STARE, a sonar data post-processing and visualisation software package

This paper presents STARE, a sonar-data post-processing and visualisation tool developed by TNO and written in Matlab 6.5. The software takes into account all available acoustic and nonacoustic data (GPS, radar, source/receiver position, time latencies, etc.). The latter can be used to get optimal position information for the identified sonar contacts, or to correlate with the acoustic data (e.g. for a first visual classification). For this, detailed effects are taken into account, e.g. ship displacement during ping, time - Doppler coupling. STARE allows to show monostatic, bistatic as well as multistatic data in different kinds of displays (bearing, range), (x,y), geographical.