Several staff members have experience with the Corps of Engineers, NOAA and private industry, meaning they understand what their customers need, Armstrong said. In 2015, Xylem, based in Rye Brook, N.Y., acquired the software and added its water quality interfacing. Army Corps of Engineers, and the software continues to be used in every Corps district, Knisley said.
One of HYPACK’S first customers was the U.S. “It’s grown exponentially,” said Knisley, who has been with the company 23 years and seen much of the growth for himself. Now the data provided is so immense, it’s done via downloads and USB drives. Around 2000, when the program exceeded the eight floppy disks the company was originally sending, they switched to a CD-ROM version. Using the map as well as the profile view, the operator has precise control of dredging operations.Įverything was originally written in DOS and came on a floppy disk.
He debuted HYPACK in 1984 for his company, Coastal Oceanographics, in Connecticut because he saw the need the federal government had to map the waterways, Knisley said. Company founder Pat Sanders once worked for the National Oceanographic Office. The survey side of the software essentially helps feed the dredging side, making sure operators know the answers to essential questions such as: How deep is the river? Can a ship pass? How deep should I dredge?Īlthough providing the answers to those questions hasn’t changed, Knisley said, the technology to do so has. They can see right where the teeth are going, right where the bucket is going, get reporting data out per bucket and know what is going on at the river bottom. With its 3D view, DREDGEPACK gives operators situational awareness, Armstrong said. “That’s hundreds of thousands of samples per second, looking under the water and now also above the water,” Armstrong said of its sensor integration.ĭREDGEPACK is the company’s real-time dredge management system, designed to work with cutter suction, hopper, clamshell and excavator operations or for office and vessel-only usage. HYSWEEP attaches on, allowing the mapping of swaths of information via a multibeam module that provides for the calibration, data collection and data processing of multibeam sonar and laser scanner data. HYPACK provides the tools needed to complete survey work with an echo sounder through a magnetometer. “Everything’s been built on top of that.” “The base layer is HYPACK,” said Jery Knisley, the company’s manager of technology. Processing LiDAR data within HYPACK provides confidence in the final results. HYPACK has maintained the wide sensor compatibility by which it has become known, he said, while also bringing in information such as AIS data and fusing it all into a customizable and easy-to-read layout. The result is whether a client is collecting hydrographic survey data, environmental data or just positioning a vessel in an engineering project, the software provides the needed tools.Īlthough HYPACK has been a mainstay in the dredging industry for years, becoming a Xylem brand has allowed it to expand its offerings to include environmental sensors, Armstrong said. “In total we support over 400 sensors that are out there from all kinds of brands across the industry,” said Straud Armstrong, director of product and sales. Sensor inputs provide the connection for positioning GPS and inertial systems, single beam and multibeam echosounders, sidescan and sub-bottom sonars, magnetometers, velocity sensors and more. Developers say their software design capabilities include: designing a survey, collecting data, applying corrections to sounding, removing outliers and invalid points, plotting field sheets, exporting data to CAD, computing volume quantities, generating contours, creating side-scan mosaics and creating and modifying electronic charts. Partnerships with various manufacturers allow the software company to provide solutions for all types of surveying needs, from a simple area to more complex projects. HYPACK, HYSWEEP and DREDGEPACK, all part of the Xylem brand, have been in development since 1984. With 37 years in business and more than 10,000 users in 140 countries, the HYPACK suite of hydrographic software has become one users trust.
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