Getting started with Geocap

Introduction

Geocap is a software for visualization and manipulation of geodata. The core features of Geocap are:

• 2D/3D visualization of any geodata in the same graphics window
• Gridding
• Plotting
• 2D seismic and interpretation
• Geodetic conversion
• Image georeferencing
• Workflows
• GIS
• Scripting

On top of these features Geocap provides a set of plugins that fit perfectly in to your line of work:

• Shelf - for continental shelf delineation in accordance with UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Article 76.
• Seafloor - for processing survey data from multibeam echo sounders.
• Ground Model - for ground model construction in all stages of project development.
• Oil & Gas and GIM - for oil exploration and reservoir modeling.

Your Geocap installation will consist of the basic Geocap platform and one or several of these plugins.

Exercises:

Start Geocap

Open Geocap from the main Windows Start Menu > All Programs > Geocap.

Starting Geocap from the startmenu

User Documentation

Parts of the user documentation is found under the Help pulldown. There rest is found here: http://www.geocap.no/doc. Read briefly through the documentation to get an understanding of what you can expect to find in the documents.

The user documentations consists of:

• User Guide with detailed descriptions of Geocap usage.
• Reference manual with syntax and details of the commands in the Geocap scripting language.
• Installation Guide with details on installation, dongle drivers etc.
• Release Notes contains incremental updates and bug fix descriptions as well as major releases.
• Articles is a collection of articles on various topics that still is not included in the documentation.
• Tutorials contains thematic tutorials on products. The General tutorials mainly contains topics that are put in a better context within the more specialized product tutorials.
• FAQ is a list of Frequently asked questions, with their corresponding answers.
• Geocap Extensions contains different scripts and add-on functionality for Geocap.

The Options dialog

The Options dialog lets you define what Geocap should do on startup. This means that you can predefine a background color, working directory, data window and automatic loading of plugins and scripts etc.