| Sr. No. | Item | Traditional Method | Integrated Approach |
| 1 | Main equipment | Multi-frequency single beam echosounder, digital printer data (tabular), time tagging machine, mini rangers, theodolites, power batteries, wireless radio, control station (Burgee) | Multi-frequency single beam echosounder, Differential GPS, Power source |
| 2 | Software |
| Hypack®, Bathy 2010 |
| 3 | Survey crew | About 15 persons | 3 persons |
| 4 | Time | Six weeks required covering whole reservoir | One week |
| 5 | Post processing/ Calculations | Eight weeks | One week |
| 6 | Preparation of maps and other products | Twelve weeks after completion of survey | One week after completion of survey |
| 7 | Product’s type | Contour map of reservoir surface, stage-storage relationship, reservoir capacity | Reservoir’s under water terrain, storage capacity, stage storage relationship, three dimensional reservoir surface |