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Introductiontotechnicalspecications
Thesetechnicalspecicationssummarizethemainfunctionalandoperationalcharacteristics
oftheEK80Widebandscienticechosounder.Italsoprovidesinformationrelatedto
powerrequirements,physicalpropertiesandenvironmentalconditions.
Note
AtKongsbergMaritime,wearecontinuouslyworkingtoimprovethequalityand
performanceofourproducts.Thetechnicalspecicationsmaybechangedwithoutprior
notice.
Interfacespecications
TheEK80Widebandscienticechosounderwillinterfacewithperipheralsystemsand
sensorsusingstandardand/orproprietarydatagramformats.
Supporteddatagramformatsforpositioninformation
TheEK80supportsthefollowingdatagramformatsforpositioninformation.
•Auto
ThischoiceallowstheEK80toreadallrelevantdatagrams.Ifthespeciedinformation
isprovidedtotheEK80onmorethanonedatagramformat,abuilt-inprioritylistwill
beused.
•NMEAGGA
TheNMEAGGAdatagramtransfersthetime,positionandxrelateddatafromaglobal
positioningsystem(GPS).
•NMEAGLL
TheNMEAGLLdatagramtransfersthelatitudeandlongitudeofvesselposition,the
timeofthepositionxandthecurrentstatusfromaglobalpositioningsystem(GPS).
•NMEARMC
TheNMEARMCdatagramtransfersthetime,date,position,courseandspeeddatafrom
aglobalnavigationsatellitesystem(GNSS)receiver.
Supporteddatagramformatsforspeedinformation
TheEK80supportsthefollowingdatagramformatforspeedinformation.
SimradEK80