Team

People behind IGMAS+

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Dr. Denis Anikiev

Scientist,
Software Developer,
Project Leader

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Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Götze

Professor, Originator,
Software Developer,
Project Supervisor

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Christian Plonka

Software Engineer,
Leading Software Developer

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Dr. Sabine Schmidt

Scientist,
Software Developer,
Software Tester

Contact

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History

IGMAS+ across years

The software has been around for about 40 years, initially developed on a mainframe and then transferred to the first DOS PCs, before it was adapted to Linux in the ’90s and finally implemented as a cross-platform Java application with GUI called IGMAS+.

Starting from 2009, a consortium of national and international oil companies and the Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU) supported the software development. The Gravity research Group at the University of Kiel was coordinating the project and giving scientific input while the software company Transinsight (Dresden) delivered the professional programming resources and support.

Java was chosen to be the programming platform to allow platform independency. The software has proven to be very fast, accurate and easy to use once a model has been established. Later, the DGMK (German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology) funded its research project number 771 entitled “TiPOT3D - Towards an integrative interpretation of potential fields and corresponding gradients by the aid of three-dimensional modelling and visualization” (Schmidt et al., 2018) and supported the software development on behalf of DEA, Deutsche Erdoel AG (Hamburg), EMPG (Hannover), ENGIE E&P Deutschland (Lingen) and Wintershall Holding GmbH (Kassel).

Since 2019 IGMAS+ has been maintained and developed in The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences by the staff of Section 4.5 – Subsurface Process Modelling and Section 5.2 – eScience Centre.

Timeline

IGMAS+ development milestones

 
 
 
 
 
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der [Technische Universität Clausthal](https://www.tu-clausthal.de)
Dissertation at the TU Clausthal
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Technische Universität Clausthal
January 1976 – December 1976 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Analytical solution of the volume integral for polyhedra (Götze, 1976).
 
 
 
 
 
[Technische Universität Clausthal](https://www.tu-clausthal.de) / [Universität Bonn](https://www.uni-bonn.de/)
IGAS/IGMAS at the TU Clausthal and the University of Bonn
Technische Universität Clausthal / Universität Bonn
January 1982 – December 1987 Clausthal-Zellerfeld / Bonn
Until 1976 the analytical solution of the volume integral of homogenous polyhedra for the gravity field was derived and implemented on a Telefunken mainframe (TR4, later TR440) in the ALGOL language. Later the code was rewritten to FORTRAN 4 and then to FORTRAN 77. With the derivation of the magnetic field components of a homogeneous polyhedron the “M” was added to IGAS (Interactive Gravity Application System): IGMAS stood from then on for “Interactive Gravity and Magnetic Application System”. In 1988 the formulas were published in GEOPHYSICS (Götze and Lahmeyer, 1988) and shortly afterwards the calculations could be performed on a PC.
 
 
 
 
 
[Freie Universität Berlin](https://www.fu-berlin.de/) / Collaborative Research Center 267 (SFB 267)
IGMAS+ at the FU Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin / Collaborative Research Center 267 (SFB 267)
January 1987 – December 2004 Berlin
In the time around 2000 the original FORTRAN 77 code of IGMAS was extended by implementations of C++ routines and from then on, the name changed from IGMAS to IGMAS+. This was preceded (1995) by a complete revision of the numerical formulas for the calculation of the gravitational and magnetic fields of polyhedra as well as the gradients in gravimetry and magnetics. Due to the activities of the Collaborative Research Center 267 in the Central Andes, IGMAS was mainly used for interdisciplinary modelling at lithospheric scales but also in several oil industry projects.
 
 
 
 
 
[Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel](https://www.uni-kiel.de) / [Wintershall Holding GmbH](https://wintershalldea.com/)
IGMAS+ supported by Wintershall
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel / Wintershall Holding GmbH
January 2007 – December 2011 Kiel / Kassel
Financial support in the frame of the research project TIMBA (Towards the integration of multidisciplinary geophysical data in a shelf area - the Büsum-Nord area as an example). During this time the software was extended, and two new tools were added, which enhanced the GIS functionality of IGMAS+ and enabled the modelling of aero gravimetric data.
 
 
 
 
 
[Transinsight GmbH](https://www.transinsight.com) / [Gravity research Group at the CAU Kiel](https://www.gravity.uni-kiel.de)
IGMAS+ at Transinsight / CAU Kiel
Transinsight GmbH / Gravity research Group at the CAU Kiel
January 2009 – January 2014 Dresden / Kiel
Implementation as a cross-platform Java application with GUI called IGMAS+. A consortium of national and international oil companies first and foremost STATOIL/EQUINOR (Trondheim/Stavanger) and the Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU) supported the software development. The Gravity Research Group at the University of Kiel was coordinating the project and giving scientific input while the software company Transinsight GmbH delivered the professional programming resources and support. Implementation of spherical modelling.
 
 
 
 
 
DGMK (German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology)
IGMAS+ supported by DGMK
DGMK (German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology)
January 2014 – December 2017 Kiel / Hamburg / Hannover / Lingen / Kassel
Financial support in terms of the research project “TiPOT3D - Towards an integrative interpretation of potential fields and corresponding gradients by the aid of three-dimensional modelling and visualization” (S. Schmidt et al., 2018) on behalf of DEA, Deutsche Erdoel AG (Hamburg), EMPG (Hannover), ENGIE E&P Deutschland (Lingen) and Wintershall Holding GmbH (Kassel).
 
 
 
 
 
The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
IGMAS+ at GFZ Potsdam
The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
May 2019 – Present Potsdam
Maintained and developed by the staff of Section 4.5 – Subsurface Process Modelling and Section 5.2 – eScience Centre.

Feedback

Issues, suggestions and concerns

We hope that IGMAS+ will be an important contribution to your scientific work towards an integrated, interdisciplinary interpretation of complex geological structures on the macro, meso and micro scale.

Although IGMAS+ has been tested by many users around the world, there could still be a number of bugs and issues. In the changelog of every release we highlight the issues that have been solved. More information can be found in the release posts.

We apologize for any inconvenience that IGMAS+ might cause due to unexpected problems, and we want to hear from you in case of any issue that you might experience. This means that we invite every user to become a tester in order to contribute to the further development, help us improve IGMAS+ and design a user-friendly graphical interface as you want it to be.

This is how you can contribute:

  • Report errors and unexpected behavior of the program with a brief description, and send it together with a log file and a system report file.
  • Share your sample data with us if you think that the detected problem could have something to do with your inputs. We assure that we will use your data only for the purpose to solve the related problem, and that we will delete your data as soon as the problem is solved.
  • Send us your ideas and suggestions concerning the user interface (menus, shortcuts, wizards), functionality, default values or any other topic. Any comments related to actual user needs are appreciated.
  • Point out errors, typos and inconsistencies in the Getting Started part, as well as in other pages of this website.

Please send your issue reports, suggestions and concerns (as well as log and system report files, comments etc.) to

We track all issues using GitLab instance of GFZ Potsdam.

Let us bring the IGMAS+ user experience to the next level together!