Hagenes Data AB, a software house ‘located deep in the Swedish
forest’ has rolled out ‘TheGlobe,’ a Petrel plug-in that addresses some of the
cartographic limitations associated with Schlumberger’s interpretation flagship.
Currently Petrel projects and data are restricted to a single projection which
can be a problem when dealing with data of large areal extent. TheGlobe brings
a new 3D viewer to Petrel which overcomes the geodetic limitations in Petrel
and Ocean and improves on scalability, levels of detail, interactivity and multi
threading. TheGlobe is based on the OpenInventor ‘Examiner Viewer.’ Target users
for TheGlobe include managers of large scale projects, geomatics professionals
and users annotating and presenting Petrel results. An application programming
interface (API) is available to offer Ocean programmers ellipsoidal renderers
and to add data objects to TheGlobe environment.
Hagenes Data CTO Odd Hagenes told Oil IT Journal, ‘TheGlobe does not leverage Google Earth or Bing Maps. We have made a new application running on top of the OpenInventor graphics library. This uses the same technology that is embedded in Petrel and gives the same look and feel as other Petrel applications. While Petrel remains limited to a single projection, we can put data from other CRS’s on TheGlobe and view the data with Petrel’s native viewers. We use the Ocean coordinate service (based on ESRI’s projection engine) so CRS definitions come from the Petrel catalog. We have added some new ones through WKT and EPSG codes for vertical and geocentric projection systems.’ More from www.hdab.se/TheGlobe.html.
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