Features of YoNav Software:
What YoNav Allows You to Do

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YoNav Software Documentation:
   Features | Quick Start | Installing | Connecting External Devices | Start YoNav Server | Configure Devices
   Troubleshooting | Create a New Survey | YoNav Data Formats

YoNav NT is a multi-threaded Win32 TCP/IP sockets client server application.
It is a software tool that allows you to do:

• Survey Planning and Management
• Data Recording
• Sensor integration
• Real-time Map-Based Display
• Vessel steering and tracking services
• Feed navigational data to third party systems
• Cruise and Log Annotation

Plan a survey

• Gather background data such as coastlines, isobaths, previous tracklines, etc.
• Generate a pattern of survey lines that fits the geographical area you need to cover.

Manage a survey

• Survey along straight, pre-planned lines
• YoNav graphically displays your vessel and any towed equipment you are tracking as you progress along a survey line.
• YoNav displays your distance along, cross track and to the end of the current survey line.
• YoNav keeps a "snails-trail" history of where the vessel has traveled over the past 10 minutes.
• YoNav allows you to take notes and enter a running commentary in the cruise logbook. This logbook can form the basis of your cruise report and can be exported into any word processor.
• YoNav shows the graphical representation of the data, as opposed to just a straight numerical view: you get the numbers and the pictures.

Record ALL navigational data received from sensors, including:

• GPS receivers
• Fathometers
• Supports most NMEA–0183 devices
  YoNav fully supports this NMEA protocol
• Multiple YoNav clients around the vessel allow you to configure a second YoNav client on the bridge

Integrate ALL navigational data received, including:

• Depth under vessel
• Speed of vessel
• Accurate time
• Position: Longitude and Latitude
• Heading
• Course made good (the path the vessel has traveled over the ground)

View a Real-time Map-Based Display

• Import your ESRI ArcView map data as a real-time background map.

Steer your vessel along straight pre-planned tracklines

• YoNav helps the helmsman guide the vessel on a straight line.

Feed navigational data to third party systems

• Interfaces for the following 3rd party system devices have been written
  • Triton ISIS Sonar Acquisition
  • ODEC Subbottom profiler
  • Short baseline acoustic systems, such as Simrad HPP and ORE Trackpoint.

Annotate Cruise and Log

• Record events as they occur as well as write your cruise report.

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Last updated 7 November 2006 (lzt)