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Image acquisition
Image evaluation
Cores of different rocks
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Introduction Optical scanner

Rotating borehole image Features of the Optical Scanner include:
  • continuous, detailed, and scaled 360o true-colour images of the borehole walls for documentation and interpretation (standard file formats, bmp, tiff, etc.)
  • feature analysis including dip, strike, frequency, and fracture aperture
  • a popular visual data display option is the projection of features onto an imaginary core that can be rotated and viewed
  • replacement of expensive coring with its associated problems of incomplete core recovery
  • borehole deviation log (dip and dip direction of the borehole) to calculate the true borehole coordinates x, y, z for the production of bulls-eye diagrams, etc.
  • total magnetic field strength and magnetic field vector information
  • natural gamma ray information
  • 150 m scan in 1 hour with a vertical resolution of 1 mm
  • over 5 years experience and over 100 km virtual cores produced (Namibia, Niger, Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Canada, Peru, Europe)
  • surface and underground, vertical and horizontal, core and RC drill holes
  • portable and vehicle mounted operation
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