Overview of Target Capabilities

The Target application provides explorationists with an easy-to-use and comprehensive data processing and presentation solution for surface and drillhole data. This software package enables geoscientists to manage drill projects from the initial planning to the evaluation stage.

The Target application is organized around an integrated database and streamlined menus and toolbars that provide the following surface and drillhole capabilities:

• Data Import: User-friendly Import Wizards enable you to import both surface and drillhole data from different data sources, including ASCII, ODBC, LAS, acQuire, ArcGIS MXD, ArcGIS LYR, MapInfo, Microstation, Datamine and Surpac. Data validation on import ensures the integrity of any sub-surface information you generate. Interpretations or other vector map layers can be exported for use in mine planning applications. The Geosoft voxel (3D grid) engine enables the import of ASCII XYZ, GoCAD and UBC datasets as well as Datamine block models.

• Locate and download spatial data using Seeker: Geosoft’s Seeker tool was designed to retrieve spatial data stored on global and corporate spatial servers – Geosoft DAP servers, from the many WMS Image servers currently available, as well as retrieve data from the Web and locally from your desktop, using Geosoft's Desktop Cataloger.

• Drillhole plans and sections: Easily create and recreate drillhole sections and plans in minutes, using dialogs with sensible default settings. Visualize thousands of drillholes at a time. Save and share templates with others.

• Powerful data processing: Target is built on Geosoft’s Oasis montaj powerful processing engine for working with large volume spatial data. Target provides industry-standard technology for processing large volumes of exploration data for target generation.

• Dynamic data linking: Analyse and interrogate your drillhole data in real time via dynamically linked sections, plans, 3D, map, MXD, and database views. This also includes all data views within a map. A map with a section view and surface view will be linked with a shadow cursor. This linking includes all scatter plots and triplots, plan maps, section maps, 3D views, and between multiple instances of Oasis montaj.

• 3D drillhole visualization: Interactive tab dialogs make it easy to create and customize 3D views of grids and profile data. View borehole traces and Voxels (3D Grids) from different angles in 3 dimensions to spot the relationship between surface and sub-surface features. The easy-to-use 3D subsurface visualization tool permits quick data integration from multiple sources, combining surfaces, grids, profile data, drill data and geophysical data to visualize spatial relationships.

• 3D Voxels: A "Voxel" is another word for a 3-dimensional grid, and is created using Geosoft’s 3D Kriging gridding method. Target includes 3D Lithology Gridding, which enables you to create a 3D lithology grid based on drillhole lithology data. A lithology voxel grid can be created from any geologic attribute, such as rock type, alteration, or mineralization. Also available are 3D lithology contact surface, which enables you to create elevation grids to represent top or bottom surface of a lithology unit based on a lithology channel in a Geosoft Drillhole database.

• Fence Diagrams: Create professional fence diagrams quickly, based on selected drillholes. Fence diagrams are especially useful when comparing down hole geology from a limited number of holes. Fence diagrams are displayed in real world coordinates.

• Surface mapping: Utilizing versatile gridding algorithms, grids and contour maps can be created using point sample datasets (eg. streams, soils, rocks, geophysical data) from a variety of raw data sources (ASCII, Excel, Access, and acQuire). Easy-to-use dialogs simplify the creation of grids and contours. Interpretation can be done on all maps with CAD drawing tools, which enable a user to annotate and define areas of interest onto new layers in the map view.

• Surface and Drillhole data Integration: Combine drillhole data with all other surface data and information to create detailed, integrated surface and subsurface maps.

• Strip Log and Compositing: Create scaled graphical strip log display of selected holes or the entire drillhole project with Target’s strip log feature. Utilize up to 32 graphical fields to display down hole data. Using the Strip Log feature, geologists can better manage and visualize their drill projects, from initial planning to the evaluation stage.

• Professional map production: The software provides a full featured dynamic contouring algorithm with gradient feathering and extensive labelling control for professional quality maps. Quickly create multiple and varied types of maps, including gridded maps, surface maps, posted value maps, and sub-location maps.