Encom Discover v10.1 Release Notes - Pitney Bowes Software

discover version 10.1
release notes
advances
Encom’s powerful Discover 10.1 geoscience package complements the release
of MapInfo Professional ® 9.5 with a host of new Surfaces functionality, as well
as extensive improvements to the Drillhole module. Many popular tools have
also been redesigned to provide a more dynamic and user-friendly interface.
General Improvements
• Supports MapInfo Professional 9.5
• Updated support for version 4.1.0.2 of the acQuire database model
• 30% performance improvement in many data processing tools
Surfaces
Large Grid Support
Expansion of Discover’s data access capabilities by adding import and visualisation
support for very large grids (1GB+). The redesigned grid handling engine in Discover
10.1 can now access virtually unlimited sized grid files, such as continental SRTM data.
To illustrate this, the three map windows below are all views
of the same 120GB World 90m SRTM grid file.

New Grid Tiler
Huge grid files can now be cut into
smaller tiles prior to opening in
MapInfo Pro, thereby allowing them
to be efficiently processed by the
various Surfaces manipulation tools.
Grid Utilities
• New Cut/Fill tool
Summarises the areas and volumes
of change that have occurred
between two grid surfaces.
advances
New Grid Profiler tool
Dynamically create and interrogate
profiles across one or more grids with a
completely redesigned Grid Profiler tool.
New Grid Format Support
Support for additional grid file formats
has been added such as HGT (for
example NASA’s SRTM data), Landmark,
Geosoft GFX, and MapInfo MIG formats.
New Contour Label Positioner
Creates precisely positioned and
orientated contour labels using
user-defined label path lines.
• New Outline tool
Creates attributed polygons outlining
the bounds of multiple grids e.g.
to visualise the extents of multiple
airborne geophysical surveys.
• New Surface Area tool
Calculates the total 3D surface area,
2D planar area and roughness of a grid.
• Usability and performance
improvements have also been
made to the Classify, Grid to Grid
Clip, Split and Vectorise utilities.
Grid Filter
Added an FFT Reduction to
Pole (Low Latitude) filter.
Data Utilities
New Local Grid Layout tool
New Grid Clip tool
Clip grids to user-defined limits
for more efficient handling and
processing of very large grids.
A dynamic new interface allows:
• Interactive baseline or traverse
line definition by drawing
in mapper window.
• Grid design to be previewed
and modified dynamically
in the mapper window.
• Creation of both grid pegs
(points) and grid lines.
• Creation of triangular/diamond pattern
grids (i.e. offset grid pegs/lines).

Drillholes
New Project Setup dialog
• Intuitive wizard interface
• Graphic preview of the collar plan
• Summary information for each project
• Auto-detection down-dip of direction
New Section Manager dialog
Table Utilities
New Unique Identifier tool
Attributes every row in a table
with a unique incrementing value
(e.g. HGRC1021, HGRC1022...
or 8433 west, 8434 west...).
New Favourites dialog
A new combined dialog allows the
custom ordering of your favourite
tables, workspaces, MBXs.
New Multi Column Update tool
Updating large numbers of fields
is now much easier with automatic
field matching (when field names
are identical) and saving/loading
of field assignment templates
Redesigned Sort Table interface
Object Editing
Align Objects tool
New Disperse option allows
selected objects to be evenly spread
between the end members, useful
when aligning legend objects
Geochem
New Point Classification tool
The size, colour and/or symbols of point
data can be modulated by one or more
fields (such as Cu modulated by size
and rock type modulated by colour),
allowing homogenous data classes to be
defined by ranges or groups of values.
• Dynamic auto-preview of section’s
spatial extents in collar map window
• Detailed listing of section parameters
New Drillhole Query Tool
• Calculates the maximum downhole
values for each hole, including From/
To depths and ancillary fields
• Returns the End-of-Hole
(EOH) interval for each hole
(including BOH checks)
New gINT Importer
Imports drillhole data from the gINT
borehole logging application into
a Discover drillhole project.
Improved Define New
Section or Plan tool
A number of improvements have
been made, including providing
user customisation of the surface
line colour and easier visibility of
user defined colour table names.
Improved Trenching dialog
Map Window
The following tools have been redesigned
to allow the dialogs to be kept open
whilst working within MapInfo:
Select by Graphical Style
• Now supports differing
source and target tables
• New output query options
Standard Views
Allows customised ordering
Favourite Projections
Allows customised ordering
Images
A new Transparency control is
available under the Modify tab.
Improved Levelling tool
Creates new output summary fields
GraphMap
Extensive improvements, including:
• New Order column option
• New batch export of graphs to MapInfo
• Data Handling can be
applied to multiple fields
• Performance improvements.

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