Easily design your surveys, evaluate the performance of your survey systems, etc... 

SURVEY PLANNER is a planning assistance software of mapping and inspection surveys using : 

• Multibeam echosounders,
• Dynamic Lidars,
• Side scan sonars and,
• 2D acoustic cameras.

It was specifically designed to help the various stakeholders of the hydrographic and topographic communities (professionals, institutions, infrastructure owners, equipment suppliers and manufacturers, design offices, etc...) to:

• Easily find a suitable survey system and an optimal set of parameters (calibration parameters, navigation parameters, operational parameters,  etc.) during the survey projects planning ,
• Quickly and easily evaluate and compare global performances of four (4) survey systems (data resolution and density, system error budget, survey time, swath width, number of profiles, etc.) ,
• Control the performance of integrated survey systems announced by service providers, suppliers and manufacturers of equipments dedicated to mapping, and inspection.

Documentation

• PDF Survey Planner Manual 

SURVEY PLANNER is portable, practical and easy to use software. It does not require installation beforehand to operate. It has been developed by Geraud NAANKEU WATI , Positionning and Geomatic Specialist and Author of "Basics of Hydrography and Inspection of Subsea Infrastructures - Principles and Practice, 1st Edition". 

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