Leapfrog-Imago Image Streaming

With Leapfrog Geo-Imago image streaming, you can view core imagery directly in Leapfrog Geo alongside the 3D scene, making it easier to validate logged intervals and check modelling decisions against core imagery.

The Leapfrog Geo scene with a drillhole interval selected and an arrow running from it to the docked Imago panel, which shows the core tray imagery for that interval against a depth ruler.

You can:

  • Change the imagery types displayed in panels
  • Lock a panel to a specific drillhole interval
  • Display imagery for multiple drillholes in separate, detachable panels

This topic describes how to set up and use Imago image streaming. It is divided into:

The images in this topic make use of an image dataset sourced from the East Tennant National Drilling Initiative (https://www.eftf.ga.gov.au/east-tennant-national-drilling-initiative) by Geoscience Australia, which is © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia and is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence and is subject to the disclaimer of warranties in section 5 of that licence.

Setting Up the Integration

Before you can view core imagery, you must first set up the integration between Leapfrog Geo and the Imago database. To do this, right-click on the Drillhole Data folder and select Add Core Photo Link:

The project tree with the Drillhole Data folder right-clicked and Add Core Photo Link highlighted in the menu.

In the window that appears, select Imago and click OK.

The Imago Settings window will appear.

Imago supports Seequent ID, and so the Subscription Name list displays all the subscriptions your Seequent ID has access to.

The Imago Settings window with the Subscription Name list open, showing the subscriptions available to the signed-in Seequent ID.

It is a good idea to be as specific as possible when configuring the Imago integration; set at least the subscription and workspace names.

Click OK to save the information.

A link will appear in the project tree as part of the Drillhole Data folder:

The Imago Link listed under the drillhole data in the project tree

You can double-click on this link to edit the Imago integration settings.

An Imago button () will also appear in the toolbar:

An arrow pointing to the Imago button in the Leapfrog Geo scene toolbar.

Clicking on this button will open the Imago Panel:

The Imago panel opened alongside the scene, empty apart from the message No interval selected.

An Overview of the Imago Panel

Click on the Imago button () in the toolbar (A), then on a drillhole interval in the scene (B) to display Imago imagery for that interval in the docked panel alongside the scene (C). The scene highlight (D) shows the part of the drillhole that corresponds to images in the panel.

The scene and the docked Imago panel with four callouts: A the Imago button in the toolbar, B the drillhole interval clicked in the scene, C the panel showing that interval's imagery, and D the scene highlight marking the part of the drillhole the images cover.

The scene highlight is open toward the viewing angle in order to avoid impeding viewing the drillhole data associated with the core imagery. The scene highlight colour and other properties can be customised, which is described in Changing the Scene Highlight Properties later in this topic.

Note that the drillhole ID is displayed at the top of the panel:

An arrow pointing to the drillhole ID shown at the top of the Imago panel.

Depth information is displayed on the ruler in the panel. To view imagery at a particular depth, click on the ruler at that depth.

Animation showing successive points being clicked down the ruler in the Imago panel, with the core tray imagery reloading for each depth and the highlight on the drillhole in the scene moving to match.

From the Image Types list, you can see all the imagery available for that drillhole that matches the search criteria set in the Imago Settings window. For example, here both core tray images and linearised images are displayed for a drillhole:

The Imago panel with the Image Types list open, showing core tray and linearised imagery types with Wet ticked in each group and both kinds of imagery displayed in the panel.

The panel has an overflow menu () that contains more Imago streaming settings:

The Imago panel overflow menu open, listing Open New Panel, Connection Settings, Display Options and Close All.

If an image type you expect to see is not listed, you can check your Imago settings by clicking on the overflow menu and selecting Connection Settings. This opens the Imago Settings window.

The panel can be used docked () or undocked (). You can also open multiple panels, although only one panel can be docked at a time. Using multiple panels is discussed in Working in Multiple Panels later in this topic.

Navigating in the Imago Panel

The best way to navigate in the Imago panel is using the mouse, using the scroll wheel to zoom in and out and clicking and dragging to pan and scroll.

Animation showing the mouse used inside the Imago panel: the scroll wheel zooms the core imagery in and out, and dragging pans and scrolls it up and down the drillhole.

You can also use the keyboard.

Action

Mouse

Keyboard

Zoom in and out

Use the scroll wheel

Press the Page Up or Page Down keys

For smaller steps, hold down the Shift key while pressing the Page Up or Page Down keys

Pan and scroll

Click and drag

Click in the panel, then press the arrow keys to pan and scroll

Press the Page Up or Page Down keys to jump through images up and down the drillhole

Locking a Panel to a Drillhole

The Lock () button is for locking a panel to the drillhole selected in the scene. Locking a panel is useful for examining other data in the scene while viewing a specific drillhole alongside its core imagery. It is also useful when displaying multiple panels.

Animation showing intervals clicked on one drillhole after another, with the unlocked Imago panel switching to the new drillhole and reloading its imagery on every click.

Animation showing the panel padlock clicked to lock it, after which intervals on other drillholes can be clicked in the scene while the panel keeps showing the imagery for the drillhole it is locked to.

Changing the Scene Highlight Properties

Click on the colour chip to change the colour used for the scene highlight:

The Modify Highlight Colour window opened from the panel colour chip, with red chosen and the scene highlight on the drillhole redrawn in red.

Changing the colour of the scene highlight is useful when displaying imagery for multiple drillholes, which is the case here where the scene highlight is blue for the docked panel and orange for the undocked panel:

Two Imago panels open at once, one showing imagery for a drillhole highlighted in orange in the scene and the other for a drillhole highlighted in cyan, with arrows linking each highlight to its panel.

Additional scene highlight properties can be changed by selecting Display Options from the overflow menu:

Display Options chosen from the panel overflow menu, opening the Scene Highlight Options window with settings for showing the highlight and for its opacity, radius scale and line width.

These settings apply to all scene highlights, whereas the colour setting applies only to the scene highlight for that panel.

Working in Multiple Panels

The panel can be used docked () or undocked (). You can also open multiple panels, although only one panel can be docked at a time.

To open a second panel, lock the first panel. This prevents different imagery from being displayed in first panel when you click on other drillholes in the scene.

Next, click on an interval in the scene. The View Image link in the scene details panel opens a new Imago panel with imagery loaded for that drillhole:

The View Image link in the scene details window highlighted, with an arrow to the new Imago panel it has opened for that drillhole alongside the already docked panel for another drillhole.

Animation showing the docked panel locked to one drillhole, then an interval clicked on a second drillhole and View Image used to open a separate panel that loads imagery for it while the docked panel is unchanged.

To close all panels, select Close All from the overflow menu for any of the panels. This closes all panels, including a docked panel, if there is one.

Opening Imagery in Imago

To open imagery in the Imago Portal, click the Open in Imago button at the top of the panel:

An arrow pointing to the Open in Imago button at the top of the panel.

This opens the Imago Portal in your default web browser. You may need to sign in.

Removing the Imago Link

To remove the Imago link, right-click on it in the project tree and select Delete:

The Imago Link right-clicked in the project tree with Delete highlighted in the menu.