HGA 1 - An Introduction to Environmental Data Management A groundwater data management training course using Hydro GeoAnalyst for the management and analysis of groundwater data and information.
HGA 2 - Advanced Techniques for Aquifer Characterization In-depth look at the HGA database management software and the tools that allow you to better understand your environmental data.
Groundwater Software Hydro GeoAnalyst Hydro GeoAnalyst is the next generation of integrated groundwater data management and groundwater visualization software.
Hydro GeoAnalyst is the all-in-one groundwater and environmental data management software that integrates a complete range of easy-to-use analysis and reporting tools, with a powerful yet flexible SQL Server database technology.
Hydro GeoAnalyst 2009.1 is full of added functionality and enhancements, delivering functionality unavailable with other commercial software - all within a single, flexible desktop solution.
Groundwater, Borehole, and Hydrogeologic Interpretation and Data Management Software
With Hydro GeoAnalyst, you can expect the highest level of performance and a completely scalable solution to meet your groundwater project demands! Hydro GeoAnalyst is an all-in-one desktop concept that provides one-click access to many powerful features (e.g. Data Transfer System, Query Editor, GIS Map Manager, 2D Cross-Section Editor, 3D-Explorer, Template Manager, Report Editor, and much more!)
“The use of a software program such as HGA can be a very effective management tool for groundwater and environmental data.....a software platform that can organize the historical as well as future data into one centralized management system is ideal for ongoing projects. “ Heidi Littlejohns Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority, Ontario, Canada
"The well-designed software clearly was created by those who understand the needs of the ground water and environmental industry." Ground Water Software Spotlight - June-July issue, 2008
Hydro GeoAnalyst Flexibility
Design the SQL Server database structure, borehole log templates, and reporting styles that YOU want
Add or remove tables and fields, design an unlimited number of lookup tables and soil specifications, and export the modified database structure and templates for use in all your new projects
Hydro GeoAnalyst Scalability
Ability to expand the scope, size, and structure of your SQL Server database
Ability to expand the scope, size, and structure of your database at any point in the project, overcoming a major limitation found with other similar database solutions
Applicable for projects with data sets ranging from 4 to 4000 wells
Hydro GeoAnalyst Expandability
Hydro GeoAnalyst is now integrated with AquiferTest Pro and AquaChem so that you can start your projects in Hydro GeoAnalyst and expand your set of analytical tools as your projects grow to meet all of your hydrogeological analysis needs.
Hydro GeoAnalyst Product Details Overview
Project And Data Management
An easy-to-use Project Wizard guides you in creating the database and project details, there are no restrictions or limitations to the number of database structures or tables you define.
List Editor
Built-in List Editor automatically creates helpful look-up lists for any database field, reducing the number of typo/errors typically encountered with manual data entry.
Query Builder
Hydro GeoAnalyst provides practical search/query tools to help you access and interact with your data using the industry-standard 'Structured Query Language' (SQL).
Cross Section Editor
Hydro GeoAnalyst comes with a fully-integrated cross-section tool designed with all the features you need to create report-ready cross-section interpretations.
Borehole Log Plotter
Built-in Borehole Log Plotter supports the design and creation of professional borehole logs and well construction reports.
Template Manager
Allows you to easily create user-defined, project-specific or regulatory driven database structures. Or you can choose from one of our default templates.
Materials Specification Editor
The Materials Specifications Editor is designed with features to help you manage and edit soil standards, or create specific soil standards based on your needs.
Data Transfer System
The Data Transfer System enables comprehensive importing of data from almost any format. The easy, step-by-step process for importing your data means you can be working with the results in minutes.
GIS Map Manager
The GIS Map Manager is built on ESRI technology and is packed with an abundance of GIS mapping features that seamlessly connect your project maps with the Hydro GeoAnalyst database.
HGA 3D Explorer
A powerful three dimensional visualization and animation package that is integrated within Hydro GeoAnalyst. The 3D-Explorer was designed as a tool for displaying fence diagrams, well locations with lithology, maps, contours, and plumes all within the same 3D environment.
Report Editor
A time-saving component used for creating professional reports that include well profiles, maps, cross-sections, 3D views, data tables, images, and more.
From interpretation and analysis of groundwater and borehole data, to advanced 3D visualization and reporting, professionals like you can:
Manage and report vast amounts of data for municipal, state, & national groundwater monitoring programs
Manage various data types collected at remediation sites (soil and groundwater samples, hydrogeologic profiles, etc.)
Store historic and current project data in a single data management system
Analyze the relationship between subsurface geology, contaminant plumes, and risks to land use policy
Assess borehole data acquired for mineral exploration
Prepare data for use in groundwater models such as Visual MODFLOW
Produce monthly, quarterly, or annual reports mandated by regulators.
Hydro GeoAnalyst 2009.1 Main Highlights
Improved graphical resolution - You now have the option to have a higher resolution image of the cross section sent to the Report Editor
Increased page flexibility - Report Editor allows you to more easily adjust the size settings including page, header, and margins
Precision labeling - When loading data onto the map you now have an option to set the precision (number of decimal places) for all numeric data
Use your own coordinate system - With the new Local Coordinate System you no longer need to convert your coordinate information to a projected system.
Manage your data wherever you are - The Localization feature will read the system settings on your computer and automatically determine how to show your date and numeric data.
Format reports the way you want - With the click of a button, you can pass all your plots to the Report Editor where they will be displayed with the page header and footer information you need for simple and quick reporting.
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Hydro GeoAnalyst is developed by Schlumberger Water Services, a leading software development firm that has been providing easy-to-use programs to the groundwater and environmental industry since 1989. Professional applications of HGA include:
Managing data for municipal, state, & national groundwater monitoring networks
Managing data associated with remediation projects
Managing well construction details and registration information
Analyzing borehole data acquired for mineral exploration
Interpreting geologic & hydrostratigraphic data
GIS mapping & reporting of aquifer extents and geologic formations
Storing sanitary landfill monitoring data
Evaluating & reporting the spatial distribution of water quality parameters
Reporting downhole data (Borehole Lithology, Geophysics, Concentrations, etc.)
Who Are Hydro GeoAnalyst Users?
Hydro GeoAnalyst is extremely well suited for a wide range of specializations where data collection, management, visualization, and reporting is required. Hydro GeoAnalyst users include:
PROJECT AND DATA MANAGEMENT
Hydro GeoAnalyst is the ideal groundwater software tool for the technical management of your hydrogeological investigations. Design the data structure, borehole log templates, and reporting styles that YOU want. Add or remove tables and fields, design an unlimited number of lookup tables and soil specifications, and export modified database structures and templates for use in all your groundwater projects.
Unlike other similar database solutions, Hydro GeoAnalyst enables you to expand the scope, size, and structure of your database at any point in the project, a major limitation found with other similar database solutions, and is applicable for projects with data sets ranging from 10 to 10000 wells.
Hydro GeoAnalyst provides the following features:
Manage all project properties, client and personnel information (project name, client name, address, email, telephone, photo, company logo, etc.)
Specify user-access rights for managers and project personnel
Choose from a wide range of coordinate systems during or after project setup (UTM, Geographic, State Planar, and many other country-specific formats)
Connect to SQL Express or SQL Server databases over your local (LAN) or wide area network (WAN)
The List Editor allows you to create helpful look-up lists for any database field within Hydro GeoAnalyst, reducing the number of typo/errors typically encountered with manual data entry.
Create visual lookup items using graphics for items such as annual fill, well casings, rock or soil colors. Additionally, the List Editor allows importing of look-up list items from external sources such as Comma separated (CSV) files, Excel Spreadsheets (XLS), MS Access databases (MDB), Any other ODBC or OLEDB data sources.
The integrated Query Builder allows you to quickly assess your data by enabling you to design and execute simple or complex SQL Statements.
Use the results of your queries as the basis for map layers, graphs or cross-tab queries. Quickly assess standard hydrogeological questions or data visualization requirements such as mapping all boreholes deeper than a specified depth, mapping pumping wells with pump rates greater at any given value, reporting groundwater/soil concentrations, identifying stations with chemical concentration exceedances.
The Query Builder provides the following features:
Save any SQL Statement for use on future projects requiring similar queries
Generate quick statistics from your queries (e.g. AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, STDEV, STDEVP, SUM, VAR, VARP)
SQL View/Preview panel ensures SQL Statements match user definitions
Automatic validation of SQL statements provides warning for incorrect syntax
Logical use of expressions and operations make data querying easy (e.g. >, >=, <=, <, =, < >, !=, !<, !>, LIKE, IS, IS NOT, BETWEEN, &, !)
Edit/modify SQL Statements directly within the SQL Preview panel
Interpreting and visualizing borehole data is a crucial step in understanding the subsurface regime. The Cross-Section Editor is designed with easy-to-use tools for interpreting your subsurface data.
The Cross-Section Editor is seamlessly integrated with the Map Manager so you can view and edit your cross-section lines directly on your maps, as well as the 3D-Explorer, a tool that enables you to display one or more cross-sections in a 3D fence diagram view.
The Cross-Section Editor allows for three types of data interpretation:
Geologic Interpretations: layers representing unique geologic formations at the site
Hydrogeologic Interpretations: layers representing hydrogeologic properties at the site (aquifer, confined aquifer, aquitard, aquiclude, etc)
Model Interpretations: defined layers used in groundwater modeling. Generating model layer point information for use in numerical modeling packages such as Visual MODFLOW
The Cross-Section Editor provides the following features:
Automatic display of screened intervals, water table elevations, lithologic data, and borehole log plots (including geophysical or concentration profiles) on cross-sections
Select standard or customized cross-section fill patterns from the Geology Layer Pattern tool
Display the locations of intersecting layers and/or cross sections
Dynamically view the location of boreholes in the Map Preview
Send cross-sections to the Report Editor to produced professional reports, export interpretations as image files, or copy cross-sections directly to the clipboard
Select one of our pre-defined borehole log templates or design your ideal template from scratch and generate borehole logs quickly and efficiently for all boreholes in your project. Automated data links mean the most current data is read directly from the database every time to view your logs, reducing the need for user intervention.
Borehole log plots can provide real-time data entry quality checking; view a well’s borehole log as you manually data into the database to help your interpretations, or within the Map Manager to help you understand the controls on the spatial distribution of your data.
The Borehole Log Plotter provides the following features:
Automatic display of well construction details, lithologic information, and water level data
Add charts to display depth-related data in the boreholes such as downhole geophysical profiles, contaminant concentration or PID readings, grain size, etc
Add or remove log columns for virtually any field in the database
Switch between log scale and normal scales when logging boreholes
Reference water level measurements to Top of Casing or ground surface elevations
Import/export final borehole log templates to exchange with other HGA users or projects
Generate professional log reports including logos and other custom fields
Export final borehole log reports to various formats (HTML, RTF, PDF, XLS, TIF, TXT)
Print multiple borehole logs as a group, or individually
The Template Manager is a built-in tool for managing the design of your database templates. Using the Template Manager, you can refine your database structure by adding or deleting tables and fields, specifying table and field properties (e.g. primary keys, data types, etc.), and setting referential integrity constraints for your data.
With the Materials Specification Editor, you can quickly develop your own soils specifications palettes using a wide range of graphical file formats (JPG, BMP, GIF, ICO, WMF, EMF) or choose from a range of supported standards, including:
Unified Soil Classifications System (USCS)
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN 4023)
International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH)
Hydro GeoAnalyst’s Data Transfer System (DTS) enables comprehensive importing of data from almost any format. The easy, step-by-step process for importing your data means you can be working with the results in minutes.
The DTS provides the following features:
On-the-fly unit and coordinate system conversions during import and export
Seamless data validation and error checking during data import, with the option to accept or reject selected records during import
Saving each data transfer configuration for use again and again
Importing of data from the following file types: Comma separated (CSV) files, Microsoft ExcelTM spreadsheets (XLS), Microsoft AccessTM databases (MDB), LAS files, diver MON files, any other ODBC or
OLEDB data sources (DBF)
Importing analytical lab results (e.g. Electronic Data Deliverables - EDD's)
The GIS Map Manager is fully integrated with the other features within Hydro GeoAnalyst, providing you with all the tools you need for analyzing and presenting the spatial orientation of your hydrogeological project data.
Since the Map Manager is built into Hydro GeoAnalyst, you can develop contour maps (elevations, concentrations, water table, etc.), thematic maps, and display tables or time series plots by station without having to first spend time re-entering or reformatting your data.
Contouring of project data such as water levels or contaminant concentrations is an effective method of analyzing the spatial distribution of data. The Map Manager contouring tool provides you with full control over which data are used to complete the contouring, allowing you to contour data in time, for specific geologic units, or for selected regions of your site. Examples of contour applications include:
Water table elevations
Chemical concentrations
Layer surface elevations
Property distributions
Contour moisture distribution within unsaturated layers
Aquifer vulnerability indices
Levels of risk from a source point concentration
The GIS Map Manager enables thematic mapping for spatial display of the distribution of a single attribute/characteristic or the relationship between several attributes. Options include pie graphs, bar charts, graduated polygon distributions, or the ability to assign various symbol styles to specific point values. Thematic maps are useful for highlighting relationships between:
Wells with head elevations above or below ground surface (Artesian conditions)
Groundwater pumping volumes and precipitation (Recharge potential)
Layer thickness from ground surface to subsequent layers (Aggregate exploration)
Soil types (sand versus clay) and aquifer vulnerability to contamination
Graduated value polygons for land use or contaminant source inventories
Population density versus aquifer thickness
The GIS Map Manager provides the following features:
Effortlessly load query or station group data from any table within your project database
Display data in tabular or plot formats for selected stations on the map
Import/open a vast array of basemaps for your projects including: DEM and GRD files, Window Bitmap (BMP, DIB), JPEG (JPG), Tiff (TIF, TFF, TIFF), MrSID (SID), AutoCAD Files (DXF, DWG), shapefiles (SHP)
Quickly georeference raster images for display on your maps
Create color ramps, gradients, shading, etc
Perform 2D or 3D interpolations using Natural Neighbor, Inverse Distance, or Kriging methods
Annotate maps using standard drawing tools or add text using Windows true-type fonts
Export Map views as Raster images or copy maps directly to the clipboard
Pass maps to the Report Editor to create professional reports for any map project
The HGA 3D-Explorer brings your data to life and takes the guessing out of data interpretation. The 3D-Explorer offers a unique perspective of the entire site through its ability to display multiple cross-sections simultaneously and overlay basemaps relating fence diagrams to surface features. Create, view, and animate plumes in time to better understand the controls on contaminant migration at your site.
The 3D-Explorer provides the following features:
Render colorful, high-impact, 2D/3D views of any number of cross-sections with basemap overlays, isosurfaces (i.e. water table elevations or geological layers), isolines (i.e. concentration maps)
Grids, and well locations with lithological data
Create animation (AVI) files for use in presentations
Display your plume data in four dimensions (x, y, z, t)
Estimate the volume for defined plumes
Drape basemaps over any selected surface
Create planar slices: Horizontal, or YZ, XZ planes, with user-specified cut-off limits
Legend displays relate soil names and patterns
Send 3D views to the Report Editor to generate professional reports, Export 3D view to image format (JPG, GIF, BMP), or copy 3D graphics directly to the clipboard
Save maps or isosurfaces back to your project for further modification
Hydro GeoAnalyst has all the built-in tools for professional data output - without the need to purchase any additional software. The Report Editor allows you to dynamically link your HGA data to our default report templates, or create your own user-customized templates to standardize reporting formats in your office and give your reports the look and feel you desire without the lengthy time and effort such activities normally require.
The Report Editor provides the following features:
Insert well profiles, maps, cross-sections, 3D views, data tables, images, etc.
Design standard headers and footers that include your corporate logo
Control object formatting (alignment and distribution) and adjust text color, font, style, size, location
Create an unlimited number of report layouts and save for use again and again
Supports VisualBasic Script and JavaScript events and expressions
Generate barcode labels for sampling events
Add report bookmarks and internet hyperlinks
Preview the complete report prior to printing
Export final reports to PDF, RTF, HTML, Microsoft ExcelTM (XLS), TIF, or TXT formats
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