FEMME 2026

Workshops

Friday

2 October 2026

Magazzini del Cotone, Genoa, Italy

Roll up your sleeves and get hands-on! Our workshop days are all about practical learning and collaboration. Engage with experienced facilitators, explore real-world challenges, and develop skills you can immediately apply. These sessions are designed to be interactive, immersive, and packed with opportunities to grow and network.

Agenda

09.00-09.50Room 1
New tools for multibeam performance test planning and assessment
Speakers
Assessing real-world data quality is critical during sea acceptance testing for all new systems and routine quality assurance testing throughout their service lives. This workshop demonstrates a suite of software tools developed by NOAA and the NSF-funded Multibeam Advisory Committee to simplify test planning, monitor hardware health and noise levels, standardize evaluations of swath performance, and maximize opportunities for testing and gap-filling on transits.
09.00-09.50Room 2
Optimum compression and fast visualization of MBES, HiSAS and EK80 data with FAPEC and FARSHY
Speakers
In this session you will learn how to properly configure the FAPEC data compressor to use it from Kongsberg SIS5 (for Kmall data), from the WinFAPEC interface, from the command-line, or even programmatically from Python. We will focus on its lossy options which, depending on your specific use case, may allow to further reduce the compressed file sizes while barely affecting the data quality. We will run some tests on the supported formats to show its performance: .all, .wcd, .kmall, .kmwcd, .xtf and EK80. You will also learn how to run the FARSHY viewer on KMall watercolumn data. We will demonstrate its fast operation when browsing the several swaths, in raw or stacked mode, and its capability to quickly highlight features in the watercolumn. We will also demonstrate our latest product, Mardins, which quickly generates standard image files from HiSAS and EK80 datasets.
10.00-10.50Room 1
Data Ready When It Matters: Automating Survey Processing Onboard and Ashore
Speakers
In this session, we demonstrate how Kongsberg acquisition systems and EIVA software can be combined to streamline survey workflows. Starting with processing in NaviEdit and NaviModel, we show how Workflow Manager enables automation of key steps – both onboard and onshore. The result is faster access to quality-controlled data, more efficient operations, and improved decision-making for surveyors working across a range of applications.
10.00-10.50Room 2
HYPACK
11.00-11.50Room 1
Automating the Survey Stack: Qinsy API and Qimera CLI in Practice
Speakers
Modern hydrographic workflows demand more than powerful software. They require orchestration. We will demonstrate how Qontrol (the Qinsy API) and Command (the Qimera CLI) enable teams to automate acquisition and processing tasks, support remote and uncrewed operations, and build reproducible, scalable workflows without manual intervention.