Release of StereoCore™ PhotoLog 3

Ground Modelling Technologies Ltd is proud to announce the imminent release of StereoCore™ PhotoLog 3. We have built once again on the lessons learned from customers and field experience with version 2, and are now almost ready to begin the beta testing phase prior to releasing version 3.

For version 3 of StereoCore™ PhotoLog, we decided to concentrate exclusively on making the best possible digital core logging program that we could. Features supporting fast, accurate and auditable core logging were prioritised. We believe that we have succeeded in attaining our goal.

What we have now is a flexible data collection program which references core data to images and which can be customised to the specific needs of each of our customers.

• A template system allows the user to define the data that they wish to capture in a familiar style similar to a paper logging sheet.
• Measurements taken from the image remove much of the uncertainty from measurement of depths and angles on the core.
• Logged boreholes can be archived, meaning that months or years later, auditors will have an easy time checking that the logging was done correctly.
• Data can be exported to Excel for easy import into analysis programs or the mine database.
  

The major improvements in version 3 are:

• Significant improvements to logging templates. In version 2 we could only track a single structure log and a single lithology log for each project. In version 3 there is no limit to the number of logs that one can define, so that potentially all core logging data can be referenced to the core tray images.
• Templates can be one of several different types, depending on the data one is interested in collecting. Broadly, core data falls into the categories of Point data or Interval data. We further define Structure data as a special kind of Point data, and we subdivide interval data into Continuous Intervals (for example, a lithology log) and Discrete Intervals (intervals which are not continuous down the length of the borehole). Hence almost any logging sheet for geology, lithology, structures, point load tests or anything else that would be useful to an analyst interested in core data can be translated into a logging template.
• Behind the scenes we have speeded up the program immensely, we have also rewritten a lot of our code so that the program will be easier to modify according to our customers’ needs.
  

Field testing of StereoCore™ PhotoLog 3 is expected to commence shortly, in the meantime we are working hard to put the final polish on the program, writing documentation and doing final bench testing (as we did for version 2) to confirm the accuracy of the image based measurements. We will also be opening our beta testing programme in the next few weeks to allow interested customers a first look at StereoCore™ PhotoLog 3 and hopefully find any bugs that have somehow managed to wriggle past our internal review procedures.

Happy Logging!
The StereoCore™ PhotoLog Team.