PLog – PDA-based Field Borehole and Well Logging Software
Advanced geotechnical and geoenvironmental software
PLog is the industry leader in borehole recording technology and our flagship product. It is the most advanced tool you can use to collect your geotechnical and geoenvironmental boring log data in the field. It is the first step in getting your boring logs completed.
Starting your geotechnical and geoenvironmental project in PLog
You start your project as you do now: determining what you need to do for each borehole. This includes how many samples in each borehole, what sample types for each borehole, what sampling interval within each borehole, what well installations to use, et cetera. You can enter your project information such as project number, name and location into your PDA before you ever leave the office. This is the same as writing the project information in your boring log book. With that step complete, you are ready to grab your tools, hard hat and PDA and head to the field to drill boreholes and gather boring log data.
Gathering your boring log field data using PLog
PLog allows you to record more than just your soil and rock descriptions for each boring log
Once you are in the field, you use PLog to record your borehole information including soil and rock sample information, soil and rock stratigraphy layers, environmental measurements such as those determined from PID and FID instruments, shear strength test results, drilling notes, blow count results, ground water observations, and monitoring well or inclinometer installation information for each borehole. All of your borehole information is organized and stored safely on the PDA until you delete it.
You use simple PDA navigation to access your borehole field data in PLog
When you log a borehole using PLog, the effort spent clicking from screen to screen to add or review data is minimal. You would likely spend the same amount of time leafing through your field book to review a boring log as you would clicking through pages in PLog to review a soil description or test result for a borehole.
With PLog, input your data quickly and easily for each borehole by selecting from lists, buttons, and checkboxes
Time spent writing on the PDA for borehole or project information is minimized when you use PLog. You select drillers’ names, engineers’ names, drilling methods and more from pre-populated drop down menus which aids in rapid data entry as well as standardization within your organization. You select boring log description items instead of writing them.
PLog speeds data entry by automatically repopulating data for you within a borehole and among boreholes
Your writing time is minimized because data for the borehole and borehole samples is automatically repopulated for subsequent boreholes and borehole samples with information you previously entered. You only need to enter your driller’s name one in one boring log. Subsequent boreholes will have the same value until you change it.
You use the same drop-down menu selection process when developing your boring log soil or rock descriptions. You can input very loose dark brown silty sand with trace organics, a 53 letter phrase, with only seventeen taps on your PDA. You do not have to write a single letter!
In addition, once you finish a description, you can copy it to any other sample or to any other soil or rock layer in any other borehole within the project. You can also modify the descriptions after you have copied it, if you need to do so.
PLog – the geotechnical and geoenvironmental software that helps you generate complete borehole logs in seconds!
Whether after a single day or a week in the field recording borehole data, you can have draft boring logs ready for review within minutes of downloading your borehole data to your computer. You use the HotSync function and the borehole data is uploaded from your PDA to your PC. Once your borehole data is in the PLog PC module, you can export it to applications such as gINT or LD4. With the click of a button your borehole data is in your boring log reporting software tool and you can print a completed draft boring log ready for review. You have a draft boring log to present within minutes of completing the drilling activities - pretty quick turn around time, especially for a boring log report!
Customize PLog to fit your field data collection requirements for every borehole
When you receive PLog you will need to customize many of the drop-down lists to your company standards, and change the order of items in the lists. You can do both of these things easily using the PLog Configuration Tool, the PC portion of PLog.
PLog improves the quality of your geotechnical and geoenvironmental data on every boring log you draft
Input your borehole data once, digitally, using PLog
No Typos
Your borehole data is entered into an electronic device one time - in the field – when the borehole is being drilled. You do not have to type your borehole data into a computer from your handwritten field boring logs once you have returned to the office. This helps avoid typos which are common when re-entering borehole data on a computer the office from handwritten boring logs.
Consistent Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Terminology on every boring log
You decide which values are in the drop down menus for geotechnical and geoenvironmental projects. Your boring log data will not be a hodge-podge of styles from several engineers and geologists. Rather, the terminology used will be consistent from project to project, and borehole to borehole.
PLog improves your geotechnical and geoenvironmental data quality on every boring log
Consistent Soil/Rock Description Ordering and Formatting on every boring log
With PLog, you create your soil and rock descriptions from a series of drop-down lists. Your company standard boring log format is built when the data is imported into gINT or other boring log output program. Your soil and rock descriptions will always be built, for every borehole, from the components, with the order and formatting you require.
Your borehole data is validated by PLog in the field. You can no longer make small mistakes such as having very loose clay or an RQD greater than your recovery length.
