SSR-Viewer 9.

0 Release
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

PMP SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Network Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

NEW FEATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

IMPROVEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

KNOWN LIMITATIONS AND WORKAROUNDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

APPROVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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INTRODUCTION

OVERVIEW
This document outlines new features, improvements, known issues, and limitations of the SSR-Viewer 9.0
release.

AUDIENCE
This document should be presented to any customer of GroundProbe using SSR-Viewer 9.0, including
data analysts, system operators, radar technicians, IT teams on site, geotechnical engineers, etc.

BREAKING CHANGES

1. Upon installation of SSR-Viewer 9.0.11 or above a new SSR-Viewer 9 license will be required, a
SSR-Viewer 8 license file will no longer be valid.

INSTALLATION NOTES
To ensure the successful installation of SSR-Viewer 9.0 please consider the following:

1. Backup all SSR-Viewer 8.4 wall folders on the PMP and SSR (if required).
2. Skymask is now stored within the ssrctrl.cfg, it is recommended to record the current skymask
value prior to installing SSR-Viewer 9.0 on the SSR.
3. Upon installation of SSR-Viewer 9.0 on the SSR, please configure the skymask using SSR-Control
Settings.
4. It is recommended that a new wall is started upon installation of SSR-Viewer 9.0, however it is
possible to continue a SSR-Viewer 8.4 wall folder by performing the steps below:
a. Exit SSR-Control on the SSR
b. Install SSR-Viewer 9.0 on the PMP
c. Install SSR-Viewer 9.0 on the SSR
d. Restart SSR-Control
e. Once data is being sent to the PMP, open SSR-Viewer and check the following plots for
consistent behavior compared with SSR-Viewer 8.4:
i. Deformation,
ii. Coherence,
iii. Amplitude
iv. Range
v. Atmospheric Refractivity
vi. Stable Reference Area Spread
vii. Amplitude vs Range

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IMPORTANT
A new SSR-Control configuration parameter has been added called "Enable Fcc Compliance", if
you are installing on a system in a country that requires FCC compliance then please ensure this
configuration parameter is set to the following:
Enable Fcc Compliance=y
Failure to set this parameter correctly, could result in the system not being FCC Compliance.

NOTE
When updating SSR-Viewer at the SSR, be sure to turn off write protection on the hard drive prior
to beginning the procedure.

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PMP SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Primary Monitoring Point (PMP)

The monitoring device (SSR, GMS etc) data is sent directly to the Primary Monitoring
Point (PMP).
The PMP is typically located where there are personnel stationed to monitor systems
day and night, such as the mine site dispatch office.
The PMP can be a virtual machine (such as a remote server) that is accessible by
computers on the network.
Personnel responsible for monitoring the SSR system via the PMP must undergo
training for both the SSR-Viewer Suite as well as for the SSR Watchdog (if applicable).

Set Power Options on PMP

The power options on the PMP computer may need to be configured to prevent automatic system
standby or logoff. Seek assistance from site IT to ensure the system will not go into sleep mode or lock
the computer after a certain period of time.

WARNING
If your system will be used for critical monitoring the power options must be configured to
prevent automatic system standby or logoff

PMP COMPUTER MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The PMP Computer must meet the minimum System Requirements outlined below in order to operate as
expected.

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 Detail Minimum Recommended

Processor Intel i3 @ 2+ GHz or equivalent Intel i7 @ 2+ GHz or equivalent

(Dual Core) (Quad Core)

Memory (RAM) 4 GB (SSR-T / SSR-XT / GMS) 16 GB

8 GB (SSR-FM / SSR-FX)
8 GB (SSR-SARx)

Operating System Windows 7 64-bit Windows 7 64-bit

Windows 10 64-bit
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
*Latest service packs installed
Windows 10 64-bit
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
*Latest service packs installed

Graphics Card Direct X 11 compatible Direct X 11 compatible

2 GB video RAM 4 GB video RAM or greater
OpenGL 2.1 or later OpenGL 2.1 or later
(See note below) (See note below)

Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 (32 bit colour) 1920 x 1080 (32 bit colour)

PC Speakers
(required for audible alarms and alerts)

Available Disk Space 256 GB (SSR-T / SSR-XT / GMS) 500 GB (SSR-T / SSR-XT / GMS)
1 TB (SSR-FM / SSR-FX) 2 TB (SSR-FM / SSR-FX)
1 TB (SSR-SARx) 2 TB (SSR-SARx)
*SSD Recommend *SSD Recommend

Table 1: PMP System Requirements

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Notes

If the PMP computer/virtual machine does not have a dedicated Graphics Processing Unit
(GPU) installed, SSR-Viewer will recruit the Central Processing Unit (CPU) to render radar data.
This is likely to result in a performance loss when data is being rendered.
A GPU is not necessary for virtual machine configurations where the system will not be
required to display SSR data. The virtual machine can host SSR-Server and only the connecting
computers running SSR-Viewer should have a dedicated graphics card installed.

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NETWORK REQUIREMENTS

WARNING
The computer that SSR-Viewer is installed on MUST be on a domain. SSR-Viewer does not support
workgroup PCs.

Ideally the PC should be on the same domain as all other PCs attempting to access the SSR
data.
PCs on different domains are only supported if a domain trust policy applies across the
different domains.

STATIC IP ADDRESS
Each computer on the network (PMP or Server) receiving data from the radar must have a unique fixed IP
address accessible from the radar.

If wireless communications to the SSR are supplied by site then each SSR on the network must
have a unique fixed IP address accessible from the PMP computer(s).

TCP PORTS
SSR-Viewer requires a number of network ports to be open on the computers running the software.
These ports are defined in the table below:

TCP/IP Port Use Direction (SSR/PMP)

443 WebUpload Out to the internet

808 SSR-Viewer Both directions

3389 Windows Remote Desktop To SSR

5201 iPerf Bandwidth Testing Both directions

5900 UltraVNC To SSR

Table 2: Required Network TCP Ports

WEBUPLOAD

INTERNET ACCESS
The computer running SSR-Server must have internet access and port 443 enabled, so it can send data to
the GroundProbe WebUpload server at webupload.groundprobe.com, which resolves to the IP address
175.45.81.23.

The amount of data transferred is configurable, and depends upon the type of SSR and the size of
the scan area the SSR is monitoring.

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PROXY CONFIGURATION
It may be necessary to configure your computer to enable internet access via a proxy.
Your site IT department will provide the proxy address and port number if required.

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NEW FEATURES
1. GML-UNDERGROUND SUPPORT
SSR-Viewer has been updated to support GML-Underground systems. GroundProbe's Geotechnical
Monitoring LiDAR (GML) is a precision instrument developed for the monitoring and analysis of
underground wall stability. GML has been integrated with SSR-Viewer to allow the user to process and
analyse the data in real time or visually remote inspect a station.
SSR-Viewer covers all our GML applications: Civil, Underground and Mobile.

2. GMS SUPPORT
SSR-Viewer has been updated to support GMS systems. The GMS is fully integrated with SSR-Viewer. It all
ows the user to control the GMS and create a monitoring campaign to collect data for long periods of
many months to many years, as well as analyse the data in real time, visually remote inspect any parts of
the wall and set alarms, among other functionality.
GroundProbe's Geotech Monitoring Station (GMS) is a precision instrument developed specifically for
geotechnical deformation monitoring. It specialises in background monitoring in open cut pits and highly
vegetated slopes, detecting and measuring deformation on tailings dams, dumps and cuttings. GMS is
intuitive and easy to use, yet capable of measuring deformation of points with high accuracy.
GMS runs on version 9 of SSR-Viewer.

3. DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL (DTM) SUPPORT

A powerful new 3D engine has been added to SSR-Viewer.
For our SSR-FX and SSR-SARx systems, this means visualising 2D radar data in 3D.
Users can now import their mine DTM and flip between the existing Plan View and the new 3D
view.
For our SSR-XT system, users have the flexibility of importing a DTM or using the radar-generated
terrain model.
For all radars, the new DTM feature allows users to drag and drop external models, geology layers
and structures.
Once the DTM is imported the radar data is automatically geo-referenced.

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4. ALARM THRESHOLD VISUALISATION
Users are now able to visualise the alarm thresholds to assist in alarm creation and historical analysis.

The green areas highlight when the alarm would not trigger.
The red/orange areas highlight when the alarm would trigger.
This feature is available in Alarm Setup and in the Alarms Tab.

Deformation - Since Time

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Deformation - Over period

Coherence

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Tracking

Velocity

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Inverse Velocity

Velocity Ratio

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5. ALARMS TAB
The Alarms tab now contains an analysis chart. The data displayed within the chart is based on
the alarm configuration.
The user is only able to select pixels within the alarm mask, if pixels are selected outside the
alarm mask then the chart will not display any data.
The chart allows the alarm thresholds to be visualised, to avoid confusion only one alarm
threshold can be visualised at any time.

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6. SPOT VELOCITY
Available on all charts, gives the user the rate of change between two points in time, together with the
delta time and delta measurements.

7. FORECAST
Allows users to estimate the time of collapse using inverse velocity theory. Only available of charts that
are displaying inverse velocity (Custom Analysis and Velocity Views).

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8. CUSTOM COLOUR MAPS
Users are now able to create custom colour maps.
Colour map templates can also be created for each monitoring device which will be available
when new walls are created.

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9. ZOOM TO TIME RANGE
Users are now able to quickly zoom to the time range specified by the time sliders. This feature is
available on all charts.

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10. SINGLE OR DOUBLE VISUALISATION SUPPORT
Monitoring devices that support front view (SSR, SSR-XT, GMS etc), users are now able to switch between
double and single visualisations.

11. WALL COPIER

The Wall Copier allows walls to be copied from one machine to another, or to save walls to disk to
be loaded by the Wall Loader on another machine.

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 It has the option to extract part of a wall, by specifying the Start and End limits, this is a great
feature to extract part of wall for analysis or archive (e.g. archive the part of the wall relating to
wall failure)
The continuous sync option allows the destination machine to be kept up to date.

12. LOG FILE AGGREGATOR

The Log File Aggregator is a powerful and flexible log file viewer for the analysis, debugging and
troubleshooting of a SSR-Viewer installation.
SSR-Viewer installation, both on the SSR and the PMP, utilises many services to provide operational
functionality.

These services all generate log files.

SSR-Control and SSR-Viewer also generate log files.
Many of these services interact so analysis, debugging and troubleshooting of all the logs is made easy
using the Log File Aggregator.
The Log File Aggregator can open all log types:

All SSR-Viewer services logs (PMP and SSR)

SSR-Viewer logs
SSR-Control logs

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13. EXTRA TIME PER SCAN DATA
Additional information can be displayed on the Time Per Scan chart in Analysis Tab by enabling
the "Plot Extra Time Per Scan".
Calculated Time Per Scan is calculate based on the previous time per scan data, and will mimic the
time per scan data unless a scan is missing.
Photo taken identifies the times at which photos were taken by the monitoring device.
Missing scan uses the scan serial numbers to identify any missing scans.

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IMPROVEMENTS
1. WebUpload
The WebUpload back-end has been re-designed to improve performance and support all monitoring
device types.
Previously, File -> Options -> Data Link contained the monitoring device link settings and Upload
settings. In SSR-Viewer 9.0, the Data Link settings and Upload Settings have their own configuration
pages.

WebUpload now supports Net Tcp and Https, Net Tcp support has been added to improve performance.
As Net Tcp does not have the ability to tunnel through a proxy, if you use a proxy then continue to use
the Https connection.
Both Net Tcp and Https offer secure communication to our WebUpload server.

2. Log File Export

Log files can now be exported much easier by using the log file export functionality available under File ->
Utilities -> Log File Export.

The user has the option to export the log files to disk or send the log files via email. In either case, the log
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The user has the option to export the log files to disk or send the log files via email. In either case, the log
files for the given time-period from all GroundProbe services will be retrieved and placed in one or more
zip files for sending to GroundProbe for investigation.

3. Fixed Series 2 Camera Calibration (TA132) issue.

4. Added performance improvements on the Alarms tab and editing alarms on a live wall.
5. Added a setting to turn Alarm Thresholds on/off in Options (Default: Off).
To enable Alarm Thresholds change the setting in File → Options → SSR-Viewer → General → "Enable
Alarm Thresholds" to "Yes"
6. Apply the global mask to Velocity.
7. Added the ability to manually align photos to radar data in Plan View.
8. Improved the retry mechanism when the Wall Starter Wizard fails to copy the previous data to the
new wall during fast track.
9. Fixed the deformation criteria being reset when an alarm is edited.

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KNOWN LIMITATIONS AND WORKAROUNDS
No known limitations or workarounds.

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APPROVAL

NOTE

1. SSR-Viewer has been tested on platforms running antivirus software (Symantec) and has
passed all the stringent tests we put our critical monitoring software under prior to
release.
2. SSR-Viewer has not been tested with a representative range of antivirus software
available on the market and therefore SSR-Viewer may not be compatible with these
software packages. If you are experiencing issues and suspect the antivirus software is
impacting the SSR-Viewer then disable the antivirus software and contact the support
desk for further guidance.

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