{"id":2598,"date":"2022-08-24T13:20:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2598"},"modified":"2022-08-24T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:20:29","slug":"t3-student-releases-software-to-process-side-scan-sonar-datasets-to-aid-aquatic-research","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/t3-student-releases-software-to-process-side-scan-sonar-datasets-to-aid-aquatic-research\/","title":{"rendered":"T3 student releases software to process side scan sonar datasets to aid aquatic research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Bodine, a PhD student co-advised by Dr. Dan Buscombe (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardascience.com\/\">Marda Science<\/a>) and Dr. Toby Hocking (<a href=\"http:\/\/ml.nau.edu\/\">Machine Learning Lab<\/a>), released <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/CameronBodine\/PINGMapper\">PING Mapper<\/a>: a Python interface for reading, processing, and mapping side scan sonar data from low-cost sonar systems. The software allows researchers and scientists to turn inexpensive fish finders into scientific instruments to support aquatic research. A preprint documenting PING Mapper&#8217;s workflows is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31223\/X5XP8Q\">Earth ArXiv<\/a>, and has been accepted for publication in AGU&#8217;s Earth and Space Science journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Bodine, a PhD student co-advised by Dr. Dan Buscombe (Marda Science) and Dr. Toby Hocking (Machine Learning Lab), released PING Mapper: a Python interface for reading, processing, and mapping side scan sonar data from low-cost sonar systems. The software allows researchers and scientists to turn inexpensive fish finders into scientific instruments to support aquatic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/t3-student-releases-software-to-process-side-scan-sonar-datasets-to-aid-aquatic-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;T3 student releases software to process side scan sonar datasets to aid aquatic research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"newstags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-2598","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper.png",500,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper-200x200.png",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper-300x180.png",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper.png",500,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper.png",500,300,false],"news_plugin_small":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper.png",500,300,false],"team-500px":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper.png",500,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper.png",500,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper.png",500,300,false],"twentyseventeen-featured-image":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper.png",500,300,false],"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper-100x100.png",100,100,true],"photoswipe_thumbnails":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper-300x180.png",300,180,true],"photoswipe_full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper.png",500,300,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ping_mapper-272x182.png",272,182,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Cameron Bodine, a PhD student co-advised by Dr. Dan Buscombe (Marda Science) and Dr. Toby Hocking (Machine Learning Lab), released PING Mapper: a Python interface for reading, processing, and mapping side scan sonar data from low-cost sonar systems. 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A preprint documenting PING Mapper&#8217;s workflows is available on Earth ArXiv, and has been accepted for publication in AGU&#8217;s Earth and Space Science journal.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Uncategorized","author_info_v2":{"name":"siccs-ecoinfo","url":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/author\/siccs-ecoinfo\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"newstags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstags?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}