User`s manual

Section 1: Introduction
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Section 1: Introduction
This section includes contact information and a brief description
of SEASOFT-Win32 and its components.
How to Contact Sea-Bird
Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc.
1808 136
th
Place Northeast
Bellevue, Washington 98005 USA
Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail] Website: http://www.seabird.com
Business hours:
Monday-Friday, 0800 to 1700 Pacific Standard Time
(1600 to 0100 Universal Time)
Except from April to October, when we are on ‘summer time’
(1500 to 0000 Universal Time)
Summary
SEASOFT-Win32 consists of modular, menu-driven routines for acquisition,
display, processing, and archiving of oceanographic data acquired with
Sea-Bird equipment. SEASOFT-Win32 is designed to work with a PC running
Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP.
SEASOFT-Win32 is actually several stand-alone programs:
• SEATERM and SeatermAF terminal programs that send commands to
instrument for status, data acquisition setup, data retrieval, and diagnostics
• SEASAVE program that acquires real-time data
• SBE Data Processing program that converts, edits, processes, and
plots data
• Plot39 program for plotting SBE 39 and SBE 48 data
This manual covers only SEASAVE, which:
• acquires real-time, raw data (frequencies and voltages) and saves the raw
data to the computer for later processing
• displays selected raw and/or converted (engineering units) real-time or
archived data in text and plot displays
Additional SEASAVE features include the ability to:
• send commands to close water sampler bottles
• save NMEA navigation data with the CTD data
• save user-input header information with the CTD data, providing
information that is useful for identifying the data set
• output converted (engineering units) data to a computer COM port or file
on the computer
• output data to a remote display
• set up alarm parameters
• mark real-time data to note significant events in a cast
Note:
The following SEASOFT-DOS
calibration modules are not yet
available in SEASOFT-Win32:
• OXFIT – compute oxygen
calibration coefficients
• OXFITW – compute oxygen
calibration coefficients using
Winkler titration values
• OXSAT – compute oxygen
saturation as a function of
temperature and salinity
• PHFIT – compute pH coefficients
See the SEASOFT-DOS manual.