Strater offers unsurpassed flexibility in log design and layout with 12 popular log types to graphically display your data imported from a multitude of sources. Customize each log to suit your needs by drawing or importing objects, specifying colors and patterns of schemes, inserting text descriptors for emphasis, and many more options.

The flexibility Strater offers is unparalleled. Use Strater to graphically display your subsurface data:

• Depth or elevation of wells and boreholes
• Lithology, including percent lithology and lithologic descriptions
• Multiple boreholes in a single view
• A wide range of data: Spontaneous potential, gamma ray, caliper, neutron, DST, bulk density, resistivity, drilling rate, gas quality, total gas, and sonic data
• Blow counts, sample number, sample type, permeability, RQD, OVM readings, percent recovery, and more
• Contaminant concentrations, moisture content, and well construction details
• Assay data, alteration or mineralization lithology, BTU values, and ash content
• Ancillary well information such as notes, remarks, and other text items
• Virtually any type of interval or depth data

Industries capitalizing on Strater:

Oil and Gas	Environmental	Water Resources
Geophysical	Geotechnical	Government
Mud Logging	Geothermal	Education
Mining	Energy	Military
Exploration	Utilities	And More

Strater Flexible Borehole Design

Strater offers unsurpassed flexibility in log design and layout. The advanced user interface makes designing and displaying your data easier than ever. Simply select the log type you want to create, click on the page where you want the log to be created, specify a data file and the import parameters, and the log is created. No other log plotting package in its class can create logs this easily.

Customize your borehole designs by easily creating, editing, and updating illustrative and informative header, footer, and log items in their separate design areas. Strater includes 12 popular log types to graphically display your data. Each of the logs can be modified to suit your needs. The header and footer areas are ideal to store the detailed information about the logs, such as well number, driller, location, drilling method, company name, and company logo. Strater offers interactive point-and-click selection and modification of every item in your borehole design. 

We want to make sure you can have all your data and logs easily accessible in one project. Strater allows you to create multiple borehole views and data tables and store them all in a single project. Each borehole view can contain a different borehole design, allowing tremendous flexibility in the presentation of your data. You can easily switch between borehole views with a single click. You can also import and store data for multiple boreholes in one data table. Having the data for all your boreholes together allows you to switch between borehole names with a single click. When you change the borehole names, the logs update immediately and automatically with the new information.

Communicate a variety of borehole data in one view using
several different log types for a comprehensive report.
 

Show the various stratigraphic layers in the borehole using the
lithology log with customizable fill patterns and colors.
 

Well construction logs, in addition to Strater’s other 11 log types,
are essential to environmental and geotechnical professionals.

Strater Log Types

Strater includes 12 popular log types to graphically display your data:

Zone Bar Bar Percentage Graphic

Well Construction Lithology Post Classed Post

Complex Text Line/Symbol Crossplot Depth

Strater logs give you full control over all log parameters. You can accept the Strater defaults to automatically create a log, or select a log and easily customize the log features in the Property Manager.

Zone Bar Log

Display a wide variety of logging data with the zone bar log. For instance, zone bars can represent sample intervals, alteration zones, contamination layers, etc. They also provide a mechanism to display simple keyword text objects either with or without background fill.

    
Create zone bars to display interval information, 
such as formation thicknesses and alteration zones
 

Bar Log

Show your data as either a standard bar log or a polarity bar log! A standard bar plots a bar from the data minimum value to the row's data value. The polarity bar plots data based upon zero, so if there is a mix of negative and positive data, bars exist on both sides of the zero line. Effortlessly switch the bar type for bar logs between standard and polarity.

Plot your data using a bar log.

Percentage Log

Visually compare the percentages of items in a borehole easily using the percentage log! The percentage log can be used to show different percentages of alteration types, mineralization types, geochemical data, or rock types. The percentage log uses data fields to create a series of blocks (interval data) or polygons (depth data). You can select any number of numerical fields from a specified table. If you select five fields, five different blocks or polygons are created. The data for each row are normalized to 100 percent, so the data in each row's field can be any value. Add text labels to quickly show the exact percentage of each item in the log.

  
Show the percentage of multiple components per
sampling interval using the percentage log.

Graphic Log

Create graphic logs to display images directly on the log.The graphic log allows you to specify the graphic file names and show them to represent specified intervals of data. Your image files may be any of the following graphic file types: AN1, AN2, BMP, BW, DCM, DIC, ECW, GIF, JPG, PBM, PCX, PGM, PNG, PNM, PPM, RAS, RGB, RGBA, SID, SUN, TGA, TIF, VTK, X, or XIMG. This is useful in displaying photos of the core, alteration, rock types, sample intervals, etc. You also have the option to stretch the images to fit the space available in a log block.

Display bitmap images as a log. Graphic logs are great for showing images versus depth, such as core or thin section photos.

Well Construction Log

The well construction log replicates a well construction diagram for the log, and is generally used in the environmental industry. The well construction log shows how the monitoring well or piezometer was created. This log shows items such as screen, packing material, end caps, and covers. The well construction log is a visual representation of the well rather than a detailed engineering drawing to scale. 

Well construction logs display diagrams of wells.
 

Lithology Log

Show the various stratigraphic layers in the borehole using the lithology log. The display can be as simple as a filled block, or the display can be more elaborate and show weathering patterns and contact line styles. Lithology logs can show distinct contact line styles and indent percentages/scales to show weathering profiles.

Use the lithology log type to display all your lithologic data.
 

Post Log

Post logs are used to display symbol positions and text at particular depths. The symbols can represent sample locations at depth or intervals, and in the case of monitoring wells, the depth to water, contamination, etc. Symbols can be rotated according to data in the data table. The log also allows placing text at one of five positions relative to the symbol position

Post symbols at certain depth locations using a post log.
You can rotate symbols to any angle specified in the data table. 
 

Classed Post Log

Classed post logs are used to display symbol positions and text at particular depths with symbol properties based on numerical values in the data. Symbols can be rotated according to data in the data table. The log also allows placing text at one of five positions relative to the symbol position.

Classed post logs display a symbol at each depth location with the symbol properties
based upon another field of data. You can choose to show text labels.
 

Complex Text Log

Complex text logs can be used to show rock descriptions, alteration descriptions, and any general descriptive text that represents interval data. The text is generally more than just one or two words; it is generally a sentence or series of sentences. The long sentences are wrapped to fit within the bounds specified for the log item. Complex text logs can have arrows, brackets, or offset ticks to separate the text fields. Each text block can be individually edited by double clicking on the text section. Text may also be rotated to fit your design, and repeated for those text blocks straddling page breaks.

       
Display text notes and descriptions easily using the complex text log.
You can change the text content or the text properties by simply double clicking over the text.
 

Line/Symbol Logs

Display your depth data as a graph. Line/symbol logs can be useful for displaying assay values, geophysical parameters, moisture content, etc. You can wrap line/symbol logs with multiple styles: truncate, custom wrap, wrap at a 10X scale, or wrap at a 100X scale. You can show continuous or discontinuous lines for areas where there are missing data, set a cutoff value and fill, and add text labels to your log.

   
Line/symbol logs show depth data as a graph.
 

Crossplot Log

Crossplots plot two line/symbol logs and highlight where they cross each other. You can specify the curve line, fill, and symbol properties for both curves and you can set the fill properties for the overlapping portion.

See exactly where two curves on a graph intersect using the crossplot log.
 

Depth Logs

Quickly see the depth or elevation of your log using the depth log as a scale bar. Optionally set your depth logs to show depth or elevation, or positive or negative values. You can add tick marks, tick mark labels, and specify the interval between major or minor tick marks. Tick labels for depth logs straddling a page break are repeated on each page if desired.

Depth logs provide a depth scale for reference. Depth logs can display depths in feet (above, left),
meters (above, right), inches, centimeters, millimeters, or yards.

Strater Header and Footers

Utilize the header and footer design areas to include comprehensive text descriptions, linked text, imported image files, or drawing objects. You can set the header and footer areas to be any size you wish. 

You can create an exceptional and impressive log by importing company logos, icons, and artwork. You can also speedily click-and-draw and click-and-edit text, polygons, polylines, symbols, rectangles, rounded rectangles, squares, ellipses, and circles. All items can be fully modified, including font, color, size, fills, width, etc. Add text objects in header and footer areas that are linked to your database, such as borehole name, page numbers, field units, or field descriptions. When the borehole information is changed, this information automatically updates.

Create informative headers that display detailed information about the project, 
such as project name, company name, driller or well identifier, location, drilling date, 
and imported graphics (e.g. company logo or site map).

Strater Data Tables

Quickly prepare your data with Strater’s data table features: Display, enter, edit, sort, find, replace, copy, paste, and print data with the ease of worksheet-like functionality. Apply mathematical equations and functions to your data. Calculate statistics for your data. Use multiple sheets from a single Excel file. Reload all data in all project data tables with one command. Create collars, depth, interval, lithology, project information, text item, and well construction tables. Delete and add tables as needed. Define a new hole or remove hole data at any time. Easily insert an image file name and file path. Automatically create a scheme based on data table contents. Convert depth data to interval data. Rename a Hole ID or a table. Export data tables in several common file formats (see list below). Individual, tabbed data tables enable you to efficiently prepare your data to create your logs. Import data from common spreadsheet and database formats, including: ACCDB, BLN, BNA, CSV, DAT, DBF, LAS, MDB, ODBC, OLE DB, SLK, TXT, WKS, WRK, XLS, XLSX, and other SQL database sources. You can import data for multiple boreholes into one data table, and you can create multiple data tables in one project. You can rename any data table to descriptive names to keep your data organized, and you can export any data table in any of these file formats: BLN, BNA, CSV, DAT, SLK, TXT, or XLS. If source data files are updated with new information, you can automatically reload the data into Strater to update the logs. The data table view provides the functionality needed to make sure you can get your data in the necessary format to create the logs you want. For example, if you have depth data, you can easily convert it to interval data to create zone bar, complex text, or lithology logs. You can define a new borehole in the data table and enter data for that borehole, or you can remove data for a particular borehole at any time. To help make creating a graphic log easy, you can insert a graphic file path and file name into the database view with just a few clicks – you do not have to remember and manually type in the file path and file name. Create or import multiple types of data tables and each data table can store data for multiple boreholes.

Strater Multiple Boreholes

Multiple boreholes can be displayed in the borehole view enabling you to visually compare the subsurface data for an unlimited number of boreholes. Each log has an ID Filter option in the Property Manager, where you specify the hole for each individual log to display. Compare subsurface data for multiple boreholes in a single view.

Strater Templates

It is faster to update a log with new data than to start from scratch. Using template files is an essential tool designed to make bulk log processing easy and efficient. Once a borehole is designed, you can reuse the design by saving it as a template. The template file stores all the data tables, schemes, and graphical features without the imported data, so you can create borehole designs to be easily reused in other projects or by other users. Use one of the many predefined template files included with Strater, or create your own.

Load one of the predefined template files and the information is displayed in the
borehole view using placeholder logs. All the schemes and data tables from the
original file are stored in the template file. Just enter your data into the data tables,
activate the borehole view, and the logs will update with the new data.

Strater Schemes

Schemes provide a way to load drawing properties based on a keyword or range value defined in the imported data. For example, a lithology log uses lithology schemes. The lithology scheme contains keywords, such as granite, clay, etc. Each of these keywords is assigned a fill pattern, contact line properties, line properties, and text properties. Schemes can be reused; therefore, you do not have to go through the time-consuming process of assigning the same properties each time you create a new log. Reusing scheme files is ideal for those who want to continue making the same looking borehole designs for a wide variety of borehole data. Use one of the predefined scheme files included with Strater, or create your own.

The Scheme Editor is where you link specific range values or keywords to display properties. In the example above, the lithology keyword “Granite” is tied to a granite fill pattern and other specific display properties. When the scheme is assigned to a lithology log, every time the word "Granite" is used in the database table field, Strater uses the properties assigned in the scheme in the graphical borehole display.

Use the USCS scheme file provided with Strater to define the fill patterns for your logs.

Strater Property Manager

Tabs in the Property Manager help you quickly find
and edit all the properties of a selected object.

Strater Object Manager

Use the Object Manager to easily access and edit all
the objects that are shown in your borehole view.

Strater Borehole Manager

• Single-page or continuous printing—Choose between single-page or continuous printing to any Windows printer or plotter.
• Automatically or manually set the borehole starting, ending, and scaling depths.
• Automatically set the borehole depths based on a collars data table.
• Customize your Strater work area with your preferred buttons, commands, keyboard shortcuts, menus, options, and tool bars.
• Comprehensive Undo/Redo support.
• Setup Strater the way you like by controlling and modifying the default settings.
• Copy your logs in Strater and paste them directly into a Microsoft Word report or PowerPoint presentation.
• Scale your logs with the improved scaling options: relative, user-defined, and from a collars table.
• Use an unlimited number of items in a scheme.
• Convert a keyword scheme to a lithology scheme and vice versa.
• Format numeric labels by setting the number of decimal digits or adding a suffix or prefix.
• Add objects to the log pane by drawing, importing, or copying and pasting.
• Repeat tick labels that straddle page breaks on all pages for depth logs.

Strater Import/Export Formats

Borehole View Import Formats
AN1, AN2, BLN, BMP, BNA, BW, DCM, DDF, DIC, DLG, DXF, E00, ECW, EMF, GIF, GSB, GSI, JPG, LGO, LGS, MIF, PBM, PCX, PGM, PLT, PLY, PNG, PNM, PPM, RAS, RGB, RGBA, SHP, SID, SUN, TGA, TIF, VTK, WMF, X, XIMG

Borehole View Export Formats
BLN, BMP, BNA, BW, CGM, DXF, EMF, EPS, GIF, GSB, GSI, JPG, MIF, PBM, PCX, PDF (vector/raster), PGM, PNG, PNM, PPM, RAS, RGB, RGBA, SHP, SUN, TGA, TIF, WMF, X, XIMG

Data Table Import Formats
ACCDB, BLN, BNA, CSV, DAT, DBF, LAS, MDB, ODBC, OLE DB, SLK, TXT, WKS, WRK, XLS, XLSX, and other SQL database sources

Data Table Export Formats
BLN, BNA, CSV, DAT, SLK, TXT, or XLS