ISS-2000

Overview

SAIC has designed the ISS-2000 Integrated Survey System for professional hydrographers and surveyors. The compact and powerful ISS-2000 system supports a broad range of high-performance, shallow-water survey operations. These include:

• Hydrographic charting of navigation lanes, inland waters, and coastal areas
• Geologic mapping and scientific investigations
• Location of objects on the seafloor

The ISS-2000 offers modular components in a choice of price-performance packages. These packages include:

• Integrated sensor suites with data acquisition systems and software
• Deep water, high resolution survey systems
• Transportable and portable models

Applications

• Proven International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) accuracy in high speed, shallow-water surveying and processing
• Powerful real-time processing and visualization for higher efficiency and data yields
• Alignment calibration tools
• Real-time quality assurance including:
  • generic sensor format, real-time coverage
  • plot, survey report file
• Interfaces to a range of multibeam sonars, GPS receivers, single beam echo sounders, motion sensors, gyros, acoustic positioning systems, autopilots, and more
• Compatible with SAIC's SABER; a data analysis and Processing tool
• Common and fully integrated operation and information management controls
• Full range of hydrographic planning and data collection services

Extensions

Survey Planning

Services

• Route planning
• Survey/transect planning (line spacing, speeds, etc.)
• Automatic transect and waypoint construction and scheduling
• Complex line pattern computations
  • ladder
  • tangent/offset
  • ellipse
  • polygons
  • exclusion zones
• Computations for tide zones, overlap, total survey line miles, etc.
• Geodetic transformations (point-to-point, datum conversions, distance measures)

Features

• Overlays (BSB charts, historical data, targets, waypoints, etc.)
• Interactive lane spacing and vessel speeds
• Multiple surveys can occupy a single plan
• Import "layers" of external data for plan aids

Real Time Data Acquisition

Services

• Automatic route monitoring and control
• Integrated sensor control and data quality monitoring
• Data acquisition, storage and protection
• Visualization and plotting of all data gathering operations
• Status information (logging, errors, alarms, measurement quality)
• Diagnostics (sensor calibrations, self-test, error checks)
• Coverage and corrected bathymetric displays
• Static and dynamically corrected displays (tides, SVPs, squat, etc.)

Features

• On-the-fly plan and sensor setup changes
• Dynamically corrected sonar measures and navigation
• Information recording and management of all hydrographic information in generic sensor format
• Efficient monitoring and control of system operational performance
• Operator alerts for exceeded data limits, system status and alarms
• Depth and cross-track distances for each (corrected) beam

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