Why DEO?

Datapages Exploration Objects™ gives you the ability to find the maps, tables, cross-sections, and other exploration objects you need – faster and more easily than ever before, geo-rectified and GIS-ready.

Next-Generation Search & Retrieval.

Suppose, for example, you need to evaluate opportunities in North America’s Williston Basin. The old approach: search published articles to find the maps and other exploration objects you need; extract those objects and, then, convert them to the format required for use in your GIS system – and in your reporting.

DEO shortens that process from hours or days to minutes – and gives you the power to bring analysis and evaluation to whole new levels of comprehensiveness and granularity.

Created by petroleum geologists for petroleum geologists, DEO mines a deep index of more than half a million articles published by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and a continually growing list of content partners – now including over 55 petroleum geology organizations – captured in the vast, electronic AAPG Datapages Archives.

Search by text or by “drawing” on the interactive DEO background map. Then, fine-tune your search in minutes – and select the objects you need. Each image is geo-rectified – so converting to a GIS information layer is quick and easy.

With DEO, you have direct access to more than 385,000 captioned figures, 67,000 tables, and every map in the Archives since 1989 – with no committee of authors or editors deciding what they think will be useful to you and your organization.

The result? Better-informed decision-making with less delay. And major savings in labor, time, and dollars– hundreds of dollars, on average, for every map, cross-section and seismic line you use.

Bottom line: DEO can make any organization involved in oil and gas exploration more competitive – and more profitable.

DEO Benefits

Major savings in time and labor costs.
Exclusive content: available only from AAPG Datapages.
Faster, easier, more powerful search and retrieval.
Evaluate opportunities at new levels of comprehensiveness and granularity.
Direct access: deep index of Datapages Archives. Continuously growing; continuously updated.
Intuitive, flexible, user-friendly interface. Search by text or by “drawing” on the interactive DEO map.
Drill down to items you need – via quick and easy filtering of search results.
Context info – caption info, author, publication, etc. – delivered with objects.
Evaluate any object in its full, original context. With DEO, the article that is the object’s original source is always only a mouse-click away.
Live overlays: examine objects as stacked overlays on the interactive DEO background map – to “preview” composited data before downloading the objects you select.
Delivered GIS-ready. With DEO, each object is geo-rectified (assigned lat./long. values), manually classified as to image quality and legibility, and delivered in industry-standard GIS format with complete GIS support files for fast, easy import into GIS and conversion to GIS information layers.
Quality: assured. All maps are manually assessed and classified by AAPG experts as to locational accuracy and readability – with metadata enriched to remove search obstacles: spelling and nomenclature variance, missing information, errors, etc.
Access from any computer – anywhere: PC, Mac, Linux, with access via the Internet. No software installation required!
Multiple advanced delivery options. Access DEO via ArcGIS or Geoportal. Local installation of the DEO index – regularly updated. For local access control, reduced Internet traffic and total integration with your GIS. And more.We’ll work with you to tailor DEO to your corporate needs and IT requirements.
Subscription levels tailored to the size and type of your organization.
Unlimited access to all AAPG Datapages content - included with DEO subscripton. 
Great ROI: Highly competitive pricing.

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