[OpendTect_Users] OpendTect 4.4.0-beta available

[Bert Bril]

Dear users,


During the past months we have been working hard to get version 4.4.0 
finished. Today, we have put a beta release version in the download 
center. This should lead to a real stable release 4.4.0a by the start of 
July.

For a year now, we have been especially emphasizing 'usability', and 
some developments in that area are still under development. For example, 
we want to make the entire path from the discovery of OpendTect to the 
first usage much easier. This is reflected in the adoption of a new 
installation manager. With it it's much easier to install and manage the 
application, and what components you want to be downloaded (and 
installed). OpendTect will also tell you when there are updates 
available and start the installation manager for you if you want that. 
Lastly, off-line installation (re-distribution) will be added in the 
installer for the 4.4.0a release.

For the rest, well, as usual the new release is full of new 
functionality. A short (by no means complete) list of highlights is at 
the end of this e-mail. And as always, you can download material 
(including the installer) at the download page of the web site:
http:/download.opendtect.org


Note for users of the dGB plugins: dGB have upgraded the license 
management to FlexNET 11. The procedures are largely the same, but the 
license manager daemon has changed (from 'lm_dgb' to 'dgbld'). You will 
be able to run the plugins in both 4.2.0 and 4.4.0 at the same time due 
to this, which will make the transition easier. The new licenses you 
will need to be able to use the 4.4.0 plugins can be obtained - as usual 
- by sending a request to support at dgbes.com.


Short list of highlights:

* SEG-Y header manipulation tool
* Load cubes from other surveys (sinc interpolation)
* Create cubes from 2D data
* Create cubes from well logs, along the deviated well tracks.
* Attribute that snaps on-the-fly to an event and returns the amplitude
* The variogram tool is now anisotropic and well specific
* Tool for bulk modification of well logs (filter, clip, etc.)
* Log creation mathematics extended by the Rock Physics library
* Checkshot editor
* 3D Pre-stack event visualization
* Multi-gather pre-stack viewer
* Improved manual classification tool in crossplot module
* Basic layer modelling (generation of properties, synthetics, and 
extraction of attributes)

dGB plugins:
* Dip-steering
   - perpendicular dip extractor attribute
* HorizonCube:
   - 3D Slider
   - 3D editor
   - model in-fill on 2nd iteration
* SynthRock: Preview (pre-alpha) release
   - Stochastic pseudo-well generation
   - Profile modelling
   - Synthetic-to-seismic crossplot extraction
   - HitCube inversion

ARK CLS plugins:
* New plugins:
   - Seismic Feature Enhancement: flat-spot utility enhancing flat events
   - Seismic Net Pay: estimates net pay from seismic colour inverted data

SITFAL plugin:
* New plugin CLAS Lite (petrophysics): log editing and calculation of 
derived logs



Bert

-- 
-- Bert Bril / OpendTect developer at dGB
-- mailto:Bert.Bril at opendtect.org , http://opendtect.org