The most visual component of the base application is the geographic information system (GIS). It is used as the primary display and selection interface. Version 2 has a new proprietary GIS that stores all of the basemap, project, well, boring, cross-section, and other spatial data for the application.

The base application of StrataExplorer consists of several components that provide functionality to both the base application and extension modules. These components are the  database management, geographical information system, license management, 3D display, and import/export.

Database Management

• Used to store, track, and retrieve all the data in the application.
• Uses Microsoft Access databases.
• Automatic backup of databases.

Geographic Information System

• Version 2 of StrataExplorer's GIS incorporates a proprietary technology.
• Basemap, project, well and boring location, cross-section location and other spatial data is stored in the main database.
• Basemaps represent the geographic data as a collection of layers.
• Version 2 comes with hundreds of basemaps that cover most countries.
• Examples of layers are satellite images, aerial photos, roads, lakes and streams, political boundaries, building footprints, utility lines, and terrain.
• StrataExplorer can contain any number of basemaps, different basemaps can be used for different countries or regions, different clients, or different goals.
• Basemaps are starting point in application and used to create, organize and select projects.
• Projects contain the same layers as the basemap and may contain additional layers.
• Project, well, and boring data can be spatially queried, selected, and reported from the basemap.
• Page documents can be created and customized to display and print a wide variety of project data on one page.

3D Display

• 3D display can be used to show and manipulate wells, borings, cross-sections, contour maps, solids, GIS data, buildings and structures in 3 dimensions.
• Industry standard OpenGL is used to generate the display.
• Displays can be panned and zoomed and contain a light source that can be moved.
• The display of wells, borings, cross-sections, contour maps, and solids can be turned off and on.
  GIS data from the project map can be overlain.
• Contour maps can be displayed as a flat surface or draped at the elevation of the grid nodes.
• Solids are automatically generated from strata that have their top and bottoms defined by contour maps.
• Cutouts can be used to selectively remove portions of solids.
• The transparency of contour maps and project GIS overlays can be adjusted.

License Management

• Controls base application and extension module licenses
• Support for either stand-alone or network licensing

Import/Export

• StrataExplorer projects can be exported and imported in XML format.
• A wide variety of spatial data can be imported; such as Shape (SHP), AutoCAD DWG, AutoCAD DXF, CAD DGN, Raster JPG, Raster BMP, Raster GIF, ArcInfo or Surfer ASCII Grid, GPS Exchange, USGS DEM, and SPOT BIL files.
• Project documents can be printed or exported to a Windows Bitmap (BMP), Joint Photographic Export Group (JPEG), and Exchange Files.
• WinLoG and WinFence version 4 projects, templates, and macros can be exported.
• Boring and well log data can be imported and exported to AGS (Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists) version 3 and 4 files.
• In the oil industry version, LogSleuth and CanStrat data can be imported.

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