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Geoinformatics_05-2009
article retooling for the digital data revolution geospatial and gis technologies two important recent developments in exploration technology have been the delivery of stronger spatial data access and management capabilities through the internet, and advanced workflow support within gis, which has become a standard spatial platform for integrating and analyzing geospatial data with geology and other exploration datasets. both are helping explorers to work faster and smarter; to easily share data and knowledge across teams, departments and regional boundaries; and to manage and make sense of larger amounts of digital data for exploration decision-making. by carmela burns the delivery of stronger spatial data access and management capabilities through the internet, and advanced workflow support within gis, which has become a standard spatial platform for integrating and analyzing geospatial data with geology and other exploration datasets. both are helping explorers to work faster and smarter; to easily share data and knowledge across teams, departments and regional boundaries; and to manage and make sense of larger amounts of digital data for exploration decision-making. spatial data access and management over the past 15 years, governments and education institutions have been making vast amounts of data available on the internet. there are hundreds of data resources and millions of spatial data sets available including geophysical, geochemical, satellite images, and magnetic data published by government and private organizations through open web-based services. most exploration companies also have large, internal data resources typically stored in variety of different systems. however, today s fractured data landscape doesn t make the process of data discovery easy, natural or seamless in either environment. global marine gravity dataset recently added to geosoft s public dap server. the data, provided by scripps institution of oceanography, is freely available for download at http://dap.geosoft.com/geodap. although information technology is not a centre-stage strategy in exploration industries grappling with economic and market uncertainties, it remains a key driver for improving effectiveness and results - particularly when you consider the growing data requirements of modern day exploration. explorers continue to raise the bar in the software experience and capabilities they expect, from full 3d visualization to data processing power under the hood, and advanced integration support for multidisciplinary datasets. furthermore, many exploration organizations are setting stronger corporate standards for the software they use on their exploration projects and how they use and manage their growing digital data resources. during lean times, data-related waste and inefficiency - whether its resources spent looking for the right data, hours wasted converting incompatible data products, or money lost through faulty decision-making - is an easy target for improving productivity and results. the fact that there are solutions for making many, if not all of these data issues, simply go away is reason enough to rethink your software choices and technology strategy. two important recent developments in exploration technology have been dapple global viewer displaying search results from internet servers using web services. in this case geology and magnetic data from a geosoft dap server and geocover 2000 data from a nasa tile server. dapple is available as a free download from http://dapple.geosoft.com. 28 july/august 2009
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