Supports different ways to monitor the plough operation.
The application support various options to calculate the plough position, one is using pressure sensors on the plough, other is the measure the hoisting wire cable lengths. The length of the plough towcable is also used in the calculation to determine the absolute position if required.
The PDS2000-Bar Sweep software will show the plough in real-time in the plan view and in profile views. A Digital Terrain Model (DTM) can be used in the background to show the as-surveyed or as-dredged depth. The DTM is updated realtime following the exact position of the plough. The track covered by the plough during the survey is logged in a DTM file.
It is also possible to create and record events when the plough ‘hits’ targets / objects. Each time the event button is pressed, PDS2000 writes the current location of the bar to a DXF file and shows position with the bar length and direction of sailing.
