Geoscience ANALYST
Geoscience software and free 3D viewer

Free 3D visualization and communication software for integrated, multi-disciplinary geoscience and mining data and models.

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Geoscience ANALYST is a free standalone application that allows users to import, visualize, annotate, save, and distribute a multitude of 3D geoscience and mining data types and models. It is the ideal companion to a wide variety of 3D modelling packages. It has an intuitive and modern user interface that is geared toward rapid understanding of complex data. Geoscience ANALYST will quickly become your primary means of communicating and disseminating data, models, and the business decisions based on them.

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Geoscience ANALYST can import and share numerous data (e.g., structural, geological, geochemical, seismic, grav/mag, EM, DC/IP, drillholes) and model formats, including GOCAD Mining Suite and VP Suite. It is the 3D visual front end and 3D data set search tool for the Geoscience INTEGRATOR data management system. Its open geoh5 file format, open-source geoh5py Python API and geoapps application repository allow users to leverage the powerful visualization capabilities of Geoscience ANALYST along with open-source code from the Python ecosystem.

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”“This software is great. It accomplishes all the aspects I need to be able to spend more time evaluating and thinking about exploration project data, not fussing over complex software. I have advised a number of exploration colleagues to get going on this software; it continues to be fantastic.”

Todd KeastP.Geo Consulting Geologist

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Free viewer

Free 3D viewer for integrated, multi-disciplinary geoscience and mining data and models.

Technical feature summary

  • Import, visualize, annotate, save, and distribute 3D geoscientific data, models, and documents/files
  • Read and write open format geoh5 files
  • Tabular display of data values linked to visualization
  • Map and 2D profile viewer
  • Advanced interactive model clipping and slicing
  • Drape points, curves, and surfaces on surfaces
  • Texture drape geo-images and grids on surfaces
  • Live connection to the Geoscience INTEGRATOR data management system
  • Python API – “geoapps” repository of open-source applications

Pricing

Free, 3 installs.

Import / Export

Import:

  • AMIRA TEM
  • ASCII
  • AutoCAD DXF DWG
  • Datamine
  • ESRI
  • GeoImages BMP JPG TIF (.w)
  • Geosoft XYZ GRD GDB
  • GOCAD objects
  • ioGAS
  • Maxwell plates
  • ODBC drillholes
  • Raster GeoTIFF ERS GRD
  • SEG-Y 2D / 3D
  • VP models
  • UBC-GIF

Export:

  • Open format geoh5

Audience

  • Geoscientists
  • Mining professionals
  • Executives
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Pro

Low-cost tools for interpretation, targeting, drillhole design, and geophysical inversion.

Technical feature summary

All the viewer features are included, plus:

  • Create and edit objects
  • Advanced drillhole analysis, design, and targeting
  • Drillhole monitoring tools
  • Unlimited gravity and magnetic forward modelling and inversion
  • Geophysical survey design
  • 2D grid filtering
  • Mathematical and logical scripting interface
  • K-means clustering
  • Live connection to the Python API, geoapps, and Python UI creation tools
  • Live connection to IMDEX’s ioGAS geochemistry application, and EMIT’s — Maxwell geophysical application
  • GDAL coordinate reference system transformations
  • Image registration to geographic locations

Pricing

Annual subscription: USD$995 for single installation, technical support, and updates. If more than 4 single installations are needed, corporate, academic, and non-profit licensing is more advantageous.

Import / Export

All the viewer formats are included, plus:

Export:

  • Curves to Geosoft GDB and ESRI SHP
  • Points, curves, and surfaces to GOCAD ASCII (mx)
  • Drillholes: collar, survey, interval, and point log to CSV
  • Data tables export to CSV
  • 2D Grid to TIFF and ERS
  • Block Models to UBC grid and model, and ASCII (csv.txt) – Leapfrog-friendly
  • VP Models

Audience

  • Geologists
  • Geotechnical engineers
  • Mining engineers
  • Geochemists
  • Geophysicist
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Pro Geophysics

Advanced, geologically-constrained geophysical modelling and inversion across all methods.

Technical feature summary

All the viewer and Pro features are included, plus:

  • Advanced tools for constrained and unconstrained inversion
  • API for running inversions on on-premise or cloud-hosted HPC environments
  • User interface to UBC-GIF programs to prepare data, create meshes, incorporate physical property constraints, and run inversion
  • Includes VP Suite programs and interfaces for geological-model parameterization and direct inversion for 3D geological contact geometry, in addition to conventional grid parameterization

Pricing

Annual subscription through membership in the Geoscience ANALYST Geophysics Pro Consortium. Unlimited installations, technical support, and updates. Individual, corporate, academic, and non-profit licensing is also available. UBC-GIF programs sold separately.

Import / Export

All the viewer and Pro formats are included, plus:

Export:

  • UBC observation files

Audience

Geophysicists for advanced, modelling, inversion, and interpretation across all non-seismic methods.

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Product features

This standalone application allows users to import, visualize, annotate, save, and distribute 3D geoscience and mining data and models.

  • Powerful visualization for interpreters and decision makers
  • Intuitive interface to import data and edit visual parameters
  • Quick interrogation of data values, attributes, and histograms via a dynamic link between 3D views and data tables
  • Ability to annotate objects and save workspaces for easy distribution and sharing
  • Create, read, visualize, and share geoh5 workspace files―an open, documented standard
  • Python API for manipulation and storage of a wide range of data types in geoh5 file format. Get the package on PyPI. Details available in the user guide.
  • Imports AMIRA TEM, ASCII, AutoCAD, Datamine, ESRI, GeoImage, Geosoft, ioGAS, Maxwell plates, GOCAD objects, ODBC drillhole paths, SEG-Y, UBC-GIF, and VP models
  • 3D front end to Geoscience INTEGRATOR data management system
  • Compatible with Microsoft Windows (64 bit) 7, 8, and 10

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Geoscience ANALYST Pro

Pro offers a low-cost, easy-to-use interface for object and data creation and editing. It includes ioGAS Link, Drillhole Designer, Maxwell Link, geophysical survey design, seismic survey planning, geophysical grid processing, forward modelling, and inversion.

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Geoscience ANALYST Pro Geophysics

Pro Geophysics is for advanced yet easy-to-use geophysical interpretation. It provides a formal interface to standard modelling and inversion codes such as UBC-GIF and VP Suite. UBC and VP codes are complementary; the combination offers the ultimate flexibility in geophysical inversion.

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Using comment field entries in drillhole databases to automatically re-log lithologies

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Cloning import templates

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