Sinkhole Analysis Starts Here: How a Regional Hydrologist Unlocks the Power of the Peaks and Depressions Map Type For geoscientists and hydrologists, identifying and mapping sinkholes is a critical step in a wide range of projects, from managing natural hazards to protecting sensitive cave environments. [...]
How 3D Visualization Is Improving Data Communication in Environmental Consulting Environmental projects depend on more than collecting accurate data; they depend on communicating it clearly. Whether you’re mapping subsurface contamination, modeling terrain, or tracking changes over time, the datasets behind these efforts are often large, [...]
Top Ways 3D Data Visualization Is Innovating Water Resource Management Water resources—whether aquifers, rivers, or lakes—don’t exist in flat layers. They move, interact, and evolve in three-dimensional space. Yet, for decades, it’s been common to try to visualize and understand these systems using 2D maps [...]
Templates: Your New Graphing Go-To (Part 6) — How to Customize Your Graph While Increasing Your Efficiency When you’re visualizing complex data, control over your plot’s design matters. Every color, axis range, and label placement plays a critical role in how clearly your data’s story [...]
Templates: Your New Graphing Go-To (Part 5)—Tired of Being the Designated “Graphing Pro”? Here’s How Templates Help. You’re great at transforming data into compelling graphs. That’s why your teammates come to you with requests like: “Can you create this plot?” “How did you make that [...]
Behind the Grids: How Kriging Helped Map Alberta’s Groundwater and Geology Roger Clissold, Founder and Principal Hydrogeologist at Hydrogeological Consultants Ltd. (HCL), has a long history of turning complex, sparse water well data into usable, public resources. And for decades, his firm has relied on [...]
Cultural Discoveries, Kobe Beef, and Mt. Fuji Views: Inside Gabbie Rhodes’ Japan Adventure For Golden Software’s Content Marketing Specialist, Gabbie Rhodes, traveling isn’t just about seeing new places, it’s about understanding them. After nearly a decade of dreaming about visiting Japan, she finally checked it [...]
Templates: Your New Graphing Go-To (Part 4)—How Templates Make Recreating Your Plots Easier If you’ve ever had to recreate the same plot for a new dataset, you know the pain: it’s tedious, time-consuming, and easy to get wrong. The typical process? Open an old project [...]
Templates: Your New Graphing Go-To (Part 3)—How to Ensure Effective Data Visualization With Templates You work with data for emerging environmental insight, informing infrastructure design, and shaping scientific understanding. But even the most valuable dataset can lose its impact if it isn’t visualized clearly. A [...]
Webinar Recap: Wow Stakeholders with Publication-Quality Maps and Models Recently, our Senior Technical Sales Specialist Drew Dudley hosted a live webinar on how to wow stakeholders with publication-quality maps and models in Surfer. From base layers and title blocks to legends and final layout touches, [...]