Hyperpro Processing
Open ProSoft (on the desktop).
Select most current instrument setup (or the one whose date is correct for the date of the data being processed). This file will need to changed after the Hyperpro or its radiometers come back from being calibrated (see below under Instrument Settings).
Pick Level 1 – 4.
Navigate to where the files are that you want to process. Then you will be able to see all the raw files in that directory.
Chose the ones you want to process. You can select them all at once. Then “add” and “OK.”
In the Level 4 Options window, select (k) and PAR, then “OK.”
Some samples might make ProSoft crash – if the water was too shallow for back calculating, for example – but it might get part way through. Watch for it to crash; if it crashes, the red progress bar will stop moving and an error will appear in black window. If this occurs, go back to the file selection step and start again from the one after where it crashed. This often happens with GB data.
This processing takes the raw file and creates multiple output files at the different levels of correction and calculation. Level 3S is sufficient for other optical calculations.
Finally, need to change the *.hdf files generated by ProSoft processing into *.mat files. Do this using the old version (7.7) of ProSoft on Mike’s old desktop because it can run all the *.hdf files at once.
Open Prosoft. Under “Tools,” select “Mat Data Extractor.”
Navigate to cruise directory with the data and hyperpro folder within.
Then it will show all available hdf files. Select all, add, ok.
Watch them process. Creates Matfiles folder in cruise\hyperpro folder.
Processing Settings
Access settings under main ProSoft window – select “edit.”
At left is what they should be and usually no reason to change.
Instrument Settings
These settings are what need to be changed after calibration.
Will get a new *.sip file (a new suitcase, which is a zipped file of cal files) when the instrument comes back, so need to load them. Place the sip file in C:\hyperpro; there will likely be two new files, one for the hyperpro and radiometers and one for the Es.
Under Current Instrument select “edit.”
Chose “add cal file,” then navigate to C:\hyperpro.
Then you will be able to see all the sip files in that directory. Select the one(s) desired. “Add,” then “OK.”
Then use the right arrow to open the new sip file in the “loaded cal files” window.
For each newly loaded cal file, need to assign corresponding sensor information.
Use the instrument’s serial number to identify it. Serial numbers are included in the name of the cal file.
For regular hyperspectral sensors, there will be two cal files since one is for the dark. If there is a D in the name of the file, it is the dark.
For the hyperpro radiometers, make sure the settings are profiler, water, freefall, and shutterdark (hyperspectrals) or shutterlight (multis).
For the hyperpro itself, change Frame type to ‘anc.’
For the hyperLu, make sure distance to surface is set at 0.3m (dark and light).
For the Es, change instrument type to ‘reference’, immersion coefficient to ‘air’ and check both light and dark for frame type. There will be two cal files for Es (one is dark).
Instrument Serial Number / Radiometer Type212 / Hyper Ed
213 / Hyper Ed
207 / Hyper Ed
267 / Hyper Ed
148I / Hyper Ed
194 / Hyper Lu
228 / Hyper Lu
195 / Hyper Lu
230 / Hyper Lu
155R / Hyper Lu
183I / Hyper Es
140 / Hyper Es
268 / Hyper Es
180 / Multi UV
192 / Multi Visible
020 / MDU-100
051 / Hyperpro