Releases: dwcaress/MB-System
5.8.1beta07
CMake build system: Fixed ability to set OTPS location in cmake build system.
CMake build system: Added installation of header files required for external programs to
utilize MB-System libraries.
5.8.1beta06
CMake build system: Fixed ability to set OTPS location in cmake build system.
CMake build system: Added installation of header files required for external programs to
utilize MB-System libraries.
5.8.1beta04
Format 261 (MBF_KEMKMALL): Updated support for Kongsberg Kmall format to match updated specification J.
5.8.1beta03
Mbphotomosaic: Fixed priority-heading option that allows image prioritization on
the basis of camera heading.
5.8.1beta02
Mbphotomosaic: Added options to detect and correct dark images (for when strobe lights
partially drop out), to ignore dark images, and to allow image prioritization on
the basis of camera heading.
5.8.1beta01
Mbpreprocess: Now checks for successive pings/scans with the same timestamp, and
adds enough time to the second timestamp (0.0000033 seconds) that these pings/scans
are seen as different by the beam edit flag handling code. For dual head sensors
this logic only compares timestamps for the same subsensor, so simultaneous operation
of the two subsensors (sonar or lidar heads) is allowed.
Mbvoxelclean: Fixed bug in which previously beamflags from previously existing esf
files were ignored. Also fixed a non-initialized pointer bug that produced occasional
crashes.
5.8.0
Version 5.8.0 is now the current release of MB-System.
The source code distribution can be downloaded from the MB-System Github repository at:
https://github.com/dwcaress/MB-System/archive/refs/tags/5.8.0.tar.gz
In addition to many bug fixes, the changes of 5.8.0 relative to the prior major release (5.7.8) include:
New build system:
MB-System is now built and installed using the CMake package, rather than GNU Autotools. The old build system is still present and can be used to install MB-System on old operating systems (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04), but all support for building on recent, current and future operating systems will be for use of CMake. See the Download and Install (https://www.mbari.org/technology/mb-system/installation/) instructions page for details.
Global ties to reference grids in MBnavadjust:
MBnavadjust is a toolset used adjust navigation of submerged platform (e.g. AUV or ROV) surveys so that features match where swaths overlap and cross. The primary information comes from measuring the navigation offsets required to match features using cross correlation of the bathymetry data. MBnavadjust now also allows the survey navigation to be tied to reference bathymetry models, typically from GPS-navigated hull mounted surveys, so that the navigation can be tied to the world frame of reference.
Realtime Terrain Relative Navigation:
MB-System now includes a Terrain Relative Navigation (TRN) codebase developed at Stanford and MBARI that uses realtime topography information to where a platform is located on a pre-existing topography map. The MB-System tool mbtrnpp implements TRN in the case of an AUV or ROV equipped with a multibeam sonar.
Photomosaicing tools available:
Tools for generating photomosaics from sets of still seafloor photographs are now built as part of MB-System by default. Documentation and examples are being developed but are not available at the time of this release.
5.8.0rc2
5.8.0rc1
5.7.9beta72
Build Systems: Made building and installing deprecated programs optional for both
the CMake and Autoconf build systems.
Man pages: Restructured the web page versions of the manual pages installed with
MB-System. Recast the postscript versions of the manual pages into Pdf files.
Mbgrdviz: Generated a new version of the MB-System Route files.
Mbm_route2mission: Now works with both old and new format route files.