Dear OpendTect user,<div><br></div><div>It is my pleasure to announce the official release of OpendTect v4.2. To download, please visit the download center at <a href="http://www.opendtect.org">www.opendtect.org</a>. Commercial and Academic users: please be aware that commercial plugins require a new license key. Please contact <a href="mailto:support@dgbes.com">support@dgbes.com</a> if your license needs upgrading. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Version 4.2 is a major release with many new features & improvements in the open source part of the system as well as two new commercial plugins: <b>HorizonCube</b> and <b>Well Correlation Panel</b>. Highlights in v4.2 are:</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Open Source part:</b></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> - Wacom digitizing tablet support especially for horizons, faults, & polygon picking. See also this YouTube clip:<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txU_RmAiFHo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txU_RmAiFHo</a> <br>
- Multimachine batch processing on Windows<br> - Probability Density Function (PDF) support and Bayesian inversion<br> - Gridding using GMT algorithms<br> - Improved 2D Viewer (e.g. added tree, horizon/fault tracking)<br>
- Export of cultural data to GoogleEarth: wells, survey area, 2D lines, random lines, polygons (e.g. concession boundaries)<br> - Directional lighting<br> - Cross-plot colour coding using wells, attributes (zones)<br>
- Interactive fault construction from faultsticksets<br> - Translation of gui text using Google-translate<br> - Improved Stratigraphic Model building<br> - New toolbar icons.<br><div><br></div><div><b>Commercial plugins:</b></div>
<div>- New HorizonCube plugin auto-tracks hundreds of horizons from pre-calculated dips for detailed geologic model building, seismic inversions, correlations, Wheeler transforms and sequence stratigraphic interpretations. For more info on this game-changer, please view our latest webinar: <a href="http://www.opendtect.org/tutorials/Webinar_TheHorizonCube">http://www.opendtect.org/tutorials/Webinar_TheHorizonCube</a> .</div>
<div>- New Well Correlation Panel plugin picks and correlates well log markers optionally guided by horizons from the HorizonCube.</div><div>- Common Contour Binning supports a local mode for enhancing 4D fluid-effects and a new structural display to facilitate flat-spot recognition.</div>
<div>- Spectral Bluing and Colored Inversion plugins come with a new seismic viewer for movie-style inspection of parameter settings. </div><div><br></div><div>In addition a <b>Petrel connection</b>, developed by Ark cls, will soon be released via Schlumberger's Ocean Store. And in May at the EAGE conference in Vienna, Geoinfo will demo their <b>Log Analysis Software</b> (LAS) plugin that is also due to be released shortly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>With more than 52.000 downloads, an exponentially growing user base, an exiting new release, new game-changing plugins and more plugins to come, the future of OpendTect looks brighter than ever. We thank you for your continued support and we hope that the new release meets your expectation. Please do not hesitate to share this information with other potential users.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks and best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Paul.</div><div><br>-- <br><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif"><i><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">Paul de Groot</span><br style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">
<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">President & CEO</span><br style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">dGB Earth Sciences, Nijverheidstraat 11-2, 7511 JM Enschede, The Netherlands.</span><br style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">
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