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Strater

An Innovative Well Log and Borehole Plotting Package

Strater Regular Mail $449.00

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Strater Description

Strater offers unbeatable robustness in log design and layout. The advanced user interface streamlines designing and displaying your data. All you need to do is select the log type you want to create, click on the page where you want the log to be created, specify the data file and import parameters, and that's it! No other log plotting package in its class can create logs this easily! Customization of your borehole designs is done quickly and easily. Strater includes 12 popular log types, each of which can be modified to suit your needs. The header and footer areas are ideal to store the detailed information about the logs, such as well number, driller, location, drilling method, company name, and company logo. Strater offers interactive point-and-click selection and modification of every item in your borehole design. Strater was designed with the user in mind. You can have all your data and logs easily accessible in one project. Strater allows you to create multiple borehole views and data tables and store them all in a single project. Each borehole view can contain a different borehole design, allowing tremendous flexibility in the presentation of your data. You can easily switch between borehole views with a single click! You can also import and store data for multiple boreholes in one data table. Having the data for all your boreholes together allows you to switch between borehole names with a single click. When you change the borehole names, the logs update automatically with the new information!

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Log Types

Strater includes 12 popular log types to graphically display your data: zone bar, bar, percentage, graphic, well construction, lithology, post, classed post, complex text, line/symbol, crossplot, and depth logs. Strater logs give you full control over all log parameters. You can accept the Strater defaults to automatically create a log, or select a log and easily customize the log features in the Property Inspector.

Zone Bar Log Display a wide variety of logging data with the zone bar log. For instance, zone bars can represent sample intervals, alteration zones, contamination layers, etc. They also provide a mechanism to display simple keyword text objects either with or without background fill.

Bar Log Show your data as either a standard bar log or a polarity bar log! A standard bar plots a bar from the data minimum value to the row's data value. The polarity bar plots data based upon zero, so if there is a mix of negative and positive data, bars exist on both sides of the zero line. Effortlessly switch the bar type for bar logs between standard and polarity.

Percentage Log Visually compare the percentages of items in a borehole easily using the percentage log! The percentage log can be used to show different percentages of alteration types, mineralization types, geochemical data, or rock types. The percentage log uses data fields to create a series of blocks (interval data) or polygons (depth data). You can select any number of numerical fields from a specified table. If you select five fields, five different blocks or polygons are created. The data for each row are normalized to 100 percent, so the data in each row's field can be any value.

Graphic Log Create graphic logs that display images directly on the log. The graphic log allows you to specify bitmap file names and show the bitmaps at specified intervals. This is useful in displaying photos of the core, alteration, rock types, sample intervals, etc.

Well Construction Log The well construction log replicates a well construction diagram for the log, and is generally used in the environmental industry. The well construction log shows how the monitoring well or piezometer was created. This log shows items such as screen, packing material, end caps, and covers. The well construction log is a visual representation of the well rather than a detailed engineering drawing to scale.

Lithology Log Show the various stratigraphic layers in the borehole using the lithology log. The display can be as simple as a filled block, or the display can be more elaborate and show weathering patterns and contact line styles. Lithology logs can show distinct contact line styles and indent percentages/scales to show weathering profiles.

Post Log Post logs are used to display symbol positions and text at particular depths. The symbols can represent sample locations at depth or intervals, and in the case of monitoring wells, the depth to water, contamination, etc. Symbols can be rotated according to data in the data table. The log also allows placing text at one of five positions relative to the symbol position.

Classed Post Log Classed post logs are used to display symbol positions and text at particular depths with symbol properties based on numerical values in the data. Symbols can be rotated according to data in the data table. The log also allows placing text at one of five positions relative to the symbol position.

Complex Text Log Classed post logs are used to display symbol positions and text at particular depths with symbol properties based on numerical values in the data. Symbols can be rotated according to data in the data table. The log also allows placing text at one of five positions relative to the symbol position.

Crossplot Log See exactly where two curves on a graph intersect using the crossplot log!

Depth Logs Quickly see the depth or elevation of your log using the depth log as a scale bar. Optionally set your depth logs to show depth or elevation, or positive or negative values. You can add tick marks, tick mark labels, and specify the interval between major or minor tick marks.

Line/Symbol Logs Display your depth data as a graph! Line/symbol logs can be useful for displaying assay values, geophysical parameters, moisture content, etc. You can wrap line/symbol logs with multiple styles: truncate, custom wrap, wrap at a 10X scale, or wrap at a 100X scale.

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Strater Key Features

The following list of features illustrates the functionality and versatility of the Strater package:

Database View

Strater's integral tabbed database view allows you to import, display, enter, edit, sort, and print data. Import data from common spreadsheet and database formats, including: MDB, DBF, DB, LAS, XLS, SLK, WKS, CSV, TXT, DAT, BNA, BLN, ODBC, OLE DB, or other SQL data sources. Strater is supports Excel import capabilities, including multiple sheets from a single Excel file! You can import data for multiple boreholes into one data table, and create multiple data tables in one project. Available data table types include: collars, depth, interval, lithology, project information, text item, and well construction tables. You can rename any data table to descriptive names to keep your data organized, and you can export any data table to an ASCII text file. If source data files are updated with new information, you can automatically reload the data into Strater to update the logs! The database view provides the functionality needed to make sure you can get your data in the necessary format to create the logs you want. For example, if you have depth data, you can easily convert it to interval data to create zone bar, complex text, or lithology logs! You can define a new borehole in the data table and enter data for that borehole, or you can remove data for a particular borehole at any time. To help make creating a graphic log easy, you can insert a bitmap file path and file name into the database view with just a few clicks – you don’t have to remember and manually type in the file path and file name!

Templates

It is always easier to update a log with new data than to start from scratch. Using template files is an essential tool designed to make bulk log processing easy and efficient. Once a borehole is designed, you can reuse the design by saving it as a template. Template files store all the graphical features without the imported data, so you can create borehole designs to be easily reused in other projects or by other users. Use one of the many predefined template that come with Strater, or create your own specific to your needs!

Schemes

Schemes provide a way to load drawing properties based on a keyword or range value defined in the imported data. For example, a lithology log uses lithology schemes. The lithology scheme contains keywords, such as granite, clay, etc. Each of these keywords is assigned a fill pattern, contact line properties, line properties, and text properties. Schemes can be reused; therefore, you do not have to go through the time-consuming process of assigning the same properties each time you create a new log. Reusing template and scheme files is ideal for those who want to continue making the same looking borehole designs for a wide variety of borehole data.

Property Inspector

Object Manager

The object manager makes viewing and editing any object simple. It displays all the objects, organized by their design areas, in an easy-to-use hierarchical tree arrangement. Select objects in the Object Manager to easily edit them in the Property Inspector, or check and uncheck the check box to show or hide them.

Borehole Manager

Use the Borehole Manager to manage the different borehole views contained in the project. Multiple borehole views are useful for displaying multiple graphics for multiple wells or displaying different layouts for the same data. You can add and delete individual borehole views and load and save template files quickly with the Borehole Manager!

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Import/Export Options

Import formats include: E00, GSI, GSB, BNA, DLG, LGO, LGS, DXF, PLT, BLN, CLP, WMF, EMF, SHP, MIF, DDF, TIF, BMP, TGA, PCX, WPG, DCX, EPS, JPG, PCT, PNG, and GIF.