New Features in Discover 10.1

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 visualization 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 to the right 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 Professional, thereby allowing them to be efficiently processed by the various Surfaces manipulation tools.

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 Grid Clip Tool

Clip grids to user-defined limits for more efficient handling and processing of very large grids.

Grid Utilities

• New Cut/Fill tool
  Summarizes 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 visualize 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 Vectorize utilities

Grid Filter

Added an FFT Reduction to Pole (Low Latitude) filter

New Local Grid Layout Tool

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)

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

• 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 in 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 customization of the surface line color and easier visibility of user defined color table names.

Improved Trenching Dialog

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 Favorites dialog

A new combined dialog allows the custom ordering of your favorite 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

Align Objects tool

New Disperse option allows selected objects to be evenly spread between the end members, useful when aligning legend objects.

The following tools have been redesigned to allow the dialogs to be kept open while working within MapInfo:

Select by Graphical Style

• Now supports differing source and target tables
• New output query options

Standard Views

Allows customized ordering

Favorite Projections

Allows customized ordering

New Point Classification tool

The size, color 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 color), allowing homogenous data classes to be defined by ranges or groups of values.

Improved Levelling tool

Creates new output summary fields

Extensive improvements, including:

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