1. What’s New in
KINGDOM Version 8.6
KINGDOM version 8.6 includes the following new features for KINGDOM Core and
KINGDOM Advanced.
KINGDOM v8.6 Features KINGDOM KINGDOM
Core Advanced
KINGDOM-Wide Capabilities
New KINGDOM Fault System
Deviated Well Borehole Arbitrary Line
Rulers on Base Maps and Vertical Displays
New Well Data Refresh Functionality
Base Map Scale Bar
Transparency for Polygons
Notifications Tab in User Preferences
Enhanced Project Security
VuPAK
Microseismic Analysis—New Functionality
Microseismic—Multiple Attribute Filtering
Reconstructed Project Annotations
New Interface for Project and Survey Annotation
2d/3dPAK
Preferred Mode—Misties Tables
Preferred Mode—Time Depth Chart Lists
Horizon Editing Tools
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2. Horizon Editing Tool—Erase by Attribute
Horizon Picking Tools
Sync Report for Seismic Slice Volumes
EarthPAK
Display TVD (Reference Elevation) along Borehole
Export Monthly and Cumulative Production
Improved Authoring of Zones and Zone Attributes
VelPAK
Ease of Use Enhancements
User Interface Enhancements
Curve Tool Enhancements
Workflow Tool
Surface Tool
Well Tool
Learn more about KINGDOM through these resources on the SMT Web site:
• Training Course Catalog
• Getting Started Services
• The KINGDOM Newsletter
• Technical Webinars
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3. KINGDOM-Wide Capabilities
New KINGDOM Fault System
Improved Technology for Better Faults
The New Fault System is a complete redesign of the original fault system to provide a
more accurate interpretation with new tools to modify fault surfaces.
• A new triangulation engine provides better fault surfaces.
• Fault smoothing using flex grid technology smooths one or all fault surfaces.
• Fault polygons are created using the exact line of intersection between the fault and the
horizon or grid.
Fault polygons are calculated as the
precise intersection between the
horizon and the fault surface.
The polygons can then be used for
gridding and contouring. Fault
polygons contain Z-values which
assist in contouring around the faults.
The New Fault System
provides improved
integration into 3D
visualization in VuPAK.
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4. The fault smoothing
tool allows the
geoscientist to
smooth one or all
faults in a project
with a single button
click.
Smoothing uses
Flex Grid
technology.
Set the amount of
smoothing to apply
and create new,
smoothed faults or
replace existing
faults.
When required, additional smoothing automatically finds outliers and removes them from
the interpretation.
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5. New KINGDOM Fault System (con’t)
Groundwork Set for Future Fault Enhancements
The New Fault System contains additional capabilities that allow KINGDOM to
expand fault enhancements into the future.
• Better fit between segment and surface views.
• Vertical separation as an attribute on the fault surface.
• Dozens of additional enhancements.
The red fault to the
left shows both the
surface and
segment.
The new fault
system will create
surfaces that fit the
segments digitized
on the VSD.
New fault
management tools
simplify fault
handling.
New tools provide
options to
manipulate vertical
separation.
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6. Deviated Well Borehole Arbitrary Line
Create an Arbline along a Single, Deviated Well
New functionality has been added to seismic arbitrary line creation. In order to
faithfully represent the path of a deviated well through a structurally complex setting,
this new functionality creates an arbitrary line that accurately follows the well path
with a single click.
• This new arbitrary line will be created automatically along a single deviated well borehole.
• Users can select 'Single along One Deviated Borehole' from the usual list of arbitrary line
methods, then click a deviated well symbol.
• An arbitrary line will draw along the exact path of the well's deviation survey.
• This new arbitrary line possesses the full capabilities of any Kingdom geologic or 3D
surveys data based arbitrary line.
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7. Rulers on Base Maps and Vertical Displays
Measure Azimuth and Angle
The geoscientist often needs a way to measure azimuth on a base map. This could
be surface lineations on an air photo or a linear trend on a contoured map. KINGDOM
now shows the Azimuth of a line digitized with the Base Map Ruler, referenced to
either True North or Grid North.
To meet the needs of the geologist who is geosteering a deviated well, as well as
mapping structural trends, we have added a vertical display ruler that shows the
Lateral Distance, Depth Shift and Dip or Inclination of a digitized line on a vertical
display.
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8. New Well Data Refresh Functionality
Refresh Wells from the Database
Multiple options to easily refresh wells from the database are provided, allowing users
in multi-user project environments to keep their data in sync without disrupting their
workflows.
• Right-click a well symbol
to refresh a well from the
database.
• Right-click a well subset in
the Project Tree to refresh
the wells in the subset
from the database. The
subset can be dynamic or
static.
• Right-click a base map to
refresh the visible wells
from the database.
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9. Right-click to Add a Well to the Base Map
Improved Well Planning
In order to streamline well planning we have added the ability to right-click on a base
map to add a new well location. This saves time when designing an exploitation
program.
• Right-click on base map to add a well. The Well Edit dialog box is pre-populated with the
X and Y locations of the point selected on the base map.
• All that needs to be added is a UWI, Reference elevation and Start and End depths.
Right-click on the location for the proposed well on the Base Map and
select Wells > Add Well at Current Location.
Cross-section through 2 wells as
displayed on the Base Map
The new well is
displayed on the
Base Map in the
designated
location.
Surface location XY coordinates are
populated in the Well Edit dialog.
A new cross section
through wells now
includes 3 wells.
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10. Base Map Scale Bar
Movable, Resizable Scale Information
Scale bars may now be displayed in map views.
• Selecting “Show Scale Bar” places a scale bar on the map.
• This scale bar may be resized and moved to display anywhere within the visible map
frame.
• Windows copied into presentation documents can now easily convey scale information.
Specify the height of the Scale Bar and
customize the text attributes from the Scale tab
in Settings.
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11. Transparency for Polygons
Added Flexibility when Working with Polygons
New adjustable transparency slider controls provide more flexibility in the usage of
polygons.
Adjust the transparency of the polygon
with the slider. For correlation polygons,
stretch and squeeze the polygon with ‘+’
and ‘-’ respectively.
Correlation polygon
transparency provides more
precise correlation. This works
with raster logs too!
Transparency option is also
Leverage adjustable transparency for correlation polygons on
seismic VSD’s for improved jump correlations.
available for planimeter
polygons.
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12. Hide/Show Location Rulers
Maximize your Interpretation Pallet
•Right-click on a ruler on a cross
section or VSD to hide the location
rulers.
•Work in maximized interpretation
pallet.
• Turn on the location rulers from
View>Toolbars when desired.
Notifications Tab in User Preferences
Manage Well and Database Notifications in User Preferences
• Turn of or off notification that new
wells have been added to a project
since last login when in author
preferred time-depth chart mode.
• Turn on or off database
notifications:
- Prompt for project database
conversion from MS Access to
SQL, SQL Server Express, or
Oracle
- Option to change SQL Server
Express from Manual to Auto portability configuration
- Notification when exiting an Auto SSE project that another user is still in the project.
The project database cannot automatically detach and become portable until all
authors are out of the project.
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13. Enhanced Project Security
Providing administrators the ability to set project level security in Oracle and
SQL Server environments
Security Levels
• Administrator New!—Access and manage security settings.
• All Authors—Allows users to select or switch to any author when they open a project.
• Specific Authors New!—Allows a project administrator to assign one or more specific
authors to a given windows user.
• Work Tree Only—Restricts a named user to the context of an author/Work Tree
combination within a project.
• No Access—Completely restricts user from accessing a KINGDOM project.
Set default
access level for
all users not
specifically listed
Sort or Filter the
Effective
Permissions
table to easily
review and
update user
access
Set access level
for each user if
different from
default
Search Active
Directory for
valid windows
users and assign
specific
permissions
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14. VuPAK
Microseismic Analysis—New Functionality
• Load Microseismic data.
- Supports known contractor
formats for microseismic
event data and fracture
treatment curves.
- Stores data with project.
- Provides attribute scaling &
adjustment options.
• Visualize data as part of regular
interpretation:
- View microseismic data on all
displays.
- Display in depth and time
simultaneously.
- Control size and color based
on Microseismic Event (MSE)
attributes in all views.
• Analyze using MSE and fracture
treatment curves:
- Apply multiple attribute filters.
- Animate based on fracture
event timeline.
- Manually select MSE points in
any of the 2D or 3D views.
- Save interesting trends and
events as subsets.
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15. Microseismic—Management Console
• Control color based on any Microseismic attribute using existing SMT color bars.
• Control size based on any Microseismic attribute:
- Specify range for small to large event display.
- Show constant size—and vary from small to large.
- Control individual size and display for 2d and 3d views.
• Visualize in both time and depth views at the same time.
- Create Z-Time attribute with user selected T/D curve.
Select the views for your Display on
microseismic display. the Base
Map too.
Display in both time and
depth in a VSD and
VuPAK.
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16. Microseismic—Multiple Attribute Filtering
• Filter using fracture job time:
- Display treatment curves.
- Display filtered Microseismic.
• Filter using Microseismic events:
- Choose attributes to filter on.
- Use more than one attribute.
- Build an “and” query for multiple attribute filtering.
- Include fracture job time.
• Filter using manual selection.
- Select points on 2d views using digitize polygon capability.
- Select points in VuPAK and 3d crossplot using a lasso.
• Cut or crop selected points.
• Save visible points as a subset for later interpretation.
Lasso points to cut or crop.
Filter points by the range of
treatment data displayed
on the 2D Crossplot.
Points on all views update
dynamically as you filter
and select.
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17. Easy Launch and Display Option
VuPAK can be quickly launched by selecting a fault, horizon, or grid from any view.
• VuPAK is launched and automatically scaled to optimally display the object, significantly
enhancing the interpretation workflow.
Easy right click select displays
horizons, grids, faults, inlines,
crosslines, 2d lines, and arb lines.
Right click on an object in the Base Map or
in a VSD and select to display the object in
VuPAK.
Reconstructed Project Annotations
Multiple adjustments to VuPAK annotations improve visibility, usability, and
presentation.
• Default 3D view is changed
from orthographic to
perspective.
• Project cube annotations no
longer block the 3D view.
• Annotation is rendered only
along the back faces of the
cube.
• Allows two or more
annotations to not overlap.
• Default settings for survey
annotations based on survey
intervals.
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18. New Interface for Project and Survey Annotation
New user interface manages both Project and Survey annotation and a single click
will take the viewer into a presentation mode.
• Click one button to access all annotation settings
• One click to show/hide all annotations from the toolbar or
from within the annotation settings dialog box.
• Each user can have their own annotation settings.
• Survey annotations in VuPAK are independent from
survey annotation settings in KINGDOM.
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19. Transparency of Slices and Faults
The ability to manipulate transparency of slices and faults together has been
improved.
Fault surface and
intersecting
seismic displays
with transparency
for each object set
to 0.
Increased
transparency settings
for all objects.
Adjust Fault
transparency with
slider.
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20. 2d/3dPAK
Preferred Mode—Misties Tables
Author Specific Mistie Settings
The Preferred Mistie mode allows all authors to concurrently work with their own
customized mistie settings.
• Each author’s mistie settings are maintained at all times until a change is desired.
• When mistie changes are made, only the author making the change will see the effect on
their seismic data.
• Mistie settings are saved and reloaded on a per author basis.
• All authors can log out and return to the same mistie settings when they log back in.
• Return to Project Mistie mode at any time through Project Management.
• When in Project Mistie mode, all users will work with a common set of mistie settings.
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21. Preferred Mode—Time Depth Chart Lists
Author Specific well and Time-Depth Chart Associations
Active time-depth chart lists are supported in an Author Preferred or Project mode,
providing more flexibility in multi-user project environments.
• Preferred mode allows each project author to maintain and utilize his own well and active
time-depth chart associations.
• Project mode allows for all project authors to use the same well and active time-depth
chart associations, so all authors can be in sync with each other if necessary.
Switch between Preferred
and Project mode through
Project Management.
Each author is informed of
this option when logging in
to a project for the first time.
• The preferred mode can be switched at any time, so that depending on the stage of the
project, authors can chose to be in sync with each other or use their individual time-depth
associations.
• All authors are notified if the mode is changed in the project, so they are aware that the
active Time-Depth charts may have changed. The author that made this change is also
included in the message.
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22. Horizon Editing Tools
New Horizon Editing tools include Horizon Smoothing and Horizon Interpolation. The
improved functionality provides more flexibility during horizon interpretation and
provides a New Pick Status for Smoothed and Interpolated Picks.
• New menu
structure provides
easier access to
Polygon Erase,
Polygon Smooth,
and Polygon
Interpolate.
• Editing can be performed
on the active horizon or
an automatically created
copy, so that users can
always have a backup
copy of a horizon.
Horizon Smoothing
Smoothing options provide more flexibility and QC tools for an interpreter.
• Manual picks
can be
preserved during
smoothing.
• Smoothing can
be applied to
inside or outside
polygon area.
• Convenient
undo/redo
buttons improve
usability.
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23. Horizon Interpolation
The Horizon Interpolation tool uses a quick and effective flex grid algorithm to infill
gaps in picked horizons.
• Area can be constrained
by a fault polygon set.
• Works with named or
digitized polygons,
inside or outside of a
polygon area.
• Automatically extracts
selected data types at
the new points.
• Streamlines the
interpretation workflow
in areas of low quality
data.
Initial picks along inlines and crosslines
of 3D survey.
Use the Interpolate tool to
infill the initial picks using
the flex grid algorithm.
The Interpolate function extracts a selected data
type at the newly created horizon points.
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24. New Pick Status for Smoothed and Interpolated Picks
The Pick Status attribute
displays the area in the center
of the horizon that was
smoothed.
After picking on the inlines
and crosslines, the horizon
was infilled with the
Interpolation tool.
The Flex Grid algorithm was
used for the interpolation.
Horizon Picking Tools
• 2d Hunt and 2d Seeker+ will now stop at
Unassigned fault segments.
• Horizon interpretation can then be done
effectively before the final fault surfaces
are created.
• Multilevel undo and redo operations are
supported when picking on a flattened
horizon with 2d picking types, so that
picking can be easily corrected.
Undo and redo buttons conveniently
accessed from Horizon Editing dialog
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25. Horizon Editing Tool—Erase by Attribute
Now horizons picked with 3D Seeker/+ algorithms can be easily edited and re-picked.
Users can preview the effects of the edit before applying.
• Based on
Confidence and
Pick order data
provided with 3D
Seeker/+ picked
horizons.
• Can be applied to
the outside or
inside area of a
named polygon.
• Erase by Attribute
is always applied to
z picks on the
active horizon.
Edits are controlled by value sliders, allowing users to preview the changes before
committing the edits.
• Users can see and approve the erase settings before the actual erase is applied.
• Low confidence and/or high pick order picks can be erased, so that the horizon can be
picked again in those areas with different picking parameters.
• The Pick Order control can be used as a playback to see the horizon picking history.
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26. Sync Report for Seismic Slice Volumes
An in-sync phase option for slice data is offered in 8.6 that can be used when
workflows require accuracy over performance.
• Using this option will ensure slice
data displayed will always be in-sync
with the phase setting of the parent
trace volume.
• The option can be set on the Slices
tab of Select Data to Display dialog
box.
• Create slice displays on-the-fly if the
current slice phase setting is different
from the data type's vertical trace
volume, OR set the option to always
use existing slice data for improved
performance.
• Select whether notification is given
when slice data is out of sync with
phase setting of vertical trace
display.
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27. The Report shows
phase information
when slice volume
phase setting differs
from phase of vertical
trace displays.
When slice data phase
does not match current
trace display, options are:
1. Use existing slice data
for fast performance,
OR
2. generate slice
displays on-the-fly to
ensure phase match
accuracy.
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28. EarthPAK
Display TVD (Reference Elevation) along Borehole
New Log Setting option enables posting of either subsea or TVD Well Reference
Elevation along the borehole in a cross section or arbline.
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29. In the Vertical Scale Settings, select Depth
type as Subsea or TVD Reference Elevation.
This choice will be displayed when specifying
your Log Settings.
In Log Settings
your depth type
choice will be
available for
display along the
borehole.
.
Subsea or TVD Well
Reference Elevation values
are displayed along with the
measured depth values in
your cross section or arbline.
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30. Export Monthly and Cumulative Production
KINGDOM now supports the exporting of production data.The export can be in fixed
width, tab delimited or comma delimited.
Select Wells > Export.
Well Production Data is
available as a data
type.
File can be exported with the
delimiter of your choice.
Improved Authoring of Zones and Zone Attributes
A new enhancement improves and clarifies the authorship of zones and zone
attributes.
• Zones and zone attributes can now be copied between authors.
• When selecting data for the Wells Spreadsheet, select which author’s zones you want to
display.
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31. VelPAK
Ease of Use Enhancements
VelPAK incorporates a wide range of enhancements and new features that enable
the user to be more productive with the software. These are detailed in the following
pages.
These enhancements have necessitated a change in the model file format. If you
have a model created in an earlier version of VelPAK, this model file can be opened
in VelPAK 8.6. However, model files saved in VelPAK 8.6 can only be opened in
version 8.6 or later of VelPAK. Model files saved in VelPAK 8.6 are by default saved
in a different location than earlier versions, but exercise caution to avoid accidentally
over-writing older models you may wish to keep. Existing workflows are similarly
forwards compatible, and will not be overwritten when saved in the new default
location.
The storage of VelPAK data in the project
Only wells active in
folder has also been revised to give the user the project tree are
greater flexibility when customizing their loaded into the model
workflows. When a model is saved, a new by default.
folder tree is created automatically for that
model. The root of the folder tree is in the
project author folder, and model data is then
stored under the ‘velpak’ folder.
This new folder organization enables the
user to customize workflows and Folder
parameters for each layer independently, hierarchy for
without having to worry whether the VelPAK
workflow changes will affect any other layer. model data.
Each event in the model that has been used
in a workflow will also have a folder under
the name of the model as event number,
which contains the workflow components
and parameters stored for that event alone.
For example, the user may wish to use a
different gridding algorithm for his residual
error correction in one event that contains less well data than shallower event. He can
adapt the standard workflow and save it just for that event, knowing shallower events
will remain as they were.
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32. User Interface Enhancements
A range of user interface improvements have been made to enable faster and more
accurate navigation of the interface.
Each tool now has new and consistent use of icons for ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ event,
well and line options where appropriate.
Property grid fly-outs have changed to allow
a more concise, clearer view of the
parameters, hiding or deactivating
unnecessary parameters. This allows the
user to quickly focus on just which
parameters need to be changed.
Tool tip styling and information has
been unified across modules
The new ‘Abort’ button now will interrupt compute intensive processes such
as workflows and gridding
Curve Tool Enhancements
The Curve tool is used to analyze and compare any data loaded into the VelPAK
model.
• The user may now determine a level of confidence in a linear regression analysis by
specifying a confidence percent and toggling on confidence bands in the ‘Display’ fly-out.
These bands are saved per event in the new model folder tree.
• For clearer reporting, users can now define their own axis titles for the display, and there
is convenient option to quickly flip the X and Y range axis minimum and maximum values.
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33. Curve Tool Enhancements (cont’d)
• Graphing performance has been improved significantly for data sets with many
thousands of samples.
The following figure illustrates the Regression Curve and Graph enhancements:
The Data Tab contains tabulated data for the graph display.
• The export of tables from Data Tabs now support the Microsoft .xlsx spreadsheet format.
• The table column contents can be summarized using the Summary (sigma) icon in the
column header.
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34. Workflow Tool
• The arrangement of workflows has been
changed from a long list to a more
organized tree structure, allowing the
user to quickly find components for
incorporation into their own workflows, or
to test different methods for depth
conversion, gridding, data display etc.
• The workflows and components used
prior to KINGDOM 8.6 are stored under
the ‘Kingdom 85 Workflows’ folder and
still behave in the same way.
• There are new workflow nodes: branch,
loop, pin, seed, image, check and repaint,
and sample workflows for the new user
too examine and use as a template for
their own workflows.
• For quicker editing of workflows, the user
can right-click on a node, which now has
two extra options on the popup menu:
toggle options to allow resize and edit of
the node title.
• Workflow nodes now feature inheritance
with an over-ride facility to allow only
selected parameters in the model to be
changed.
Toggling on the new 'Watch Sublevel
Execution' icon allows the user to see each
node of a collapsed workflow highlighted as
it is executed
Surface Tool
Grids in VelPAK are created and manipulated in the Surface tool. New gridding
options and performance enhancements have been made.
• New gridding methods ‘Simple Kriging’ and ‘Sequential Gaussian Simulation Kriging’
have been added.
• Kriging time has been significantly reduced.
• The ‘Process’ fly-out now contains the ‘Move Grid’ formula, which enables the user to
move a grid from one slot to another without using Copy/Paste.
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35. Surface Tool (cont’d)
Further improvements to the Surface tool include the following:
• To improve gridding speed, which is significant for many layered depth conversions, there
is a new decimation option (the ‘Increment Factor’) in the gridding parameters fly-out.
Simple Kriging
SGS Kriging
Control point (XYZ) data can also be copied, deleted and concatenated (merged)
using the ‘Type’ operation in the XYZ fly-out. This will allow users to perform
sophisticated data management within a workflow.
An addition to depth conversion techniques, the ‘Interval Velocity versus Isochron’
method, is now available as a standard Optimize method in the ‘Depth > Parameters
> Formula’ options.
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36. Well Tool
For more convenient verification of the depth conversion, the residual error
computation made in the well tool ‘Tie’ now computes misties between both the
formation top and time-to-depth converted grid and the formation top and current
depth grid.
These errors are stored separately in the XYZ folder of the model tree. This enables
the user to evaluate the error between the current depth conversion method and an
existing depth grid.
The ‘Tie’ fly-out has also been simplified with redundant options removed.
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