What’s New in Leapfrog Geo 5.1

including the new upgraded Points Database which enables you to smoothly import much larger datasets, perform calculations and apply filters in a new way.

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Video Transcript

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[00:00:03.557]<v Instructor>Welcome to Leapfrog Geo 5.1.</v>

[00:00:06.490]In this video, we will give you a quick tour

[00:00:09.010]of the latest release features.

[00:00:11.537]Leapfrog Geo 5.1 builds upon the integration

[00:00:14.680]and functionality improvements we’ve seen

[00:00:16.840]in the past few releases.

[00:00:19.120]Continued enhancements in performance,

[00:00:21.210]software interoperability,

[00:00:23.160]and overall usability are the focus of this release.

[00:00:26.620]The features and functionality mentioned in this video

[00:00:29.550]are covered in more detail

[00:00:31.140]in the Leapfrog Geo Online training content hand in help.

[00:00:35.350]Let’s take a look now at the new features

[00:00:37.360]in Leapfrog Geo 5.1.

[00:00:40.790]We are committed to enhancing your user experience

[00:00:43.250]and expanding your modeling possibilities

[00:00:45.290]with every new release.

[00:00:47.030]Points in leapfrog Geo 5.1 have been upgraded

[00:00:50.450]to import significantly faster,

[00:00:52.720]take up less disc space,

[00:00:54.610]all while providing powerful new query filtering

[00:00:57.450]and calculated columns.

[00:00:59.460]These new capabilities not only allow you

[00:01:01.710]to more easily import, reload, append,

[00:01:04.920]and visualize larger point datasets

[00:01:07.550]such as LIDAR topography clouds,

[00:01:10.610]you’re also now able to complete dynamic workflows

[00:01:13.700]entirely within Leapfrog Geo

[00:01:15.940]that have previously relied on pre-processing

[00:01:18.630]outside of Leapfrog.

[00:01:20.730]While you won’t see any significant change

[00:01:22.850]in the points object in Leapfrog,

[00:01:25.020]you will definitely notice the speed improvements

[00:01:27.280]when loading and manipulating point data.

[00:01:30.130]Here’s an example of importing

[00:01:31.750]a test point file containing 7.2 million points,

[00:01:35.900]with 18 numeric columns and one text column.

[00:01:40.110]With the previous version of Leapfrog,

[00:01:42.160]it would take about 48 minutes to import the file.

[00:01:45.570]But with Geo 5.1,

[00:01:47.300]the file imports in just over four minutes.

[00:01:51.251]The same calculation and filter functionality

[00:01:54.060]you’re familiar with in the block models

[00:01:56.250]is now also available on imported points.

[00:02:01.520]We’ve also made some helpful improvements

[00:02:03.590]to our cross section tool.

[00:02:05.740]Down hole depth markers can now be displayed

[00:02:07.990]on your cross section layouts

[00:02:09.550]to help you communicate the depth of key targets

[00:02:12.060]and other important down hole features.

[00:02:15.020]Flexible presentation options are available,

[00:02:17.680]including the ability to show labels

[00:02:19.710]perpendicular to the trace or inclined down hole,

[00:02:23.271]and the ability to adjust label location

[00:02:25.240]to avoid overlapping labels.

[00:02:27.770]We are working hard to continually improve

[00:02:30.430]your modeling efficiency.

[00:02:32.590]To help you save some valuable time,

[00:02:34.790]you can now batch import multiple images,

[00:02:37.760]like a series of map tiles,

[00:02:39.550]quickly and easily by simply dragging and dropping them

[00:02:42.480]into the GIS data, maps and photos folder.

[00:02:46.180]Similarly, for cross section images,

[00:02:48.870]you can simply drag and drop the images into the

[00:02:51.390]cross-sections in contours folder.

[00:02:58.390]If your images are already georeferenced,

[00:03:00.880]they will be imported using

[00:03:02.190]these associated geographic coordinates.

[00:03:05.060]If however, your images aren’t here referenced yet,

[00:03:08.450]you need to open each one under its respective folder,

[00:03:11.470]and add the reference information in the usual way.

[00:03:16.240]Be aware that the images will batch import,

[00:03:18.960]even if they don’t contain your georeferencing data.

[00:03:21.840]But if you didn’t seen,

[00:03:22.990]they will display outside your coordinate range

[00:03:25.630]at a 0,0,0 origin point

[00:03:28.570]until the georeferencing information has been

[00:03:30.700]updated appropriately.

[00:03:33.120]Leapfrog Geo 5.1 also sees some

[00:03:35.940]improvements to its demerit compositing functionality.

[00:03:39.930]Compositing is a length weighted averaging process for

[00:03:42.790]creating samples of equal support or length,

[00:03:46.130]from irregular sampling intervals.

[00:03:49.090]Ideally, only added variables

[00:03:51.360]should be directly averaged.

[00:03:53.800]Grade, which is a ratio of metal content

[00:03:55.890]to mass is not additive.

[00:03:58.630]And length weighted averaging of grade variables

[00:04:01.550]does not necessarily produce the correct average grade.

[00:04:05.360]This is an important consideration for those

[00:04:07.320]of you working with base metals,

[00:04:09.140]where there’s often a strong relationship

[00:04:11.200]between grade and density.

[00:04:13.630]For commodities like gold, where the relationship

[00:04:16.520]of grades and density is often weaker,

[00:04:19.060]density can be safely ignored.

[00:04:21.770]This release sees the addition of weighting to compositing.

[00:04:26.130]A dropdown has been added

[00:04:27.760]to allow you to select a column for example, density values,

[00:04:31.440]which are then used as an additional weighting item

[00:04:34.450]in the composite grade calculation.

[00:04:37.550]The column containing density values must be fully informed.

[00:04:41.220]If there are any uninformed interval,

[00:04:43.570]you’ll be directed to the fixed errors dialogue

[00:04:46.150]in order to define how missing intervals should be treated.

[00:04:52.850]You can now also specify a minimum coverage

[00:04:55.730]when handling residual and blank steering compositing

[00:04:59.280]expressed as a percentage of the interval length.

[00:05:02.830]This may result in the retention of residual intervals

[00:05:05.910]that were previously discarded,

[00:05:07.640]when numeric composite is reprocessed.

[00:05:11.970]Performance improvements have been made

[00:05:13.840]throughout Leapfrog Geo to help you save more time.

[00:05:17.560]These improvements reduce the processing time

[00:05:19.730]for numeric interpolants and mesh interpolants,

[00:05:22.640]as well as reducing the processing time

[00:05:24.710]for evaluating models on serial sections

[00:05:27.610]making you more productive than ever

[00:05:29.550]when maintaining geological or numeric models

[00:05:32.310]with dynamically linked cross sections.

[00:05:34.930]Also, provided you have sufficient hardware,

[00:05:37.980]you are now able to utilize additional processing cores.

[00:05:42.040]It’s important to note, however,

[00:05:43.630]that you shouldn’t enable more cores

[00:05:45.690]than your hardware supports

[00:05:46.890]as this will actually slow down processing.

[00:05:50.640]As we recognize the importance

[00:05:52.210]of seamless software interoperability,

[00:05:54.520]we continue to develop new integration functionality.

[00:05:58.530]Leapfrog Geo 5.1 introduces a couple of new ways

[00:06:01.970]for integrating newly supported data types

[00:06:04.350]and formats into a project.

[00:06:06.930]Due physicists working in a Oasis montaj

[00:06:09.930]can now publish their geophysical grids

[00:06:12.020]directly to the central data room.

[00:06:14.830]These grids can then be loaded directly

[00:06:16.840]into your Geo project from the central data room

[00:06:19.890]to enable smooth data transfers among project collaborators.

[00:06:27.298]If you don’t have access to central, don’t forget.

[00:06:30.068]You can use the OMF to import geophysical grades

[00:06:34.537]in geological surfaces from other software packages

[00:06:38.150]into Leapfrog Geo.

[00:06:40.300]In addition to improved integration with geophysical data,

[00:06:43.680]Geo 5.1 also offers improvements to the visualization

[00:06:47.530]of geochemical data through our

[00:06:49.370]Leapfrog ioGAS live link.

[00:06:52.180]In 2019, ioGAS introduced new shapes

[00:06:55.360]into their attribute manager

[00:06:57.270]and these shapes are now also available

[00:06:59.380]in Leapfrog Geo 5.1.

[00:07:01.860]Geo 5.1 introduces a new folder

[00:07:04.760]into the project tree.

[00:07:06.440]A designs folder.

[00:07:08.640]CAD data from mine planning applications

[00:07:11.450]can be imported into this new designs folder.

[00:07:14.830]Format support include the familiar DXF,

[00:07:18.070]along with DGN,

[00:07:19.740]DWG and LandXML formats.

[00:07:23.350]This folder provides a convenient place to organize

[00:07:26.230]and manage data such as mine designs for pits,

[00:07:29.620]underground layouts, and stopes and mapping generated

[00:07:33.120]from field mapping applications such as with Geo tools.

[00:07:37.550]Data can be moved into position by using drag handles

[00:07:41.320]and files can be reloaded when new updates are available.

[00:07:46.020]For those using Seequent Central,

[00:07:48.100]this latest release offer some great enhancements.

[00:07:51.290]We now have notifications.

[00:07:53.300]Actively collaborate on your projects,

[00:07:55.200]using notifications.

[00:07:57.210]The new service alerts you to events

[00:07:59.410]and activities happening in your projects,

[00:08:01.720]allowing you to know when critical work has occurred.

[00:08:05.130]Notifications can be viewed in the central portal,

[00:08:08.270]or delivered to your email.

[00:08:10.530]In the portal, you can change your notification preferences.

[00:08:14.490]Choose the activities and mode

[00:08:16.270]of notification that you want,

[00:08:18.400]email or in app,

[00:08:20.140]as well as the projects you want

[00:08:21.620]to receive notifications about.

[00:08:25.835]We’ve also made improvements to the data room

[00:08:27.840]based on user feedback.

[00:08:30.030]You can now move files and folders

[00:08:31.930]with data project to better organize your data.

[00:08:35.270]File folders can now be uploaded to the data room

[00:08:38.010]by drag and drop.

[00:08:39.820]These uploads are no longer limited by file size.

[00:08:44.380]Lastly, each project now has a recycling bin,

[00:08:47.010]which enables a softer delete process.

[00:08:49.780]Files mistakenly removed can now be restored

[00:08:52.130]by a user with owner permissions.

[00:08:55.050]The central projects tab in both Leapfrog

[00:08:57.300]and Central Browser,

[00:08:58.400]now has a new refresh button.

[00:09:01.460]There are a couple of your object types

[00:09:03.060]that can now be published essential,

[00:09:05.030]interval midpoints and guide points.

[00:09:08.260]To facilitate the Leapfrog and Central upgrade process,

[00:09:11.500]Central now offers forward compatibility,

[00:09:14.500]meaning that you’ll now be able to use the latest version

[00:09:17.090]of Leapfrog prior to Central being upgraded.

[00:09:20.860]Before we wrap up this video,

[00:09:22.410]I’d like to take the opportunity to tell you a bit about the

[00:09:25.170]extensive ongoing project our development team has been

[00:09:28.040]working on for the past several months.

[00:09:30.410]Well, the full extent of this work

[00:09:31.900]is not yet ready to be released.

[00:09:33.750]Leapfrog Geo 5.1 represents the first phase

[00:09:36.840]of providing you with significant performance advances,

[00:09:40.610]seequent committed to the long-term future

[00:09:42.860]of the Leapfrog suite of products.

[00:09:44.780]With this in mind,

[00:09:45.720]we regularly undertake fundamental improvements

[00:09:48.370]and upgrades to our code base.

[00:09:50.910]As Python 2, one of the development languages

[00:09:53.710]on which Leapfrog is based,

[00:09:55.280]has reached the end of its life.

[00:09:57.270]We have dedicated significant resources to migrating the

[00:10:00.210]code base to Python 3 over the past several months.

[00:10:05.290]As part of this,

[00:10:06.123]we are also making improvements

[00:10:07.420]to the architecture of our user interface layer,

[00:10:10.110]changing our user interface toolkit,

[00:10:12.100]from GTK2 to QT.

[00:10:15.130]While the way you interact with in modeling Leapfrog

[00:10:17.740]will remain the same.

[00:10:19.370]You will primarily notice these changes

[00:10:21.390]in the visual appearance of Geo.

[00:10:24.500]Under the hood, these changes set us up

[00:10:26.940]to continue our development of

[00:10:28.370]modeling functionality into the future.

[00:10:31.370]As I mentioned earlier, this work is not yet complete,

[00:10:34.340]but we expect that you will see

[00:10:35.570]these changes in our Autumn 2020 release.

[00:10:39.170]For more information about any of these

[00:10:41.130]Leapfrog Geo features,

[00:10:42.650]checkout the following resources,

[00:10:44.380]or contact your local Seequent Office.

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