Earth Engineering

Earth Engineering interconnects Earth Engineering, Geosciences, and Resource Management disciplines. You can use Earth Engineering to import large volumes of geoscience data, then access your content under the unified data model of 3DEXPERIENCE for engineering.

See Also
Earth Engineering Basics
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3DEXPERIENCE Platform
3DEXPERIENCE Native Apps

Earth Engineering participates in the civil engineering suite of apps. Complementary functions for Earth Engineering are available in Building and Civil Assemblies and Terrain Preparation apps. Dedicated to geoscientists, mine engineers, mine designers, civil, and earthworks engineers who serve in the infrastructure sector, Earth Engineering enables to:

  • Import geoscience data or models, such as, block model files and geophysics data.
    • Block models are stored in input .csv files that are translated into short-term production modeling targets, most frequently referred to as STPM.
    • Geophysics data are stored in .Tif files.
  • Support large point clouds.
  • Store and access imported geoscience data or models and their attributes.
  • Visualize and filter large volumes of STPM data, including regular block models.
  • Manage complete geoscience data sets.
  • Manage geolocation at import or export consistently throughout the overall infrastructure design.

Earth Engineering involves defining what type of geoscience data to ingest in 3DEXPERIENCE and how to assemble and structure your geoscience content under the product structure common for multidiscipline engineering. Earth Engineering supports two additional formats for geoscience data:

  • csv: for regularized grade model—regular block models (sample data) as input.
  • Tif: for geophysical data collected on site during exploration phase as input. For example, they can result from conductivity and gradiometry measures.

Before you begin using Earth Engineering, you must have the geoscience data prepared for import. The geoscience model—including regular block models (sample data)—must be created in another dedicated app.

You can use Earth Engineering app along with other apps. For example, these can be part of the production resource modeling, geodata production, short-term resource modeling, and short-term production modeling.

Building and Civil Assemblies and Terrain Preparation include geolocation tools that you can reuse in other apps. Geolocation and design range management are two distinct functionalities.

For information on accessing Earth Engineering, see Opening an App from the Compass.