Avatara-P, the NPD’s latest digitalization project has produced over thirty thousand digital palynological (microfossil) records from 284 released wells. The huge (57 terabytes) dataset is now available in Diskos, Norway’s shared solution for storing and distributing geoscience and production data from the Norwegian shelf. Each microscope slide is captured with a seven gigapixel resolution.
The hardware and software stack was supplied by Budapest, Hungary-located 3DHistech. Scanning was performed with the Pannoramic 1000 whole slide scanner. 3DHistech’s ‘SlideCenter’ image server organizes and stores the digitized slides and streams them to NPD in-house users for quality control and visual analysis. The latter leverages 3DHistech’s SlideViewer software, also used for export to the Diskos file server.
The result is said to be ‘the world’s first public archive of
digital palynological preparations’. The system was developed through a
collaboration with medical research on digital tissue samples. The
project will ultimately enable ‘augmented analysis’ leveraging machine
learning to reveal new aspects of Norway’s geological history. More on
Avatura-P from the NPD.
* Avatar in Norwegian.
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The latest edition of Diskos has just gone live. Diskos 2.0, a.k.a. ‘Diskos in the cloud’, introduces new automated processes and API integration and is set to enable seismic processing and interpretation in situ – with no need to download data to a local disk. The new Diskos is based on Landmark’s iEnergy platform and user interface. The Trade module for data swaps is based on Kadme’s WhereOil product. Some 28 members and 50 associated members are cooperating to on Diskos development. Diskos’ cloud-native services are said to be ‘compliant with the Open Subsurface Data Universe*’. Diskos is operated by Halliburton/Landmark and administered by the NPD.
* This according to Halliburton. At the 2022 ECIM conference, NPD stated that ‘While DISKOS is said to be ‘OSDU ready’, there are no plans to ‘merge’ with OSDU. OSDU is not considered mature and ‘we need to understand more to see if this is where we want to go’.
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