ARK CLS to build OpendTect version of SCI

Following various communications and discussions with dGB, ARK CLS has decided to make a version of Seismic Coloured Inversion (SCI) which will fully integrate with OpendTect. OpendTect is an open source environment equivalent to the commercial d-Tect system except for ‘dip-steering’capability, neural networks and data access modules. Building a SCI plugin to OpendTect will allow Explorationists who use OpendTect as their interpretation environment to have access to powerful seismic inversion software.

ARK CLS has previously announced (see ARK CLS news article dated 9 Jun 2003) that it intends to develop all new software using Qt. OpendTect is also built using Qt so this fits in very nicely with our plan to migrate SCI to be a Qt application. ARK CLS will continue to build and support a standalone version of SCI but will also develop an OpendTect version in parallel. There will be behavioural differences and some look and feel differences between the two versions of SCI. In the OpendTect version, SCI would not communicate directly with third party data repositories via our ITK and servers. SCI would obtain all the data directly from OpendTect objects. Of course, we would want to minimise the develop effort for ourselves and we would hope that the majority of the source code for both versions would be shared. We believe that the look and feel differences will be configurable at runtime, depending on which version of the software is being invoked.