Encom’s powerful Discover 10.1 geoscience package complements the release of MapInfo Professional® 9.5 with a host of new Surfaces functionality, as well as extensive improvements to the Drillhole module. Many popular tools have also been redesigned to provide a more dynamic and user-friendly interface.

General Improvements

Supports MapInfo Professional 9.5•

Updated support for version 4.1.0.2 of the acQuire database model•

30% performance improvement in many data processing tools•

Surfaces

Large Grid SupportExpansion of Discover’s data access capabilities by adding import and visualisation support for very large grids (1GB+). The redesigned grid handling engine in Discover 10.1cannowaccessvirtuallyunlimitedsizedgridfiles,suchascontinentalSRTMdata.

To illustrate this, the three map windows below are all views ofthesame120GBWorld90mSRTMgridfile.

release notes

discover version 10.1

advances

New Grid TilerHugegridfilescannowbecutintosmaller tiles prior to opening in MapInfo Pro, thereby allowing them tobeefficientlyprocessedbythevarious Surfaces manipulation tools.

New Grid Profiler toolDynamically create and interrogate profilesacrossoneormoregridswithacompletelyredesignedGridProfilertool.

New Grid Format SupportSupportforadditionalgridfileformatshas been added such as HGT (for exampleNASA’sSRTMdata),Landmark,Geosoft GFX, and MapInfo MIG formats.

New Contour Label PositionerCreates precisely positioned and orientated contour labels using user-definedlabelpathlines.

New Grid Clip tool

Clipgridstouser-definedlimitsformoreefficienthandlingandprocessing of very large grids.

Grid Utilities

New Cut/Fill tool •Summarises the areas and volumes of change that have occurred between two grid surfaces.

New Outline tool •Creates attributed polygons outlining the bounds of multiple grids e.g. to visualise the extents of multiple airborne geophysical surveys.

New Surface Area tool •Calculates the total 3D surface area, 2D planar area and roughness of a grid.

Usability and performance •improvements have also been made to the Classify, Grid to Grid Clip, Split and Vectorise utilities.

Grid FilterAddedanFFTReductiontoPole(LowLatitude)filter.

Data Utilities

New Local Grid Layout tool

A dynamic new interface allows:

Interactive baseline or traverse •linedefinitionbydrawingin mapper window.

Grid design to be previewed •andmodifieddynamicallyin the mapper window.

Creation of both grid pegs •(points) and grid lines.

Creation of triangular/diamond pattern •grids (i.e. offset grid pegs/lines).

advances

Drillholes

New Project Setup dialog

Intuitive wizard interface•

Graphic preview of the collar plan•

Summary information for each project•

Auto-detection down-dip of direction•

New Section Manager dialog

Dynamic auto-preview of section’s •spatial extents in collar map window

Detailed listing of section parameters•

New Drillhole Query Tool

Calculates the maximum downhole •values for each hole, including From/Todepthsandancillaryfields

ReturnstheEnd-of-Hole•(EOH) interval for each hole (including BOH checks)

New gINT ImporterImports drillhole data from the gINT borehole logging application into a Discover drillhole project.

Improved Define New Section or Plan toolA number of improvements have been made, including providing user customisation of the surface line colour and easier visibility of userdefinedcolourtablenames.

Improved Trenching dialog

Table Utilities

New Unique Identifier toolAttributes every row in a table with a unique incrementing value (e.g.HGRC1021,HGRC1022...or 8433 west, 8434 west...).

New Favourites dialogA new combined dialog allows the custom ordering of your favourite tables, workspaces, MBXs.

New Multi Column Update toolUpdatinglargenumbersoffieldsis now much easier with automatic fieldmatching(whenfieldnamesare identical) and saving/loading offieldassignmenttemplates

Redesigned Sort Table interface

Object Editing

Align Objects toolNew Disperse option allows selected objects to be evenly spread between the end members, useful when aligning legend objects

Map Window

The following tools have been redesigned to allow the dialogs to be kept open whilst working within MapInfo:

Select by Graphical Style

Now supports differing •source and target tables

New output query options•

Standard ViewsAllows customised ordering

Favourite ProjectionsAllows customised ordering

Images

A new Transparency control is available under the Modify tab.

Geochem

New Point Classification toolThe size, colour and/or symbols of point data can be modulated by one or more fields(suchasCumodulatedbysizeand rock type modulated by colour), allowing homogenous data classes to be definedbyrangesorgroupsofvalues.

Improved Levelling toolCreatesnewoutputsummaryfields

GraphMap

Extensive improvements, including:

New Order column option•

New batch export of graphs to MapInfo•

Data Handling can be •appliedtomultiplefields

Performance improvements.•

Requirements

Encom Discover 10.1 requires MapInfo Professional 8.0 to 9.5, with Windows 2000, XP or Vista.

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