HYPACK Automatic Download of ENC ChartsThis new feature allows U.S.-based users to quickly ob-Image: EdgeTechtain the most recent charts provided by NOAA and the US-ACE at no additional charge. U.S.-based users who have an Internet connection will be able to download the charts from the USACE and NOAA web-map serv-EdgeTech System for ers with the click of a button. Both agencies have made their charts available for download, and HYPACK has made it easy to ensure users have the latest chart Polish Defense AUVsdata. This is a two-step process:1. Step One: Update ENC Catalog: HYPACK downloads the latest chart catalogs EdgeTech said that with the introduc-over the Internet from the NOAA and USACE map servers. This information is tion of the 2205 AUV-based sonar stored in the HYPACK 2014 folder.system, manufacturers and operators of smaller sized AUV systems have 2. Step Two: Add ENC Charts: HYPACK automatically downloads any NOAA embraced the high quality sonars S-57 Charts or USACE IENC Charts. It uses the extents of the HYPACK Map which were traditionally only avail-window and downloads any chart that has information inside that window. The able in larger sized AUV systems. charts are saved to the ACOE or NOAA subfolders under the \HYPACK 2014\The recently delivered Teledyne Ga-Background folder.via AUVs to the Polish Ministry of Defense for mine countermeasure’s In the ? gure below, HYPACK 2014 downloaded ? ve charts from the NOAA S-57 (MCM) were equipped with the latest chart server and one chart from the USACE IENC (ACOE) chart server. It auto-EdgeTech 600/1,600 kHz simultane-matically sorts the chart to place the ones with the most detail on the top of the ous dual frequency side scan sonar display.payloads. The very high frequency The Advanced menu item displays the Web ENC window which allows for more EdgeTech systems were selected for speci? c control over which charts are loaded. (By Lourdes Evans)the long range detection and the ul-www.hypack.comtrahigh resolution classi? cation capa-bility for MLO’s (mine like objects). The EdgeTech 2205 classi? cation frequency of 1,600 kHz is capable of Five NOAA S-57 Charts and One USACE IENCproducing near photographic quality images of targets making MLO tar-get classi? cation very easy as shown in the attached MLO sonar image. Other 2205 attributes that contributed to the selection of the EdgeTech sys-tems were low power, small electron-ics’ volume and compact transducers making integration on the small AUVs possible and easy.www.edgetech.comwww.seadiscovery.comMarine Technology Reporter 59MTR #3 (50-64).indd 59 MTR #3 (50-64).indd 59 4/9/2014 2:18:34 PM4/9/2014 2:18:34 PM