DrGeo is a modern Multimedia software application. It has been specifically designed for Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 2000. It takes advantage of multithreading, standard sound cards for data acquisition and commonly used printers.

DrGeo is a single channel seismic data acquisition program. All database storage is implemented using Jet-Engine Database (Access). It can in real-time record seismic data to the local hard disk, collect navigation fixes, archive data to the tapes or removable disks, print data to the standard printers.

Many operations in DrGeo can be configured as Automatic. Some of them are: cutting lines, seabed tracking, seabed digitizing, printing, archiving, deleting lines, color/palette calibration.

DrGeo can produce real-time hard-copy outputs using printer/plotters such as GULTON and ALDEN. It can also use any standard color printers supported by Window drivers such as Ink-Jets, Laser Printers, etc.

The printed seismic data can be overlapped with digitized reflectors, labels, and regions. The regions are polygons representing different materials (user defined).

The navigation fixes can be received via RS232 serial interface (COM ports). They can be any ASCII strings containing (X, Y) coordinates, Fix numbers and any other data.

The tape drive can be internal or external connected via SCSI interface.

The supported archiving devices are: SCSI tape drives, removable disks such as ZIP drives, MO – magneto optical drives, CDR with variable packet capabilities, DVD – recordable drives, network drives, etc.

The printer can be any standard printer compatible with Win95 or NT. It can also be GULTON or ALDEN or any other compatible printer/plotter.

The multimedia sound card can be any commonly used in PC environment.

DrGeo has no limits on colors used. Any graphics card supported by Win95 or NT can be used with any resolution.

With DrGeo there is no need for any additional hardware other then standard off the shelf Multimedia computer (Intel) including LAPTOP computers. The minimum recommended is Pentium 150 with 32MB RAM and 1GB hard disk.

DrGeo can be fully functional on LAPTOP computers including real-time printing/plotting, archiving to tape drive or removable disks, receiving Navigation Fixes, recording via standard built in sound cards, etc. No proprietary hardware is required. It provides off the shelf standard multimedia solution.

The user interface consists of Menu bar, Tool bar, Status bar, Profile view, Oscilloscope view and Tabbed Panes. Each view can be sizable by using slider bars. By selecting different Pane the system is set to different mode.

DrGeo has thorough project administration. It will monitor Project/Line progress. The user can perform operations on multiply selected Lines such as: auto seabed digitizing, printing, archiving, generating SEGY files, exporting digitized data. The archiving administration will show all history of archived data showing media types and IDs of where and what has been archived.

The digitized data (labels, reflectors, regions and navigation fixes) can be exported to comma delimited text files or Access database or Micromine database format for further processing.

The tides can be automatically generated with specified time increment and then each tide value can be entered by the user.

DrGeo contains comprehensive set of digital filters such as Volume control, Polarity (positive, negative or both), Band Pass (low and high) filters with multiple choices, Stack filter (2-5), TVG (time varied gain) filter with graphical interface setup, Swell filter. There is an independent filters setup for the display and for the printer.