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Slocum glider generates scientific payload in undersea

Slocum glider generates scientific payload in undersea data

Graham Chandler

Autonomous, remote-controlled submersible gliders are revolutionizing undersea data gathering. Canada’s Institute of Ocean Sciences puts one through its paces.
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Exploration Technology: Retooling for the digital data revolution

Exploration Technology: Retooling for the digital data revolution

Carmela Burns

Information technology remains a key driver for improving effectiveness and results, particularly when you consider the growing data requirements of modern day exploration.
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Areva takes strategic approach to exploration information management

Areva takes strategic approach to exploration information management

Virginia Heffernan

Areva Resources Southern Africa pilots standard technology platform for managing and optimizing the use of their exploration information assets in South Africa.
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Exploring the data-rich Nevada goldfields

Exploring the data-rich Nevada goldfields

Virginia Heffernan

As a well-established consulting geologist working in the middle of the Nevada goldfields, Buster Hunsaker has adopted software and GIS as a critical part of his exploration tool kit – both in the field and in the office.
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Snooping under Northern Ireland: The Tellus Initiative

Snooping under Northern Ireland: The Tellus Initiative

Graham Chandler

Intensive aerial and ground data gathering by the Tellus Project produces extensive multi-use geophysical and geochemical data and collects five awards along the way.
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Subsurface Geology Challenges Goiânia's Metro

Subsurface Geology Challenges Goiânia's Metro

Graham Chandler

Geotechnical study for Goiania's subway system characterizes what lies beneath the city on the proposed Metro route, and paves the way for construction of Metro system that will alleviate Goiânia’s congestion while preserving the city's heritage.
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Russia's Missing Link

Russia's Missing Link

Virginia Heffernan

The mineral potential is there. The geoscientists are highly educated. For the past few years, exploration spending has been robust. So why isn’t Russia further ahead in the discovery of new mineral resources? The answer may come down to technology.
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