Welcome to the news post! Here’s what’s hot this week in the Underground.
Just in time help — One of the hallmarks of the Underground is fast help with digital workflows. It easily beats Google for those occasions when you’re not even sure what to search for. On Monday, Mads asked how to get a horizon slice through a 3D seismic volume. Within minutes he had suggestions using the awesome segysak tool, or just xarray on its own, or pure SciPy.
How does your river flow? — Got an elevation model but it’s too low resolution for your watershed model? There were lots of good recommendations for software that may be helpful here. And don’t forget about the glorious geospatial tool that is QGIS — free and open source.
Unfolded Studio – Not to be confused with a room where structural geologists do palinspastic reconstruction, Justin Gosses posted a link to this new project from the folks at Uber who built kepler. If you’re into geospatial analytics, you need to see this, it looks beautiful.
The maestro of the meandering – Zoltan Sylvester’s 3D stratigraphic displays got a mention in the #viz channel. It’s worth checking out the README to his repo, it has plenty of the fluvial stratigraphic eye candy you’d expect from Zoltan.
Sedimentary logs as data — Sometimes data is locked away in Adobe Illustrator drawings. John Armitage asked about converting a pile of drawings of sedimentary logs into structured data, and got lots of suggestions. He eventually got striplog to work on most of the data. The power of Swung!
Contests and openness – Bobbing in the wake of the SPE contest we mentioned last week, Matt wrote an open letter to TGS about the licensing of the data and there was some chat about it on Slack. If you care about data science contests, community engagement, and how to maximize innovation and impact, give the post a read.
See anything else in the channels I may have missed? Leave a note in the comments.