Alongside software and consulting services, Exprodat Consulting offers some of the most popular GIS-based training courses to the Oil & Gas industry. To prove their point, the company has just completed a course that included their 500th attendee. Such is the popularity and value of their courses, the company expects to pass the 600 mark…
I want to create a complex custom symbol for use with area fills on a map. In ArcMap this can be done either with a multiple stacked marker symbol which is time consuming and difficult to construct, or using a small bitmap and importing that as a picture symbol. The problem with picture symbols is…
ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) is a free downloadable GIS viewer which allows viewing of a wide variety of spatial data in either 2D or 3D (Globe) display modes. This blog describes a utility I’ve developed that allows features in AGX feature or package layers to be exported to ‘extruded’ 3D KML (to download it see…
London, United Kingdom, 26th July 2010 – Exprodat today announced that Premier Oil (www.premier-oil.com) recently purchased Exprodat’s KBridge and Directory extensions to ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop. KBridge allows users to transfer their KINGDOM well, seismic and interpretation data to ArcMap (and vice versa) while Directory combines an easy-to-use data catalogue with powerful search, preview and metadata…
Assessing the Quality of the Modelling of Continuous Variables in the 2D Domain – A Deterministic Approach See Part 1 and Part 2 of the ‘Measuring the Quality of Predictions’ discussion. Distribution of Uncertainty Unfortunately, limiting the analysis of uncertainty to the magnitude of the residuals alone is proven to be too limited an approach.…
Assessing the Quality of the Modelling of Continuous Variables in the 2D Domain – A Deterministic Approach See Part 1 of How can I measure the quality of my predictions? Estimating Prediction Quality through Validation Whilst a geostatistical approach to the interpolation provides the user with a direct estimate of the errors of the predictions, this…
If you’re an ArcGIS Desktop user you might be interested to know that there are a number of keyboard shortcuts available to speed up frequently used operations and save you some mouse mileage: ArcGIS Desktop 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3 Tips and Shortcuts ArcGIS Desktop 10 Tips and Shortcuts My personal favourite is F9 – stop drawing!…
Paola Peroni, a Senior Consultant with Exprodat, will be presenting a paper entitled “ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst versus G&G Applications: Contour Mapping of Geological Variables” at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, CA, on 13th July, examining how ArcGIS tools compare with established industry mapping packages for 2D contour mapping. The following information is taken…
Assessing the Quality of the Modelling of Continuous Variables in the 2D Domain – A Deterministic Approach Background Any quick search on Google on the subject of “Assessing the quality of models in the 2D domain” would provide tonnes of results, with a number of them referring to research papers proposing various ways to evaluate…
Recently someone asked me how to use ESRI well symbols for bullets in MS Word documents and MS PowerPoint Presentations. Initially my first thought was to make a screen grab of the well symbol using Paint or Snagit, a useful utility software. This would provide a small image of the symbol that would be ideal.…
