HYPACK contains powerful tools that let you quickly design your survey. Design tools allow you to:

* Set your geodetic parameters
* Import background charts
o DXF, DGN, S-57, TIF, MrSid, ARCS
* Configure your survey equipment
o Equipment type
o Connection information
o Offset information
* Create your planned lines
o Manual entry
o Parallel & Perpendicular patterns
o CHANNEL DESIGN automatically creates planned lines and cross sectional profiles for channels and turning basins.
o ADVANCED CHANNEL DESIGN creates complex 3D surfaces for precise dredging and volume computations.

HYPACK automatically stores your survey information to a project directory, allowing you to quickly load previous surveys. It runs under Windows XP and Windows Vista.HYSWEEP is an optional module that provides for the calibration, data collection and data processing of multibeam sonar data inside the HYPACK package. HYSWEEP has been integrated to almost all multibeam systems, including those from Odom, Reson, Konigsberg/Simrad, Elac/Seabeam, and GeoAcoustics. With over 500 HYSWEEP users on six continents, HYSWEEP has proven to be powerful, cost effect and easy to learn.

Although software packages provided by multibeam manufacturers might be great at data collection, they are usually weak when it comes to generating final products. Whats great about HYSWEEP is that it is fully integrated into HYPACK, allowing you access to all of the great final product routines, including volume computations using your multibeam data.REDGEPACK is designed to save you money. It keeps your crew working in the dredge cut and prevents them from wasting time and money by digging too deep or outside the channel. DREDGEPACK is designed to work with cutter suction, hopper, bucket and excavator operations.

Using tools in DREDGEPACK, your SURVEY data is loaded into a color coded matrix. Your survey data can come from single beam data, multibeam data or multiple transducer data. DREDGEPACK will monitor the exact position and depth of the digging tool and keep track of an As Dredged surface. Youll be able to see exactly where your digging tool is in plan view and in profile view. Youll also be able to see the channel design depth and channel overdepth in profile view.

Dredging plans can be simple channels or complex surfaces, as created in the ADVANCE CHANNEL DESIGN program.

For a cutter suction dredge, typical inputs to DREDGEPACK are a directional DGPS and an inclinometer to determine the angle of the ladder arm. DREDGEPACK integrates to several commercially available inclinometers, or can read existing equipment using OPC Network interfaces or analog/digital cards.