Improvements make it easier to find and explore data, and generate results within Geosoft and ESRI ArcGIS
March 24, 2010 — Toronto, Ontario – Geosoft announced the availability of its 2010 Software Release for geoscientists and exploration professionals. The release includes a number of important advancements that improve access to data and information, make mapping and reporting tasks more efficient, and expand 3D subsurface capabilities.
“We’ve listened to our customers, and have enhanced software usability to support greater productivity,” says Louis Racic, Geosoft Product Director. “We’ve also incorporated new capabilities to streamline common tasks such as finding data, making maps and generating reports, and have expanded our capabilities for creating integrated interpretations in 3D.”
Enhanced Multidisciplinary Workflows
New capabilities, in the 2010 release, support generalists and specialists working across all disciplines – geology, geophysics and geochemistry.
“Effective 3D rendering of the subsurface has become essential for presentation and collaboration,” said Racic. “We continue to expand 3D gridding options, within our core platform, and we have added utilities to make working with voxels easier. A great deal of exploration work is still completed in 2D plans and sections, and we now support the ability to work with crooked geophysical sections to help bridge this gap, enabling more accurate representations of the data in 2D and 3D. ”
Improved Data Access and Data Support
With the 2010 release, Geosoft has also expanded data access capabilities to address the challenges inherent in organizing, finding and accessing the increasing volumes of data used for earth exploration projects. This includes providing tools to easily find data, and expanding data format support to promote efficient exploration and integration of diverse data types.
Geosoft has introduced Seeker, a new tool designed to help explorers find and start using data quicker. Seeker provides a single interface for handling the entire data access workflow – from structured metadata querying to the viewing of results and from data extraction to the explorer’s desktop application.
Data support has been added for ODBC, JPEG 2000 and GOCAD voxet data files. ODBC support now includes a new filtering capability, for accessing drill hole databases or surface data without the requirement for SQL query knowledge.
More information on the 2010 Software Release is available at www.geosoft.com. For general Geosoft software enquiries and local representation, please contact [email protected].
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Geosoft is a world leader in software and solutions for earth exploration. We make the experience of finding, using and sharing data more natural and powerful for earth explorers. Geosoft solutions accelerate knowledge development and unlock opportunity within exploration industries and the earth sciences sector. Originally founded by geoscientists in 1986, Geosoft ranks among the top 150 software companies in Canada today, with more than 5,000 customers in over 100 countries worldwide.