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 HYPACK®
Hydrographic Survey Software
Summary and Screen Samples
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 HYPACK®
HYPACK® is a Windows™-
based software package used
primarily for hydrographic
surveying and data processing.

It is optimized to run under:

Windows 2000™
Windows XP™

HYPACK® performs all of the

tasks necessary to complete
your survey from beginning to
end.
Geodetic Parameters
Planned Line Design
Equipment Configuration
Data Collection supporting
over 200 sensors
Data Processing
Tides and Sound Velocity
Sounding Reduction
Export to DXF/DGN
Plotting of Smooth Sheets
Volumes by Section
Volumes by Surface Model
Contouring to DXF
HYPACK® screen with GeoTIFF background and multibeam sounding matrix.
3D Visualization
[Data courtesy USACE New England District]
Side Scan Collection and
Processing
ACDP Collection and
Display

The optional HYSWEEP®

module allows for the
configuration, calibration,
collection and processing of
multibeam and multiple
transducer sonar systems.

The DREDGEPACK® version

allows you to maximize the
efficiency of your dredge
operations by tracking and
maintaining a history of where
the cutting tool has passed and
how deep it was.
®
HYPACK®, HYSWEEP and
DREDGEPACK® are all
developed by HYPACK, Inc.

The SURVEY program of HYPACK® collecting data from the YSI Sonde 6600.

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 Geodesy
HYPACK® allows you to quickly
configure your geodetic
parameters for each project.

National grids are pre-

defined and available
from a list.
National datum
transformation models
are available for the
USA, UK and France.
Users can determine a 3
or 7-parameter
transformation based on
local test points.
All standard projections
used in hydrographic
surveying are available.
Users can also configure
their parameters to
utilize GPS on a local
survey grid.
Entire projects can be
converted from an old to
a new geodetic basis.
The GEODETIC PARAMETERS program allows you to quickly
specify the geodesy for each survey project.
Planned Lines
You can quickly create planned
lines for your survey.

Manually enter X-Y or

Lat-Long waypoints for
your planned lines.
Use the cursor to set
waypoints.
Create offsets from one
of several methods.
Import planned lines
created in your CAD/GIS
package (*.DXF).
Generate 3-D planned
lines that contain your
channel toe-point and
top-of-bank info.
Clip planned lines to
your exact area, using a
HYPACK Border file.
Planned lines can have:
o 2 or more segments
o Straight or curved
segments

GEODETIC PARAMETERS program from HYPACK®.

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 CHANNEL DESIGN
CHANNEL DESIGN is a special
HYPACK® program that allows
you to create planned lines by
entering the channel geometry.

By entering info for:

Left toe line and side
slope.
Centerline waypoints,
chainage, and depth.
Right toe line and side
slopes.
Turning basins.

…CHANNEL DESIGN can

generate planned lines at user-
defined intervals. Each line will
contain the cross-sectional
design profile at the section.

CHANNEL DESIGN has been

recently upgraded to handle
The CHANNEL DESIGN program creates 3-D planned lines with information on the channel curved centerlines.
centerline, toe lines and top of bank lines.

Matrix Files
A Matrix file (*.MTX) allows you
to display real time bottom
coverage and to quickly display
the bottom depth info in a color
scheme of your selection.

MTX files can be filled with pre-

existing survey data or can be
filled in real time with single
beam, multiple transducer or
multibeam sounding info.

In post-processing the MAPPER

program allows you to select
which depth is used to represent
each ‘cell’ of the matrix:
Minimum depth
Maximum depth
Depth closest to cell
center
Average depth
Median depth
Depth above or below
strike value
A matrix file showing color-coded multibeam depth data superimposed over a GeoTIF.
[Data courtesy USACE New England District]

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 CAD/GIS Support
A majority of our clients want to
be able to import their CAD/GIS
information and display it in
HYPACK® during survey design,
data collection and generation of
final products.

HYPACK® allows the display of

several different background
formats:
DXF/DGN
S-57/S-63
OrthoTIF, GeoTIF
BSB, UKHO ARCS
Vector Product Format
SHP from ArcInfo

HYPACK® also provides several

tools to export data files and
project files to both DXF and
Microstation DGN.

®
One of HYPACK ’s strengths is in its import and export to CAD. The above screen capture
shows a Microstation DGN file in MAX.

SURVEY
The SURVEY program of
HYPACK® supports many kinds
of devices.
RTK, DGPS and GPS systems
Range-Azimuth
Range-Range
USBL
ROV Transponders
Single beam and Dual
Frequency echosounders
Heave-Pitch-Roll sensors
Gyros and magnetic compass
Magnetometers
Environmental sensors

SURVEY provides windows for

the Area Map, Data Display,
Left-Right Indicator, Boat Profile
and duplicate windows for the
helm monitor.

HYPACK®’s SURVEY program

was the first to support real time
RTK TIDES.

The Shared
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SURVEY allows you to:
Generate custom messages
The SURVEY program showing standard windows with separate windows intended for the for other devices.
 Vessel Display
HYPACK® provides tools for the
display of both 2-dimensional
and 3-dimensional vessel
shapes.

The BOAT SHAPE EDITOR is

used to create 2-D shapes that
are displayed in the plan view
(Area Map) of SURVEY.

The 3D SHAPE EDITOR is used

to create 3-D vessels that can be
displayed in real time in the 3D
TERRAIN VIEWER (3DTV)
program.

The vessel perimeter and the

location of all sensors are
relative to a ‘boat origin’
established by the user.

This means you can have the

exact perimeter of your vessel,
The 3D SHAPE EDITOR (3DSE) program allows you to create the exact shape of your vessel
and display it in the 3DTV program. dredge or work barge displayed
in its exact location in real time.

SIDE SCAN
The collection and mosaicing of
side scan data is now an integral
part of HYPACK®.

The SIDE SCAN SURVEY

program allows for the collection
of digital and analog side scan
data.

Target analysis can be

performed in real time or in post-
processing.

The SIDE SCAN MOSAIC

program allows you to generate
a mosaic from data collected in
the HYPACK SURVEY program
or from many XTF file formats.
The resulting mosaic is saved to
a GeoTIF format.

The SIDE SCAN routines can

also process the backscatter
intensity data from many
Side scan data collected with Marine Sonics PCScan program displayed in the SIDE SCAN multibeam systems to generate
MOSAIC program. [Data courtesy Marine Sonics] interesting mosaics.

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 Targets
A target is an X-Y position of
interest to the user. Targets can
be used to mark aids to
navigation or locations of bottom
samples or any point of interest.

Targets can be created

in advance in the
TARGET EDITOR.
Targets can be marked
in real time by hitting the
F5 key in SURVEY.
Targets can then be
‘offset’ based on a range
and bearing.
The new-style ‘alarm’
target provides a color-
coded box that displays
the name, distance-to-
vessel and bearing-to-
vessel info. The color of
the alarm target changes
The new ‘alarm’ style targets in SURVEY constantly show the distance and bearing from the boat color based on the
to the target. distance to the vessel.

Water Level
Corrections
HYPACK® has several ways to
generate water level corrections:
Telemetry tide gauges
can be integrated
directly into SURVEY.
Users can manually
enter corrections in
SURVEY.
Users can create a tide
correction table during
post-processing and
apply those corrections.
Users can generated
predicted tide
corrections based on
high water and low water
times and heights or by
using harmonic
constituents.
HYPACK worked
together with the US
Army Corps of
Engineers to pioneer the
Using the elevation of the RTK antenna to determine the real time water-level correction is one of
use of RTK GPS to
several tide correction methods available in HYPACK®. determine real time
water levels.

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 Multiple Vessel
Support
SURVEY can track up to eight
separate vessels.

Each vessel can be

assigned its own shape
and color attributes.
Names of vessels can
be attached to the
shapes.
Information from each
vessel is available for
display in the Data
Display window of
SURVEY.
Info in the data display is
color-coded to match the
vessels color attribute.
Any vessel can be
designated the ‘Main’
vessel that is used to
generate distance-to-go,
A work barge with two vessels in SURVEY. cross-track-error and
[Background file courtesy USACE Rock Island]
other navigation
parameters.

ROV & Towfish

Support
HYPACK®’s SURVEY program
can simultaneously track, display
and record the position and
sensor information from your
main vessel and towfish.

Acoustic systems such

as Trackpoint,
Trackpoint LXT and
Nautronic ATS are
supported.
USBL systems have
been integrated.
For short tows, the user
can apply a manual
layback, based on the
amount of cable.
The towfish or ROV can
be designated as the
‘Main’ vessel. This
means that all navigation
A vessel with a towed magnetometer in SURVEY. parameters (Cross track
error, distance to go,
etc.) are based on the
fish or ROV position.

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 SINGLE BEAM
EDITOR
The SBMAX program provides a
powerful graphical interface for
editing your single beam and
dual frequency sounding data.

Loads and displays and

entire day’s work in
seconds.
Applies water level
corrections, standard or
RTK Tides.
Permits smoothing of
track lines and RTK
Tidal corrections.
Displays depth profiles
based on distance along
line or time.
Configurable
spreadsheet shows all
survey info for each data
point and can be output
The SINGLE BEAM EDITOR allows you to quickly review, edit and to ASCII TXT.
save your single beam and dual frequency data.
Automated filters quickly
eliminate outliers.

Sounding Selection
Programs
HYPACK® contains several
programs to help you reduce
your final data set.

SORT: Creates a
cartographic data set
that guarantees the
minimum or maximum
soundings will be saved.
CROSS SORT: Selects
soundings to prevent
overwrites at where lines
intersect.
MAPPER: A binning
program used to reduce
multibeam data.
SOUNDING
REDUCTION: Creates a
subset of XYZ data
points that accurately
models the original data
set.
Sounding selection programs allow you to eliminate overwrites and to prepare your data set for
plotting and export to CAD.

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 EXPORT TO CAD/GIS
HYPACK® has all the tools you
will need to transfer your
hydrographic survey data into
AutoCAD, ArcInfo, Terramodel,
Microstation and other CAD/GIS
packages.

The EXPORT TO CAD program

allows you to send the following
items directly to DXF or DGN:

Soundings
Track lines
Planned lines
Projection grids and labels
Matrix Files
Channel Plan Files
Border Files

The CROSS SECTION AND

VOLUMES program also allows
the user to export sections to
DXF.
The EXPORT TO CAD program converts HYPACK data to DXF and DGN formats.
[Data courtesy USACE Jacksonville]
Plotting Smooth
Sheets
HYPACK® has a powerful
plotting program named
HYPLOT that outputs high-
quality plots to any Windows™
printer-plotter.

Plotting sheet limits and scales

are defined in the PLOTTING
SHEET EDITOR.

HYPLOT has some great

features:
A WYSIWYG display.
Several border options
including IHO.
The ability to zoom in
and preview your plot.
Import of user supplied
graphics (BMP and
JPG).
Compass roses, scale
bars and default title
blocks.
Drag and drop to move
plot features.
The HYPLOT program is used to generate smooth sheets and can also export borders, compass Plotting of contour lines
roses, scale bars, soundings and other items directly to DXF.
and solid fills.

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 CONTOURING
DXF Contours are generated in
the TIN MODEL program of
HYPACK®.

Contours are saved to

DXF format, allowing for
easy import into your
CAD/GIS application.
Contours can be either
lines, labeled lines,
and/or solid color fills.
The TIN MODEL
program accepts any
HYPACK® data file or
data collected in any
application, provided it is
in an ASCII XYZ format.
Users can control the
line weight, style, color
and labeling option for
each contour line.

Solid filled contours with labels superimposed over a GeoTIF in HYPACK®

TIN MODEL
The TIN MODEL is a powerful
tool that creates surface models
(Triangulated Irregular Networks)
of your survey data.

Models can be viewed in

gray-scale or color from
any angle and
perspective.
Models can be printed to
any Windows™ printer
or plotter.
Models can also be
saved to BMP or JPG for
import into documents.
The TIN MODEL
contains powerful
volume routines to
compute volumes for
single beam or multiple
transducer or multibeam
data sets:
o TIN to Level
o TIN vs. Channel
A TIN Model of Bonneville Dam. o TIN vs. TIN
[Data courtesy David Evans and Assocs., Portland, OR] o Volume by
sections.

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 CROSS SECTIONS
AND VOLUMES
The CROSS SECTIONS AND
VOLUMES (CS&V) program of
HYPACK® is the most versatile
volume computation program in
the industry.

CS&V computes volume

quantities by determine the area
of material in segments above
the design, overdepth and
supergrade templates.

Available methods include:

AEA 1 – Standard Average

End Area (AEA) report as used
by USACE.
AEA2 – Standard AEA with
contour dredging computation
in overdepth.
AEA3 – Standard AEA report
for a Pre-Dredge versus Post-
Dredge computation.
A display of a sectional profile showing the depth profile and the design template in the CROSS Philadelphia Pre-Dredge and
SECTIONS AND VOLUMES program. [Data courtesy USACE Buffalo] Post-Dredge – AEA method
with special provisions for box
cuts.
Jacksonville Pre-Dredge and
Post-Dredge – Special
treatment of side slope
material.
Savannah – Specially
formatted AEA report.
Standard HYPACK – Improved
method for non-parallel lines
where material is stacked on
the inside or outside of the
turn.
CHEC 1 and CHEC 2 –
Methods developed for
Chinese National standards.
Panama City – Generates
ENG 80 report format.
GLDD 1 and 3 – Special
routine for treatment of side
slope material

CS&V generates ASCII TXT

reports for each method
selected.

Sections and results can be sent

to any Windows™ printer or
plotter device.
Plot one sections.
Plot all sections each to
their own page.
A series of sections ready for plotting on a large format plotter.
Plot as many sections as
you can fit on a page.

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 3D TERRAIN VIEWER
(3DTV)
The 3DTV program creates
stunning visual representations
of your survey data.

3DTV can read any HYPACK®

LOG or XYZ data file to generate
the surface model of the bottom.

The user can position the

‘camera’ using one of the
following methods:

Manual Flight: The user

can position the camera
and has complete
control over its
movements and
direction.
LNW Flight: The camera
travels along a planned
line file created in
3DTV working in conjunction with the SURVEY program. The 3-D vessel shape is positioned and HYPACK®. The user
oriented based on real time info coming from SURVEY. can point the camera to
the left or right of the
planned line, but cannot
move the camera off the
line.
Circle Flight: The
camera travels around
the perimeter of a user
drawn circle. The
camera always points
towards the center of the
circle. (Shown in the
bottom figure.)
SURVEY Mode: The
camera is positioned and
oriented relative to the
vessel position and
heading as supplied by
the SURVEY program.
(Shown in the top
figure.)

The real time water level can

also be displayed in different
levels of transparency while in
SURVEY mode.

Users can also display a channel

Viewing a plane using ‘Circle Mode’ in 3DTV. design file, using the *.CHN files
[Data courtesy USACE – Sault Ste. Marie, MI]
created in the ADVANCED
CHANNEL DESIGN program.

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 ADVANCED
CHANNEL DESIGN
(ACD)
ACD allows user to create an
exact dredging plan for complex
areas.

The channel files (*.CHN)

created in ACD can be loaded in
®
DREDGEPACK to generate a
real time cross sectional design
profile based on the position of
the digging tool.

The channel files can also be

imported into 3DTV so the user
can see exactly how the channel
bottom relates to the design
channel.

In ACD, the user enters X-Y-Z

node information and then joins
the nodes into planar faces.
A complex dredging plan created in the ADVANCED CHANNEL DESIGN program.

CHANNEL
CONDITION
REPORTER (CCR)
CCR is a specialty program,
designed for the US Army Corps
of Engineers to meet Federal
requirements of certifying the
minimum depth at different
reaches of a channel.

In the design phase of CCR, the

user defines the channel lines
and divides the channel into
‘reaches’.

In the shoal phase of CCR, the

user imports their latest survey
data and CCR determines the
minimum (controlling) depth for
each segment of each reach. It
then generates a report, as per
the NOAA format, that can be
printed or exported to EXCEL.
Determine shoal depths per channel segment in CHANNEL CONDITION REPORTER.

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 DREDGEPACK®
DREDGEPACK® is a specialty
version of HYPACK® that is
designed to operate on the
bridge of dredges, excavators
and derricks.

DREDGEPACK® maximizes the

digging efficiency by providing
real time information as to how
deep the dredge is currently
digging and how deep is the
dredge plan at their current
location.

The cross sectional profile views

show:
The As Surveyed Surface
The As Dredged Surface
The Channel Design Profile.

Profiles can be generated:

Parallel to the vessel
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A screen capture from DREDGEPACK showing arc and longitudinal sections. Perpendicular to the vessel
Parallel to the planned line
Perpendicular to the planned
line.
Along an arc (cutter suction
swing)

DREDGEPACK® can access

multiple matrix files, allowing you
the detail needed when dredging
long channels. The matrix file
can show the depth that the
cutting tool was at as it passes
through each cell.

DREDGEPACK® supports the

following dredge types:
Cutter Suction
Hopper
Excavators
Cranes & Derricks.

DREDGEPACK® can also be set

up to track bucket ‘drops’ or
‘placements’, allowing you to
generate a precise diagram to
show capping operations.

3DTV in SURVEY MODE, showing the position of the dredge and the digging tool relative to
the design channel (gray) and the as-surveyed bottom.

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 HYSWEEP® SURVEY
®
The HYSWEEP option to
HYPACK® adds the ability to
calibrate, log and edit data
from multibeam and multiple
transducer sonar systems.

Integrates multibeam
sonars from:
o Atlas
o Benthos
o Elac/Seabeam
o Odom
o Reson
o Simrad
o
Provides for real-time
display of:
o Bottom coverage
o Swath wire frames
o Swath TIN surface
o QC information
o Side scan
o Nadir beam to
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The HYSWEEP SURVEY program, providing real time feedback during the collection of
single beam
multibeam data. comparison.

HYSWEEP®
CALIBRATION
HYSWEEP® provides tools to
allow you to quickly and
accurately calibrate the
orientation of your multibeam
transducer and the time delays
between the sonar and
positioning system.

The Patch Test function

inside the MBMAX multi-
beam editor computes the
following errors from a set
of test lines:
o Roll
o Pitch
o GPS Latency
o Yaw
Data that has already been
collected can be corrected
for alignment and delay
errors.
®
The ‘Patch Test’ portion of HYSWEEP allows users to determine the exact alignment of their System calibration should
equipment. be a matter of hours, not
days.

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 HYSWEEP® EDITING
(MBMAX)
The MBMAX program is allows
you to edit your multibeam and
multiple transducer data.

MBMAX allows you to enter

a tide correction file or to use
water level corrections
determined by RTK GPS
elevations.

The first stage of editing in

MBMAX allows you to review
and edit:
o Vessel tracklines
o Heave-pitch-roll
o Gyro
o Tide
o Draft
o Sound Velocity

The second stage of editing

Stage 2 Editing in MBMAX now allows for dual Sweep windows, allowing you to view the data takes you to the Sweep
in different perspectives. Editor. During this stage,
you can visually review each
line and graphically edit or
apply automated filters to
each line. Filters include:
o Min/Max Depth
o Spike
o Overhang/Undercut
Topography
o Sonar Quality Flag
o Port/Starboard
Beam Angle Limits
o Specific Beams

During the third stage of

editing, data from all
multibeam lines is combined
and displayed. Statistical
filters can now be applied
based on the surrounding
multibeam data points.
Displays include:
o Survey window
o Profile window
o Cell window

The third stage also contains

the calibration (Patch Test)
and System Performance
tools to judge the overall
Stage 3 editing of MBMAX performs statistical filtering quality of your multibeam
system.

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 ADCP SUPPORT
HYPACK® now supports ADCP
sensors from RD Instruments.
The following programs are
included in MAX:

ADCP Logger: Runs sim-

ultaneous with SURVEY.
Allows you to ‘deploy’ and
log ADCP data from the RD
Instruments Workhorse and
Rio Grande ADCPs.
ADCP Profiles: Combines
velocity data from the ADCP
files with cross sectional data
from the edited HYPACK
files. Provides color-coded
flow diagrams and overall
flow values.
ADCP to DXF: Allows you
to export DXF current
vectors at selected depth
The ADCP Profile program of HYPACK® processes ADCP data to generate cross-sectional levels for import of velocity
flow profiles. data to CAD/GIS.

ENCEdit
ENCEdit is sold separately from
HYPACK®. It is designed to
allow users to modify existing S-
57 charts by adding, moving,
deleting, and re-attributing chart
objects.

MiniIENC
The MiniIENC program is also
sold separately from HYPACK®.
This program was designed
under the direction of the US
Army Corps of Engineers. It
automatically updates S-57
charts by removing old sounding
data, entering new soundings,
re-contouring, and saving the
updated S-57 data to a new
chart.

The ENCEdit program is designed to modify S-57 charts by allowing you to add, delete, move
and re-attribute features. ENCEdit is not a part of HYPACK®.

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