Upcoming Features

We are constantly planning new features for PAMGuard. New features may be entirely new modules or may be enhancements to existing modules. Most new ideas come out of conversations with PAMGuard users. If you have an idea for a new feature you’d like to see in PAMGuard, please get in touch by emailing support@pamguard.org.

We are only able to work on new features that have been funded. This includes quite a lot of work we do in support of our own research at St Andrews University or at SMRU Ltd as well as the Voluntary Contribution system.

This list of features should not be considered as a full list of all work going on within PAMGuard. We do occasionally develop something in confidence for a client – although everything we do will eventually end up in the open source code and new releases. There may also be other developers doing things we know nothing about.

Some of the features outlined below are really just request – no work has started. Others are near completion.

Open = No work started, but we welcome further input (or offers to fund, or even implement this feature).
Pending = Work has started, although the feature is not yet ready for release.
Complete = The feature is complete and has been released in the latest version.

Please get in touch if you want to discuss the timeline for the implementation of a specific feature.

  • Restrict functionality

    From a user ... Would it be possible to make a customised GUI in which all unnecessary functions were hidden (e.g. the ‘add modules’ lists)?…
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  • GPS smoothing

    From a user ... GPS smoothing > more of a question this one: my data is from a small vehicle towing an array – the vehicles heading (from CMG) was c…
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  • Viewer / Logger forms plot options

    can we have an ‘and’ query option as well as the ‘or’ (e.g. effort = transect AND species group = sperm whale AND likelihood = definite). The…
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  • clip generator bearings on radar

    Request to make clip bearings (from the clip generator module) plot on the radar display as well as on the map. …
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  • Local time for file folders

    PAMGuard file times will remain in GMT. However, when working far from the GMT time zone and storing binary files and recordings in dated sub folders,…
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  • Support for Third Party plug-ins.

    With the current module management system, all modules are either “In” or “Out” of each release and there is no right answer as to whether a m…
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  • FLAC audio support

    ability to open and perhaps even save to FLAC audio files possibly look and including other compressed formats too.…
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  • GPS smoothing

    Smoothing GPS data to take out track wobble. either do in locator or in GPS data storage ?…
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  • Zoom step size.

    From Pierpoint Map – zooming is too slow, the zoom steps too small. An option to jump to preset zoom values would be good.…
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