SEA-BIRD SCIENTIFIC FATHOM

Sea-Bird Scientific’s Fathom software makes working with your instruments transparent and simple. View instrument status and diagnostics, execute setup and deployment, acquire and display real-time measurements, process and visualize data, and more. As an all-in-one solution with a streamlined interface, Fathom enables you to do the science that matters, faster.

Instruments currently supported:

• SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT
• SBE 37 MicroCAT
• SBE 39plus

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Having trouble downloading? Reach out to the team at techsupport@seabird.com.

Current Version: 1.2.6

FEATURES

• All-in-one software solution – uniting functions previously spread across a suite of applications to enable you to do everything in one simple interface
• User-friendly interface – designed with ease in mind, without sacrificing the functionality that powers your work
• Seamless deployment – intuitive setup ensures your instrument can be deployed with ease and confidence
• Streamlined data processing – modular options mean you can customize your workflow for converting, editing, processing, and plotting
• Transparent framework – complete with computational documentation via GitHub
• Responsive plotting – your data is more interactive, providing visual feedback to your processing choices
• Regular updates – consistent development cycles mean that the instruments and features you want most can be supported and incorporated faster

RESOURCES

Click the link below to access the repository for the Sea-Bird Scientific (SBS) Community Toolkit. It is a collection of:

• A Jupyter notebook that documents the processing options available in the SBS Fathom application. This notebook also serves to document the current toolkit processing options that can be applied to data collected with Fathom-supported SBS instruments.
• Example SBS instrument data.
• Python code to help in user developed processing of data collected with SBS instruments.

DATA PROCESSING DOCUMENTATION

SUGGEST NEW FEATURES & ENHANCEMENTS

If you discover reproducible bugs in any of the software, please document the steps taken to achieve them and send a report to techsupport@seabird.com. We welcome any suggestions for new features and enhancements for our software.

SOFTWARE UPDATE LOG