SurvOPT is a powerful planning and costing tool, letting you examine the effect of any design change in detail. As well as finding efficient shooting plans and accurate completion estimates, you can compare vessels and configurations side by side, explore different costing models, generate undershoots and examine likely infill rates.

On the vessel, SurvOPT finds acquisition plans balance objectives like minimizing infill, reducing time spent on line changes, planning maintenance or avoiding shallows at low tide. SurvOPT handles obstructions, timesharing, currents, tides, priority areas, maintenance, crew changes, circles, and weather downtime.

SurvOPT even lets you specify feather or current requirements on individual lines and will optimize scheduling around these constraints. SurvOPT can easily cut days from project duration while giving your clients better data through improved online conditions.

SurvOPT is used by the world’s leading acquisition contractors including around 60 vessels worldwide

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This screenshot shows how SurvOPT optimizes the last ten lines of a survey.

Line change duration is minimized while allowing for correct feather requirements on each infill line.

SurvOPT can easily save four hours during the final two days of “mopping-up”.

Besides optimizing vessel usage, SurvOPT also makes it easier to plan day to day things like maintenance, drills and crew changes, because its easy for the PC (and the whole crew) to see what the vessel will be doing, when.