Geoscience ANALYST 3.

User Guide
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 CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1

CONTENTS1.1 About Geoscience ANALYST

1.2 Scope
1.3 How to use this guide
1.4 System requirements
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1.5 Activating your licence 4
1.5.1 Activating your free Geoscience ANALYST licence 4
1.5.2 Activating your Geoscience ANALYST Pro/Pro Geophysics licence 7

CHAPTER 2 User interface 9

2.1 Overview 10
2.1.1 Menu bar 11
2.1.2 Coordinate display area 11
2.1.3 Data Table 11
2.1.4 Visual Parameters panel 15
2.1.5 ioGAS panel 15
2.1.6 Objects panel 17
2.1.7 Viewport 21
2.1.8 Controls panel 28
2.1.9 Console panel 29
2.1.10 Geoscience INTEGRATOR panel 29
2.1.11 Data Colours panel 29
2.1.12 2D Profile Viewer 39
2.1.13 Decay Curves panel 43
2.1.14 Survey Designer panel 45
2.2 Preferences 48
2.3 Saving workspaces 50
2.3.1 Workspace file lock 50
2.3.2 About .geoh5 format 50

CHAPTER 3 Object types 52

3.1 Information from the Data Table 53
3.2 Objects 54
3.2.1 Points 55
3.2.2 Curves 59
 3.2.3 Surfaces 64
3.2.4 Drillholes 67
3.2.5 2D grids 73
3.2.6 Block models 77
3.2.7 GeoImages 82
3.2.8 Maxwell plates 84
3.2.9 OcTree grids 87
3.2.10 VP models 90
3.3 Special objects 93
3.3.1 Slicers 94
3.3.2 Labels 96

CHAPTER 4 Importing and exporting 98

4.1 Importing files into Geoscience ANALYST 99
4.1.1 Importing files via the File menu 99
4.1.2 Importing files by dragging and dropping 100
4.1.3 Importing Geoscience ANALYST workspaces on disk 100
4.1.4 Importing files and workspaces from a monitored folder 116
4.2 Exporting objects from Geoscience ANALYST 118
4.2.1 Exporting to points, curves, and surfaces to GOCAD ASCII 118
4.2.2 Exporting surfaces to Datamine format 119
4.2.3 Saving selected objects to a new .geoh5 workspace file 120
4.2.4 Exporting drillholes to .csv 121
4.2.5 Exporting Viewport content as a .geoh5 workspace file 122
4.2.6 Saving files from within a workspace to disk 123

CHAPTER 5 Integration with Geoscience INTEGRATOR 124

5.1 Integration with Geoscience INTEGRATOR 125
5.2 Connecting from Geoscience ANALYST 125
5.3 Concepts from Geoscience INTEGRATOR 127
5.4 Overview of the UI 128
5.4.1 Workspace 128
5.4.2 Objects 129
5.4.3 Data set summary 131
5.4.4 Geoscience INTEGRATOR 131
 5.5 Configuring the query parameters 134
5.5.1 Bounding Box 135
5.5.2 Date 136
5.5.3 Neighbourhoods, Shifts, Properties, Tags, Groups 137
5.5.4 Property Filters 138
5.5.5 Object-specific options 138
5.6 Viewing the query results 139
5.7 Saving the query results 141
5.8 Viewing project files, maps, and documents 141
5.8.1 Previewing layer names for Maps/plans/sections items 143

CHAPTER 6 Tools and tips 144

6.1 Contextual menus 145
6.1.1 Slicers 151
6.1.2 Tape measure 152
6.1.3 Snapshots 153
6.1.4 Comments and attachments 153
6.2 Data types 154
6.2.1 Listing data types 156
6.2.2 Reassigning data types 157
6.3 Group Data 159
6.4 Preserving and saving views 161
6.4.1 Saving the active viewport as a view 161
6.4.2 Copying views to the clipboard 162

CHAPTER 7 Geoscience ANALYST Pro 163

7.1 Geoscience ANALYST Pro 166
7.2 Creating and editing objects 167
7.2.1 Object creation: Use cases 168
7.2.2 Snapping objects 171
7.2.3 Editing objects 172
7.2.4 Editing the Data Table 173
7.3 Utilities menu 174
7.3.1 2D Grid Designer 174
7.3.2 3D Block Model Designer 176
 7.3.3 Surface Designer 179
7.3.4 Minimum Curvature Gridding 180
7.3.5 Transfer Data 183
7.3.6 Coordinate System Transformation 184
7.3.7 Translate/Rotate/Scale Objects 185
7.4 Drillholes menu 187
7.4.1 Calculate Distance to Drillholes 187
7.4.2 Copy Drillhole in Grid Pattern 189
7.4.3 Create Drillhole Target 191
7.4.4 Desurvey Drillholes 192
7.4.5 Drillhole Designer 192
7.5 Geophysics menu 200
7.5.1 Compute Forward Model 200
7.5.2 Compute Unconstrained Inversion 201
7.5.3 Create EM Dataset 203
7.5.4 Electromagnetic Field Modelling 205
7.5.5 Fourier Filters on 2D Grids 207
7.5.6 Gravity Corrections 210
7.5.7 Remove trend from data 211
7.6 ioGAS Link 212
7.6.1 Connecting to ioGAS Link 212
7.6.2 Viewing points objects in ioGAS 213
7.6.3 Renaming and reassigning data 213
7.7 Maxwell Link 214
7.7.1 Connecting to Maxwell Link 214
7.7.2 Broadcasting plates from Maxwell to Geoscience ANALYST 214
7.7.3 Viewing Maxwell plate objects in Geoscience ANALYST 215
7.7.4 Disconnecting from Maxwell 216
7.7.5 Editing Maxwell plates in the Viewport 216
7.7.6 Creating a Surfaces object from Maxwell plate(s) 218
7.8 Contextual commands 219
7.8.1 New Surface from Nodes 219
7.8.2 Transfer Data To Drillholes 220
7.8.3 Connecting to Imago (Beta) 221
7.8.4 Transfer to Float 221
7.8.5 Create Masking Property 221
7.8.6 Apply Mask Property 222
7.8.7 New Boundary Curve from Nodes 222
 Introduction
This chapter provides an introduction and overview to Geoscience
ANALYST, and provides download and installation instructions.
CHAPTER 1 1.1 About Geoscience ANALYST 2
1.2 Scope 2
1.3 How to use this guide 2
1.4 System requirements 2
1.5 Activating your licence 4

1.5.1 Activating your free Geoscience ANALYST licence 4

1.5.2 Activating your Geoscience ANALYST Pro/Pro
Geophysics licence 7
1.1 About Geoscience ANALYST
Geoscience ANALYST is Mira Geoscience's 3D visualization and communication software for
integrated, multi-disciplinary earth models and data sets.

Geoscience ANALYST is a unique standalone application allowing you to import 3D geoscientific data
and models from standard industry formats, and to change visual parameters to perform contextual
queries of data attached to any object.

1.2 Scope
This content contained here covers Geoscience ANALYST's entire user interface, including procedures
designed to help you develop a working understanding of how to use the software.

By using a practical, task-based approach, the goal of this guide is to get you feeling comfortable using
the numerous features of Geoscience ANALYST as quickly as possible so you can effectively
incorporate it into your mining and exploration projects.

1.3 How to use this guide

The following conventions are used throughout this guide:

l Bold denotes text that appears in the software interface, as well as mouse and keyboard
commands.
l Italic denotes parameters and variables.
l Monospace font denotes file names and folders.

1.4 System requirements

Operating system

l Microsoft® Windows® OS (7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10) x64-bit.

Required hardware

l Processor: x64 architecture required.

l Graphics adaptor: 3D graphics adaptor supporting OpenGL® 3.2.

Recommended hardware

l Processor: Intel® Core i3, i5 or i7, Xeon® or better. AMD Ryzen™, Opteron™, Phenom™, A-
series, E-series or better.
l Memory: 4 GB RAM or more.
l Hard Drive: 2 GB of free disk space.

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 Note: Large data sets will require more memory, hard drive space, and processing power.

Windows virtual machines are unlikely to work properly due to their limited graphics capabilities.

Geoscience ANALYST is untested with Boot Camp installs of Windows on Mac computers. Although
some users have reported success with it, we do not provide support for it.

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1.5 Activating your licence
The first time you open Geoscience ANALYST, the licence wizard will launch and guide you through the
licence activation process.

1.5.1 Activating your free Geoscience ANALYST licence

1. Launch Geoscience ANALYST.
2. In the Geoscience ANALYST Activation window, click Get your free license to open the form to
request your free licence.

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 3. Fill out the form and click Subscribe. You will receive your licence key within minutes. Be sure to
check your Spam or Junk folder.

4. In the Geoscience ANALYST Activation window, click Activate your free license to open the
Geoscience ANALYST activation wizard.

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 5. Depending on whether your device has an internet connection, follow the appropriate activation
instructions below:
l If connected to the internet: Click Activate Online. Once you have read and consented to
the privacy policy, enter your activation key and click Activate Online.

l If not connected to the internet: Click Activate Offline. Once you have contacted
[email protected] as instructed, enter your activation key and computer key
and click Activate Offline.

6. Once you see the yellow check mark that indicates that the activation was successful, click Finish.

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1.5.2 Activating your Geoscience ANALYST Pro/Pro Geophysics licence
1. Launch Geoscience ANALYST.
2. Click File > License Management.
3. In the License Management window, click Activate in the Geoscience ANALYST Pro section to
open the Geoscience ANALYST Pro activation wizard.

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 4. Depending on whether your device has an internet connection, follow the appropriate activation
instructions below:
l If connected to the internet: Click Activate Online. Once you have read and consented to
the privacy policy, enter your activation key and click Activate Online.

l If not connected to the internet: Click Activate Offline. Once you have contacted
[email protected] as instructed, enter your activation key and computer key
and click Activate Offline.

5. Once you see the yellow check mark that indicates that the activation was successful, click Finish.

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 User interface
This chapter describes the elements that make up the Geoscience
ANALYST user interface.
CHAPTER 2 2.1 Overview 10
2.1.1 Menu bar 11
2.1.2 Coordinate display area 11
2.1.3 Data Table 11
2.1.4 Visual Parameters panel 15

2.1.5 ioGAS panel 15

2.1.6 Objects panel 17
2.1.7 Viewport 21
2.1.8 Controls panel 28
2.1.9 Console panel 29
2.1.10 Geoscience INTEGRATOR panel 29
2.1.11 Data Colours panel 29
2.1.12 2D Profile Viewer 39
2.1.13 Decay Curves panel 43
2.1.14 Survey Designer panel 45
2.2 Preferences 48

2.3 Saving workspaces 50

2.3.1 Workspace file lock 50
2.3.2 About .geoh5 format 50
2.1 Overview
An arrangement of panels makes up the Geoscience ANALYST user interface, each playing a specific
role helping to both manipulate and interpret data related to the project. You can rearrange these panels
side by side, stack them, or place them on top of each other by clicking and dragging them to your
desired locations. You can close them by clicking the X at the top right, and then open them back into
view through the Panels menu.

The panels are as follows:

1. "Menu bar" on the next page
2. "Coordinate display area" on the next page
3. "Data Table" on the next page
4. "Visual Parameters panel" on page 15
5. "ioGAS panel" on page 15
6. "Objects panel" on page 17
7. "Viewport" on page 21
8. "Controls panel" on page 28
9. "Console panel" on page 29
10. "Geoscience INTEGRATOR panel" on page 29
11. "Data Colours panel" on page 29
12. "2D Profile Viewer" on page 39
13. "Decay Curves panel" on page 43
14. "Survey Designer panel" on page 45

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2.1.1 Menu bar
Contains the top level drop-down menus.

2.1.2 Coordinate display area

This panel provides real-time feedback on the x, y, z coordinates corresponding to the mouse
movements and the Viewport’s camera dip and dip direction parameters, as well as drillhole name and
wireline depth. Saves and reports coordinates of the last pick at the beginning of the display area.

2.1.3 Data Table

This panel displays various levels of information related to the selected object’s internal and folder
structure. Selecting an object either in the Objects panel or directly in the Viewport performs one or all of
the following functions:

l Highlights the data that corresponds to the object in the Data Table
l Displays the tab level and the object's immediate parent folder containing metadata (summary
information)
l Displays user comments and attached files

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The information presented in the Data Table depends on the active object type and tab level
(workspace, folder, object, or data). You can add, view, and delete comments and files associated with
the workspace, folders, and objects (depending on the active tab).

Tab Components

Workspace Metadata associated with workspace such as name, contributors, relevant

dates, units, and axis ranges.

Folder Metadata related to the parent folder associated with the selected object.

Object Metadata associated with the selected object, such as its type, number of
nodes and triangles, and axis ranges.

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The Data Table contains tabs that correspond to the sub-levels of an object, such as nodes, triangles,
cells, and logs. The active tab controls the highlight display on objects. For example, a surface with the
object tab active will highlight every triangle, whereas the node tab will highlight the selected nodes as
yellow cubes.

Data level tabs

Data level tabs consist of columns containing numeric (float, integer), time, text, and reference type
data.

Selecting rows in the Data Table

Clicking on a row will:

l Highlight it in yellow
l Highlight the corresponding data point on the object in the Viewport

Holding Ctrl and clicking on multiple rows will:

l Multi-select subsequently clicked rows and highlight them

l Multi-select the corresponding data points on the object in the Viewport

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Holding Shift and clicking on a row followed by another row will:

l Multi-select the two rows and any rows between them, and highlight them
l Multi-select the corresponding data points on the object in the Viewport

Sorting data in the Data Table

To sort the data between ascending and descending order, click a column header to toggle between
ascending order (˄), descending order (˅) and no order.

Button Function

Clicking this tool at the top of the column toggles on and off the painting of the object in
the Viewport by its data according to the Data Colours panel settings, as seen in the
rainbow image below. In the data table, the column that is currently painted is
highlighted in blue.

Clicking this disk button in a column header loads the data for that column only.
(Clicking anywhere else in the column header is a request to order the table so it will
also load its data and order it right away.)

Clicking this disk button in the left side of the table loads all the data for that table. This
functionality is also available from the contextual menus of all object levels to load all
the data of that level and its sub-levels (see "Contextual menus" on page 145).

Clicking this disk button in the left side of the table exports the table to a .csv file. Only
the loaded data will be exported.

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 Note: To export a subset of data from the Data Table, you can select or multi-select rows
and use Ctrl + C to copy to the clipboard and Ctrl + V to paste them in other applications
like Notepad or Excel.

2.1.4 Visual Parameters panel

In this panel you can modify and adjust the appearance of selected objects in the Viewport. The list of
parameters is specific to the object type, but some are available across multiple objects such as the
colour and the level of transparency.

See "Objects" on page 54 for more information regarding object types and their parameters.

2.1.5 ioGAS panel

The ioGAS panel presents various graphical settings available on ioGAS Points objects. Click Connect
to establish a live link with ioGAS (requires the ioGAS Link module and Geoscience ANALYST Pro) or
click Import file to import an ioGAS .gas file.

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 Tip: You can import .gas files through the File > Import menu as well as simply dragging
and dropping the file into the Viewport or Objects panel.

Selecting an ioGAS Points object will trigger the panel to update and will display the available colour,
shape, size, and filter settings (similar to ioGAS Attribute Manager). When you activate the ioGAS
graphics Visual Parameters settings, the nodes will be displayed using these symbols, otherwise they
will be displayed using Geoscience ANALYST’s normal attribute settings.

To display only the nodes that have specific attributes, click the desired colour, shape, size or filter rows
(hold Ctrl or left-click and drag to multi-select), then click .

Only the nodes that have the selected attributes will be displayed, indicated by the eye in the Visible
column.

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The nodes that are not included in a visible row will be invisible. Click to turn on all of the nodes that
have an attribute applied to them. The Count column indicates how many nodes are included under that
attribute setting.

See "ioGAS Link" on page 212 in the Geoscience ANALYST Pro chapter for detailed information about
ioGAS Link.

2.1.6 Objects panel

This panel lists all the objects, tools, and data available in your workspace.

The Name column categorizes each element in the workspace at the folder level, while the Type
column indicates the file and data types.

To show and hide objects in the Viewport from the Objects panel:
1. In the Name column, locate the item corresponding to the object you wish to show or hide in the
Viewport.
2. Check the box to show the object, or uncheck the box to hide it.

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 Note: Highlighting an item in the Name column of the Objects panel will select the
corresponding object in the Viewport, and vice versa (both will be highlighted in yellow).

You can customize and organize your workspace by creating generic container folders within the
existing folders that contain data related to your project. To do this, right-click a parent folder and select
Add group. You can then name the new folder and drag and drop it to the appropriate location within the
object tree.

The Objects panel's hierarchy is folder > object > data. The image above demonstrates this structure
and includes some of the icons associated with each level.

Click the arrow in the Name and Type columns to alphabetically sort the entire list of items.

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Searching in the object tree

The search box at the top of the Objects panel allows you to quickly find group, objects or data from
their name. For quick access, press Ctrl + F and directly type the name you want to search for. Results
of the search query are highlighted in blue.

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Objects search buttons

Button Tooltip Description

(none) Cancels the search, effectively removing all blue highlights.

Show Shows only the objects returned by the search query in the current
search active viewport, and hide all the other ones.
results
ONLY

Show Displays / hides in the Viewport the names of the blue bounding box
bounding (es) for objects returned by the search query.
boxes
names

Show Displays / hides in the Viewport's blue bounding box(es) for objects
bounding returned by the search query. The bounding box(es) will show in all
boxes of viewports, even if the objects themselves are not displayed in the
results Viewport.

Filter Filters out from the tree the objects that are not matching the search
search query. Toggle it off to see again all the objects in the tree.

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2.1.7 Viewport
The Viewport panel is the 3D space where you view, select, and manipulate objects and models. The
vertical toolbar located at the right of the panel provides numerous options and tools to control how you
view objects in your workspace.

Selecting objects

Left-clicking an object in the Viewport performs two functions:

l Selection of the object

l Updates selections on corresponding panels

Ctrl + left-click allows you to select multiple objects in the Viewport.

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Left-clicking the Viewport background will select the Workspace tab in the Data Table panel and the
workspace folder in the Objects panel.

Viewing objects

There are several ways to manipulate the Viewport camera to visualize objects:

Rotate on x, y, z axes (left mouse button)

Pan (middle mouse button), Zoom (mouse wheel)
Zoom (right mouse button)

Viewport toolbar buttons

Button Tooltip Description

Global view Adjusts limits to display all visible objects.

Look west Displays the view from the east.

Look north Displays the view from the south.

View from Displays the view from the top.

top

Look east Displays the view from the west.

Look south Displays the view from the north.

Link Links all visible viewports (only appears when multiple viewports
viewports have been added).

Link cursors Links cursor tracking on all visible 2D and 3D viewports (only
appears when multiple viewports have been added).

Look Adjusts the view to look straight at the active or most recently
orthogonal to created slicer.
slicer

Perspective Widens the perspective of the Viewport's lens so that objects

view further from the centre appear smaller. Parallel lines will converge
at a distance.

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 Button Tooltip Description

Parallel view Objects display isometrically with no size distortions regardless of

distance from the lens. Parallel lines will always appear parallel
without converging.

Scale bar Available when in parallel view; activate to add a scale bar in the
lower left area of the Viewport.

Show grid Displays dynamically coloured, annotated grid lines. Available

lines when in preset views (looking down, north, south, east or west)
and in parallel mode. y coordinates are green, x are red, and z are
blue to match the x, y, z axis arrows.

x, y, z axis Toggles on and off the x, y, z coordinate axis icon.

Background Allows you to customize the background colour.

colour

Colour bar Toggles on and off the colour map that displays the active or most
recently selected painted data.

Vertical Visually stretches the z dimension of objects. Useful for enhancing

exaggeration flat or regional features.

Snapshot Takes a snapshot of the Viewport contents and creates an image

file.

Show Outlines selections in magenta.

selection
bounding
box

Snap to Functions requiring digitizing in the Viewport (including tape

nearest node measure and labels) will snap to the nearest object node or
or interval closest interval top or bottom when digitizing on painted drillholes.
top / bottom

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Multiple viewports

Geoscience ANALYST allows you to open additional viewports within a single workspace, and organize
them as you would any other panels: either side by side, or stacked. You can also drag them to a
second monitor outside of the main Geoscience ANALYST software window.

Showing and hiding objects or data from the Objects panel updates the view on the current active
viewport. Having multiple viewports allows you to view side by side different sets of objects, or the same
objects with different painted data. To do so, go to Panels > Add Viewport (max 8).

This will create a new 3D viewport. To create a viewport for a 2D map view instead, click Add Map View
Viewport (max 8).

You will see the new viewport(s) as tabs at the bottom of the Viewport panel. You can drag and drop
them to view two or more concurrently. The header bar of the selected viewport will appear a dark teal
colour to indicate it is active.

When you select a viewport, all surrounding panels will instantly update to reflect the data of the selected
viewport.

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Viewports are not deleted when closed; they are hidden. You can restore them from the Panels menu
by clicking the viewport you want to display. Click Delete Viewport to permanently delete a viewport.
You can display and hide viewports by toggling on and off the check mark next to the respective
viewport in the contextual menu.

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You can hide viewports by clicking the button at the top right.

Map view viewports

Map views are useful for displaying 2D map data (for which X and Y but not Z are defined), such as data
originating from mine level plans or topographic maps. 3D objects may also be displayed in the
Geoscience ANALYST 2D map view viewport, in which they appear projected onto the map view.

Note: Any geometric operation on a 3D object displayed in map view will use the true Z
value. When moving the mouse over, the cursor information shows the actual Z
coordinate.

In a map view, objects are displayed in a specific order, according to a priority based on their type: block
meshes and surfaces have the lowest priority, then drillholes and lines, and finally points have the
highest priority.

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Objects of the same type are displayed in the order they were toggled on, from the object tree: the object
toggled on last is displayed on top other objects of the same display priority.

Tip: To bring a surface on top of others, simply hide it and show it again.

In a map view, rotations are locked. You can use either the left or the middle mouse button to pan the
view. The rotation angle around the vertical axis is fixed and defined through a settings dialogue,
accessible from the Viewport toolbar.

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2.1.8 Controls panel
Located at the lower left of the interface, the Controls panel is a master list of:

l Navigation key commands and mouse buttons with corresponding actions

l The commands to create and manage labels, slicers, views, and tape measures

Actions performed in the Viewport will highlight the command in yellow simultaneously in the Controls
panel.

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With a Geoscience ANALYST Pro licence activated, all of the available object creation and editing
functions will display here for reference.

2.1.9 Console panel

This panel contains the following:

l General program and command related-information during a Geoscience ANALYST session.

l Warning messages in yellow, error messages in red. Messages will automatically open the
Console panel if it is hidden.

Tip: Consult the console for information if commands and imports do not execute as
expected.

2.1.10 Geoscience INTEGRATOR panel

This panel allows you to connect to your Geoscience INTEGRATOR server.Geoscience ANALYST is
the 3D front end to query and visualize data from Geoscience INTEGRATOR, the software solution by
Mira Geoscience for 4D multi-disciplinary exploration and geotechnical data management. See
"Integration with Geoscience INTEGRATOR" on page 125 for details about how to connect and query
data.

2.1.11 Data Colours panel

This panel provides options to associate an object's data with specific colour settings, defined via a
mapping function or set manually.

The display and available options in the Data Colours panel correspond to the selected and painted
data in the Viewport and Data Table.

The Data Colours table consists of two interfaces. The histogram view and graph view display when the
painted data is float or integer data:

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The reference data view displays when the painted data is reference data:

Histogram view: Float and integer data

To display the histogram view in the Data Colours panel, select one or both of the following:

l An object in the Viewport (or its corresponding list entry in the Objects panel)
l A column of float and integer data in the Data Table.

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The basic features and functionality of the histogram view are detailed in the images below:

i. Toggle folder menu

This drop-down menu changes the folder level of the selected data. This feature is particularly useful for
examining statistics on an individual drillhole versus an entire drillhole group. You can analyze all the
drillholes that are in the parent group of the selected drillhole or all the drillholes in the workspace.

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ii.Statistics

This section displays the statistics of the selected data. The number of samples displays to the right of
the theme name along the bottom of the x-axis.
iii.Histogram and graph

This section displays the histogram data on the x and y axes. The x-axis represents the data range.
There are two y-axes:

l The left side represents the user-defined colour bar.

l The right side represents the count.

The yellow right angle line indicates the point of intersection of the selected data value and the
corresponding colour.

The red line represents the colour mapping function.

By default, the histogram contains 50 bins.

iv.Data filter slider

This slider controls the low and high clipping values of the data displayed. When objects are painted by
data, the values within the limits of the slider will be coloured. On the values below (left) and above (right)
the slider bars will appear either grey or transparent, depending on the Hide nodata/filtered values
setting.

You can set the exact clipping values by entering them in the value boxes at the left and right sides of
the data filter bar.

Button Tooltip Function

Reset clip Click this button to remove the filtering and reset the data filter
values bar.

v.Colour table menu

This drop-down menu contains a selection of preset colour tables that allow you to paint objects.

Button Tooltip Function

Invert Switches to the complementary colours of the selected colour table.

colour
table

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 Button Tooltip Function

Flip Reverses the colour table, switching the low and high colours.
colour
table

Inside / Displays data outside the defined range. When toggled on, the range is
Outside inverted, from displaying results inside the cursors, to outside the
range cursors.

Tip: You can design custom colour tables by creating ASCII files with three columns, a
fixed header, and the RGB values normalized to 256. Save the file in the directory where
you have installed Geoscience ANALYST (by default, C:\Program Files\Mira
Geoscience\Geoscience ANALYST\tbl).

vi. Bin selection

This value box allows you to specify the number of bins (up to a maximum of 500) displayed in the
histogram.
vii.Colour mapping transformations

This section contains:

l Four colour mapping transformation functions that determine how colours map to data values
l Two options to load and save custom colour settings
l Hide no-data / filtered values option
l Revert colour settings option
l Toggle scale option

These features allow optimization of data visualization in the Viewport by customizing the colour
stretching.

See the table below for a description of each.

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 Button Tooltip Function

Linear Divides the range of data values linearly into even increments.
transform

Logarithmic Divides the range of data values according to a ln(x) scale

transform (logarithmic normal), and assigns values linearly, and uses the
inverse of the log of those values on the colour mapping curve.

Equal area Statistically determines the colour mapping curve so that each
transform colour is evenly distributed across the nodes, cells, triangles,
intervals or segments on the painted object.

Cumulative Assumes that the selected data are normally distributed and
distribution calculates the colour zoning based on a user-defined normal
function distribution.
transform
(CDF)

Load colour Click to load a custom colour settings (.clr) or zone (.zon) file,
settings which maps specific data ranges to a defined colour. The format
is: start / end value; R, G, B values normalized to 1. If the values
range from 0 to 255, add the string int to the header line. The
values in the table below will create the Cu-percent colour
setting.

Start Red Green Blue

0 0 0 1
1 0 1 0
2 1 .5 0
5 1 0 0
20 1 0 0

Geoscience ANALYST supports {red green blue} or {blk cyn

mag yel} columns. The file needs a .tbl extension.

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 Button Tooltip Function

Save colour Saves a .clr file (colour settings file) to your system.
settings

Hide Renders no data and filtered data transparent. Toggled on, the
nodata/filtered background is blue. Toggled off, the background is grey.
values

Revert colour Restores the original colour mapping scheme. Functions like an
settings undo.

Toggle scale Switches the histogram x-axis (data) scale (and binning) from
type linear to logarithmic.

Tip: To view the colour range in the Viewport, click in the Viewport toolbar.

When you click a colour mapping transformation button, the appropriate dialogue box will appear, such
as the Linear transformation box. By default, the Min and Max entries for linear, logarithmic, and equal
area transformation options will display the low and high values of the data filter slider.

Tip: Toggle the button on and off to compute the transformation from values outside of
the selected range.

Reference data view

Selecting reference data through the Objects panel, Viewport, or Data Table will open the reference
data view in the Data Colours panel. The icon represents reference data in the Objects panel.

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i. Toggle folder menu

This drop-down menu changes the folder level of the selected data. This feature is particularly useful for
examining statistics on an individual drillhole versus an entire drillhole group. You can analyze all the
drillholes that are in the parent group of the selected drillhole or all the drillholes in the workspace.
ii.Colour table entries

This table displays the following:

Column Contents

[value] Integer key values mapped internally to each colour classification.

Colour Colour class (user-defined). Edit by clicking a colour and navigating the Select
colour window.

Class Class names. Edit by renaming directly in the table.

Count The number of samples or occurrences of each class within the selected data
population.

Toggle on and off the eye to view the class on the object in the Viewport.

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Reference data selected on an object, either directly in the Viewport or via the Data Table, will be
highlighted in yellow on the colour table entries.
iii.Colour settings and view options

Button Tooltip Description

Load colour Loads a classification .csv file. This will update the colours and
settings class names and will rename and re-colour the matching key
values according to the entries found in the file. The format is: key
values; “class name”; R, G, B values normalized to 1. A sample
file that will produce the above reference data scheme is:

1 "1_Air" ,0,1,1
"2_Missi_Group_Fluvial_
2 ,0.462745,0.772549,0.945098
sediments"
3 "3_Louis_formation" ,0,0.533333,0.666667
4 "4_Hidden_formation" ,0,0.392157,0
5 "5_Orebody" ,1,0,0
6 "6_Millrock_member" ,1,1,0
"7_Blue_Lagoon_
7 ,0.2,0.4,0.733333
member"
z8 "8_Club_member" ,0.8,0.8,0.8

Note: This setting can only load and save

classification-type .csv files.

Save colour Saves a .clr file (colour settings file) to your system.
settings

Show Displays a class or classes in the Viewport. To multi-select

selected classes, hold Ctrl while clicking on the rows, or click and drag,
then click this button.

View all Displays all classes.

Hide Renders no data and filtered data transparent. When activated,

nodata/filtered the button background displays in blue. Otherwise, no data and
values hidden classes for reference data display in grey.

Revert colour Restores the original colour mapping scheme.

settings

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 Button Tooltip Description

Add a column Pro functionality – Adds a column to the colour table entries,
which can be a new float property that is dynamically linked to
user-entered values for each class. The name is user-defined.

Remove extra Pro functionality – Removes a nominated data column from the
column colour table entries.

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2.1.12 2D Profile Viewer
The 2D Profile Viewer allows easy visualization of multiple graphs of single or multi-channel (groups)
numerical data (integer and floats) stored on Curves objects.

This panel allows you to:

l Display 2D sections from a block model along the profile lines, which is ideal for comparison of
geophysical inversions with line data.
l View selections made in the viewer simultaneously in the Viewport and vice versa with dynamic
linking.
l Implement various scaling and graph settings options to create custom views.

Tip: To maximize the profile viewing area, you can hide the settings section (left side of
viewer) by sliding the vertical separator all the way to the left.

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Setting up the viewer

Use the drop-down menu or the selection arrow to select the Curves object that contains data to show
as profiles.

You can navigate from line to line (curve part index) by moving the horizontal slider located at the top of
the graph area left and right using the following methods:

l Clicking and dragging the handlebar.

l Using the keyboard up and down arrows.
l Manually changing the value on the Curve part index selector by typing in a new value or
pressing the up and down arrows.

allows you to pick the line from the Viewport.

will show and hide the start and end of line indicators in the Viewport.

takes a snapshot of the graph and section with the ability to change the X and Y resolution and
maintain the aspect ratio. You can also copy the Profile panel contents to the clipboard by pressing
Ctrl + C.

With a Curves object selected, you can toggle on the Section view to activate the Block Model and Data
selectors. A vertical projection of the section of data associated with the location of the line will display
under the graphs view. (The Data Colours panel controls the colour distribution.) The Y axis settings
include automatic or specified vertical exaggeration or a fixed range.

The X axis range can be fixed or automatic to the length of the selected curve part.

You can add as many graphs as you need by clicking the Add graph tab. Double-click on a tab name to
rename it.

The X axis of the graphs represents the distance along the selected curve line. You have a few graph
settings options:

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 Function Description

Easting/Northing Click each icon to toggle on and off Easting lines in red and Northing lines
grid lines in green on the selected graph. You can control the spacing between
grid lines with the numerical spin boxes next to them.

Legend Toggle on and off to display a graph's legend. Right-click on legends in

the graph area to access various placement options.

Y axis settings: Check this option to manually specify the minimum and maximum values
Fixed range for the Y axis scale. This locks the range for all of the lines. Uncheck it to
recalculate the range on a line to line basis.

Log scale Toggle between displaying the Y axis values on a linear and logarithmic
scale.

Y axis name The name of the data selected first becomes the name of the Y axis. Click
in the <enter Y axis name> box to overwrite the default with a custom
name. Clicking X will reset the Y axis name to the default.

Add data Creates a new data selection row. Select Single or Group data (see
"Group Data" on page 159) to display them as profiles on the current
graph. The drop-down menu lists grouped data first under the Multi
heading, then float and integer data lists alphabetically.

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 Function Description

Choose the symbol to plot at sample locations on the graph; use the
numerical spin boxes to modify the size of the symbol and the colour
boxes to modify the profile colour.

removes the selected data from displaying as profiles on a graph.

Near Add data: Show all/hide all profiles. For each data:
show/hide profile for this data.

With grouped data, the colours in between will be interpolated based on

your defined first and last colours. You can define a subset of grouped
data to display by modifying the slider and/or numerical spin boxes. This
will redistribute the first and last Data Colours across the data subset.

Tip: You can copy the profile panel contents to the clipboard by pressing Ctrl + C.

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2.1.13 Decay Curves panel
This panel displays multi-component data with respect to node locations. For Curves objects, the multi-
component data is viewed as a function of channel number. For EM dataset objects, it is viewed as a
function of time or frequency.

Tab Components

Object The Curves or EM dataset object.

Data Select the data groups or multi-component data to view. Each group will have a
Groups different symbol. Each location has a different colour.

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 Tab Components

Change the decay to the object’s previous (left) or next (right) node.

Links (or unlinks) from the selection in the Viewport. For EM data, choosing the
decays requires the Receivers tab to be active.

Button to highlight the decay location(s) in the Viewport.

Colours The colour map used to denote multiple node locations.

Button to reset the axis scale(s) based on data.

Min The minimum value for the axis.

Max The maximum value for the axis.

Button to toggle between linear and log scale. Available on the Y axis (time or
frequency) when EM datasets are selected.

Transition The integer value at which the log scale goes linear across zero (i.e. -2 has a log
scale everywhere, except for -0.01 to 0.01). Dotted red lines appear, denoting
the transition.

Scale The scale of the linearized zone of a log axis. A scale set to 1 will have equal
length along the axis to that of a single order of magnitude.

Nullify Button to nullify the components that have been selected using the Ctrl key to
data select multiple or Shift + left-click and dragging. Clicking Delete data will
change the data to no-data values.

Important: Once this is done, it cannot be undone!

Show This check box shows the legend with the node value, group type, and linear
legend transition, if applicable.

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2.1.14 Survey Designer panel
The Survey Designer panel is available with Geoscience ANALYST Pro and provides options to
preview and create curve objects that represent various types of geophysical survey objects with
unique metadata. These curves can be used as observation locations for the forward modelling of
potential fields. Total survey line length is reported.

To set up the Survey Designer:

1. Select the type of survey observations to create. The resulting Curves objects are not restricted to
use in forward modelling.

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 2. Specify whether an existing curve or a new survey object will be created, as well as the type of
survey to be created. Again, note that the style of survey will not affect the end uses of the Curves
object.

Function Description

Origin The origin of the new survey (to automatically define this value, click and
(X/Y/Z)
left-click and drag to draw an initial survey line).

Azimuth The angle clockwise from north (to automatically define this value, click
and left-click and drag to draw an initial survey line).

Length The length of the survey line (to automatically define this value, click and
left-click and drag to draw an initial survey line).

Number of Specify the number of lines in the survey.

lines

Alignment Specify the line location relative to the initial survey line.

Tie line Select a surface representing topography (magnetic surveys only, set to 0 for
spacing no tielines).

Tie line The offset of tie lines from the initial survey line (magnetic surveys only).
offset

Line Specify the distance between survey lines.

spacing

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 Function Description

Station Specify the distance between survey stations.

spacing

Terrain Specify the height above the nominated topography surface at which to drape
clearance the curve (airborne surveys only).

Topography Nominate a topography surface.

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2.2 Preferences
By going to Edit > Preferences, you can open the dialogue box where you control the following
elements of the workspace:

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 Parameter Description

General

User name Text field where you can enter and modify your user name.

Languages Drop-down menu to toggle between languages.

Camera rotation Drop-down menu to toggle between the default or free-form use of
the camera in the Viewport.

Default view Drop-down menu to toggle between Perspective and Parallel.

projection

Maximum data table Use the spin box or enter the maximum number of rows to load in the
rows data table to limit memory usage.

Lazy load Use the spin box or enter the workspace size, below which all data
workspace files are loaded.
larger than

Export settings

UBC no data value Pro Geophysics functionality. Enter the default no data value to be
used when exporting UBC data.

Shininess settings

Enable Check box to toggle on and off the radiance/shine of objects in the
Viewport.

Surface / Point / Use the spin box or slider to adjust the shine and intensity of the
Drillhole shininess / corresponding object in the Viewport.
intensity

Default data colour settings

Colour table The default colour map.

Colour mapping The default colour mapping transform.

Geophysics

OpenMP threads Pro functionality. Use the spin box or slider to adjust the number of
processors to use for forward modelling or unconstrained inversion.

CPU free memory Pro functionality. Use the spin box or slider to adjust the amount of
usage (%) CPU memory to use for forward modelling or unconstrained
inversion.

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2.3 Saving workspaces
When you save a workspace in Geoscience ANALYST, it creates, or updates, a .geoh5 file on disk. All
configurations and files in the workspace are saved, except for the Preferences. Any settings made in
the Preferences are saved on the local machine for the current user, and will apply globally to all
workspaces you open (see "Preferences" on page 48).

When you close Geoscience ANALYST, the panel configuration will be saved on the local machine for
the current user, and restored the next time you open the software. However, multiple viewports
arranged to view simultaneously will not appear side-by-side after saving, closing and re-opening; they
will be presented in tab form where you can rearrange them to view simultaneously if needed.

2.3.1 Workspace file lock

When an instance of the application opens a workspace file (.geoh5), a lock file is created on disk that
prevents another instance from opening the same file for editing. The file will open in other instances of
the application as read-only. You can see that a workspace is in read-only mode when indicated in the
title bar of Geoscience ANALYST. When a workspace is open in read-only mode, you can still use
editing tools and modify the workspace, but you will have to perform a Save Workspace As... to a new
location. When opening a workspace file that is already locked, the Console panel will display a
message telling you that the file is read-only.

This lock mechanism works for both local drive and shared drives.

It is possible that a remote instance of Geoscience ANALYST terminates unexpectedly and leaves a
lock file in a shared drive. In this event, you can manually delete the lock file, listed next to the .geoh5 file,
and suffixed with .geoh5.lock, as long as you have administrative rights on the server or folder.

Before doing so, it is recommended to find the user of the machine that created the lock and confirm that
it is safe to remove the lock.

Note: A file also appears locked if you only have read permissions on the folder it is stored
in. There is no .geoh5.lock file in this case, since it could not be created.

2.3.2 About .geoh5 format

A Geoscience ANALYST project (.geoh5 file) is referred to as a workspace, which is saved on disk using
the HDF5 file format. The widely used HDF5 technology provides high-performance, dynamic read /
write access to data, while offering the following advantages:

l Open-specification, cross-platform format guarantees that the data within remains accessible in
the future
l Easily extensible for future needs

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 l Single file output is ideal for sharing data
l Benefits from many existing tools and libraries in several languages (including Python and
MATLAB for data analysis)
l Flexible hierarchical structure is ideal for Geoscience ANALYST’s object-oriented data structures,
allowing for fast development

Note: Workspaces saved in .geoh5 format with the current version cannot be opened with
versions earlier than 2.30.

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 Object types
This chapter describes the object types you will work with in
Geoscience ANALYST.
CHAPTER 3 3.1 Information from the Data Table 53
3.2 Objects 54
3.2.1 Points 55
3.2.2 Curves 59
3.2.3 Surfaces 64

3.2.4 Drillholes 67
3.2.5 2D grids 73
3.2.6 Block models 77
3.2.7 GeoImages 82
3.2.8 Maxwell plates 84
3.2.9 OcTree grids 87
3.2.10 VP models 90
3.3 Special objects 93
3.3.1 Slicers 94
3.3.2 Labels 96
3.1 Information from the Data Table
The Data Table contains tabs with information related to the selected object. The presented information
is specific to each object type, as detailed further in this chapter.

The Data Table also presents a Folder tab, exposing information tied to a container folder, and a
Workspace tab with information related to the current open workspace.

Workspace tab

The Workspace tab is always available in the Data Table, regardless of the object selected, and
presents a variety of information relevant to the entire workspace.

Function Description

Project Name of current workspace.

Contributors List of users who have contributed in the workspace.

Created Creation date of the workspace.

Last modified Date of the last saved version.

# Objects Total number of objects (including tools) in the workspace.

Distance unit Select between metres or feet.

Project extents x, y, and z limits of all objects.

Range Total x, y, and z distance range of all objects.

Folder tab

The Folder tab presents metadata about the parent folder containing the selected object.Geoscience
ANALYST uses a special folder type for grouping drillholes. The table below demonstrates an example
of the summary information available for a generic container folder. As with the Data Table tab for the
active workspace, the Folder tab for the selected object can be attributed with user-defined comments
and files, which you can attach for additional information.

Function Description

Type Selected container.

# Objects Total number of objects contained in the folder.

Limits x, y, and z limits of all objects.

Range Total x, y, and z distance range of all objects contained in the folder.

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3.2 Objects
This section presents each object in detail, focusing on Visual Parameters, auto-generated, and user-
defined metadata, and lists the type of import filters for each.

Geoscience ANALYST supports the following objects:

l "Points" on the next page

l "Curves" on page 59

l "Surfaces" on page 64

l "Drillholes" on page 67

l "2D grids" on page 73

l "Block models" on page 77

l "GeoImages" on page 82

l "Maxwell plates" on page 84

l "OcTree grids" on page 87

l "VP models" on page 90

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3.2.1 Points

Points are the simplest object type among all the data structures, representing a collection of nodes
defined by their x, y, z coordinates.

Points can store information and data of all types at the object and node levels. The Visual Parameters
panel contains the graphical settings designed to allow you to specify how points look in the Viewport
as presented in the table below.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Points

Colour Corresponds to the colour of unpainted nodes.

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the object: 0 is

opaque and 1 is fully transparent. The transparency level also applies to
painted points.

Node size For 2D symbols: Size in pixels of the entire node.

For 3D symbols: True distance in pixels between the centre and edge of the
symbol.

Node symbol A collection of 2D and 3D shapes you can select to modify the appearance
of the nodes.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Scale nodes Allows you to make the node size proportional to the selected data value.
by data Check the box to scale the nodes by data. Once checked, the data selector
box will activate, where you can choose which data you want to scale by.
The amplitude is proportional to the colour mapping transformation in the
Data Colours table. See"Data Colours panel" on page 29 for more details.

Data The float or integer data used for scaling the size of the nodes.

Scale The scaling factor used to re-size the nodes.

Scale by This button takes the absolute value of the nominated data and creates a
absolute new property called property name (abs). This new property is used to
value scale the nodes.

Orientation

Data group Selects an orientation data group (3D vector, Dip direction, and Dip or

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Strike and dip). You can create, modify, and delete data groups through
the Utilities > Group Data tool, as explained in "Group Data" on page 159.

: Adds or recomputes a column in your data table with the vector

amplitude values and paints the symbols by that column (this button is
available when there is a valid orientation data group only).

Symbol Selects the orientation node symbol (2D arrow, 3D arrow or Tablet).

Length Modifies the size of the orientation symbols.

Width If checked on, sets a fixed width for the orientation symbols instead of using
a ratio of the length.

Scale by If checked on, scales the orientation symbols by amplitude of the data
amplitude values, using the set length for the highest data value.

: Toggles between linear and logarithmic scaling of the orientation

symbols.

Graphics

ioGAS This is an extra option available only for ioGAS Points objects. When toggled
graphics on, the ioGAS visual parameter and data colour settings supersede those of
Geoscience ANALYST. The nodes inherit the colour, size, shape, and filter
attribute settings saved from ioGAS. You cannot edit these settings without
the ioGAS Link module, but you can turn them on and off through the ioGAS
panel described in "ioGAS panel" on page 15. Toggle off to revert back to
the Geoscience ANALYST graphic settings.

You can view metadata that corresponds to a selected Points object via its associated tab in the Data
Table. For example, if the selected points were named geochem, the tab with that title would contain the
associated metadata, as demonstrated in the metadata summary in the Data Table.

You can create points with the following importers:

l AutoCAD (.dxf, .dwg)

l GOCAD PointsSet (.vs)
l ASCII Column CSV (.csv)
l UBC-GIF Observation (.obs)
l ESRI Shapefile (.shp)

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 l Datamine binary points (.dm)
l ioGAS (.gas): creates a special ioGAS Points object with an extra ioGAS graphics option.

3.2.2 Curves

Curves are an object type defined by nodes and the segments linking them. You can associate data
of any type to nodes and segments. When you select a curve, the Data Table displays tabs for the
object, segment, and nodes of the curve.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Curve

Colour Corresponds to the colour of unpainted curves.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the object: 0 is

opaque and 1 is fully transparent. The transparency level also applies to
painted curves.

Show nodes Toggles on and off the display of nodes.

Node size Modifies the size of the nodes.

Show Toggles on and off the display of segments.

segments

Segment Modifies the thickness of the segments.

thickness

Orientation

Data group Selects an orientation data group (3D vector, Dip direction, and Dip or
Strike and dip). You can create, modify, and delete data groups through
the Utilities > Group Data tool, as explained in "Group Data" on page 159.

: Adds a column in your data table (if none already) with the vector
values and paints the symbols by that column (button available when there
is a valid orientation data group only).

Symbol Selects the orientation node symbol (2D arrow, 3D arrow or Tablet).

Length Modifies the size of the orientation symbols.

Width If checked on, sets a fixed width for the orientation symbols instead of using
a ratio of the length.

Scale by If checked on, scales the orientation symbols by amplitude of the data
amplitude values, using the set length for the highest data value.

: Toggles between linear and logarithmic scaling of the orientation

symbols.

Profiles

Line selector This parameter is only available on single curve selections. Selects which
lines to display profiles on in the Viewport. If there is no Line ID property set
on the curve, the selection is based on the part number referred to as the
line ID.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Toggle the / button to quickly include all or none of the lines in the
selection.

Clicking and a line in the Viewport switches between displaying and

hiding the profiles on that line.

Add data Creates a new data selection row. Select grouped or non-grouped data to
display them as profiles on the curves in the Viewport. The drop-down
menu lists grouped data first under the Multi heading, then float and integer
data lists alphabetically.

Scale in Enters a mode allowing you to adjust profile scales interactively in the
camera Viewport.

l Left-click on a profile: Rescale all data in a group.

l Right-click on a profile: Rescale only the selected data profile.

The selected data will be unselected from the group and a new data row will
be added.

Tip: To revert back to the group settings, delete the new row or
hide the profile and reselect it in the data group selector. Press
Esc to exit edit mode.

Show/hide Clicking this check box allows you to visualize the profile in the Viewport. To
profile the right, select the profile colour (single data only), and width, using the spin
box.

Toggle between linear and pseudo log scaling of the profiles (pseudo log
uses a arcsinh function and accepts negative values).

Displays nodes on the profiles where the data samples are.

Removes the profile row.

Name of multi- Lists all of the data contained in the multi-element data group. Select which
element data ones to display in the Viewport by adding a check-mark in the box beside
group the data name.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

/ Allows you to quickly select or unselect all data in the multi-element data
group. You can create, modify, and delete data groups through Utilities >
Group Data.

Colour table Selects a colour table to colour the profiles. The colours will be linearly
interpolated across each data in the order they are listed in the multi-
element data group.

Scale Maximum distance the profiles will extend from the curve. The scaling
depends on the absolute minimum and maximum values in the data type as
well as the crossover value.

Crossover The data value plotted at the curve line (axis datum).

: Automatically readjusts the crossover to be the absolute minimum

value of the selected data type. Note that this will include all data in the
workspace that is assigned the same data type as the selected data.

Angle The orientation of the profiles with respect to the curve's general direction.

You can create curves with the following importers:

l AutoCAD (.dxf, .dwg)

l Geosoft databases and x, y, z files (.gdb, .xyz)
l GOCAD Curve (.pl)
l ESRI shapefile (.shp)
l Datamine binary string (.dm)
l AMIRA TEM (.tem)

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3.2.3 Surfaces

Surfaces are an object type defined by triangles and nodes. You can associate data of any type to
the nodes and triangles of a surface. When you select a surface, the Data Table displays tabs for the
object, triangles, and nodes.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Surface

Colour Corresponds to the colour of the unpainted surface.

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the object: 0 is

opaque and 1 is fully transparent. The transparency level also applies to
painted surfaces and draped GeoImages.

Lighting Toggle to turn on/off lighting to shade the object.

Shading There are two options to modify the appearance of the surface:

l Smooth: Interpolates colour changes across triangles to minimize the

appearance of the triangle's edges.
l Flat: Uses one colour for each triangle to make edges appear more
pronounced.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Show mesh When shown, the mesh represents how the nodes are connected to create
triangles.

Mesh colour The mesh colour is independent of the surface colour.

Paint Selecting a GeoImage or 2D grid from the drop-down menu will drape the
GeoImage / image or painted 2D grid data vertically onto the surface. The draped image
2D grid takes precedence over the painted status of the surface.

Orientation

Data group Selects an orientation data group (3D vector, Dip direction, and Dip or
Strike and dip). You can create, modify, and delete data groups through
the Utilities > Group Data tool, as explained in "Group Data" on page 159.

: Adds a column in your data table (if none already) with the vector
values and paints the symbols by that column (button available when there
is a valid orientation data group only).

Symbol Selects the orientation node symbol (2D arrow, 3D arrow or Tablet).

Length Modifies the size of the orientation symbols.

Width If checked on, sets a fixed width for the orientation symbols instead of using
a ratio of the length.

Scale by If checked on, scales the orientation symbols by amplitude of the data
amplitude values, using the set length for the highest data value.

: Toggles between linear and logarithmic scaling of the orientation

symbols.

You can view metadata that corresponds to selected surfaces via the tab associated with that surface in
the Data Table. For example, if the selected surface was 5_Orebody, the tab with that title would contain
the metadata associated with that surface.

You can create surfaces using the following importers:

l AutoCAD (.dxf, .dwg)

l GOCAD Surface (.ts)
l UBC-GIF Topography (.topo)
l Datamine binary wire-frame (.dm)

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3.2.4 Drillholes

Drillholes are an object type that hosts a variety of information expressed as logs of data collected
along their 3D paths. In Geoscience ANALYST, drillhole objects can store three types of logs:

l Discrete interval logs used to store reference type data (such as rock type) over a depth interval.
l Numerical interval logs used to store numerical data measured over a depth interval (such as
assay data).
l Point logs hosting numeric values at specific measured depths (such as wireline data).

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The Visual Parameters panel contains the options to allow you to set the graphical settings to
determine the way drillholes look in the Viewport, as presented in the table below.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Drillhole

Colour Corresponds to the colour of the drillhole trace, name, and collar.

Show collar Displays the location of the top of the drillhole with a symbol.

Collar size Displays the collar symbol size expressed in pixels.

Collar symbol A collection of shapes you can select to modify the appearance of a drillhole
collar.

Show path Shows the 3D trajectory of the drillhole.

Path Path thickness expressed in pixels.

thickness

Show name Displays individual drillhole names in the Viewport.

Font Allows you to modify the font and font size of the drillhole names.

Name Allows you to display the drillhole name either at the top or bottom of the
location path.

Logs

Log style Allows you to select whether you want to display the log as a line or a
cylinder. Only lines are available for 2D map view viewports. When there are
several drillholes, displaying as lines improves the performance of 3D
rendering.

Log radius Allows you to modify the drillhole cylinder radius. Drillhole logs only display
as cylinders around the drillhole path (not used for Line style).

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the painted

property: 0 is opaque and 1 is fully transparent. The transparency level
does not affect the drillhole path, name, and collar.

Scale log As with Points objects, the painted log cylinder radius can be proportional to
float or integer data. For float data, the amplitude is proportional to the colour
mapping transformation in the data colour table.

Scale by Float or integer data to scale the painted log by.

Scale factor The scaling factor used to re-size the painted drillhole log.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Hide if no Hides the cylinder where there is no data to scale by. Without this check, the
data cylinder is scaled to the minimum value in order to still see a cylinder. This is
useful to see the painted cylinder even where there are blanks in the
property it is scaled by.

Orientation

Data group Selects an orientation data group (3D vector, Dip direction, and Dip or
Strike and dip). You can create, modify, and delete data groups through
the Utilities > Group Data tool, as explained in "Group Data" on page 159.

: Adds a column in your data table (if none already) with the vector
values and paints the symbols by that column (button available when there
is a valid orientation data group only).

Symbol Selects the orientation node symbol (2D arrow, 3D arrow or Tablet).

Length Modifies the size of the orientation symbols.

Width If checked on, sets a fixed width for the orientation symbols instead of using
a ratio of the length.

Scale by If checked on, scales the orientation symbols by amplitude of the data
amplitude values, using the set length for the highest data value.

: Toggles between linear and logarithmic scaling of the orientation

symbols.

Profiles

Add data Creates a new data selection row. Select grouped or non-grouped data to
display them as profiles on the curves in the Viewport. The drop-down
menu lists grouped data first under the Multi heading, then float and integer
data lists alphabetically.

Scale in Enters a mode allowing you to adjust profile scales interactively in the
camera Viewport.

l Left-click on a profile: Rescale all data in a group.

l Right-click on a profile: Rescale only the selected data profile.

The selected data will be unselected from the group and a new data row will

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 Visual Description
Parameter

be added.

Tip: To revert back to the group settings, delete the new row or
hide the profile and reselect it in the data group selector. Press
Esc to exit edit mode.

Show/hide Clicking this check box allows you to visualize the profile in the Viewport. To
profile the right, select the profile colour (single data only), and width, using the spin
box.

Toggle between linear and pseudo log scaling of the profiles (pseudo log
uses a arcsinh function and accepts negative values).

Displays nodes on the profiles where the data samples are.

Removes the profile row.

Name of multi- Lists all of the data contained in the multi-element data group. Select which
element data ones to display in the Viewport by adding a check-mark in the box beside
group the data name.

/ Allows you to quickly select or unselect all data in the multi-element data
group. You can create, modify, and delete data groups through Utilities >
Group Data.

Colour table Selects a colour table to colour the profiles. The colours will be linearly
interpolated across each data in the order they are listed in the multi-
element data group.

Scale Maximum distance the profiles will extend from the curve. The scaling
depends on the absolute minimum and maximum values in the data type as
well as the crossover value.

Crossover The data value plotted at the curve line (axis datum).

: Automatically readjusts the crossover to be the absolute minimum

value of the selected data type. Note that this will include all data in the
workspace that is assigned the same data type as the selected data.

Angle The orientation of the profiles with respect to the curve's general direction.

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You can view metadata that corresponds to a selected drillhole via the tab associated with that drillhole
in the Data Table. For example, if the selected drillhole was FFS008, the tab with that title would contain
the metadata associated with that drillhole, as demonstrated in the metadata summary in the Data
Table.

You can create drillholes using the following importers:

l GOCAD Well (.wl)

l ASCII drillholes (.csv)
l Datamine binary drillhole (.dm)

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3.2.5 2D grids

2D Grid objects support regularly gridded data, such as geophysical data sets. Cell centres store the
data and can hold data of any type. You can deform the grids by data and adjust the elevation of the
origin through the Visual Parameters panel options.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

2D grid

Colour Corresponds to the colour of the cage, grid, and unpainted section.

Transparency Transparency setting (0 to 1) of the sections and grid lines: 0 is opaque and
1 is fully transparent. The transparency level does not affect the cage and
labels.

Show cage Outline of the 2D grid.

Show grid Outline of every cell displayed.

Show axis Coordinates of the U (red) / V (green) axis are labelled.

Smooth When painted, option to smooth the colours along the cell edges.

Origin Z location of the 2D grid origin.

elevation

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Deform by Check the box to deform the 2D grid by data. Once checked, the data
data selector box will activate.

Distance Controls the extent of deformation measured orthogonal to the axis plane.
from plane The amplitude scaling (distance the cell plots away from the plane) is
proportional to the colour mapping transformation in the Data Colours
table. See"Data Colours panel" on page 29 for more details.

Orientation

Data group Selects an orientation data group (3D vector, Dip direction, and Dip or
Strike and dip). You can create, modify, and delete data groups through
the Utilities > Group Data tool, as explained in "Group Data" on page 159.

: Adds a column in your data table (if none already) with the vector
values and paints the symbols by that column (button available when there
is a valid orientation data group only).

Symbol Selects the orientation node symbol (2D arrow, 3D arrow or Tablet).

Length Modifies the size of the orientation symbols.

Width If checked on, sets a fixed width for the orientation symbols instead of using
a ratio of the length.

Scale by If checked on, scales the orientation symbols by amplitude of the data
amplitude values, using the set length for the highest data value.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

: Toggles between linear and logarithmic scaling of the orientation

symbols.

The corresponding Data Table tab provides the following information when a 2D grid is selected:

l Object type
l U and V cell sizes
l Number of cells (U x V)
l Total number of cells, currently painted data if any
l Object limits
l x, y, z ranges

2D Grid objects are created when importing the following files:

l Geosoft Grid files (.grd)

l Non-image 2D GOCAD Voxet files (.vo)

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3.2.6 Block models

Block models represent an important data structure, as they are the 3D rectilinear grids used to host
resource models, geologic models, and inversion / imaging results. Block model cells can hold data of
any type.

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When you select a block model, the following parameters become available in the Visual Parameters
panel:

Visual Description
Parameter

Block Model

Colour Corresponds to the colour of the cage, grid, unpainted sections, volumes,
and isovalues.

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the object: 0 is

opaque and 1 is fully transparent. The transparency level does not affect
the cage and labels.

Show cage Displays the outline of the block model.

Show grid Displays a grid on the entire block model, outlining each cell on sections and
volumes.

Show axis Displays the coordinates of the block model.

Smooth Allows you to smooth edges on painted sections and volumes of a block
model by interpolating coloured contours.

Property Blending

Property The property to blend with the displayed property.

Contribution Left-right slider that sets the percentage of each property in the blend.
(%)

Sections

Check box Toggle on and off to display and hide the section of the block model.

Number box Enter precise values to arrange the linear positioning of the block model
section on its axis.

Sliders Slide left and right to adjust the linear positioning of the block model section
on its axis.

Arbitrary Section

Move along Slide left and right to move the arbitrary section, which is not oriented parallel
normal to the grid axes, perpendicular to the section.

Dip/Strike Number boxes to orient the section using strike and dip values.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

: Click to draw the line of the arbitrary section, updates the strike and dip
values.

: Click to flip the strike of the arbitrary section.

Always face Toggle on to unfreeze the slicer so that it remains parallel to the screen as
camera the Viewport is rotated. Toggle off to freeze the slicer’s orientation.

Volume

Show volume Toggles on and off a cuboidal 3D sub-volume of the block model with the
option to view the complement of the defined volume.

Complement Reverses the displayed volume.

volume

Clip sections This check box clips any displayed sections by the defined volume extents.

Clip Displays only the isovalues that fit in this volume.

isovalues

Save core Saves the defined core volume.

volume
settings

Load core Loads the defined core volume.

volume
settings

Isovalues

Data Checking this section toggles on a 3D sub-volume of a block model that

represents the cells corresponding to the shell of a numeric data range for
floats and integers and a selected list of classes for reference data.

Range You can modify the shell value range with sliders, as well as by entering
values in the number boxes.

Orientation

Data group Selects an orientation data group (3D vector, Dip direction, and Dip or
Strike and dip). You can create, modify, and delete data groups through

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 Visual Description
Parameter

the Utilities > Group Data tool, as explained in "Group Data" on page 159.

: Adds a column in your data table (if none already) with the vector
values and paints the symbols by that column (button available when there
is a valid orientation data group only).

Symbol Selects the orientation node symbol (2D arrow, 3D arrow or Tablet).

Length Modifies the size of the orientation symbols.

Width If checked on, sets a fixed width for the orientation symbols instead of using
a ratio of the length.

Scale by If checked on, scales the orientation symbols by amplitude of the data
amplitude values, using the set length for the highest data value.

: Toggles between linear and logarithmic scaling of the orientation

symbols.

You can view metadata that corresponds to a selected block model via the tab associated with that
block model in the Data Table, as demonstrated in the metadata summary in the Data Table.

You can create block models by importing the following file types:

l 3D GOCAD Voxet (.vo)

l UBC-GIF Mesh (.msh)
l Datamine binary block model (.dm)

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3.2.7 GeoImages

GeoImages are a simple object type used to house georeferenced images. It is possible to import
images that are either horizontal or arbitrarily oriented, such as geological maps and air photos.

GeoImages can be rendered transparent through the Visual Parameters panel using the
transparency modification slider, where 0 is opaque and 1 is fully transparent and texture draped on
surfaces via the surface's visual parameter options.

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You can view metadata that corresponds to a selected GeoImage via the tab associated with that
GeoImage in the Data Table, as demonstrated in the metadata summary in the Data Table.

You can create GeoImages by importing the following file types:

l Image files (.jpg, .png, etc.)

l GOCAD 2D image Voxets (.vo)

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3.2.8 Maxwell plates

Maxwell plates are a simple object type that represent conductors as modelled in EMIT's Maxwell
electromagnetic modelling software. The Plates objects can contain conductivity, conductivity
thickness, cole-cole parameters, and be rendered as thick plates.

Maxwell Plate objects are created when importing Maxwell plate (.pte) files, as well as from Maxwell
broadcasts with "Maxwell Link" on page 214.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

Plate

Colour Colour of the plate.

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the object: 0 is

opaque and 1 is fully transparent.

Ribbons

Colour Colour of the internal lines drawn on the plates representing the eddy

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 Visual Description
Parameter

current flow in the plates.

Number Number of ribbons.

Skew The skew of the ribbons.

Geometry

X The X location of the top centre of the plate.

Y The Y location of the top centre of the plate.

Z The Z location of the top centre of the plate.

XYZ Increases / decreases step value of the x, y, z changes when using the up /
increment down arrows.

Dip Dip of the plate (0-90 degrees where 0 = horizontal).

Dip direction Azimuth at which the plate is dipping (0-360 degrees).

Rotation Plunge of the plate (-180 to 180 degrees).

Strike length Length of the top and bottom edge of the plate.

Depth extent Dip extent or width of the plate edges.

Thickness Toggle this option to display the plate with thickness.

Orientation

Data group Selects an orientation data group (3D vector, Dip direction, and Dip or
Strike and dip). You can create, modify, and delete data groups through
the Utilities > Group Data tool, as explained in "Group Data" on page 159.

Symbol Selects the orientation node symbol (2D arrow, 3D arrow or Tablet).

Size Modifies the size of the orientation symbols.

Scale by Available on 3D vector data groups only, click to scale the orientation
length symbols by length.

Max size Sets the maximum size of the orientation symbols.

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 Note: To modify plate geometry and data, you must have Geoscience ANALYST Pro,
which includes the Maxwell Link module (see "Maxwell Link" on page 214).

You can view metadata corresponding to a Maxwell plate via the Data Table tab associated with that
object.

3.2.9 OcTree grids

OcTree grids represent a specific type 3D rectilinear grid where individual cells can be divided
recursively into eight octants. In Geoscience ANALYST, ocTree grids are imported from UBC-GIF mesh
and model files.

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When you select an ocTree grid, the following parameters become available in the Visual Parameters
panel:

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 Visual Description
Parameter

OcTree Grid

Colour Corresponds to the colour of the cage, grid, unpainted sections, volumes,
and isovalues.

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the object: 0 is

opaque and 1 is fully transparent. The transparency level does not affect
the cage and labels.

Show cage Displays the outline of the ocTree grid.

Show grid Displays a grid on the entire ocTree grid, outlining each cell on sections and
volumes.

Show axis Displays the coordinates of the ocTree grid.

Smooth Allows you to smooth edges on painted sections and volumes of an ocTree
grid by interpolating coloured contours.

Sections

Check box Toggle on and off to display and hide the section of the ocTree grid.

Number box Enter precise values to arrange the linear positioning of the ocTree grid
section on its axis.

Sliders Slide left and right to adjust the linear positioning of the ocTree grid section
on its axis.

Volume

Show volume Toggles on and off a cuboidal 3D sub-volume of the ocTree grid.

Clip sections This check box clips any displayed sections by the defined volume extents.

Clip Displays only the isovalues that fit in this volume.

isovalues

Save core Saves the defined core volume.

volume
settings

Load core Loads the defined core volume.

volume

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 Visual Description
Parameter

settings

Isovalues

Data Checking this section toggles on a 3D sub-volume of an ocTree grid that

represents the cells corresponding to the shell of a numeric data range for
floats and integers and a selected list of classes for reference data.

Range You can modify the shell value range with sliders, as well as by entering
values in the number boxes.

Orientation

Data group Selects an orientation data group (3D vector, Dip direction, and Dip or
Strike and dip). You can create, modify, and delete data groups through
the Utilities > Group Data tool, as explained in "Group Data" on page 159.

Symbol Selects the orientation node symbol (2D arrow, 3D arrow or Tablet).

Length Modifies the size of the orientation symbols.

Width If checked on, sets a fixed width for the orientation symbols instead of using
a ratio of the length.

Scale by If checked on, scales the orientation symbols by amplitude of the data
amplitude values, using the set length for the highest data value.

: Toggles between linear and logarithmic scaling of the orientation

symbols.

You can view metadata that corresponds to a selected ocTree grid via the tab associated with that
ocTree grid in the Data Table, as demonstrated in the metadata summary in the Data Table.

You can create ocTree grids by importing the following file type:

l UBC-GIF Mesh (.msh)

3.2.10 VP models

VP models are block models that represent the results of VPmg/VPem inversion results and models.
In VP models, the sub-surface is discretised into close-packed vertical rectangular prisms. Each prism is
divided into cells by a succession of geological contacts. The vertical dimension of each cell is arbitrary.
Each cell is assigned to a geological unit.

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 Visual Description
Parameter

VP Model

Colour Corresponds to the colour of the cage, grid, unpainted sections, volumes,
and isovalues.

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the object: 0 is

opaque and 1 is fully transparent. The transparency level does not affect
the cage and labels.

Show cage Displays the outline of the VP model.

Show grid Displays a grid on the entire VP model, outlining each cell on sections and
volumes.

Show axis Displays the coordinates of the VP model.

Filter This checkbox limits the visual extent of the VP model in the viewport to a
basement user-defined value.
thickness

Sections

Check box Toggle on and off to display and hide the section of the VP model.

U/V number Enter precise values to arrange the linear positioning of the VP model
box section on its axis.

U/V sliders Slide left and right to adjust the linear positioning of the VP model section on
its axis.

Z number box Enter precise elevation values to position the Z section.

Isovalues

Data Checking this section toggles on a 3D sub-volume of a VP model that

represents the cells corresponding to the shell of a numeric data range for
floats and integers and a selected list of classes for reference data.

Range You can modify the shell value range with sliders, as well as by entering
values in the number boxes.

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3.3 Special objects
Located in the Objects panel within the tools folder upon creation, special objects perform specific
functions. The tools available are:

l "Slicers" on the next page

l "Labels" on page 96

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3.3.1 Slicers
The slicer tool allows you to crop objects in the Viewport relative to an arbitrary plane. It is possible to
apply one or more slicers to one object, a selected set of objects, or all objects in a workspace.

Tip: See "Tools and tips" on page 144 to learn how to create and work with slicers.

The Slicer section of the Visual Parameters panel contains the components designed to allow you to
modify the slicer tool, as presented in the table below:

Visual Parameter Description

Slicer

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the slicer plane: 0 is
opaque and 1 is fully transparent.

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 Visual Parameter Description

Colour Corresponds to the colour of the slicer outline cage, and represents the
Slicer object in of the Objects panel.

Show outline Displays the outline of the slicer's perimeter.

Position

X The X position of the slicer (and the 3D manipulator, when toggled on in the
Viewport).

Y The Y position of the slicer (and the 3D manipulator, when toggled on in the
Viewport).

Z The Z position of the slicer (and the 3D manipulator, when toggled on in the
Viewport).

XYZ increment Allows you to adjust the increment value in the x, y, z positioning. For
example, if you set the x, y, z increment to 200, clicking the up or down
arrows on the number boxes of any axis (x, y, or z) will increase or
decrease the value by 200.

Move along Allows you to move the slicer in opposing directions along the plane of its
normal axis.

Move distance Allows you to adjust the increment value that the Move along normal
arrows perform.

Orientation

Dip Allows you to adjust the dip of the slicer from 0° to 90°.

Dip direction Allows you to adjust the dip direction of the slicer from 0° to 360°.

Plane flip Inverts the plane and displays the perspective from the opposing side of
the slicer.

Align with Modifies the geometry of the slicer to be aligned with the camera.
camera

Type

Slice Toggles the slicer type between a cropping plane and a slice.

Thickness Allows you to adjust the thickness of the slicer.

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You can view metadata that corresponds to selected slicers via the tab associated with those slicers in
the Data Table, as illustrated in the following table:

Metadata Description

Type The selected object type, e.g., Slicer.

Dip The slicer dip (0 to 90 degrees.)

Dip direction The dip direction of the slicer.

Slicer type Describes the type of slicer, either slice, front or back.

3.3.2 Labels
The labels tool allows you to attach text annotations to objects within the Viewport. This can help you to
more easily differentiate between objects and simplify the workspace.

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You can modify the graphical and text settings of labels through the Visual Parameters panel as
presented in the table below:

Visual Description
Parameter

Label

Colour Corresponds to the colour of a label's text, outline box, and line.

Transparency Allows you to modify the transparency setting (0 to 1) of the label: 0 is

opaque and 1 is fully transparent.

Text Allows you to edit the label text.

Font Allows you to select fonts and adjust the font size.

You can view metadata that corresponds to selected labels via the tab associated with those labels in
the Data Table. For example, with the label Ore Zone selected, the tab with that title will contain the
metadata associated with that label, as demonstrated in the metadata summary in the Data Table, and
as illustrated in the following table:

Metadata Description

Type The selected object type, e.g., Label.

Origin The x, y, z origin of the label.

Object origin If digitized on an object, the object's name will be listed here.

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 Importing and exporting
This chapter describes how to import files and export objects in
Geoscience ANALYST.
CHAPTER 4 4.1 Importing files into Geoscience ANALYST 99
4.1.1 Importing files via the File menu 99
4.1.2 Importing files by dragging and dropping 100
4.1.3 Importing Geoscience ANALYST workspaces on
disk 100

4.1.4 Importing files and workspaces from a monitored

folder 116
4.2 Exporting objects from Geoscience ANALYST 118
4.2.1 Exporting to points, curves, and surfaces to
GOCAD ASCII 118
4.2.2 Exporting surfaces to Datamine format 119
4.2.3 Saving selected objects to a new .geoh5
workspace file 120
4.2.4 Exporting drillholes to .csv 121
4.2.5 Exporting Viewport content as a .geoh5
workspace file 122
4.2.6 Saving files from within a workspace to disk 123
4.1 Importing files into Geoscience ANALYST
There are two ways to import files into Geoscience ANALYST: through the File menu, and by dragging
and dropping.

4.1.1 Importing files via the File menu

1. Go to File > Import.
2. Select the file type and object, if applicable.

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4.1.2 Importing files by dragging and dropping
1. Locate your file using the file browser.
2. Drag and drop it onto the Viewport or Objects panel so Geoscience ANALYST can auto-detect
the file type extension and launch the appropriate import filter.

If you drag and drop a .geoh5, you will be asked whether you want to import or open and replace the
workspace. The latter will replace your current workspace with the one from the file, as opposed to
simply opening the file in a separate Geoscience ANALYST window.

Note: Drillhole data cannot be imported by dragging and dropping.

Note: If you are using the Viewport in a secondary monitor, you will have to drag and drop
to the Objects panel instead of directly onto the Viewport.

4.1.3 Importing Geoscience ANALYST workspaces on disk

1. In the Geoscience ANALYST File menu, click Import, then in the contextual menu, click Import
Workspace as a Group.
2. In the finder window, locate and open the .geoh5 file you want to view.
The information exchange between projects is facilitated by exporting parts of workspace files or
importing existing workspaces as group containers within your ongoing sessions.

The list below indicates the data and file types that you can import. Each section contains more
information about that file type.

l "AMIRA TEM" on the next page: drillhole, surface and airborne EM survey files and loops (.tem)
l "ASCII" on the next page: column and drillhole (.csv)
l "AutoCAD" on page 107: (.dxf, .dwg)
l "Datamine" on page 107: binary points, strings, wire-frames, drillholes and block model (.dm)
l "ESRI shape" on page 108: (.shp)
l "Project" on page 109: (.geoh5
l "GeoImage" on page 109: (.jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .gif, .png, .tif, .tiff)
l "Geosoft" on page 111: XYZ files, databases, and grids (.xyz, .gdb, .grd)
l "GOCAD Mining Suite" on page 113: PointsSets, Curves, Wells, Surfaces , Voxets and mixed (.vs,
.pl, .wl, .ts, .vo, .gp, .mx)
l "ioGAS" on page 114: (.gas)

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 l "Maxwell plate" on page 115: (.pte)
l "UBC-GIF" on page 115: observation, 3D mesh, 3D model, and 3D topography (.obs, .msh, .den,
.topo)
l "VP models" on page 90: (.sus, .den, .con, .vp)

AMIRA TEM

When importing AMIRA TEM files, curves are created in a folder called TEM import. The importer
automatically assigns the line ID property as well as multi-element and orientation data groups for quick
profile and orientation visualization. If loop information is available, curves representing the geometry
will be created in the same folder.

ASCII

Geoscience ANALYST has three types of ASCII .csv import utilities:

l "Block model files" on the next page: Creates Block Model objects.
l "Column-based files" on page 103: Creates Points objects.
l "Drillhole files" on page 105: Creates drillholes from a series of column-type files, including collar
and optional survey and data files.

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Block model files

Imports a block model from a .csv file with a text header via File > Import > ASCII or the drag-and-drop
method. The file must have a .csv.txt extension for drag-and-drop importing. The header and column
portions of the file must have specific formats, as described in the table below:

Required Header Description

Information

# mesh.csv.txt Name of file.

# Optional comment line.

# encoding: ASCII File encoding.

# azimuth: 0 degrees Azimuth in degrees clockwise from north.

(rotate clockwise when
looking down)

# block size: 130 130 25 Cell sizes in the U, V and W directions, respectively.

# size in blocks: 85 105 32 Number of cells in the U, V and W directions, respectively.

# minimum centroid: minx Minimum centroid location.

miny minz

# maximum centroid: Maximum centroid location.

maxx maxy maxz

# minimum corner: minx Minimum block model corner location.

miny minz

# maximum corner: maxx Maximum block model corner location.

maxy maxz

ID,X,Y,Z,P1,P2,…Pn-1,Pn .csv header line. Point ID, X centroid, Y centroid, Z centroid,

property name1, property name 2,…property name n-1,
property name n.

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Column-based files

When importing either via the file menu or the drag and drop method, the Import points window will
appear, allowing you to set the parameters of the data so that Geoscience ANALYST can accurately
represent it.

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 Option Description

Name Name of the Points object created within a new or existing folder called ASCII
Importers.

Output Points or Curves. When Curves is selected, a Line ID selector is presented in

type the Required fields section.

Delimiter The column delimiter, namely comma, space, semicolon, or multiple space.

Required Allows you to choose the x, y, z coordinates (easting, northing, and elevation
fields columns). The importer will try to auto-detect appropriate fields according to the
header name (e.g., x, y, z, easting, northing, elevation). If the utility does not

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 Option Description

detect any fields from the .csv file, it will consider the first three columns as x, y,
and z.

When Output type is set to Curves, an additional Line ID selector will be made
available.

Additional Allows you to select the NDV (no-data value) and theme (referenced or float) for
fields each column in the imported .csv file. The utility predicts the theme based on the
previewed values of the first 256 entries of the .csv file. For text entries, it
suggests referenced data. For numerical entries, it suggests float data. If it does
not auto-select the optimal type, you can choose the correct one using the drop
down menu.

Global Allows you to enter custom no-data values for individual columns. When
NDV entering the values in the global NDV setting, separate them by commas and
setting click Apply. This will add the values to every column at once. You must enter the
entire value as shown in the data preview, e.g., 0.01 must be entered rather than
.01.

Data Displays a preview of the first 256 entries in the ASCII file.
preview

Drillhole files

When importing ASCII drillhole files, you must do so via the file import method, as multiple files and data
parameter settings are required.

Before loading, the Import drillhole files dialogue box presents you with the following options, as
indicated in the table below:

Option Description

Drillhole geometry...

Collar Allows you to browse locally to select the desired drillhole collar file.
file

Survey Allows you to browse locally to select the desired survey file. If left blank, the
file importer will assume all holes are vertical. If the importer cannot find a drillhole in
the survey file but finds one in the collar file, the import importer will create it
vertically.

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 Option Description

Drillhole data...

Interval Allows you to select one or more data files related to drillhole intervals. All files must
log be in the same directory.
files

Point Allows you to select one or more data files related to drillhole points. All files must be
log in the same directory.
files

To import ASCII drillhole files:

1. In the Import drillhole files window, click Browse to select the collar, survey, and data files on
your local drive.

2. Click OK.

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 3. In the Select required columns window, determine if you need to re-map required fields with
different columns than the import auto-detection utility suggests using the drop-down column
selectors.

4. Repeat step 3 with each of the file types, as they appear in sequence.

Note: Negative dips create downward trending drillholes, while positive dips create
upward trending drillholes, which may occur in underground drilling.

AutoCAD

You can create points, curves, and surfaces by importing AutoCAD .dwg and .dxf files, from a wide
variety of AutoCAD-related applications. In the Objects panel, Geoscience ANALYST stores imported
files in a folder called AutoCAD imports. AutoCAD objects are organized in a sub-folder for each layer.

denotes an AutoCAD text file, which the system imports as a text type specific to this file type in the
Objects panel.

Datamine

You can import and convert binary Datamine point, string, wire-frame, block model, and drillhole assay
type files.Geoscience ANALYST stores imported files in a folder created upon import called Datamine
imports within the Objects panel.

The original Datamine colours are preserved on the created Points, Curves, and Surfaces objects
through an integer data value called COLOUR, which automatically maps to a custom built-in Datamine
colour table and colour mapping curve, according to the following legend:

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Additional Datamine properties and themes

Property and/or Conversion Type in Geoscience ANALYST

Theme

Non-discrete Float or integer.

numerical

Discrete Reference data.

alphanumeric

Block model Block models. If the cell distribution is irregular, the importer creates an
additional Points object at the centroids, preserving all data. The block
model derives its dimensions and cell sizes from parameters in the
Datamine binary header (e.g., largest XINC, YINC, ZINC). The data held on
the Points object is transferred to the block model cells.

Wire-frame Surfaces. The data is stored at the node or triangle level.

Drillhole type Paths (drillhole traces) and properties (imported as interval and point logs).

ESRI shape

Geoscience ANALYST can import ESRI shape files (.shp), which is a format for GIS software that
describes vector features such as points, curves, and polygons.

Note: Ensure that the .dbf and .shx files associated with the .shp file are available and
located in the same directory as the .shp file. You will not be able to import the .shp without
them.

The import utility allows you to either drag and drop the .shp into the Viewport, or use the file import
method on your local directory. Point files will import as points, and polyline and polygon-type files will
import as curves.

Data from the ESRI shape file converts in Geoscience ANALYST as follows:

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 Shapefile Geoscience ANALYST Generic Theme
Theme

FTString Reference. (May import as text in some cases. Class colours are randomly
generated).

FTInteger Integer.

FTDouble Float.

Project

.geoh5 file. See "Saving workspaces" on page 50 to find more about this file format.

Note: When importing a .geoh5 file, the system does not import non-moveable folders
such as labels and slicers or any saved views.

GeoImage

Geoscience ANALYST is compatible with several image file types, each of which create GeoImage
objects when imported. They are:

l .jpg/.jpeg
l .gif
l .bmp
l .tif/.tiff

Note: In case of a GeoTIFF file, X and Y locations are taken from the file, and since each
pixel can hold a different Z value, the importer defaults to a suggested Z value half-way
between their minimum and maximum values.

Additionally, Geoscience ANALYST supports two types of georeferenced ASCII files:

l World files: horizontally oriented images (plan maps)

l Location .csv files: horizontally and vertically oriented images (plan maps and sections)

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Geo-referencing with the world file format

Line Coordinates

1 X component of the pixel width (x-scale)

2 Y component of the pixel width (y-skew)

3 X component of the pixel height (x-skew)

4 Y component of the pixel height (y-scale)

5 X-coordinate of the centre of the upper left pixel

6 Y-coordinate of the centre of the upper left pixel

For example, the world file required to import and georeference an non-rotated plan map with 3.5 x 3.5m
cells originating at 1900E, 55000N would look like:

3.5
0.00
0.00
-3.5
1900
55000

Geo-referencing with the location .csv file format

The location .csv file consists of three lines identifying the coordinates of the top left, top right, and
bottom left corners of the image, delimited by commas.

Line Coordinates

1 top left corner x, y, z coordinates

2 top right corner x, y, z coordinates

3 bottom left corner x, y, z coordinates

For example, the location file required to import and georeference a NE trending vertical section that
goes from 3,100 m to 2,500 m elevation would look like:

6600,16400,3100
6800,17010,3100
6600,16400,2500

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To automatically georeference the image upon import, an associated world or location file must exist in
the image folder and be named the same as the image file. The world file should also have the same
extension suffix with a “w” (e.g., .jpgw), while the location file must be comma-delimited with a .csv
extension.

Note: If both world and location files are present in the folder, the importer will use the world
file by default. If neither a world nor location file is detected, the image will import as a
horizontal GeoImage originating at 0, 0, 0 and each pixel will be 1x1 units in size.

Geosoft

Geoscience ANALYST imports the following Geosoft file types:

l "Database files" below

l "Grid files" on page 113
l "XYZ files" on page 113

Note: To import Geosoft .grd and .gdb files, a Seequent ID is required. A Seequent ID can
be obtained directly from the Seequent website at my.seequent.com. If you have any
Seequent or Geosoft products, you likely already have a Seequent ID. If you have a
Geosoft ID but no Seequent ID, you will be directed to make the change. If you have an old
version of Geosoft Connect that requests your Geosoft ID, you will need to update it and
sign with your Seequent ID. Download the latest Geosoft Connect here.

Database files

Geoscience ANALYST imports Geosoft .gdb files as curves with associated data, representing
geophysical survey lines. When importing either via the file menu or the drag and drop method, the
Geosoft database file import window presents you with a series of options and information associated
with the file, as illustrated in the image below:

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 Note: The type column lists Geosoft data formatting, and maps it to appropriate themes
(e.g., float, integer, date). Unknown types will import as float data, so text entries may not
import as expected.

Option Description

Import Selecting the check box allows you to import each line as a separate curve,
lines as each of which is named according to the Line ID. Leaving the check box
separate unchecked will import the geophysical survey lines as one curve.
objects

Use Assign a constant z value to all curves if the data is 2D.

constant Z
value

x, y, z Allows you to assign different fields to the x, y, and z axes.

coordinate
channel

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Grid files

Geoscience ANALYST imports Geosoft .grd files as 2D grids.

The data will import as floats. If the importer detects an associated .grd files). Otherwise, it will be
horizontal and the Geosoft grid file import dialogue box will pop up, allowing you to enter the elevation.

Elevation: Select the z coordinate to assign to the 2D grid origin.

XYZ files

Geosoft .xyz files import as Curves objects along with their associated data, representing geophysical
survey lines. When importing either via the file menu or the drag and drop method, the Geosoft XYZ file
import window allows you to set the elevation, as illustrated in the image below:

Note: Geoscience ANALYST will attempt to correctly assign types. For example, data
values with the format 13:12:36.00 that have an accompanying comment date field //Date
2003/11/04 will be tagged as a DateTime property. If the data assignment is unsuccessful,
it will be assumed to be text.

GOCAD Mining Suite

You can import supported GOCAD files either via the file menu or the drag and drop method.

All properties import as float data, with the exception of discrete properties associated with a
classification such as geology codes, which will import as reference data.

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The following table illustrates the GOCAD objects and their behaviour once imported into Geoscience
ANALYST:

GOCAD Object GOCAD Geoscience ANALYST Preserved Attributes

File Object
Extension

PointsSets .vs Points Colour, node, symbol, size

and shape, painted status

Curves .pl Curves Colour, node size and status,

segment thickness and
status, painted status

Surfaces .ts Surfaces Colour, mesh and painted

status

Wells .wl Drillholes N/A

Voxets .vo Block models or Displayed sections and

GeoImage painted status

Drillhole .gp Drillholes within a N/A

groups drillholes group

Miscellaneous .gp Miscellaneous objects N/A

groups within a folder named
according to the group

Mixed .mx Miscellaneous objects N/A

Tip: If the headers of the imported GOCAD files do not include the class entries, the
numerical key values will be imported rather than the classification names. To update the
class names and colours, export the classification from GOCAD as a .csv file, navigate to
the Data Colours panel of the reference data in question, and load it via the Load colours
settings button.

ioGAS

When imported, ioGAS (.gas) files will create a unique ioGAS Points object. The new object appears in a
folder called ioGAS imports that is created upon import if does not already exist in your workspace. With
an ioGAS file imported, you will see the ioGAS graphics check box in the Points section of the Visual
Parameters setting allowing you to view (but not edit) the ioGAS points. This feature permits the

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advanced visualization settings from ioGAS to be compatible with Geoscience ANALYST’s 3D
environment and viewed alongside other model components.

Maxwell plate

When importing a plate file (.pte), a Plates object is created, with its thickness status and cole-cole
parameters. The "Maxwell Link" on page 214 module must be activated in order to modify the geometry
of imported plates.

UBC-GIF

Geoscience ANALYST can import UBC-GIF files (University of British Columbia Geophysical Inversion
Facility) of different types, as illustrated in the following table:

File Type Description

3D mesh 3D mesh files create block models upon import and associated model files as
and model data stored on their cells in a folder called UBC imports. You can modify the
suggested default no-data value field.

3D Imports as a Surfaces object.

Topography

Observation Imports as a Points object.

Below is the import dialogue box for 3D mesh and model files:

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 Note: If you import the model file via the drag and drop method, the importer will not launch
the interim dialogue, thus using the default no-data values.

VP models

When importing a VP model (.sus, .den, .con, .vp), a VP model object is created with its model properties
and unit ID. If included in the VP model file, points representing the observations are imported.

4.1.4 Importing files and workspaces from a monitored folder

When a folder is selected to be monitored, Geoscience ANALYST workspaces saved to this folder are
automatically imported into the current Geoscience ANALYST workspace. This functionality is
particularly useful when used in conjunction with our Python API and application repository, geoapps,
to automatically import results that are written to .geoh5.

Specify the folder to be monitored by going to File > Enable monitoring folder. Two folders are created:
.processing to contain the files that are being imported, and processed to contain files that have been
processed.

Field Description

Monitored Click to navigate to the folder to be monitored.

directory

Options

Process Select to import .geoh5 workspaces that are in the monitored directory.
existing

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 Field Description

files

Delete files Select to delete .geoh5 workspaces once they are imported. When this option
after is unchecked, the processed file is placed in a processed folder in the
processing monitored directory. Each processed file is given a suffix so that its name is
unique.

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4.2 Exporting objects from Geoscience ANALYST
Geoscience ANALYST allows you to export certain objects, depending on their type:

l Points, curves, and surfaces to GOCAD ASCII files (.mx).

l Drillholes to .csv: collar, survey, interval and point log .csv files.
l Any objects to a Geoscience ANALYST workspace file (.geoh5).

4.2.1 Exporting to points, curves, and surfaces to GOCAD ASCII

To export a selection of one or several objects to a .mx file:
1. In the Objects panel, right-click the object or folder you wish to export (hold Ctrl to select multiple).
2. In the contextual menu, click Export.

3. In the Export dialogue box, name the file and keep the *.mx extension.
4. Click Save.
GOCAD .mx files support generic data types (float, integer, and reference) stored on nodes and basic
object attributes (colour, node size, etc.).

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 Note: Data on surface triangles and curve segments is NOT supported by the GOCAD .mx
file format.

4.2.2 Exporting surfaces to Datamine format

To export a selection of one or several objects to *_pt.dm and *_tr.dm files:
1. In the Objects panel, right-click on the surface object or folder you wish to export (hold Ctrl to
select multiple).
2. In the contextual menu, click Export.

3. In the Export dialogue box, enter a file name and select the *.dm extension.
4. Click Save.

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4.2.3 Saving selected objects to a new .geoh5 workspace file
To save a selection of one or several folders and objects to a new .geoh5 file:
1. In the Objects panel, right-click the object or folder you wish to save (hold Ctrl to select multiple).
2. In the contextual menu, click Save To geoh5....

3. In the dialogue box, name the file and click Save.

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4.2.4 Exporting drillholes to .csv
When exporting a selection of one or several drillholes to .csv, several .csv files get created:

l one for collars (suffixed with collar)

l one for surveys (suffixed with survey)
l one for interval logs (suffixed with interval logs)
l one for point logs (suffixed with point logs)

To export drillholes to .csv:

1. In the Objects panel, right-click the object or folder you wish to export (hold Ctrl to select multiple).
2. In the contextual menu, click Export.
3. In the Export dialogue box, navigate to the desired output folder, type a file name and click Save.
If typing long_holes as a file name, you should then find four files on disk:

Note: If you select any other object type with the drillhole(s), you will receive an error
message, and be forced to deselect the unsupported objects before exporting the
drillholes again.

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4.2.5 Exporting Viewport content as a .geoh5 workspace file
Any configuration you create in the Viewport, you can save as a new workspace:
1. In the menu bar, click File > Export Viewport As...
2. In the Save As dialogue box, navigate to the desired output folder, enter a file name and click
Save.

The new workspace file contains:

l all the objects visible in the current viewport, and their visual parameters
l the settings of the current viewport
l the saved views of the current viewport

Note: A folder is not saved if its check box in the Objects panel is not checked, or if no
other items within the folder are checked. Geoscience INTEGRATOR query folders are
always exported, whether they are checked or not so that query results are available in the
exported workspace.

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4.2.6 Saving files from within a workspace to disk
If you have files such as maps, PDFs, and images, you can save them directly to disk by clicking the
Save As button at the right of the window that contains the file. This allows you to avoid having to open
and save the file in the file's native software.

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 Integration with Geoscience INTEGRATOR
This chapter describes how to connect to Geoscience INTEGRATOR
to query, retrieve and use your data in Geoscience ANALYST.
CHAPTER 5 5.1 Integration with Geoscience INTEGRATOR 125
5.2 Connecting from Geoscience ANALYST 125
5.3 Concepts from Geoscience INTEGRATOR 127
5.4 Overview of the UI 128
5.4.1 Workspace 128

5.4.2 Objects 129

5.4.3 Data set summary 131
5.4.4 Geoscience INTEGRATOR 131
5.5 Configuring the query parameters 134
5.5.1 Bounding Box 135
5.5.2 Date 136
5.5.3 Neighbourhoods, Shifts, Properties, Tags,
Groups 137
5.5.4 Property Filters 138
5.5.5 Object-specific options 138
5.6 Viewing the query results 139

5.7 Saving the query results 141

5.8 Viewing project files, maps, and documents 141
5.8.1 Previewing layer names for Maps/plans/sections
items 143
5.1 Integration with Geoscience INTEGRATOR
Geoscience ANALYST offers a powerful 3D visualization environment that can be used to query and
analyze data and files from Geoscience INTEGRATOR, which is a 4D multi-disciplinary exploration and
geotechnical data management software solution from Mira Geoscience.

Once installed, Geoscience ANALYST can connect to Geoscience INTEGRATOR over a private
network or the Internet.

Note: This version of Geoscience ANALYST (v3.2) is fully compatible with Geoscience
INTEGRATOR servers running v3.5 or later.

5.2 Connecting from Geoscience ANALYST

To connect to the Geoscience INTEGRATOR server:
1. From the File menu, click Connect to Geoscience INTEGRATOR, or in the Geoscience
INTEGRATOR panel, click Connect now. The latter method allows you to connect to a different
project without exiting and re-entering the application.

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 2. In the Geoscience INTEGRATOR credentials dialogue box, enter your email, password, and the
URL of a Geoscience INTEGRATOR server. Click OK.

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 3. In the drop-down menu of the Projects section of the credentials dialogue box, select the desired
Geoscience INTEGRATOR project and click LOAD.

Note: It is only possible to connect to one Geoscience INTEGRATOR project at a

time.

5.3 Concepts from Geoscience INTEGRATOR

If you are unfamiliar with Geoscience INTEGRATOR, here are a few key terms that can help you
understand some of the major concepts of the software.

Attribute Description

Bounding max/min The X, Y, and Z extents of the data set.

Count The number of elements in the data set.

Date max/min The earliest and latest dates in the data set (only for time-related
themes).

Neighbourhoods Volumes of space that you want to refer to by name rather than by
coordinates. They correspond to actual volumes that can be defined
in Geoscience INTEGRATOR.

Tags Text identifiers that can be assigned to data in Geoscience

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 Attribute Description

INTEGRATOR.

Shifts Time intervals within a 24-hour period that are configured in

Geoscience INTEGRATOR.

Documents Files available at the system level.

Files Files of various types available within a project.

Maps/plans/sections Drawing files available within a project; allows you to preview the
layer names to help select the best drawing to import, typically from
AutoCAD (.dxf, .dwg) files.

Properties The data properties available for the data set.

Metadata User-created custom metadata fields that enable users to further

document high-level parameters of data sets.

5.4 Overview of the UI

Once you are connected to a Geoscience INTEGRATOR project, various panels in the interface will
display information about that project.

5.4.1 Workspace
Summary information about the project will be displayed on the right side of the Workspace tab below
the Viewport. You will be able to see the project name and description, the X, Y, and Z extents of the
data, and searchable lists of the documents, files and maps/plans/sections in the Geoscience
INTEGRATOR project.

Note: The left side shows the standard Geoscience ANALYST workspace information.
The Geoscience ANALYST project extents can differ from the Geoscience INTEGRATOR
project extents if the workspace contains objects that are outside the bounds of the
Geoscience INTEGRATOR project.

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5.4.2 Objects
In Geoscience INTEGRATOR, data sets are grouped into themes, which are designed to organize data
based on their nature or subject and make them easier to locate intuitively. Some themes will be
grouped together under a more general folder name. For example, the 3D geological contact
surfaces theme is grouped under the Earth models folder, along with 3D structural surfaces, 3D
point sets and other subject-related themes.

On the left side of the screen, the Objects panel will list the themes for which data sets exist in the
project. Each theme can be expanded to display the associated data sets.

Note: Items shown in black have imported data and can be queried. Data sets that are
greyed out have no queryable records, but may have data files associated with them,
which can be opened in their dedicated applications or imported into the current
workspace. See "Importing files into Geoscience ANALYST" on page 99 for a list and
description of supported file formats.

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At this point, you have not loaded records from Geoscience INTEGRATOR yet. Geoscience ANALYST
only loaded the list of data sets with a quick summary of what they contain, as well as the list of files of all
types to inform you about what is available for import.

In the Viewport, you can also visualize the neighbourhood volumes, and a few visualization parameters
are available.

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5.4.3 Data set summary
Clicking on a data set name in the Objects panel will display summary information about that data set in
a tab beside the Workspace tab. Although it is formatted differently, this is the same information that you
would see in the Data set explorer in Geoscience INTEGRATOR

5.4.4 Geoscience INTEGRATOR

The Geoscience INTEGRATOR panel contains a Data set search tool to identify data sets that match
specific search parameters. It does not return actual data from the data sets, but merely identifies data
sets from the project to which you are currently connected and displays their bounding boxes in the
Viewport.

This tool will appear in the Geoscience INTEGRATOR panel when you select the Project group folder
or any Theme group folder in the Objects panel.

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There are four different search parameters:

Parameter Description

Name Returns any data set that contains the specified character string in its name.

Description Returns any data set that contains the specified character string in its
description.

Bounding Returns any data set with a bounding box that intersects the specified volume
box of interest.

The default From and To parameters are set to the extents of the entire data
set. To modify the bounding box extents, which are shown in red in the
Viewport, you have several options:

l Click and enter new values, or use the up and down arrows.
l Click X extent, Y extent, or Z extent, and then drag a line in the
Viewport to define the corresponding extent. We recommend using a
top view to draw the X and Y extents, and a side view to draw the Z
extent.

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 Parameter Description

l Click 2 standard deviations to generate a bounding box that covers the

area where most of the data is concentrated.
l Click Reset to max to revert to the extents of the entire data set.

Metadata Returns any data set with metadata that matches the specified rule.

You can choose a metadata field from the drop-down menu and add an
operator. Since the metadata are different for each data set in Geoscience
INTEGRATOR, Is present and Is absent are used to determine whether the
metadata are present in the data set, whereas Is and Is not search the
metadata values.

You can click to add metadata fields and combine them with previously
created fields.

After you click Find, the Objects panel collapses the folders that return zero results, expands the folders
that return results, and displays only the resulting data sets and highlights them in blue.

In the Viewport, each data set that matches the search criteria will have a blue bounding box. This is
helpful for locating data sets in 2D or 3D viewports, relative to each other and to other objects in the
workspace.

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 Note: At this point, you have not downloaded records from Geoscience INTEGRATOR yet.
You have just identified pertinent data sets.

5.5 Configuring the query parameters

When you select a data set from the Objects panel, you will have access to the Query Parameters tool
in the Geoscience INTEGRATOR panel. This tool allows you to configure filters for querying data from
the selected data set in Geoscience INTEGRATOR, after which the corresponding results will be
imported into Geoscience ANALYST.

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By default, all the sections are unchecked. This means that all the data will be included, because no
filters have been applied to exclude any data. You can enable and disable each section by checking the
box on or off. Once you are done, click Run at the bottom of the panel to import the records that match
your filters.

5.5.1 Bounding Box

The Bounding Box option will restrict the data based on X, Y, and Z limits. By default, the From and To
parameters are set to the extents of the entire data set. You will see the red search bounding box in the
Viewport. This option is available for all data themes that have X, Y, and Z coordinates.

To modify the bounding box extents, you have several options:

l Enter new values, or use the up and down arrows.

l Click to set top-left and bottom-right positions by clicking in the Viewport.

l Click X extent, Y extent, or Z extent, and then drag a line in the Viewport to define the
corresponding extent. We recommend using a top view to draw the X and Y extents, and a side
view to draw the Z extent.
l Click 2 standard deviations to generate a bounding box that covers the area where most of the
data is concentrated. Click to preview it.
l Click Reset to max to revert to the extents of the entire data set.

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5.5.2 Date
The Date option filters time-based data. For event-type themes, the default option allows you to query
events that happened between two timestamps. You can select dates from the calendar in the drop-
down and adjust the times manually by typing directly in the text box. Alternatively, you can also filter by
the last N number of complete days, with a day being all timestamps between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59.99
on the same date.

Example: “Last 2 complete days” will return the events from yesterday and the day before,
but nothing from today because today is not yet complete.

Another version of this filter is available to query themes containing objects with time-related data. Since
these themes can hold many instant data for each object, and Geoscience ANALYST can only show
one property value at a time per object, you need to provide a datetime value and so instant and interval
properties can be retrieved as of a specific datetime. The system will return the values of the closest
instant record before that date.

Note: This filter on the Underground theme returns the compiled values, like the Mine
model compilation does in Geoscience INTEGRATOR. The closest record in time is
evaluated per property, then, for each property, the corresponding timestamp is used to
retrieve values on all the points. As a result, the timestamp that is actually used may differ
from one property to another. You can think of it as a snapshot of the data that shows the
most recent state for any property at the given date.

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5.5.3 Neighbourhoods, Shifts, Properties, Tags, Groups
The Neighbourhoods, Shifts, Tags, and Groups sections contain optional filters. Check the boxes to
toggle the filters on and select available items to apply when you run the query. These options only
appear if values are defined for the selected data set, so the same options may not be available for all
data sets.

The Properties section lists all available properties in a data set. Select the ones you wish to load.

If the lists are long, you can use the search boxes to filter the lists and quickly find items, and you can
check and uncheck items individually or all at once.

Note: Time interval data is not supported and will appear greyed out in the Geoscience
INTEGRATOR Query Properties panel.

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5.5.4 Property Filters

The Property Filters option filters by property values. Click to add another property filter. You can
add as many as you wish.

The data type of a property will determine the options available in the property filter.

l Text: = and ≠ are the available operators. You must enter the entire character string in the text box,
not just a partial one.
l Classification and binary: = and ≠ are the available operators. Use the drop-down list to select one
or more classes to import.
l Float, integer, and date: Select one of the available operators and enter a value in the box.

5.5.5 Object-specific options

This option refers to objects that may differ from theme to theme. For example, in the Drillholes & wells
theme, it refers to Drillholes. In the Ground deformation theme, it refers to Stations, in the
Geochemistry and mineralogy theme it refers to Samples, etc.

Like the other optional filters in the Neighbourhoods, Shifts, Properties, Tags, and Groups sections,
you can use the search boxes to filter the lists and quickly find items, and you can check and uncheck
items individually or all at once.

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 Tip: Since these object lists can easily have thousands of items, the search feature can
help you restrict the list to specific series that you can batch select by clicking Check all.
You can then run a different search to restrict the list to another series of items and click
Check all again to add that sub-selection to the previous selection, and so on.

5.6 Viewing the query results

Once you have clicked Run to send the query to the Geoscience INTEGRATOR server, Geoscience
ANALYST will load the records that match all the filters into the Objects panel, in a folder called "Query
[query datetime]". This folder can be renamed as needed.

Note: Unless the Save queries box is checked, switching to another Geoscience
INTEGRATOR project will remove any data from the workspace that was imported from
data sets.

Geoscience ANALYST stores the query results in special object types, depending on the theme in the
Objects panel. For example, microseismic events are a special Points object that stores the data on
nodes referred to as Events.

For data sets in themes that have mandatory groups (e.g., Observation points), the query results are
split into one object per group name under a timestamped folder. Similarly, drillholes are individual
objects in a timestamped folder (highlighted in the image below) within the Drillholes & wells data set
group. All other queries will be objects named according to a timestamp directly under the data set
folder.

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The Viewport displays the retrieved data in 3D. The Data Table will now contain a Query tab that
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 Note: Any change you make to the rows and values in the Objects tab with Geoscience
ANALYST Pro will not be saved to Geoscience INTEGRATOR, because data can only be
pulled from it, not written to it. However, changes will be saved when the workspace is
saved as a .geoh5 file or exported to other formats (see "Exporting objects from
Geoscience ANALYST" on page 118).

5.7 Saving the query results

Before exiting Geoscience ANALYST, you can save the imported data using the File menu option.
Doing so will create a Geoscience ANALYST file with a .geoh5 extension on your computer, which will
remain available even after terminating the connection to Geoscience INTEGRATOR.

5.8 Viewing project files, maps, and documents

Geoscience INTEGRATOR has three file repositories for different types of files: the Document library
(system level), the File manager, and Maps/plans/sections (project level). This is why files are split into
Documents, Files and Maps/plans/sections lists. The (Data file) suffix on files also comes from
Geoscience INTEGRATOR and indicates that they should contain data usable from some software (not
necessarily supported by Geoscience ANALYST).

You can find all the project files, maps/plans/sections, and documents in the Data Table panel under
the Workspace tab, with the (Data file) indicator when applicable, file type and file size in brackets.

You can use the search bar above to find files of interest by looking through the file names and their file
types. You can load a file by clicking its name. You can also select multiple files by holding Ctrl or Shift
and load them all at once by clicking to the right of their section.

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You can also find the files, maps/plans/sections and documents associated with a specific data set in
the data set tab, where you can load a file by clicking its name.

You will get a selection of options for loading your files:

l Import: Imports the file into the Objects panel under the project or data set name. The file format
must be supported by Geoscience ANALYST, such as a GOCAD surface file (.ts), AutoCAD file
(.dwg), or a .csv file. If not, the button will not be available. See "Importing files into Geoscience
ANALYST" on page 99 for a list of supported file formats.
l Open: The system will try to open the file using the program associated with that file type on the
computer. For example, a photo file saved as a .jpg will open in an image viewer application.
l Save as: Downloads the file to your computer.
l Pull: Downloads the file to the Geoscience ANALYST workspace and makes it available offline in
the Files section at the bottom of the Workspace tab, next to the Comments section, where it will
be saved inside the .geoh5.
l Cancel: Cancels the file selection.

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 Note: Some file types must be accompanied by other files to be usable. For example, a
.shp file needs .shx and .dbf files to be usable. As long as they share the name and are all
present in the same repository, the .shp file will import directly. We currently support .shp
files and .jpg files with world files (.jpg + .jgw).

5.8.1 Previewing layer names for Maps/plans/sections items

In the Objects panel, the icon flags elements that match files uploaded to the Maps/plans/sections
page in Geoscience INTEGRATOR. AutoCAD (.dxf or .dwg) files will have a sub-folder for each layer
under each file, which you can use as a preview to select the best drawing to import. These folders will
be empty until the file is imported to Geoscience ANALYST.

To import the file, either:

l In the Data Table, click on a file link and click Import as explained above
l In the Objects panel, right-click the Maps/plans/sections item and select Import from the menu

Note: Similar to data imported from data sets, switching to another Geoscience
INTEGRATOR project will remove any loaded maps/plans/sections from the workspace
unless the Save queries box is checked.

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 Tools and tips
Tools and tips to make the most of your data.

6.1 Contextual menus 145

CHAPTER 6 6.1.1 Slicers 151
6.1.2 Tape measure 152
6.1.3 Snapshots 153
6.1.4 Comments and attachments 153
6.2 Data types 154

6.2.1 Listing data types 156

6.2.2 Reassigning data types 157
6.3 Group Data 159
6.4 Preserving and saving views 161
6.4.1 Saving the active viewport as a view 161
6.4.2 Copying views to the clipboard 162
6.1 Contextual menus
You can use the contextual menu to apply functions by right-clicking folders, objects, and data in the
Objects panel. Depending on what you right-click on, different options will appear in the menu; all of the
possible commands are detailed in the table below.

Function Description

View (Objects) Makes the selected object visible in the Viewport.

View All Makes the selected objects visible in the active viewport (including all
objects under the selected folders or sub-folders).

View Only Makes the selected objects visible in the active viewport (including all
objects under the selected folders) and hides everything else.

Hide (Objects) Hides the selected object in the Viewport.

Hide All (Folders) Hides the selected objects from the active viewport (including all
objects under the selected folders or sub-folders).

Expand All (Folders) Expands the list of all objects and their data in the selected folder,
including any sub-folders.

Collapse All Hides the list of objects and sub-folders under the selected folder.
(Folders)

Unpaint Unpaints selected object or all objects under the selected folder,
including any sub-folders.

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 Function Description

Rename (F2) Allows you to edit the selected object or folder name.

Copy (Ctrl + C) Allows you to copy the selected objects or folders.

Paste (Ctrl+V) Allows you to paste the copied objects or folders.

Tip: Copied content can be pasted in a different

workspace.

Delete (Del) Allows you to delete the selected objects or folders.

Export Exports the object and/or folder contents to a supported file format.

l Export points, curves, and surfaces to a GOCAD ASCII .mx file.

l Export drillholes to collar, survey, interval and point log .csv
files.

Unsupported objects in the selected folder will not export, and an

error will display. Modify the selection to only include exportable
objects.

Add Group (Folders) Creates a new empty container group folder in the selected folder.

Slicer Allows you to apply existing or add new slicers to the selection.

If created, a new slicer will appear in the middle of the selection limits
bounding box. By default, it will span east-west and clip everything to
the south of the plane.

Drape on... (Objects) The Drape function is for draping any vector object (points, curves,
and surfaces) onto a Surfaces or 2D Grid object. This is used mainly
to drape objects on topography. The drape function will appear at the
top of the Controls panel and the cursor will change to , indicating
that a surface ‘target’ displayed in the Viewport needs to be clicked
on.

Pressing Esc will abort the function.

If the object being draped is larger than the target surface, the part of
the object being draped that falls outside the X-Y bounds will be
given Z values equal to the Z value of the closest point of the target
surface.

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 Function Description

Load All Properties Loads all data values for the selected objects (including all objects
under the selected folders or sub-folders).

Because a workspace file (.geoh5) can hold a lot of data, when you
open one, only the data needed to render in the viewport is loaded
(to paint or scale objects by). This reduces the memory footprint of
the application.

Offload All Unused Offloads all the data values except the ones needed to render in the
Properties Viewport (to paint or scale objects by).
(Workspace)
Because a workspace file (.geoh5) can hold a lot of data, this allows
the application to run much lighter.

If this is a new workspace, you will be prompted to save it first.

Translate / Rotate / Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
Scale Objects ANALYST Pro" on page 166).
(Objects)

Coordinate System Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
Transformation ANALYST Pro" on page 166).
(Objects)

Desurvey Drillholes Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
(Drillhole objects) ANALYST Pro" on page 166).

Transfer Data To Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
Drillholes (Points ANALYST Pro" on page 166).
objects)

New Surface From Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
Nodes (Points and ANALYST Pro" on page 166).
Curves objects)

Calculate distance Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
to drillholes (Points, ANALYST Pro" on page 166).
Curves and Surfaces
objects)

Edit (Objects) Available with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience

ANALYST Pro" on page 166), selecting this option will initiate edit
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 Function Description

based functions, as detailed in the Controls panel.

Paint on (Object A method of painting that allows you to automatically paint one or
data) more objects with a single click. You can show the data on an object
or across multiple objects by painting on the property (via the
Objects panel and Data Table). In the case of multiple objects, they
need to share same properties. The paint action can be applied:

l At the object level: Paints only the selected object by the data
(e.g., distance to drillholes). Alternatively, click to add a check-
mark in the box to the left of the data name. The painted data
column will automatically scroll to become visible in the Data
Table.
l At a folder or workspace level: Paints all objects by the selected
data if it exists (e.g., distance_to_drillholes) in the chosen
folder, or in the entire workspace. Only the parent folder of the
selected object, and its ancestors, are available for painting.

Create Amplitude Automatically creates new amplitude properties on the selected

from 3D Vector objects that contain the 3D vector data groups. One new property
Groups (folders that per data group will be named according to the data group and
contain at least one suffixed by amplitude.
object with at least
one 3D vector data
group, or object that
contains at least one
3D vector data group)

Assign as line ID Accompanying utility to the Profiles in Visual Parameters. This

(float, integer and utility assigns a data as the Line ID which are presented in the Profile
reference data on section of the Visual Parameters panel, allowing you to select a
Curves objects) subset of lines to display profiles on in the Viewport.

Reassign Data Type Launches the Reassign Data Type dialogue box allowing you to
(Objects) reassign data types to an existing data type or to a new one you can
create.Data Colours settings (e.g., colour table, low and high clip
values) and statistical information are shared among data that have
the same type. Enter text in the Filter by name... field to display only
the data types that contain the string.

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 Function Description

Transfer to Float Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
(object data) ANALYST Pro" on page 166).

Create Masking Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
Property (Points, ANALYST Pro" on page 166).
Curves and Surfaces

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 Function Description

objects)

Apply Mask Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
Property (Points, ANALYST Pro" on page 166).
Curves and Surfaces
objects data)

New Boundary Available only with Geoscience ANALYST Pro (see "Geoscience
Curve from Nodes ANALYST Pro" on page 166).
(Points and Curves
objects)

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6.1.1 Slicers
Slicers are an effective way to create restricted 3D views of objects in the Viewport. You can apply
slicers to one or more objects.

To create a slicer:
1. Select a folder or object you wish to apply a slicer to and right-click to open the contextual menu.
2. Select Slicer > New slicer. The slicer will appear (rectangle with dashed perimeter).

To manage the slicer tool in the Viewport:

1. Hold X to activate the slicer navigation tool. With it, you can perform a number of
functions:
l Click and drag sphere: With the yellow sphere, sweep slicer and move it to new positions.
l Click and drag arrow: Move the green arrow in a circular motion to adjust the dip and dip
direction of the slicer.
l Incremental arrow: With the magenta dual-direction arrow, click either side of the arrow to
move slicer incrementally in opposing directions.
l Left and right arrow keys: Move slicer incrementally in opposing directions.
l Mouse wheel: Move slicer incrementally in opposing directions.
l Plus and minus keys (number pad only): move slicer incrementally in opposing directions.

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The portion of the sliced object opposite the direction of slice movement becomes transparent when
sliced.

Tip: Deactivate a slicer by turning it off in the Viewport. Objects will no longer be clipped.
You can turn on / off multiple slicers on an object with no need to re-open contextual menu
for each slicer.

Tip: To learn more about using slicers in Geoscience ANALYST, watch our short video
tutorial on YouTube.

6.1.2 Tape measure

The tape measuring tool allows interactive measuring of 2D and 3D distances in the Viewport panel.

To use the tape measure, hold T and click and drag to create a line between two end points. At each end
point, you will see a box containing information about the points and the line:

l The x, y, z coordinates of the start and end points

l Cumulative 2D distances
l Total length, dip, and dip directions of the line

The end points snap to an object in the forefront of the viewing area. To hide the measuring tape from
view, press T.

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6.1.3 Snapshots

You can take a snapshot of the state of your workspace in the Viewport by clicking in the toolbar on
the right side of the Viewport.

Specify the resolution of your snapshot in the X / Y text boxes and click New Snapshot to see the
changes. When you are satisfied with the image, click Save Snapshot to save it to your hard drive.

Additionally, you can use Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to copy and paste scenes from both the Viewport and
the 2D Profile Viewer. Once copied, you can paste the copies to image and text editors.

6.1.4 Comments and attachments

You may want to attach comments and files to your workspace to use as reference and to share with
colleagues. This is done in the Data Table at the folder and object level.

To make comments and attach files, in the Data Table, click the tab of the desired folder or object.

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 l Click Add comment to make a comment.
l Click Add file to attach a file.

Saving the project preserves the state of the comments and files.

6.2 Data types

Data types are useful when two properties need to be compared directly. Properties in the same data
type share the same styles for displaying the property. The most commonly used display styles are
colour map, high clip, low clip and no-data value.

Example: The figure below shows an example of sharing a data type. (1) shows Points
that contain two properties (gravity and gravity with a regional trend removed) that do not
belong to the same data type, but should be compared directly. The low and high clip of
the colour maps are set to the minimum and maximum of each property individually. (2) is
the same image after setting the data type to grav.

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The data type for a displayed property is shown in the Data Colours panel:

When properties are created, they placed in a data type that is the same as the name of the property.
Properties with the same name will automatically have the same data type.

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6.2.1 Listing data types
Data types within a workspace can be listed and created from the Utilities menu using the Data Type
List window.

Option Description

Name filter Filters the list with letter combinations.

Data Type A drop-down to select which component of the data type to filter the list by:
Name Data Type Name, Units, Description, or Primitive Type.

Reset Resets the filter.

contains Radio buttons to constrain the filter.

/starts with

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 Option Description

Create New Data Type

Data Type Enter the name of the new data type.

Name
(mandatory)

Units (optional) Enter the units of the property type.

Description Enter a description of the property type.

(optional)

Primitive Type Select one of the available property types: Integer, Float, Text,
(mandatory) Referenced, Filename, Blob, Vector, DateTime, or Boolean.

Create Select to create the new data type.

6.2.2 Reassigning data types

Data Types can be edited in the Reassign Data Type dialog box, available by right-clicking on the
property to be reassigned.

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 Option Description

Objects Use the drop-down to select the object(s) that contain the property you want to
reassign.

Data Use the drop-down to multi-select the properties to be reassigned.

Use Select the radio button to filter by name to select an existing data type.
existing

Create Select the radio button to create a new data type to use by defining a name, units
new and description. There is a check box to create separate data types for each
selected property.

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6.3 Group Data
This utility, available in the Utilities menu, allows manual creation of multi-element and orientation (3D
vector, dip direction and dip, and strike and dip) data groups from user-selected properties. This is a
companion tool to use in conjunction with the Profiles and Orientation sections of the Visual
Parameters, allowing you to define and view several single element data together such as EM time
channels simultaneously. It allows you to take advantage of data groups to visualize special symbols
like arrows and tablets in Visual Parameters such as Profiles and Orientations.

Function Description

Object Use the drop-down menu to select the object that contains numerical data you
want to group.

New data Determines whether you are creating a new data group (type name in text box)

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 Function Description

group or selecting an existing group (choose from drop-down menu).

name /
Existing
data
groups

Nodes / Use the drop-down menu to select at which level the data resides on the
segments selected object. The selected object type will determine the choices available.
/ triangles
/ cells

Group Use the drop-down menu to select a multi-element group type or one of three
type available orientation type data groups (3D vector, Dip direction and dip, or
Strike and dip). 3D vector type requires you to select 3 properties (typically x, y
and z direction components), whereas the dip direction / dip and strike / dip
options requires two properties ordered accordingly when moved to the right
panel.

Data In the left window, select the data to add to the group in the right window by using
selection the green arrows.

To multi-select data, click and hold the left mouse button while dragging.

Use the check boxes to select and deselect all.

To re-order data, use the up and down arrows. Ordering matters when using the
2D Profile Viewer, as the data is listed and viewed in the order the group is
created.

Note: If you click OK but the Group Data dialogue box remains open, an error message
will display in the Console panel to explain why the operation could not be performed.

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6.4 Preserving and saving views
Geoscience ANALYST allows you to capture and preserve several points of view of configurations in the
Viewport, along with the list of visible objects and their visual parameters. You can then revisit the view
on command.

6.4.1 Saving the active viewport as a view

To create a view:
1. Arrange objects in the Viewport in a configuration you want to be able to preserve and recall for
future reference.
2. Press Ctrl + F1 (or F2 through F10).
3. In the dialogue box, give the view a name (optional), and either leave the Save object and data
visibility box checked, or uncheck it.

4. Click OK.

Note: When you check the box in the Save object and data visibility dialogue box,
Geoscience ANALYST preserves everything currently visible such as painted data and
Visual Parameters settings. Unchecking the box preserves only the point of view.

You can now proceed with the manipulation of your object(s), and the configuration captured by the
view can be recalled by pressing the corresponding F-key (F1 through F10), or from the Views menu in
the menu bar.

Note: Saving / restoring views does not apply to 2D viewports.

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6.4.2 Copying views to the clipboard
Geoscience ANALYST allows you to take quick snapshots of views in the Viewport and the 2D Profile
Viewer that you would like to save as an image in the clipboard and paste in other applications. To do
so, select a view and type Ctrl + C followed by Ctrl + V in separate editing software.

Tip: The current viewport can also be exported as a .geoh5 workspace file, with all the
visible objects and saved views (see "Exporting objects from Geoscience ANALYST" on
page 118).

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 Geoscience ANALYST Pro
Geoscience ANALYST Pro enhances the functionality of the free
viewer and provides significant added value.
CHAPTER 7 7.1 Geoscience ANALYST Pro 166
7.2 Creating and editing objects 167
7.2.1 Object creation: Use cases 168
7.2.2 Snapping objects 171
7.2.3 Editing objects 172

7.2.4 Editing the Data Table 173

7.3 Utilities menu 174
7.3.1 2D Grid Designer 174
7.3.2 3D Block Model Designer 176
7.3.3 Surface Designer 179
7.3.4 Minimum Curvature Gridding 180
7.3.5 Transfer Data 183
7.3.6 Coordinate System Transformation 184
7.3.7 Translate/Rotate/Scale Objects 185
7.4 Drillholes menu 187
7.4.1 Calculate Distance to Drillholes 187

7.4.2 Copy Drillhole in Grid Pattern 189

7.4.3 Create Drillhole Target 191
7.4.4 Desurvey Drillholes 192
 7.4.5 Drillhole Designer 192
7.5 Geophysics menu 200
7.5.1 Compute Forward Model 200
7.5.2 Compute Unconstrained Inversion 201
7.5.3 Create EM Dataset 203

7.5.4 Electromagnetic Field Modelling 205

7.5.5 Fourier Filters on 2D Grids 207
7.5.6 Gravity Corrections 210
7.5.7 Remove trend from data 211
7.6 ioGAS Link 212
7.6.1 Connecting to ioGAS Link 212
7.6.2 Viewing points objects in ioGAS 213
7.6.3 Renaming and reassigning data 213
7.7 Maxwell Link 214
7.7.1 Connecting to Maxwell Link 214
7.7.2 Broadcasting plates from Maxwell to Geoscience ANALYST 214

7.7.3 Viewing Maxwell plate objects in Geoscience ANALYST 215

7.7.4 Disconnecting from Maxwell 216
7.7.5 Editing Maxwell plates in the Viewport 216
 7.7.6 Creating a Surfaces object from Maxwell plate(s) 218
7.8 Contextual commands 219
7.8.1 New Surface from Nodes 219
7.8.2 Transfer Data To Drillholes 220
7.8.3 Connecting to Imago (Beta) 221

7.8.4 Transfer to Float 221

7.8.5 Create Masking Property 221
7.8.6 Apply Mask Property 222
7.8.7 New Boundary Curve from Nodes 222
7.1 Geoscience ANALYST Pro
To complement the free viewer, Geoscience ANALYST Pro is available as a paid add-on module. It
offers basic object and data editing and creation functionalities, among other useful data analysis tools
and utilities. It includes ioGAS Link, Drillhole Designer, and Maxwell Link, as well as basic geophysical
tools to perform forward and inversion modelling.

To activate a Geoscience ANALYST Pro licence:

1. In the menu bar, click File > Learn more about Pro Upgrade. You will be directed to the Mira
Geoscience website to obtain an activation key.

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 2. Retrieve the licence key that we emailed to you and click License Management to open the
License Management dialogue box.

3. In the License Management dialogue box, click Activate to launch the registration wizard. Follow
the same procedure as the free viewer licence activation steps described in "Activating your
licence" on page 4.
4. Restart Geoscience ANALYST to access the upgraded functionalities of Geoscience ANALYST
Pro.

7.2 Creating and editing objects

Having a Geoscience ANALYST Pro licence allows you to create Points, Curves, and Surfaces objects
in your workspace through the following digitizing commands found at the bottom of the Controls panel:

To create objects in Geoscience ANALYST Pro:

l Points: Hold P and left-click in the Viewport to digitize a node. Subsequent clicks will generate
more nodes.
l Curves: Hold O and left-click twice in the Viewport to digitize a segment. Subsequent clicks will
generate more segment nodes.

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 l Surfaces: Hold S and left-click three times in the Viewport to digitize a triangle. Subsequent clicks
will generate more triangle nodes.
l Press Esc to exit the edit mode. The Object dialogue box will display where you can name the
newly created object.

The root Workspace folder in the Objects panel will contain the entries for all newly created objects.
You can drag and drop them under other folders if desired.

7.2.1 Object creation: Use cases

This section illustrates three practical applications for object creation as it relates to "Points" on page 55,
"Curves" on page 59, and "Surfaces" on page 64.

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Use case: Points

Application: Plotting surface expression of mineral deposits on a GeoImage.

Method: On the topographic GeoImage object pictured above, the three blue spheres are Points
objects digitized onto plots designed to indicate where certain mineral deposits were found.

Clicking on the GeoImage opens the Visual Parameters panel, where you can make the GeoImage
semi-transparent with the slider to help create visual contrast between the digitized objects and the
GeoImage.

Holding down P while left-clicking the location of the mineral deposits places a node on the location. The
points tools available in the Visual Parameters panel help to customize the appearance of the nodes,
allowing them to stand out.

Use case: Curves

Application: Plotting a geological expression of a fault line.

Method: On the topographic GeoImage object pictured above, the two red lines are curves built from
connected nodes, designed to outline and make more prominent two fault lines that join each other.

Clicking on the GeoImage opens the Visual Parameters panel, where you can make the GeoImage
semi-transparent with the slider to help create visual contrast between the digitized objects and the
GeoImage.

Holding down O while creating nodes by clicking along the original fault line in the GeoImage creates a
curve. The curves tools available in the Visual Parameters panel help to customize the appearance of
the curves, allowing them to stand out.

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Use case: Surfaces

Application: Showing mineralization trends by Isolating and linking high-grade mineral samples in a set
of three drillholes.

Method: In the image of the Viewport above, the triangular surface object links isolated high-grade
mineral occurrences (purple discs) found in three drillholes within proximity of each other.
1. Choose a set of drillholes.
2. In the Data Table, click the Interval log tab.

3. Choose a mineral, i.e., ZN_percent and paint it by clicking .

4. In the Data Colours panel, use the slider to isolate the Zn occurrence with a value greater than a
given percentage. In this case, 10%.
5. Locate the isolated occurrences on the drillhole paths.
6. While holding down S, click on one of the occurrences to digitize a node and segment between

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 the two closest occurrences.
7. Continue to hold S and click on a third occurrence to digitize the surface.

7.2.2 Snapping objects

By default, a digitized node will snap to the object in the forefront of the Viewport, or onto the centre
plane of the camera when clicking on the background.

Click to enable object snapping, located at the bottom of the toolbar in the Viewport.

The following describes how snapping functions across commonly used objects in the Viewport:

Drillholes:

l Snap enabled: Nodes snap to lithological contacts.

l Snap disabled: Nodes digitize to location where clicked.

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Surfaces:

l Snap enabled: Nodes snap to nodes on mesh.

l Snap disabled: Nodes digitize to point where clicked.

Block models:

l Snap enabled: Nodes snap to centre of cell.

l Snap disabled: Nodes digitize to location where clicked.

Note: If one of multiple viewports has snap mode activated, it will be activated across all
viewports.

7.2.3 Editing objects

Having a Geoscience ANALYST Pro licence allows you to edit Points, Curves, and Surfaces objects in
your workspace. There are four ways to enter edit mode:
1. Press E and click an object in the Viewport.
2. Right-click an object in the Viewport and select Edit from the contextual menu.

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 3. Click on the object's name in the Objects panel and select Edit from the contextual menu.
4. Click on an object in the Objects panel and press Ctrl + E.
When in edit mode, the Geoscience ANALYST user interface functions as follows:

l The name of an object being edited displays at the top of the Controls panel, along with the editing
tools directly underneath the object (Curves edit menu shown in the image below).
l The cursor becomes a cross-hair.
l The border of the Viewport turns red.
l The name of the object being edited and the fact that it is in edit mode displays at the top left of the
Viewport.

To exit edit mode, press Esc.

7.2.4 Editing the Data Table

In Geoscience ANALYST Pro, you can edit most Data Table entries, with the exception of some
geometrical fields including drillhole FROM and TO, BlockModel I/J/K, and linked ioGAS Points x, y, z
values (applicable with ioGAS Link).

To edit a value in the Data Table, click to allow editing, then double-click in a cell:

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In the case of reference data, double-click in the cell to activate the drop-down menu and select the
desired class:

7.3 Utilities menu

7.3.1 2D Grid Designer
This utility allows you to quickly design and create new horizontal 2D Grid objects. Some of its key
features are as follows:

l A suggestion component that recommends appropriate grid specifications including origin,

dimensions, and cell sizes based on the X / Y geometry and data distribution of a selected object.

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 l A rectangle digitizing tool allowing you to draw a non-rotated (with respect to the X and Y
directions) outline directly in the Viewport.
l User control of all values including rotation angle.
l Manual locking of the grid and cell sizes to ensure the U and V entries are identical.
l A preview of the grid and origin axis will display along with the number of cells that the suggested
grid contains.

Function Description

Object

Drop-down Optionally, select the point, curve, surface or 2D grid to base the 2D grid
menu suggestion on.

Use to click directly on the object in the Viewport.

Use to autofill the origin, grid, and cell size entries with appropriate values
based on the selected object for a grid oriented parallel to the X and Y axis
orientations.

Grid dimensions

Origin The Cartesian coordinates of the 2D grid origin. You can enter the values
manually, digitize them in the Viewport using the arrow tool, or have them
suggested.

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 Function Description

Grid size The length of each of the axes of the grid.

Click to activate the locking feature. This ensures that any modifications
are proportional on both axes.

Click to draw a grid manually in the Viewport.

Cell size The length of the sides of each cell of the grid.

Click to activate the locking feature. This ensures that any modifications
are proportional on both axes.

# of cells Displays the number of U and V cells as well as the total number of cells.
When modified, the totals update in real-time.

Azimuth Enter a azimuth angle to apply to the 2D grid, relative to 0 degree to the
north.

Dip Enter a dip angle to apply to the 2D grid, relative to 0 degree to the
horizontal.

Name Enter a name for the new 2D Grid object.

Click to generate the new 2D Grid object.

Click to close the dialogue and hide the preview of the 2D grid.

7.3.2 3D Block Model Designer

This utility allows you to quickly design and create a new 3D block mesh, which is ideal for
unconstrained geophysical inversions. Some of its key features are as follows:

l Recommendations about appropriate grid specifications, including origin, dimensions, and cell
sizes based on the X-Y geometry of a selected object
l A rectangle digitizing tool allowing you to draw a non-rotated (with respect to the X and Y
directions) outline in the Viewport
l User control of all values, including rotation angle

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 l Manual locking of the grid size to ensure that the U and V entries are identical (W is not linked and
defaults to 50% of the shortest side)
l Slider control for the proportion of vertical cells that define the core (defaults to 30% of the vertical
extent, expanding at a rate of 1.2)
l Manual locking of cell sizes to ensure the U, V, and W entries are identical
l A preview of the grid and axes, along with the number of cells that the suggested grid will contain.
The colour of the cell number text will change to indicate that the size of the inversion problem is
approaching the suggested limit (750K–1.5M cells: yellow; >1.5M cells: red)

Function Description

Object

Drop-down The point, curve, surface, or 3D grid on which to base the 3D grid suggestion
menu (optional).

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 Function Description

Use to click directly on the object in the Viewport.

Autofill the Origin, Grid size, and Cell size entries with appropriate values
based on the selected object.

Grid dimensions

Origin The Cartesian coordinates of the 2D grid origin. You can enter the values
manually, digitize them in the Viewport using the arrow tool, or have them
suggested.

Grid size The length of each of the axes of the grid.

Click to activate the locking feature. This ensures that any modifications
are proportional on both axes.

Click to draw a grid manually in the Viewport.

Core cell The length of the sides of each cell of the grid.
size
Click to activate the locking feature. This ensures that any modifications
are proportional on both axes.

Azimuth (°) The azimuth angle to apply to the 2D grid, relative to 0 degrees to the north.

Core Slider that defines the vertical proportion of core cells, below which cell sizes
proportion expand by a factor of 1.2.
(%)

# of cells The number of U and V cells, as well as the total number of cells. When
modified, the totals update in real time.

UBC model padding

West / South The padding length in each direction for a UBC-GIF model.
/ East / North
/ Top

Expansion Slider that defines the expansion factor for the padding cells.

Name The name for the new 3D block model.

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 Function Description

Click to generate the new 3D Grid object.

Click to close the dialogue and hide the preview of the 3D grid.

7.3.3 Surface Designer

This utility allows you to create a new surface from a perimeter (a closed Curves object), control points,
and optionally other Curves objects for holes. You can find it in the Utilities menu.

: Select an object by picking it directly in the Viewport.

Function Description

Perimeter Select a Curves object to create the surface in. It is mandatory.

curve

Hole Select one or more Curves objects to delimit holes in the surface by vertical
curves projection. These are optional.

Control Select one or more Points objects by which the surface must pass. These are

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 Function Description

points optional.

Triangle A default best-fit triangle size is determined when you select a perimeter curve.
size You can change it afterwards but need to click Apply to actually use it.

resets the Triangle size value to the best fit (need to click Apply).

Surface Name for the new Surfaces object that will be created.
name

Create Triggers the creation on the surface as per settings.

surface

Auto When checked, the surface is automatically updated every time the objects are
update modified. In case of failure to compute, the dialogue pops up for the user to see
the error message.

Tip: Accessing the Surface Designer from the Utilities menu will bring up the settings of
the last generated surface. To modify an earlier surface, access the tool by right-clicking
on the pertinent surface.

7.3.4 Minimum Curvature Gridding

This utility allows you to interpolate data stored on points, curves, or surfaces in the X / Y plane onto 2D
Grid objects. The minimum curvature gridding algorithm generates a smooth interpolation while trying to
honour the input data set as closely as possible. Several parameters are available to fine-tune the end
results, including adjusting the extents of the smoothing, and the extrapolation distance.

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 Function Description

2D grid Select the 2D Grid object to store the results of the interpolation.

Source object Select the Points, Curves or Surfaces object that has the numerical data to
interpolate.

Property Select the data to interpolate.

Max # of Enter the maximum number of iterations to interpolate to reach the

iterations convergence limit.

Convergence The level of precision that the algorithm is trying to achieve. If the change in
limit the cell's average value between iterations is less than the convergence
limit then convergence occurs. The algorithm then stops and the new 2D
grid property is created.

Maximum If the distance from the centre of a grid cell to the closest data point is
extrapolation greater than the distance entered, the cell's data value is assigned a no
distance data value.

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 Function Description

Advanced

Internal Move the slider bar to adjust the Internal tension from 0 to 1. The right / left /
tension up / down keyboard arrow buttons will increase or decrease the value by
.01. Left clicking on the slider bar will increase or decrease the value by 0.1.
Gridding results may have large oscillations and extraneous inflection
points, which you can minimize by relaxing the global minimum curvature
constraint by adjusting the tension settings. The minimum curvature
solution is perturbed locally near constraining data which is beneficial in
situations where there are large variations over short distances in the
property being interpolated.

Boundary Set to Zero to turn off, or to One to turn on, which allows you to control
tension singularities in the minimum curvature equations (i.e., when boundary
tension = π/4). The minimum curvature solution near grid edges are
flattened which is beneficial in situations where the regional field decays as
the distance from the source region increases.

Use Toggle on to apply an over relaxation value, which accelerates the

overrelaxation convergence rate. Generally, as the number of grid cells increase, the over
relaxation parameter should also be increased.

Value Allows you to enter the value when Use overrelaxation is on.

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7.3.5 Transfer Data
You can transfer block model and 2D grid data to points, curves, and surfaces with Geoscience
ANALYST Pro.

To transfer data:
1. Go to the Utilities menu, then click Transfer Data.
2. Select a Block Model or 2D Grid object in the From drop-down menu that you want to transfer data
from.
3. Select a Block Model or 2D Grid object in the To drop-down menu that you want to receive the
transferred data from.
4. Click Apply to run the command, Cancel to close the dialogue box, or OK to run the command
and close the dialogue box at once.

You can either transfer all data or select one or several to transfer by clicking to highlight the desired
data name in the list.

The utility transfers data value of the closest block model cell centre to the nodes of the destination
object. For 2D grids, both numerical and reference data are vertically transferred to the nodes of the
destination object. In the case of numerical data, a linear interpolation is applied, while in the case of
reference data, the transfer is done to the closest node.

If data of the same name exists on the destination object, it will be overwritten with the new values.

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7.3.6 Coordinate System Transformation
This utility allows you to transpose objects from a custom coordinate system to another, and is an
alternative to Translate/rotate/scale objects (see "Translate/Rotate/Scale Objects" on the next page).

It is available from the Utilities menu. You can also use it from the contextual menus of all object types.
Doing so prepopulates the dialogue box with the selection.

Section Description

Objects

Drop- Select the objects to transpose from the drop-down menu or use the quick
down options for selecting.
menu

/ To select or deselect all objects.

To select by picking the object directly in the Viewport.

Coordinate systems

Current Select the current coordinate system from the drop-down list.

Target Select the current coordinate system from the drop-down list.

The transformation parameters need to be listed in a .csv file containing 8

columns:

l 1 alphanumeric for the name

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 Section Description

l 7 numeric (origin O on each axis, rotation angle, scaling factor F along

each axis)

To open the selected folder in your File Explorer to make sure it contains a .csv
file with the necessary parameters.

To choose a folder.

Click OK to apply and exit, Cancel to exit, or Apply to keep the dialogue box open after transformation.
After a transformation, the Viewport will be moved to the new location and zoomed on the moved
objects.

7.3.7 Translate/Rotate/Scale Objects

The Translate/Rotate/Scale Objects utility allows you to manually set the parameters to move, rotate
and scale your objects.

It is available from the Utilities menu. You can also use it from the contextual menus of all object types.
Doing so prepopulates the dialogue box with the selection.

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 Function Description

Objects

Drop-down Select the objects to apply the transformation to from the drop-down menu.
menu

/ To select all or clear selection.

To select by picking directly the object in the Viewport.

Transformation parameters

Current To determine a translation vector, you can enter a current and a target set of
origin / coordinates. Notice that the relative difference on each axis is automatically
Target reflected in the Translation parameters right below.
origin
: Pick target location to pick directly in the Viewport.

Translation You can enter an operator (positive or negative value) to apply to each axis
value. Notice that it will reflect automatically in the Target origin values: Current
origin + Translation = Target origin

: Reset translation to zero

Rotation You can enter a rotation angle.

Scaling You can enter a scaling factor for each axis.

: Transform feet to meters or Transform meters to feet to auto-

populate the factors accordingly, because unit transformation is a frequent use
case.

: Reset scaling values

Click OK to apply and exit, Cancel to exit, or Apply to keep the dialogue box open after an operation.

After applying any operation, the Viewport remains in its current position.

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7.4 Drillholes menu
7.4.1 Calculate Distance to Drillholes
This utility is available from the Drillholes menu. It creates a new property on the nodes of the selected
objects, accessible from the Nodes data table, and populates it with the distance of each node to the
closest drillhole selected.

You can also find the function in the contextual menus of Points, Curves and Surfaces objects and
Drillholes. Doing so pre-populates the dialogue box with the selection.

Function Description

Objects The objects on which to calculate distance. You can select one or more objects
of various types.

Drillholes The drillholes to consider when searching for the closest one. You can select
one or more drillholes.

Property The name to use for the property. The default name is distance_to_drillholes.
name

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You can refer to the metadata in the Object tab to see which drillholes were considered when the
property was last calculated.

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7.4.2 Copy Drillhole in Grid Pattern
This utility creates a specified number of copies of a nominated drillhole and generates a grid-like
pattern of the duplicates based on the user-specified angle and spacing. The new drillholes will be
named the same as the original, but will have suffixes with incrementing numbers. A preview of the grid
collars is shown in the Viewport.

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 Function Description

Reference drillhole

Drop-down menu The drillhole to be copied.

Use to click directly on the reference drillhole in the Viewport.

Drape collars on surface

Drop-down menu The surface on which the drillhole collars of the copied holes should
be draped, usually the topography.

Use to click directly on the surface in the Viewport.

Reach or clip to surface

Drop-down menu The surface to which the copied drillholes should be extended.
Drillholes will extend up to 2,000 m below the bottom of the copied
drillhole.

Use to click directly on the surface in the Viewport.

Create drillholes Select this option to create drillholes that do not reach the nominated
that do not reach surface. These drillholes will be copies of the input drillhole.
surface

Grid parameters

Azimuth The azimuth angle to apply to the grid of drillholes, relative to 0

degrees to the north.

# of copies The number of drillholes in the U and V directions from the input
drillhole.

Spacing The distance between the copied drillholes in the U and V directions.

Mirror Check U and/or V to duplicate the number of drillhole copies about the
V/U axes, respectively.

Total copies The number of drillholes that will be created.

Output group name Enter a name for the drillhole group to contain the drillhole copies.

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7.4.3 Create Drillhole Target
This tool creates drillhole targets outside the Drillhole Designer that can then be selected for use in the
Drillhole Designer. Targets are listed in the Objects panel, defined by the icon. To open the Create
Target dialogue box, go to Drillholes > Create Target.

Function Description

Horizon Select how the target is to be defined (Surface or Manual).

Location When Manual is selected, select the target location in the Viewport where you
want to place the drillhole target (or enter the X, Y, Z coordinates manually).

Buffer Set a buffer size (optional).

Size

Horizon When Manual is selected, enter an Azimuth and Dip value of the target horizon.

When Surface is selected, select an existing surface wither through the drop-
down menu, or by using to click on the location in the Viewport.

Name Name the target.

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7.4.4 Desurvey Drillholes
In Geoscience ANALYST Pro, you can desurvey drillhole logs to create a points object.

To desurvey one or several drillholes:

1. In the Drillholes menu, select Desurvey Drillholes.
2. In the Desurvey Drillhole Logs dialogue box, select the drillholes you wish to desurvey.
3. From the Master log drop-down menu, select a value.
4. For Location, select Middle, Top, or Bottom to determine the x, y, z position of the desurveyed
points.
5. Click Apply to run the command and keep the dialogue box open, or OK to run the command and
close the dialogue box.

7.4.5 Drillhole Designer

To access Drillhole Designer, you must have Geoscience ANALYST Pro, which includes the Drillhole
Designer module. It offers a dynamic, user-friendly environment, allowing you to quickly design new
drillholes, whether they are simple straight holes from a collar location with specific lengths or complex
drillholes that lift and swing along the path.

To open the Drillhole Designer, go to the Drillholes menu in Geoscience ANALYST Pro and click
Drillhole Designer.

In the Drillhole Designer application, you will see that there are three drillhole design options:
1. "Target to surface" on the next page
2. "From collar down" on page 197
3. "Copy existing" on page 198
Once created, the "Manual Drillhole Designer" on page 199 launches to make further edits and
refinements.

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Target to surface

To create a target object (end of hole) using Target to surface:

1. Select Target to surface in the Drillhole Designer application.

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 2. Click to open the Create Target dialogue box.

3. Select how the target will be created.

4. In the Create Target dialogue box, click . The Viewport will then be in edit mode.
5. Click the location in the Viewport where you want to place the drillhole target (or enter the X, Y, Z
coordinates manually).
6. Set a Buffer size (optional).
7. Enter an Azimuth and Dip value of the target horizon, or select Surface and select an existing
Surfaces object either through the drop-down menu, or by using to click on the location in the
Viewport.
8. Click Ok or Apply.
In the Viewport, you will see a new target object comprised of a node at the defined location,
surrounded by a sphere indicating the set buffer size.

The Objects panel will contain an entry for the object, defined by the icon.

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You can manually modify the target location, geometry, and buffer size values through the Data Table,
which will automatically update the target geometry in the Viewport to allow you to visualize the
modifications in real time. You can attach comments and files here as well.

To create a drillhole from target to surface:

1. In the Collar section of the Target to surface module of the Drillhole Designer, select a surface at
which the collar will be projected onto, typically topography, using the drop-down menu, or by
clicking on the surface in the Viewport with .
2. Select a casing length to generate a survey station at the selected depth (optional).
3. Using Station interval in the Path section, create more deviation stations along the drillhole path
by decreasing the value, while increasing the Swing and Lift angles to create a more deviated
path.
4. Click Generate.

Note: Having valid input parameters launches the Manual Drillhole Designer. If the
drillhole path from the defined orientation at target, swing, and lift parameters would not
intersect the collar surface, an error message will display in red in the console and the
Manual Drillhole Designer will not launch.

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From collar down

To create a drillhole from a collar down:

1. In the Drillhole Designer application, click From collar down in the Design type section.

2. Choose your desired drillhole location by either manually entering the Location values or by
clicking to digitize the location in the Viewport.
3. Set a starting orientation using Azimuth and Dip.
4. Click Generate.
Optional features include:

l Modifying the station interval distance (decrease to generate more deviation stations).
l Entering a casing length.
l Specifying swing and lift angles per 100 units of drilling (metres or feet depending on the project
units as defined on the workspace tab of the Data Table).

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Copy existing

To copy an existing drillhole:

Method 1:
1. In the Drillhole Designer application, click Copy existing in the Design type section.

2. Select a drillhole from the drop-down menu, or click on an existing drillhole in the Viewport using
.
3. Click Generate to launch the Manual Drillhole Designer to refine the path and location, if desired.
Method 2:
1. In the Objects panel or the Viewport, right-click an existing drillhole, then click Manual Drillhole
Designer in the contextual menu.
2. From here, you can either:

l Use by clicking on a drillhole you would like to copy; or

l Type a name for your new drillhole in the Name text box, then click Create.

Note: When you copy using these methods, the copied drillhole will display in the exact
location of the source of the copy until you use the Manual Drillhole Designer to define a
new path and location.

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Manual Drillhole Designer

The purpose of the Manual Drillhole Designer is to refine an existing drillhole's attributes.

The Manual Drillhole Designer allows you to:

l Edit a drillhole's location

l Manually insert new deviation stations at specific locations
l Delete stations
l Add stations at defined surface intersections
l Modify the strike and dip and/or lift and swing across certain lithological domains or structures

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 l Automatically propagate angle changes down a drillhole in real time when dip and azimuth
changes are made
l Preview a newly created drillhole
l Define the drillhole type

When you create a drillhole with the Manual Drillhole Designer, it will be located under the root
Workspace folder named according to the name defined in the dialogue box.

7.5 Geophysics menu

7.5.1 Compute Forward Model
This utility is accessed from the Geophysics menu and computes the response of a density contrast
(gravity or gravity gradiometry) or susceptibility model on to a point, curve, or 2D Grid object using our
unique VP geophysical technology.

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 Function Description

Type Gravity, Magnetic, or Gravity gradiometry.

Observation The Points object representing the survey location points. Observation points
points should be considered above ground.

Observation The data on the Points object representing the measured response.
data

Field For magnetic modelling – the magnetic field strength.

strength

Inclination For magnetic modelling – the inclination of the magnetic field.

Declination For magnetic modelling – the declination of the magnetic field.

Topography A surface representing topography (optional).

Block The 3D Grid object containing the model.

model

Property The property representing the property to be modelled.

Output The name of the computed property to be added to the observation points.
name

7.5.2 Compute Unconstrained Inversion

This utility is accessed from the Geophysics menu and inverts three different types of data: gravity
(mGal), gravity gradiometry (Eotvos), or total-field magnetic data (nT). The inversion uses our unique VP
geophysical technology. The output is the predicted data and residual on the observation object, and a
property on the block model. The log file and console provide details on how well the inversion re-
produced the data. No results will be produced if the inversion is prematurely cancelled.

In general, the inversion will compute weighting functions, compute derivatives, and then perform
forward modelling and inversion iterations. For magnetic data, derivatives are updated every 10
iterations. The most iterations the inversion will perform is set to 40 and cannot be changed. The
inversion will stop earlier if the RMS data misfit is less than or equal to the uncertainty level. A DC shift of
the data is optimized during inversion. Density contrast (g/cc) is the physical property recovered for
gravity and gravity gradiometry data. Susceptibility (SI) is the physical property recovered inverting
magnetic data. The magnetic data is assumed to be purely induced.

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 Function Description

Type Gravity, Magnetic, or Gravity gradiometry.

Observation The Points object representing the survey location points. Observation points
points should be considered above ground.

Data The property representing observed data in mGal (gravity) or nT (total-field

magnetics).

Uncertainty The data error (uncertainty) in mgals (gravity), Eotvos (gravity gradient), or nT
level (magnetics).

Field For magnetic data – the inducing magnetic field strength.

strength

Inclination For magnetic data – the inclination of the inducing magnetic field.

Declination For magnetic data – the declination of the inducing magnetic field.

Topography The surface representing topography (optional; no topography will assume

the top of the block model).

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 Function Description

Gradiometry Falcon or Bell. Choose the components to invert following this selection. At
type least one component must be chosen. The uncertainty level is applied to all
components. Each component is considered to be in Eotvos.

Block model The 3D Grid object containing the model.

Output The name of the computed property to be added to the observation points
name and block model. A residual property of observed minus predicted is also
added to the Observation Points object.

7.5.3 Create EM Dataset

This utility is available from the Geophysics menu. It creates an EM dataset that can then be used with
the Decay Curves panel and is recognized in the GIFtools group (Pro Geophysics). The receivers and
transmitters (if applicable) are built as new objects so the survey geometry can be viewed in the
Viewport. Times or frequencies are assigned to the multi-component data and are then recognized in
the Decay Curves panel.

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 Function Description

Survey Type The type of survey.

Input The input object(s) for the selected survey type. All the following inputs are
also updated based on this choice.

Receivers The receivers object (required if Tx and Rx Objects or Rx Object is

selected).

Transmitters The transmitters object (required if Tx and Rx Objects or Tx Object is

selected).

Loop Radius The radius of the transmitter loop in metres.

Bearing This box must be checked and a property selected if bearing is given in
Data degrees. This bearing will be used to create the following offset values. If no
bearing is given, one is computed from the curve part.

Inline Offset The offset in metres along the line where the newly created object will be
placed relative to the chosen object. Negative values put the object not
chosen from Input behind the object.

Cross Line The offset in metres perpendicular to the line and following a right-hand rule,
Offset where the newly created object will be placed relative to the chosen object.

Vertical The elevation difference from the input object to the object being created in
Offset metres.

Pitch The pitch in degrees of the selected object. This information will be placed in
metadata.

Roll The roll in degrees of the selected object. This information will be placed in
metadata.

Yaw The yaw in degrees of the selected object. This information will be placed in
metadata.

Relative to Must be checked if the pitch, roll, and yaw are degrees with respect to the
bearing bearing.

Data Groups The multi-component groups denoting the EM channel data. Click if
groups need to be refined or built.

Data Table To the left, match up times and frequencies with grouped channel(s). The
times/frequencies column is editable.

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 Function Description

Unit The unit of time or frequency.

This button saves a template with all the parameters given. Times and
frequencies will be saved and will be valid if the number of components are
the same.

This button loads a saved template.

7.5.4 Electromagnetic Field Modelling

This utility allows you to compute the primary magnetic (H) fields given a loop and a set of receivers. The
loop must be a closed curve. You can find it in the Geophysics menu.

Function Description

Loops Closed curve(s) representing the current loop. Multiple Curves objects may
be selected.

Current The amount of current (amps) to simulate running through the loop.
(amps)

Clockwise / The direction in which the current will be run around the loop.
Counter-

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 Function Description

clockwise

Receivers Any Points, Curves or 2D Grid objects on which the magnetic fields are to be
computed.

: Design a parametric grid on which to calculate EM fields.

Output A prefix for the output field properties. The following properties will be written to
name the chosen receiver object(s) with [pre] representing the text in the output
name textbox:

l [pre] HField Dip – The dip (degrees) of the H field.

l [pre] HField DipDir – The dip direction (degrees) of the H field.
l [pre] HField Total – Total amplitude of the H field.
l [pre] HField U – X component of the H field.
l [pre] HField V – Y component of the H field.
l [pre] HField W – Vertical component of the H field (positive up).
Compute Computes the field and its components onto the receiver object(s).

Recalculate When checked, the fields will recompute on the fly every time the receiver or
transmitter objects are changed (i.e., moved, or edited).

Tip: Accessing Electromagnetic Field Modelling from the Utilities menu will bring up the
settings of the last generated model. To modify an earlier model, access the tool by right-
clicking on the pertinent Points object.

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7.5.5 Fourier Filters on 2D Grids
To access the Fourier Filters utility, right-click on a 2D Grid object and click Fourier Filters.
Alternatively, go to Geophysics > Fourier Filters on 2D Grids. This tool creates a new property on the
selected object named <property name> <filter name>. Parameters specific to the selected filter are
presented as needed.

Function Description

Filter The filter to be applied; input options and parameters will be presented for the
selected filter type.

2D Grid The 2D grid to which the filter should be applied.

Properties The property to which the filter should be applied.

For information for each filter type, see the table below:

Filter Type Description and Parameters

Low Pass Suppresses wavelengths shorter than the specified cutoff after filtering. The
wavelength cutoff is specified in metres.

High Pass Suppresses wavelengths longer than the specified cutoff. The wavelength
cutoff is specified in metres.

Reduction to Implements reduction to pole filtering on magnetic data.

Pole (RTP)
l Inclination – Ambient magnetic field inclination
l Declination – Ambient magnetic field declination

Apparent Implements apparent susceptibility filtering on a 2D grid (voxet) of magnetic

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 Filter Type Description and Parameters

Susceptibility data.

l Observation height – Sensor height (m)

l Inducting Field Strength – Ambient magnetic field strength (nT)
l Inclination – Ambient magnetic field inclination
l Declination – Ambient magnetic field declination
l Attenuate high frequencies – Suppresses high-frequency noise in
the data

Apparent Implements apparent density filtering of gravity data.

Density
l Attenuate high frequencies – Suppresses high-frequency noise in
the data

Pseudo- Implements pseudo-gravity filtering of magnetic data.

gravity
l Inducting Field Strength – Ambient magnetic field strength (nT)
l Inclination – Ambient magnetic field inclination
l Declination – Ambient magnetic field declination

1st Vertical Implements vertical derivative computation of data and can be repeated for
Derivative a second vertical derivative map.

1st Horizontal Implements horizontal derivative computation of data.

Derivative
l THD/EW/NS – Compute total horizontal derivative (THD), the
derivative in the X direction (EW), or the derivative in the Y direction
(NS)
l Attenuate high frequencies – Suppresses high-frequency noise in
the data

Continuation Implements upward or downward continuation filtering

l Continuation distance – Specify the distance in metres to continue

the data upward or downward; +ve is upward
l Attenuate high frequencies – Suppresses high-frequency noise in
the data

Strike Applies low pass filtering for a specific strike orientation to data.

l Strike – Specify the strike direction for features to be filtered (e.g. to

suppress EW features, specify a strike of 90)

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 Filter Type Description and Parameters

l Strike tolerance – Defines a tolerance on either side of the strike

l Low Pass Wavelength – Defines a low pass wavelength cut-off for
the specified strike. Features not oriented in the strike direction are not
affected by the low pass filter

Analytic Computes the 3D analytic signal by computing the horizontal and vertical
Signal derivatives of the selected data, then adding the individual derivatives in
quadrature

l Attenuate high frequencies – Suppresses high-frequency noise in

the data

Tilt Angle Implements tilt angle filtering

Filter
l Attenuate high frequencies – Suppresses high-frequency noise in
the data
l Keep interim thd/1vd properties – Toggle on to keep calculated
Total Horizontal Derivative and 1st Vertical Derivative properties
used to compute the tilt angle

Frequency domain filter design is based on Gaussian bell curves:

For high pass filtering, the specified wavelength cutoff represents the shoulder of the bell curve (1/fS),
and the head (1/fH) is defined as the wavelength cutoff divided by 1.5.

For low pass filtering, the specified wavelength cutoff represents the shoulder of the bell curve (1/fS),
and the head (1/fH) is defined as the wavelength cutoff multiplied by 1.5.

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7.5.6 Gravity Corrections
To apply gravity corrections, go to Geophysics > Gravity Corrections. This tool creates new
properties on the selected object named "<property name> corrected <(correction type)>" and
"<property name> correction value <(correction type)>". Parameters specific to the selected correction
are presented as needed.

Function Description

Correction The correction to be applied; input options and parameters will be presented for
the selected correction type.

Object The object to which the correction should be applied.

Property The property to which the correction will be applied.

For information for each correction type, see the table below:

Correction Type Description and Parameters

Free Air Correct for the height of the survey above sea level.

Bouguer Correct for the gravitational attraction of a flat, infinite plane of rock between
the measuring point and sea level.

l Density: Background density (g/cc).

Latitude Correct for the latitude of the survey.

l Latitude: Latitude property (decimal degrees).

Eotvos Correct for a moving gravity meter in knots.

(knots)
l Speed (knots): Speed property.
l Azimuth (°): Azimuth property.

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 Correction Type Description and Parameters

l Latitude (°): Latitude property (decimal degrees).

Eotvos Correct for a moving gravity meter in km/h.

(km/h)
l Speed (km/h): Speed property.
l Azimuth (°): Azimuth property.
l Latitude (°): Latitude property (decimal degrees).

7.5.7 Remove trend from data

This utility is accessed from the Geophysics menu and computes a best-fit (least squares) trend
through a nominated property of a 2D Grid or Points object. Two new properties are added to the object,
the computed trend, and the nominated property with the trend subtracted.

The computed trend is polynomial-based. Options for fitting the data include 1st-, 2nd- or 3rd-order 2D
polynomial trends. All lesser order terms are included in the trend fitting process (e.g. if a 2nd-order, all
1st- and 0th-order terms are also included). The equation for the trend is returned to the Console panel.

Function Description

Object The object containing the data for trend removal.

Property The property representing the data for trend removal.

Trend order The trend order.

Mask Select a mask to apply the trend removal to a specific set of nodes.

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7.6 ioGAS Link
To access ioGAS Link, you must have Geoscience ANALYST Pro, which includes the ioGAS module. It
dynamically links ioGAS and Geoscience ANALYST, allowing you to share features from both. Once
linked, you can open any Points object residing in Geoscience ANALYST Pro in ioGAS, and vice versa.

You can view ioGAS's powerful attribute settings in Geoscience ANALYST, and changes will be
broadcast and updated in real time to dynamically display the data in 3D using Geoscience ANALYST’s
versatile viewing capabilities.

Note: The ioGAS module does not include the ioGAS application developed by the
REFLEX GEOCHEMISTRY team. To buy or download a free trial version of ioGAS, or for
information on ioGAS features, licence and compatibility with Geoscience ANALYST Pro,
see the REFLEX website. If you already own an ioGAS licence, contact your REFLEX
representative to activate the licensing feature required to enable the ioGAS - Geoscience
ANALYST live link.

7.6.1 Connecting to ioGAS Link

1. Launch ioGAS.
2. In Geoscience ANALYST, go to the File menu and click Connect to ioGAS to establish the live link
connection.

You will see the message Connected to ioGAS, as well as the name of the ioGAS project in
parentheses centred at the top of the Geoscience ANALYST Viewport.

When connected, an open file in ioGAS will automatically be broadcast to Geoscience ANALYST as a
new ioGAS Points object, which you will see under a folder called ioGAS link in the Objects panel.

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7.6.2 Viewing points objects in ioGAS
1. In ioGAS, click File > Open Link Data.
2. In the Choose view from... dialogue box, select an object from the drop-down menu.
3. Click OK.
By doing this, you will be able to view the linked points using ioGAS’s powerful visualization and versatile
attribute capabilities in the 3D Viewport, along with any other model components residing in the
workspace.

Note: If you edit points attributes in ioGAS, Geoscience ANALYST will reflect the changes.
However, if you create, delete, or edit ioGAS points objects in Geoscience ANALYST, the
green Synched with ioGAS icon on the ioGAS panel will change to a red Synchronize
button indicating that the two data sets are no longer matching. Click this button to re-sync
the data between the two applications.

You can disconnect from ioGAS by closing either of the programs, or by clicking File > Disconnect from
ioGAS in Geoscience ANALYST.

7.6.3 Renaming and reassigning data

To avoid possible conflicts with reserved names for geometrical fields, Geoscience ANALYST will
automatically rename certain ioGAS points data names by adding a GAS_ prefix. This includes x, y, z, i,
j, k, from, to and depth.

Geoscience ANALYST assigns the following as floats:

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 l Numeric data (e.g., float and integer).
l Data tagged as special such as reserved names and aliases for 3D coordinates (e.g., north, east,
lat, long, elevation).

All other data such as text becomes reference data.

7.7 Maxwell Link

To access Maxwell Link, you must have Geoscience ANALYST Pro, which includes the Maxwell Link
module. It dynamically links Maxwell EMIT and Geoscience ANALYST, allowing you to harness the
power of both. Once linked, you can broadcast plates within Maxwell to Geoscience ANALYST, adjust
the geometry and parameters in Geoscience ANALYST, and broadcast the updated linked plate to
Maxwell via a right-click contextual command on the linked plate or in the Objects panel called
Broadcast to Maxwell.

7.7.1 Connecting to Maxwell Link

l either launch a new instance of Maxwell,
l or click Connect in the Data/Preference/Manage Partners dialogue box in Maxwell.

You will see Connected to Maxwell, centred at the top of the Geoscience ANALYST Viewport.

7.7.2 Broadcasting plates from Maxwell to Geoscience ANALYST

l Right-click in Maxwell's model viewer and select Broadcast All Plates to Partners or Broadcast
the Selected Plate to Partners.

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7.7.3 Viewing Maxwell plate objects in Geoscience ANALYST
1. Open or create a new model project in Maxwell EMIT.
2. Right-click the Model project in Maxwell and in the contextual menu, click Broadcast All Plates to
Partners.
3. In Geoscience ANALYST, click on the plate to display the object in the tree in the Objects panel.
When you are broadcasting plates to Geoscience ANALYST from Maxwell, a new folder will be created
nominated by a green linked icon to indicate the project is linked and named according to the Maxwell
instance.

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When connecting to Maxwell, any existing Maxwell folder in the workspace will refresh its content if its
name matches a project name in Maxwell:

l if a plate broadcast from Maxwell does not have a plate with the same name in the folder, a new
plate is created in the folder.
l if a plate broadcast from Maxwell has the same name as a plate in the folder, the plate in the folder
is replaced.
l if a plate in the folder does not have the same name as a plate broadcast from Maxwell, the plate
remains in the folder unaffected.

The plate icon has a green background if it is connected to an exiting place in Maxwell.

Note: Some manual plate changes in Maxwell will be automatically broadcast to

Geoscience ANALYST. Other modifications using the interactive editor in Maxwell, for
example, will require you to select Broadcast changes to partners from Maxwell in order
for them to update in Geoscience ANALYST.

7.7.4 Disconnecting from Maxwell

Click File > Disconnect from Maxwell. The folder and imported plates will remain in Geoscience
ANALYST, but the folder will no longer be green with a link icon. Instead, you will see a blue folder with a
white Maxwell plate from each model project, within subfolders named according to the index number
(e.g., model project 0, model project 1).

You can manually edit the cole-cole parameters and conductivity thickness data values through the
Data Tables. You can modify the plate geometry and graphical settings through the visual parameter
panel as well as interactively in the Viewport through gizmos attached to the plate as described here
and presented in the Controls panel.

7.7.5 Editing Maxwell plates in the Viewport

l Right-click on a plate's name in the object panel or on the Plates object in the Viewport and select
Edit, or press E and click on the plate in the Viewport.

You will see a red outline around the Viewport camera, indicating it is in edit mode.

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You can click on the yellow joystick handle to lock or unlock dip and dip direction. A red band below the
yellow ball of the joystick indicates it is locked on that side.

The Controls panel contains details several actions available when editing Maxwell plates.

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To exit edit mode, press Esc.

7.7.6 Creating a Surfaces object from Maxwell plate(s)

Right click on a plate, in the Objects panel, or from the Viewport, to open the contextual menu, and click
Create Surface from Selected Plates.

This will result in a new triangulated surface of the same name as the plate, and with the same geometry.
The values for the plate geometry, conductivity, and cole-cole parameters are copied to the resulting
surface. If the plate is painted with the distance to boreholes, the distance values are also copied to the
surface.

When several plates are selected, the action results into a single surface with multiple parts.

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7.8 Contextual commands
7.8.1 New Surface from Nodes
This utility lets you quickly create a surface from the nodes of a Points or Curves object. You can find it by
right-clicking any such object.

This tool brings all the nodes on a plane defined by its normal vector to perform a 2D Delaunay
triangulation and then bring each node in its original 3D position.

Creating a new surface from the nodes of an object

1. Select a Points or Curves object in the tree or in the viewer.
2. Right-click on the object to access its contextual menu.
3. Click Create > New Surface from Nodes.

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 4. Define the normal of the plane to use. The default is horizontal (0,0,1) and can be manually edited.
You have two tools to help you determine the best plane:

l Will calculate and suggest the normal from the medium plane of the nodes.

l Will suggest the current camera plane from the Viewport.

5. Click OK.

7.8.2 Transfer Data To Drillholes

To complement the Desurvey Drillholes and ioGAS Link functionalities, the ability to transfer data
residing on points to drillholes is available in Geoscience ANALYST Pro. This is particularly useful to re-
sample geology logs based on assay data sampling, and allows you to paint by one theme and scale
the log cylinders by another. You can use it by right-clicking on Points objects.

Note: A text or reference field named HOLE_ID must be present on the points that make
up the drillhole as it is necessary to find matching drillholes in the workspace. There must
also be FROM and TO float fields to transfer the data as interval logs, or a DEPTH float field
to transfer the data as point logs, according to the table below:

Source Example Log Type FROM Data TO Data HOLE_ID Data

Drillhole Interval FROM (float) TO float HOLE_ID (text)

Desurvey logs

Drillhole Point logs DEPTH (float) n/a HOLE_ID (text)

Desurvey

ioGAS live link Interval GAS_FROM GAS_TO HOLE_ID

logs (float) (float) (reference)

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To transfer data to drillholes:
1. Right-click on a Points object that has the required fields, as illustrated in the table above.
2. In the contextual menu, select Transfer Data To Drillholes.
All of the data residing on the points will be transferred to drillholes that have the same name as the
required HOLE_ID field.

7.8.3 Connecting to Imago (Beta)

Geoscience ANALYST Pro allows you to connect to the Imago platform for geoscientific imagery. To do
so, type I + left-click on a drillhole to open the Imago portal in your web browser and display data
related to the selected drillhole and depth, as long as the data exists in Imago for the selected drillhole
name and depth. If not, the Imago web page will report that the data was not found.

Note: You will need an Imago account to view the drillhole data.

7.8.4 Transfer to Float

This utility lets you convert dynamic data created within the Data Colours panel (see "Data Colours
panel" on page 29) to standard float data. The primary use is to create lithology-based physical property
models.

7.8.5 Create Masking Property

A masking property is a special case of referenced data where there are only two classes (true or false)
created from selected nodes. Nodes can be selected in the Viewport using Shift + Left click (+ Ctrl for
multi-select) when the Cells tab is selected for the object.

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Object The name of the object selected in the Objects panel.

Creation Select how nodes are to be selected:

method
l Visible association: Use nodes or cells that are visible in the
Viewport.
l Non-Visible association: Use nodes that are not visible in the
Viewport.
l Selected indices: Use nodes selected in the Viewport.
l Non-Selected indices: Use the nodes that are not selected in the
Viewport.

Association Select the component of the object defining the masking property.

Output name Enter the name of the masking property to be created.

7.8.6 Apply Mask Property

Creates a new property from an existing property where values classified as true are preserved, while
nodes classified as false are nullified. The new property name is suggested as "<property name>
<mask property name>", but can be changed by the user.

7.8.7 New Boundary Curve from Nodes

Creates a curve around the convex hull of a Points or Curve object. The resulting curve can be used as
the Perimeter curve in the Surface Designer utility. The created curve is automatically named
"Boundary Curve (<selected object name>), <input scaling> scaling".

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 Function Description

Normal The normal of the plane on which to project the boundary curve.

: Set normal to the median plane of the input object.

: Set normal from the Viewport plane.

Scaling Sets the scaling of the curve to where 100% is the exact outline. Less than 100% is
smaller, and more than 100% is larger.

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