KD Chart
Case Studies

Monitoring Seismic Activity

In the Land Down Under, our software is used by the Rockburst Risk Management research project at the Australian Centre for Geomechanics.

The Western Australian mining industry is facing the challenge of dealing with mines that are increasingly seismically active. Rockbursts, which can be one result of the release of seismic energy, put both mine viability and safety at risk. To develop mine design strategies that account for these seismic events, Professor Yves Potvin and Mr. Marty Hudyma created the Mine Seismicity and Risk Analysis Program (MS-RAP) using the Qt toolkit, KD Chart and our extensive API.

The MS-RAP connects to and charts seismic activity in databases with as many as 20,000 data-points. The MS-RAP has a menu driven interface that gives geologists and other scientists the flexibility to view data in the format that is most useful to them.

The designers of MS-RAP not only built in this required flexibility, but by using the Qt toolkit, KD Chart and our detailed API, they had the ability to create a program that is standardized, bug free and portable.

Visualizing Flood Events:
Elbe Flood 2002

Several federal and state authorities as well as research institutes in Germany monitored the spreading of the Elbe flood in the German Bight to gain knowledge about the environmental consequences of the flood.

Scientists needed a flexible way to display their data, but they did not want to write their code from scratch. That is where KD Chart came into play. Using KD Chart's extended Line Chart capabilities with flexible cell-specific properties, our software was ideal for visualizing flood events of different kinds. These charts helped German scientists pinpoint the worst flooding in order to institute pollution control and flood mitigation.

First results from surveys during August and September 2002 revealed that the Elbe flood had only little short-term effects on the water quality in the German Bight and the Wadden Sea.