HIPS and SIPS Module : HIPS and SIPS Reference : Data formats that can be converted to HIPS and SIPS
 

Data formats that can be converted to HIPS and SIPS

File Format

File extensions

Data types processed through HIPS

SIPS Side Scan support

SIPS Backscatter support

Water Column Imagery support

Atlas ASD,

Atlas Hydrosweep,

Atlas SURF

*.sda, *.asd, *.acf, *.six

multibeam, single beam

YES

No

No

Bathyswath intermediate SXI

Bathyswath processed SXP

Bathyswath raw SXR

*.sxp, *.sxr, *.sxi

bathymetry, side scan

YES

No

No

Chirpscan3D

*.brf

multibeam

No

No

No

CMAX

*.cmx, *.cm2, *.cmp

multibeam, single beam

YES

No

No

Coda COD

*.*

side scan

YES

No

No

Edgetech 260

Edgetech JSF

Edgetech Midas

*.*

side scan

YES

No

No

EIVA

*.sbd (generic EIVA binary format) or *.xse

multibeam, single beam

YES

No

No

ELAC

*.*, *.mb41 (Seabeam)

multibeam, single beam, side scan

YES

No

YES

(expects *.wci.xse format)

FURUNO LOG

*.*

multibeam, single beam, side scan

YES

No

No

Generic Sensor Format GSF

*.gsf, *.*

multibeam

YES

No

No

GeoAcoustics RDF

GeoAcoustics RFF

*.rdf, *.rff

Dual frequency side scan

No

No

No

Hawkeye BIN

*.bin

LIDAR

No

No

No

Hypack HS2

Hypack RAW, HSX

*.hs2, *.hs2x, *,hsx, *.raw, *.*

multibeam, single beam, side scan, sweep

YES

YES (*.hsx/ 7k and beam average/time series)

YES (R2Sonic only)

Imagenex

*.83p, *.83m

multibeam, side scan

YES

No

No

Klein SDF

*.sdf

bathymetry, side scan

YES

No

No

Kongsberg ALL

Kongsberg EA600 RAW, DEPTH

*.all, *.out, *.raw, *.depth, *.mb57

multibeam, single beam, side scan

YES

YES (beam average and time series for *.all format only)

YES, *.all format only)

Kraken TIL

*.til

multibeam, side scan

YES

No

No

LADS CAF

*.*, CARIS ASCII Format

LIDAR

No

No

No

LAS (a public binary format for LIDAR data)

*.las

LIDAR

No

No

No

Marine Sonics

MS Tiff files (*.*)

side scan

YES

No

No

PROSAS

*.img

swath

No

No

No

QMIPS DAT

*.*

side scan

YES

No

No

Scripps

*.*

swath, side scan

YES

No

No

SEGY (SEG-Y)

*.*

side scan

YES

No

No

SHOALS

*.out, *.hof, *.tof

LIDAR

No

No

No

Simrad - see Kongsberg

Spawar

*.dat

swath

No

No

No

Teledyne PDS

Teledyne S7K

Teledyne TDY

*.pds, **.s7k, *.tdy, *.*

multibeam, swath, side scan

YES (*.s7k only)

YES (*.s7k only) (beam average and time series) also 7028 records and deprecated 7008 records

YES (*.s7k only)

UNB

*.merged

swath

No

No

No

Winfrog

*.*

single beam

No

No

No

XTF (eXtended Triton Format)

*.xtf

multibeam, single beam, side scan, sweep

YES

No

No