Navigation and Datalogging Software for Hydrographic survey


NEW for 2008

Low Cost AIS Chart Plotter - Portable Navigator AIS Express

The Express version of Portable Navigator AIS was designed as a low cost solution for users who want the navigation and display facilities of Portable Navigator AIS without all the complex hydrographical data logging capabilities it provides. Portable Navigator AIS Express has all the AIS display and logging capabilities of the full product at a fraction of the price. Buy on line

Hydrographic Data Logging with AIS - Portable Navigator AIS

Hydrographic Data Logging Portable Navigator III 2007

Portable Navigator III is the ideal data logging solution for towed magnetic and sonar surveys

Portable Navigator III offers direct support of Aquascan Magnetometers with its high speed multi-port, multi-channel NMEA DDE server with dynamic averaging and data pre-processing it can combine data streams from multiple instruments for serious data logging applications.

PN 3.07 now includes Heading Up mode while navigating

NMEAPro also provides Portable Navigator for Windows with full support of the Yeoman Plotter for hand digitising your paper charts. You can also use the Free worldwide coastline charts ! From the US Government Woods Hole Field Center.

New Features

Standard Features

The standard features include Auto Dead Reckoning mode if the GPS fails, log playback whilst still logging, tidal averaging for Course to Steer, and configurable Vessel Plan Orientation, Tow Geometry and GPS Antenna Offset. These last three features enable you to directly log the predicted position of towed sonar arrays, magnetometers etc., while carrying out hydrographic surveys in cross tide situations. Used with NMEAPro III, the multichannel NMEA server from ESL, Portable Navigator III can log position and up to 10 auxiliary NMEA fields from up to 5 NMEA sentences on any combination of 4 different COM ports providing you with a programmable MUX facility

Click here to read all about it in the manual

(PDF copy of the full manual - about 515k bytes).

Download Portable Navigator III  Demo  (for Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT and XP)

(This downloads PN307 Demo.exe - 4,905,078 bytes - Last updated January 2007, a self installing setup file)

Portable Navigator & NMEA Pro Application Notes

    Custom version of Portable Navigator for British Waterways...
  1. Multi-beam Shallow Water Echo Sounder

    Driving the Robertson DataLine X system to provide a...
  2. Remote Navigation Display

    NMEA Pro and custom software provide a...
  3. Dredging Display and Data Logging System

    Portable Navigator takes the uncertainty out of...
  4. Sidescan Sonar Data Logging and Annotation

    SCT Ltd., use DGPS and NMEA Pro to manage the dockyard ...
  5. Southampton Container Terminals Ltd., use DGPS


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