Software for Dredging Control in Cutter Suction, Hopper, Excavators and Bucket Dredgers.

DREDGEPACK® is designed to save you money. It keeps your crew working in the dredge cut and prevents them from wasting time and money digging too deep or out of the channel. DREDGEPACK® is designed to work with cutter, hopper, bucket and excavator suction operations.

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

Dredge 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 with several commercially available inclinometers, or can read existing equipment using OPC network interfaces or analog/digital cards.

For a hopper dredge, the DREDGEPACK® also needs to be able to determine the exact draft of the vessel. Typical inputs to a hopper system include DGPS, ship’s gyroscope and a bubbler system that provides forward/aft draft information and depth information at one or two points on each ladder arm.

HYPACK® is one of the most widely used hydrographic surveying packages in the world, with over 4,000 users. It provides the surveyor with all the tools needed to design their analysis, collect data, process it and generate final products.