The Geological Survey of Botswana implements Geosoft DAP Server to power their geophysical data delivery and retrieval

"DAP technology addresses the efficient finding, evaluation and retrieval of large spatial datasets on networks. It is optimised for our industry's needs."
Hudson Ngwisanyi, Geological Survey of Botswana

Customer:	The Geological Survey of Botswana (GSB)
Country:	Botswana, Africa
Industry:	Government
Solution:	Geophysical Data Delivery and Retrieval System
Technology:	Geosoft DAP Server

Summary

Government Geological Surveys, like the Geological Survey of Botswana, are storehouses of large, valuable geoscientific exploration data. Today, they are challenged to find solutions for efficiently storing and delivering the data to internal staff, and also to meet the growing needs of public consumers interested in using the data to fuel their exploration programs.

Business Need:
The Geological Survey of Botswana (GSB) needed to deliver thousands of megabytes of geoscientific, exploration data to their Data Retrieval System (DRS) staff and their customers. Their needs included having a survey metadata capture interface, a survey management interface, a customized user interface to view and access available data and a map creation facility.

Geosoft Solution:
In order to meet their data distribution requirements, the GSB implemented a National Digital Geophysical Data Retrieval System utilizing Geosoft DAP Server technology, to deliver windowed and reformatted data to the user.

The Geosoft DAP data server was interfaced with an Oasis montaj client for internal data retrieval.

Results:
Data Retrieval System staff at the GSB are able to access data in their coordinate system, with instant reprojection, reformating and resampling of the data to meet their format requirements.