Geosoft's Target
Geosoft's Target™ is essential geology software that simplifies the processing and visualization of subsurface drillhole and borehole data.



Create and recreate sections in minutes. Process large volume drillhole data with ease. Generate professional-quality maps for presentation.

Using Target, explorationists can better manage drill projects, from initial planning to the evaluation stage.

Built on Geosoft's industry-leading Oasis montaj™ software, Target provides powerful spatial data mapping and processing capabilities.

The Target software application can import and export data directly from the acQuire data management system, enabling you to verify and manage all your drillhole project data.

Together Target and acQuire provide a complete and powerful solution or all your exploration data requirements.

Key Features

Geosoft's Target exploration software provides these surface and drillhole mapping features:

Data Import

ser-friendly Import Wizards enable you to import drillhole data from different data sources, including ASCII, ODBC and Metech's acQuire. Import data from CAD and GIS packages such as Microstation, DXF formats, MapInfo and ArcView. Data validation on import ensures the integrity of any sub-surface information you generate.

Drillhole plans and sections

Easily create and recreate drillhole sections and plans in minutes, using Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) with sensible default settings. Visualize thousands of drillholes at a time.

Powerful data processing

Target includes Geosoft's Oasis montaj™ powerful processing engine for working with large volume spatial data. It provides industry-standard technology for processing large volumes of exploration data for target generation.

Dynamic data linking

Analyze and interrogate your drillhole data in real time via dynamically linked sections, plans and database views.

3D drillhole visualization

Interactive tab dialogs make it easy to create and customize 3D views of grids and profile data. View borehole traces and grid data from different angles in 3 dimensions to spot the relationship between surface and sub-surface features. Display multiple grids horizontal grids stacked vertically, in 3D space. Zoom, pan and rotate objects in the 3D environment, using an interactive 3D dialog. Print and export 3D views to include them in your reports.

Surface mapping

Utilizing function rich gridding routines, grids and contour maps can be created using point sample datasets (eg. streams, soils, rocks, geophysical data) from a variety of raw data sources (ASCII, Excel, Access, and acQuire). Easy-to-use design wizards simplify the creation of grids and contours. Interpretation can be done on all maps with CAD drawing tools, which allow a user to annotate and define areas of interest onto new layers in the map view.

Surface and drillhole data integration

Combine drillhole data with all other surface data and information to create detailed, integrated surface and subsurface maps.

Strip log and compositing

Create scaled graphical strip log display of selected holes or the entire drillhole project with Target's strip log feature. Utilize up to 32 graphical fields to display down hole data. Using the Strip Log feature, geologists can better manage and visualize their drill projects, from initial planning to the evaluation stage.

Professional map production

The software provides a full featured dynamic contouring algorithm with gradient feathering and extensive labeling control for professional quality presentation results. Quickly create multiple and varied types of maps, including gridded maps, surface maps, posted value maps, and sub-location maps.