🌊 Or learn about a really cool restoration project? 😎

We are using fishfinders to help clean up lost crab traps in Delaware's Inland Bays. Watch the "Crab Pot Quest" series now!

Come share your innovative #sonar techniques in fisheries research and management at #AFS155 in San Antonio, TX, August 10-14, 2025!

In case you missed it, v3.0 added support for sl2 and sl3 sonar logs (Lowrance, etc)!

#PINGMapper v4.0 features a super simple install & user experience! PINGInstaller enables installation in 2 steps & PINGWizard allows point & click interaction! Try it out!

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Grant Otto posted a fantastic video showcasing a rewarding project I have been involved w/: ghost crab pot recovery in partnership with Brittany Haywood and Delaware SeaGrant! Check out Grant’s other videos showcasing the great work we are doing in Art Trembanis #CSHEL lab! youtu.be/VFZzC-AYvng?...

In addition, new methods of reading data from sonar logs (recordings) result in up to a 1.3𝐱 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐩!

Head over to GitHub to try it out! Happy ping-ing!

PINGMapper v3.0.0-alpha is available now! This version incorporates a new sonar log pre-processing engine called PINGVerter. PINGVerter enables compatibility with sl2 and sl3 files. PINGVerter is designed to ease adding support for new sonar data acquisition platforms and filetypes.

🔥 🔥 🔥 New Version🔥 🔥 🔥
#PINGMapper is now compatible with Lowrance fishfinders!

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#CSHEL #sidescan #fishfinders4good #benthicmapping

Having a dabble mosaicking VHF down-scan imagery along some rough ground previously mapped with the Humminbird sidescan, and processed using PINGMapper. Doing so provides a fantastic transect overview, and clearly illustrates the ground and the value that kelp cover provides for detected fish.

Sidescan verses towed video.

Heading filters are coming to #PINGMapper soon! You can specify the maximum heading deviation over a given distance to automatically remove bends from the mosaic. Better yet, each transect is exported to its own mosaic, allowing toggling a layer order in GIS.

Bug fixes, new features, & compatibility coming to an updated version (3.0??) of #PINGMapper. One is improved bankline polygon export made possible w/ shadow detection neural nets. Works on any sonar recording length. More features to come...

Georeferenced VHF sidescan sonar in waterfall view for quickly recording detailed water column transects with a spacial context. Here shoaling fish are seen amongst the kelp in a high energy coastal environment.
#sonar #Humminbird #PINGMapper #QGIS
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If you are interested in mapping benthic substrates w/ sonar, check out my recent paper! Co-Authored with Dan Buscombe and Toby Hocking!

doi.org/10.1029/2024...

I learned a lot about new applications at the “Advancing sonar techniques for use in fisheries management” symposium at #AFS154! I also shared updates to #PINGMapper.

I co-instructed the “Side Scan Sonar: Cutting-Edge Tools for Managing Habitat” last week at #AFS154 in Honolulu, HI with Adam Kaeser & Josey Ridgeway. Looking forward to expanding this workshop in the future!