It is a sound, comprehensive sign management system consisting of several components including Inventory, Condition Assessment, Repair Decisions, Priority Analysis, Repair Action Initiation, Record Actions and Parts Management. It is particularly useful for analysis of the effects of proposed highway projects on river systems where 1-dimensional analysis may be inadequate. SMS provides tools for mesh and grid generation, data interpolation, and sophisticated tools for graphical visualization.
Terrain models can obtain geometric attributes such as area, slope and runoff distances.
Many display options are provided to aid in modeling and understanding the drainage characteristics of terrain surfaces. It can track multiple projects concurrently and can have an unlimited number of people on all projects. DA-Tracker separates information for weekly reporting on time and expenses that are attached to a project. DA-Tracker database is written in MS Access 97. Data resides in a separate database and is linked to the active module.