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Geological Survey of Canada Open File 8005

3D Linear Referencing – A Methodology

R.M. Montsion, E.A. de Kemp

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doi:10.4095/297830

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Montsion, R.M. and de Kemp, E.A., 2016. 3D Linear Referencing – A Methodology; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8005, 1 .zip file. doi:10.4095/297830

Contents

Document containing workflow and troubleshooting strategies, an idealized dataset stored as data tables, database and shapefiles for testing, data collected at the Sullivan mine in Kimberly, British Columbia stored as data tables, database and shapefiles, two ArcSceneTM project fiels for each dataset, and one GOCAD® project file containing both datasets

Directory structure 

of_8005.pdf
Readme.rtf
Mine_Data
Mine_Geodatabase.gdb Deviation_AllHoles.csv Deviation_NegativeHoles.csv Deviation_PositiveHoles.csv Mine_Collar.csv

Mine_Data.mdb Mine_Scene.sxd Mine_Stratigraphy.csv MineHoles.dxf
Test_Data
Test_Geodatabase.gdb Test_Data_collars.csv Test_Data_Deviation.csv Test_Data_Lithology.csv Test_Data_Markers.csv Test_Holes.dxf Test_Scene.sxd TestData.mdb
GOCAD_Project.prj

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Digital Topographic Data from Natural Resources Canada

System requirements

PC with 486 or greater processor, or Mac® with OS® X v. 10.2.2 or later; Adobe® Reader® v. 6.0 or later; video resolution of 1280 x 1024.

Author contact information

Rebecca Montsion  (rebecca.montsion@canada.ca) Geological Survey of Canada
Room 100
601 Booth St Ottawa, ON K1A 0E9

Availability information

This publication is available for free download through GEOSCAN (http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/).