SovaN-UserGuide V01.

3 ©2017 MELINT

SovaN

User Guide

May 2017
Document name: SovaN-UserGuide
Version 01.3
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Table of Contents
1 What is SovaN ................................................................................................................................. 3
2 User guide ....................................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 General control and system information ................................................................................ 4
Location .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Main Control ................................................................................................................................... 4
System Info ..................................................................................................................................... 4
GUI Control ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Panorama........................................................................................................................................ 5
2.2 MS Movement ......................................................................................................................... 5
PanTilt ............................................................................................................................................. 5
2.3 Thermal camera....................................................................................................................... 6
Camera/Video ................................................................................................................................. 6
Zoom/FOV....................................................................................................................................... 6
Focus ............................................................................................................................................... 7
Video Tracking ................................................................................................................................ 7
Level and Span ................................................................................................................................ 8
Calibration ...................................................................................................................................... 8
Digital Detail Enhancement (DDE) .................................................................................................. 9
Crisp (Sharpen) ............................................................................................................................... 9
Image .............................................................................................................................................. 9
Menu............................................................................................................................................. 10
2.4 Daylight camera..................................................................................................................... 10
Camera/Video ............................................................................................................................... 10
Zoom/FOV..................................................................................................................................... 10
Zoom/FOV..................................................................................................................................... 11
Image ............................................................................................................................................ 11
2.5 Utils........................................................................................................................................ 11
Auto Patrol .................................................................................................................................... 12
Presets .......................................................................................................................................... 12
3 Joystick control ............................................................................................................................. 14
4 Glossary ........................................................................................................................................ 15
5 Support and Contact information................................................................................................. 16
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1 What is SovaN
SovaN is new Command and Control software application mainly used for Border and Blue
border protection, Coastal observation, Rescue service and Global Security. It combines
advantages of thermal and daylight cameras with support of Laser Range Finder (LRF)
equipment all mounted on 360° PanTilt (PT) units. All equipment on a single location is
referred to as a multisensor (MS).
SovaN enables monitoring of multiple locations from a single or multiple C&C.
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2 User guide
The application has a graphical user interface (GUI) which is split to four main areas.
- Video area
- General control and system information
- PanTilt control
- Thermal/daylight camera control with utilities

NOTE: Some features in SovaN are not supported on all MS models.

2.1 General control and system information

Location
Select the location for surveillance by choosing it from the locations dropdown list
control in the top-left corner.

Main Control
Main control buttons are located in the bottom-left corner.
Master/Slave: SovaN needs to be connected to the server
(IPCom) to be able to control the multisensor. If in master mode
multisensor can be controlled and If in slave mode only status
data is being received.

Stop PT: Stops moving PT unit.

GIS: If control command is received from the GIS it

must be approved using the GIS button.
If button is yellow approval is pending.
If button is green GIS is allowed to control MS.

Joystick: Enables/disables the joystick to be used for control.

System Info
The system info panel is located in the bottom-right
corner. Information about angles (pan, tilt, camera
FOV and focus), CPE status (temperature and voltage)
and time is displayed.
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NOTE: DL camera FOV is not represented as an angle on some MS models.

GUI Control
The graphics user interface (GUI) can be controlled using the buttons on the SovaN
panel in the bottom-right corner.

Exit SovaN.

Minimize SovaN to the taskbar.

Move SovaN window to the next monitor.

Panorama

Panorama view with indicator of current MS orientation.

Before the panorama view creation is started MS must be oriented to the middle of
the desired panorama view. On start MS turns to the panorama’s most-left position
and continues to the most-right position while recording and concatenating the
images.

Start the panorama view creation.

Using the track bar thumb MS can be turned to the desired position.

2.2 MS Movement
PanTilt
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Initialize PT unit. Some PT units needs to be initialized after the power cycle. If
this is the case the button is yellow.
If the button is red it means that MS is mounted on the mast which is not on
top. If this is the case MS is not operational.
Move the multisensor PT unit to its home position.

PT movement speed control.

2.3 Thermal camera

Camera/Video
Live picture (green)/freeze picture

Create image from the current view. To open the

screenshots directory right-click the button and
select Open screenshots from the menu.
Thermal camera power on/off. For cameras
with cover it can be controlled by right-
clicking the button and selecting the up/down menu
item.
PiP function.

Synchronized zoom: when zooming on one camera it is synchronized with the

zoom on the second camera.

Zoom/FOV

Zoom to most-wide, middle or most narrow view.

Zoom out (wide), zoom in (narrow).

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Electronic/digital zoom: out (wide) or in (narrow).

Focus

Focus near, focus far.

Trigger auto-focus.

Video Tracking

Video Tracking functionality is used to track a moving object on the screen

with a PT unit support.
To initialize the Video Tracker click the Video Tracking button. The button becomes
green and the yellow rectangle appears on the screen.
If tracking is initialized with a mouse the rectangle follows the mouse cursor as long
as it is in the video stream area.
If tracking is initialized using the joystick the rectangle appears in the middle of the
video stream area. To start tracking using only the joystick object must be in the
middle of the video area (in the yellow square).
To start tracking the object click on it with a middle button of the mouse. The
tracking process starts and the yellow square becomes green. If the object is no
longer recognized the square becomes red.
To change the tracking object or to restart the tracking process click with a middle
mouse button on the video area. Rectangle becomes yellow and tracker is ready to
accept no tracking request.

NOTE: When object tracking is not needed turn the video tracker off. The tracking
process requires additional hardware resources and additional video stream from the
camera which leads to higher requirements for the network bandwidth.

NOTE: The same instructions apply to video tracking using DL camera.

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Level and Span

Increase/decrease level (contrast) and span (gain).

Calibration

NUC – when clicked, three options are available:

- Internal NUC: using the internal shutter (not supported on all models)
- External NUC: using the external lens cover (not supported on all
models)
- Optical NUC: defocusing picture and trigger NUC. Before performing the
optical NUC direct the camera to the clear sky.

Working temperature range according the outdoor temperature (not

supported on all models):

- -20°C - +60°C
- -10°C - +30°C
- -40°C - 0°C

Adjustment mode (not all models support all modes):

- Automatic level (l-mode)

- Automatic level + span (ls-mode)
- Automatic level, span and histogram equalization (h-mode or histogram
mode)
- Automatic level and histogram equalization (lh-mode)
- Automatic histogram equalization (oh-mode or only histogram)
- DDE + automatic level and span (dde-mode)
- DDE + automatic level, span and histogram equalization (ddeh-mode)
- HEQ (histogram equalization)
- DDE (enhance)
- AVG (temporal filter/averaging)
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- Spatial (noise reduction)

- Sharpen

Digital Detail Enhancement (DDE)

Digital picture sharpening (not supported on all models). Set scale from 0 – 100%
with Linear of Histogram filter. Default value is 60%.

Crisp (Sharpen)

Crisp is an image enhancement function that sharpens edges in the scene (not
supported on all models).

Image

Automatic image adjustment.

Manual image adjustment.

Invert picture (white/hot).

Turn on/off on-screen text.

High perf.: Turn on/off High Performance feature.

Test: Turn on/off test picture.

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Menu

Control thermal camera menu

Enter button: Entering the menu of the thermal camera or accept selected
value.

Escape button: Exit the menu.

- Move up or increase value.

- Move left.
- Move down or decrease
value.
- Move right.

2.4 Daylight camera

Camera/Video
Live picture (green)/freeze picture

Create image from the current view. To open the

screenshots directory right-click the button and
select Open screenshots from the menu.
Daylight camera lens heating.

PiP function.

Synchronized zoom: when zooming on one camera it is synchronized with the

zoom on the second camera.

Zoom/FOV
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Zoom out (wide), zoom in (narrow).

Zoom Extender – digital zoom (x2) on/off.

Turn on/off slow or fast zoom.

Zoom/FOV

Focus near, focus far.

Trigger auto-focus.

Image

Turn on/off the fog filter.

Note: not all cameras support fog filter function.

2.5 Utils
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Auto Patrol
Using Auto Patrol user can record PT movement and create
path which can be later on played back.

Play selected Auto Patrol path.

Record Auto Patrol path.

Clear selected Auto Patrol path.

Presets
Using Presets user can record current position and some
camera settings into 20 presets which can be later quickly
accessed to move PT to desired position and set camera
settings or to play in a sequence.

Show/hide presets. User can store up to 20 presets per location. To store a

preset user must hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard and double-click

with the left mouse button on an area presenting an empty preset.

When a preset is stored the current picture is shown in a clicked preset area.
To recall a stored preset user must double-click with the left mouse button
on a stored preset.
Start/stop auto patrol using presets. The pause in seconds between each
preset can be set using the numeric up-down control.
Adaptive image masking
Adaptive image masking controls are only available on administration
account and are used for adding, deleting and managing active image masks.
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To add new image mask first press plus sign. First click on the image
generates first edge of the masking square. Second click generates the
second corner and two points define the masking square. Confirm the new
mask with OK or dismiss with X. Mask should always be drawn larger than
the object intended for masking due to systematic inaccuracies. For better
accuracy please input correct distance from camera system to object under
mask settings.
Button for mask settings opens a new window for managing masks and
common mask settings. Settings differ for DL and TH camera.

Mask TAB shows masks by ID, where fine tuning of capture can be made.
Each mask can be enabled or disabled. This does not delete the mask.
Distance from camera to object measured in millimeters. Position X and Y
defines the upper left corner of the square. Zoom range Min defines the
zoom value where the mask starts to show and Zoom range Max defines
where the mask is not visible anymore. If desired mask should be visible at
all zoom levels Min and Mask values should be 65535 and 1 respectably.
UPDATE button updates mask values for selected ID, DELETE button deletes
selected mask from memory. SHOW button sends the system to the pan and
tilt angles of mask capture.
Common TAB manages mask. Change of color should be confirmed with
CONFIRM button.
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3 Joystick control

Buttons assignments:
01 – Toggle cameras (TH/DL)
02 – Toggle life stream/pause
03 – Auto focus
04 – Toggle resets play/stop
05 – Optical NUC
11 – Focus using Z-axis
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4 Glossary
AIS – Automatic Identification System
C&C – Command and Control
DDE – Digital Detail Enhancement
DL – Daylight (camera)
FOV – Camera’s Field of View
GIS – Geographic Information System
GUI – Graphical User Interface
Level – In thermography level is the mid-point of the span.
LRF – Laser Range Finder
Map – a picture or chart that shows the different parts of an area
MOP – Mobile Observation Platform
MS – Multi Sensor (PT with payload – cameras, LRF …)
NUC – Non-Uniformity Correction
OBSP – Observation Platform
PiP – Picture in Picture
PT – PanTilt unit
Span – In thermography, Span refers to the difference between the high and low
temperature settings on an infrared image.
Surveillance platform – Platform used for observing and tracking targets and areas on the
map (includes MOPs and OBSPs)
TH – Thermal (camera)
UAV – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UI – User Interface
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5 Support and Contact information

For further information or technical support please contact:

MELINT (R&D)
www.melint.com

e-mail : [email protected]