Our Colleagues get published at Journal of Applied Hydrography

We are proud to announce that our colleagues Finn Spitz and Steffen Stadler got published in the recent edition of the Journal of Applied Hydrography together with Mia Schumacher, GEOMAR. Their paper is covering the features and relevance of the collaboratively developed open-source software SidescanTools and its application in ocean research.

The research as well as SidescanTools was additionally presented at Rostock Ocean Convention in November 2025 and recieved extensive feedback and interest by the attending parties of both industry and research.

Further Information

The article can be accessed here: https://www.dhyg.de/images/hn_ausgaben/HN132.pdf 

SidescanTools is available on GitHub under GPLv3 license: https://github.com/sonoware/sidescantools 

SidescanTools is being developed as part of the GhostNetBusters project, which focuses on detecting small objects in sonar data. This is a collaborative effort with sonoware GmbH (Kiel) and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, funded by the AI fund of the State of Schleswig-Holstein.