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Ian MacLeod, Geosoft CTO: We are really pleased to be announcing VOXI at the conference this year.
This is a new cloud-based service that we are going to have available for Explorers in April, with our April release,
and it is a service that performs Geophysical 3D Earth Modelling.
Inversion of two-dimensional geophysical data into 3D earth models.
Now we believe that the most important advance in geophysics in the last 10 years
has been the development of 3D earth modelling of geophysical data.
The story of VOXI really began three years ago when
Rob Ellis joined Geosoft and we set ourselves a mission to make 3D earth modelling available to all Explorers.
We felt that the potential for the technique was really underutilized in exploration for a number of reasons.
We saw three main challenges.
The first was complexity.
The tools for performing 3D inversion had a lot of things involved that made them complex.
They didn't fit well into people's workflows,
there were a lot of things that you would have to do to prepare data just to get to the inversion algorithm to do the work.
So we wanted to tackle complexity.
The second is computing power.
3D inversions of geophysical data require big computers with a lot of computing power.
Those that are performing that today tend to have pretty big computers, or even sets of computers,
some even have clusters of computers,
which are quite expensive and difficult for all explorers to get access to.
The third barrier is knowledge.
A lot of people have been to talks on 3D earth modelling;
the technique although it is useful, does require some expertise in understanding
what to do, why to do it, and how to do it.
And so that was another area where we wanted to think about how we could get the
knowledge shared so that we could just be more effective with exploration.
So when Rob joined us three years ago we got to work on these three things,
and we believe that we've produced the next generation of 3D earth modelling, which is VOXI.