VISUALIZE & ANALYZE GEOSCIENCE DATA
This is the second article in a four-part series on Strategic Geology Modeling. Here, we will discuss the challenges faced by geologists when visualizing and analyzing geoscience data. We will also discuss the Dassault Systèmes Strategic Geology Modeling solution and how it can assist geologists in overcoming these challenges and help improve the sustainability of mining organizations
Data visualization gives geologists insight into the vast amount of information they have available for geological modeling. It helps them identify geological trends or patterns as well as erroneous data. Having the ability to identify these trends, patterns or errors can assist mining operations in making better business decisions, which can aid in improving an organization’s sustainability.
On a daily basis, geologists across the globe are inundated with vast quantities of data from their exploration and operational projects. It is especially important for them to have tools and applications to visualize this information as it can help them analyze the data. In particular, the ability to visualize various types of geoscientific data together in one application can vastly improve the understanding and 3D synergy of the abundant information available to them.
CHALLENGES: VISUALIZING MULTIPLE DATA TYPES TOGETHER FOR ANALYSIS
Geoscientific data can consist of various data types from different sources in numerous file formats. It is not always easy to visualize all this information in one application, making it difficult to analyze the data together and identify crucial trends or errors.
In cases where it is difficult to visualize data from different sources in one application, workflows to integrate separated data can be time consuming and difficult to achieve. In some instances, a portion of the available geoscientific data is completely excluded from the analysis due to these challenges, reducing the accuracy of the geological model.
SOLUTION: GEOVIA SURPAC™ ON THE THE 3DEXPERIENCE PLATFORM
The Strategic Geology Modeling solution, designed and created by Dassault Systèmes, gives geologists the applications, workflows and tools to visualize and analyze geoscience data from multiple sources. The solution incorporates GEOVIA Surpac™, 3DDashboards, and the ENOVIA project and document management applications seamlessly centred on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform on a public or private cloud or on-premises.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides organizations with a single repository for all geoscience data and a structured and access-controlled environment, ensuring a single source of truth for all data used for visualization and analysis. GEOVIA Surpac™, integrated into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, connects directly to this data repository and delivers powerful 3D graphical visualization and analysis. It is possible to display numerous types of data (drillhole, topographical point cloud, geophysical, assay, geotechnical and many others) simultaneously in one application. This allows geologists to identify specific trends or patterns in data better and identify erroneous data points when visually comparing the different data inputs to each other.
Geologists can share 3D visualizations across the organization on the platform in communities and 3DDashboards. Colleagues can analyze these visualizations and add their observations as well as pose insightful questions. This organizational collaboration can enable geologists to generate more accurate models due to more significant data usage, improved data integrity and higher data confidence. The ability to visualize and analyze geoscientific data in a single application and share it across an organization can improve business decision-making and improve the overall sustainability of operations.
In the third article of this four-part series, we will discuss the challenges geologists can encounter when interpreting and modeling geoscience data. We will also show how the Strategic Geology Modeling solution can assist geologists with these challenges and how the 3DEXPERIENCE platform brings value to this section of the geological modeling workflow.
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