Lowrance Insight Genesis Mapping

Navico have created a new online service called Insight Genesis, which allows users to create and record personalised depth contour maps through their own Sonar Log recordings. This provides increased personal Cartography and awareness of surroundings.

 

Sonar recordings from >Broadband Sounder and StructureScan Transducers connected to a Lowrance HDS Touch multifunction display, offer the ability to create maps of uncharted waters, or update previously surveyed areas, in both salt and fresh water environments.

 

The new level of functionality with Insight Genesis enables refining of existing details due to shifting sand bars, recent dredging or marking of uncharted rocks, and creating charts of bodies of water that are yet to be surveyed. This is achieved by a Bathymetric map being created using a proprietary algorithm and powerful cloud processors, on your computer.

 

To create your own custom maps, you must first activate the standard Sonar logging feature on your HDS Multifunction Display so that all Sonar data is recorded on an SD Card. Then a desktop application can be used to upload the Sonar Log file to the Insight Genesis cloud server, which is then converted into a map within minutes. An e-mail verification will be sent once the Chart is ready to be viewed online.

 

The single download option includes pre-set contours, depth soundings and depth shading, available to be viewed on a PC or single chartplotter. The standard one year subscription allows the user to adjust contour intervals, merge multiple uploads, save maps in an online account, submit up to four hours of Sonar data per map and view personalised maps on up to four registered devices. The premium one year subscription offers the ability to overlay >Bottom Hardness and vegetation outline layers, analyse changes over multiple recordings with trend analysis tools and can be used on up to six registered devices.

 

The Insight Genesis Cloud-based server provides an online platform to store trips and maps, as well as merge multiple data files into larger maps, without it being attached to a physical location. The data can then be updated over multiple trips and built over time, as individuals are able to review >Broadband Sounder and DownScan Imaging Sonar logs and view trails and corresponding maps.

 

 Anyone can create an account with no pre-purchase necessary, and it is also the only online service to offer personalised bottom composition, including vegetation and hardness layers.

 

The Insight Genesis website will be available in November for use with Lowrance HDS Gen2 Touch. HDS Gen2 multifunction displays and selected Elite models, are expected in early 2013.

 

For more information, view the Insight Genesis Demo Video or call or drop into the CH Smith store, and speak to one of our knowledgeable staff.

Insight Genesis
Recorded Sonar Log