Altimeter Product Manual
0286-SOM-00001, Issue: 09 45 © Tritech International Ltd.
Glossary
ABS Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene - a common thermoplastic.
AHRS An Attitude and Heading Reference System that consists of a sensors
on three axes that provide attitude information.
ARCNET Attached Resource Computer NETwork - a network protocol similar to
Ethernet but with the advantage of working over much longer ranges.
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange - a character
encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet.
Bathy Alternate name for the Tritech International Ltd SeaKing 700 Series
Integrated Oceanographic Sensor Suite which outputs data about the
conditions of the seawater and water column which may have an affect
on the sonar (temperature, depth, etc.,)
CSV Comma Separated Value - a text file in tabular format with table cells
separated by commas, usually given the filename extension .csv but
this can vary depending on the application.
DC Direct Current
DST Digital Sonar Technology
PA500 An altimeter sold by Tritech International Ltd
PCB Printed Circuit Board
ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle
RS232 Traditional name for a series of standards for serial binary data control
signals.
RS485 A standard for defining the electrical characteristics of drivers and
receivers for use in a balanced digital multipoint system (also known
as EIA-485).
SCU Surface Control Unit - a specially manufactured computer which is
rack mountable and capable of processing the data from the sonar
equipment running either Windows® XP Embedded or Windows® 7
and Seanet Pro or Gemini software.
SeaHub An alternative to using a Seanet SCU, this device connects to a laptop
or PC via USB interface, essentially this takes the signal from the sonar
(in RS232, RS485 or ARCNET) and converts it into a signal suitable
for the USB port of the computer.
SeaKing A specific sonar produced by Tritech International Ltd but also refers
to the family of sonar equipment manufactured by Tritech International
Ltd comprising of the SeaKing, SeaKing DST scanning and profiling
sonars and the Hammerhead survey sonar.
Seanet Pro The software supplied by Tritech International Ltd which is capable of
running all the sonar devices.
SeaPrince A more compact sonar than the SeaKing which operates at a single
fixed frequency
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