Contents

Preface Disclaimer Trademarks Copyright About this manual Getting started The BioBase EcoSound system Biological significance of percent vegetation biovolume The BioBase website Geostatistical interpolation description Kriging Creating and activating an account Logging on to the BioBase dashboard Updating the account information Subscribing to BioBase plans Ordering GIS services Processing preferences Device registration EcoSound organizations Survey pre-planning Minimum and maximum scale of interest and transect spacing Whole-lake surveys in small lakes (fewer than 500 acres) Whole-lake surveys in large lakes (greater than 500 acres) Local area of interest surveys Transect design for depth mapping and smooth contour generation Transect design for aquatic vegetation mapping Transect design for bottom hardness (composition) mapping Creating and uploading survey transects and points to Lowrance/Simrad MFDs Other Notes on transect design Recording, Uploading, and Processing Recording a sonar/echosounder log Transducer installation GPS Recording specifications Start recording a sonar/echosounder log Uploading a sonar/echosounder log Web Upload tool Desktop upload tool Quality control Reporting an issue Waterbody boundary issues Processing sonar/echosounder log files Generating the Vegetation Analysis report Downloading the EcoSound summary reports Vegetation Analysis Report The BioBase trip viewer Selecting a log file Managing the displayed overlays Contour overlay (Bathymetry) Vegetation overlay (Biovolume heat mapping) Composition overlay (Bottom hardness) SideScan mosaic overlay Showing/hiding the track Hiding chart overlays Accessing the Toolbar The Sonar tab The Polygon tab The Waypoints tab Adding manual depth values The Depth tab The Vegetation tab The Composition tab The toolbar Titles and tags Data Offsets Trip reprocessing Merge trips Export data