SYNOPTRA

SYNOPTRA offers you the following advantages for planning overhead lines:

1. Accelerated planning process - only the next steps have to been taken:
   • Scanning of map
   • Digitizing elevator lines on the user-interface of SYNOPTRA
   • Digitizing contours of areas (forest, inhabited areas, nature reserves etc.) in SYNOPTRA and definition of some parameters
   • Digitizing tracks and lines (streets, railways, rivers etc.) and definition of parameters such as width
2. Optimized planning considering all basic conditions
   • Minimisation of visibility - calculated using an accepted mathematic method - based on a three-dimensional model of the landscape
   • Optimisation of approval ability by avoiding inhabited areas and nature reserves
   • Optimisation of costs - by widely avoiding span poles and minimizing height of pylons
3. Important methods of analyzing and visualizing variants
   
   • Direct information about costs
   • Generation of lists of pylons with all parameters (height of pylons, sag, intersection with forests and other areas, crossing of streets etc.)
   • Analytical proof of visibility and approval ability - leading to an objectification of the discussion during the approval procedure
4. Visualisation of different variants using synoptraIMAGE
   • Creation of photo-realistic images with freely definable observer point and line of sight
   • Creation of films (sequence of images) along trajectories (i.e. looking at the planned line while driving along a street - or while flying over the line in an helicopter!)
   • Compared to conventional methods (projection of pylons in a picture of the landscape) this method is much more flexible and offers interesting additional features.