Brief Outlook for EMIGMA

For several years, one of our primary considerations for EMIGMA has been the addition of basic processing and mapping features. Many features have been included in these areas and we will continue to improve the processing features as well as developing faster methods to perform various processing aspects. Also, in the last several years, we have focused on the development of various inversion techniques for most data types. While, we will continue to improve and enhance our inversion applications, we are now in the process of returning to our roots to enhance and extend our forward modeling (simulation) algorithms.

One of the issues which has required our attention is to extend the ability of EMIGMA to manage not only the geophysical setup of your data allowing for automated modeling and inversion but the inclusion of all the associated data channels that may be crucial for your proper understanding of the inversion and simulation results. To this end, we have developed and continue to further develop our new software package QCTool. QCTool is capable of handling huge amounts of data and performing many basic and extended data processing functionalities. The combination of QCTool with EMIGMA will resolve our ultimate objective. Airborne TEM data and MT/CSAMT/VLFR data can now be imported directly from the .qct format and we will be working on more direct QCTool exports to EMIGMA. This will allow for ready imports of quite a variety of relevant data into EMIGMA after having passed them through appropriate quality control and processing in QCTool. We are also working on the direct import of the other associated data channels into EMIGMA and the possibility of their display and analyses in graphical applications. Our latest version, in development since 2005 and scheduled for release in 2008, will offer an extensive enhancement to EMIGMA. EMIGMA V8.1, released in the spring of 2008, is primarily to provide full Vista compatibility while incorporating several new interpretation procedures.

Many EMIGMA licenses are now shipped with QCTool included. However, QCTool is available from our websites for a free 30 days use and it only costs $150. In the meantime we will be enhancing the linkages between the two packages to provide you with this " all-in-one " smart and easy-to-use software platform.

Another important consideration for EMIGMA is to increase its capability of handling and processing large datasets whether collected on the ground or in the air. To this end, we have been extending our principal algorithms and approaches to have them work faster and more efficiently. Great progress has already been made with regard to modeling and inversion solutions. A major new design will ready in 2008 and is to be called EMIGMA 2008. For those purchasing EMIGMA in the interim, free upgrades will be available.

EMIGMA's Present Techniques To Be Extended

Airborne TEM inversions — now available, but always being advanced
Conductivity-depth sections for TEM — available
IP effects in TEM inversions — already available in modeling
Storage of TEM source moments (current and dipole moments) — available
3D magnetic inversions (use of gradients) — available
3D Gravity and Resistivity inversion — available for 3D gravity and 1D Resistivity
Enhanced FEM inversions to allow for datasets containing more than 4000 data points — available
More general multi-array resistivity imports
Basic gravity processing (Bouguer, topographic, terrain, etc) — available
Enhanced mapping tools — available but constantly in development
Model, inversion and processed signal outputs to GEOTIFF format — available