Encom’s powerful Discover 10.0 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 4.06 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 10.0 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 fi les can now be cut into smaller tiles prior to opening in MapInfo Pro, thereby allowing them to be effi ciently processed by the various Surfaces manipulation tools.

New Grid Profi ler tool
Dynamically create and interrogate profi les across one or more grids with a completely redesigned Grid Profi ler tool.

New Grid Format Support
Support for additional grid fi le 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-defi ned label path lines.

Grid Utilities

• New Cut/Fill tool

Summarises the areas and volumes of change that have occurred between two grid surfaces.

• 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) fi lter.

Data Utilities
New Local Grid Layout tool

A dynamic new interface allows:

• Interactive baseline or traverse line defi nition by drawing in mapper window.
• Grid design to be previewed and modifi ed 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

New Section Manager dialog

• 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 fi elds
• 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 Defi ne 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 defi ned colour table names.

Improved Trenching dialog

Table Utilities
New Unique Identifi er 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 fi elds is now much easier with automatic fi eld matching (when fi eld names are identical) and saving/loading of fi eld 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

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.

Geochem
New Point Classifi cation tool
The size, colour and/or symbols of point data can be modulated by one or more fi elds (such as Cu modulated by size and rock type modulated by colour), allowing homogenous data classes to be defi ned by ranges or groups of values.

Improved Levelling tool
Creates new output summary fi elds

GraphMap
Extensive improvements, including:

• New Order column option
• New batch export of graphs to MapInfo
• Data Handling can be applied to multiple fi elds
• Performance improvements.

Requirements
Encom Discover 10.0 requires
MapInfo Professional 8.0 to 9.5,
with Windows 2000, XP or Vista.