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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 30, 1964
Computers Aid Geologists with Survey Study
Bowing to the age of the computer, the State Geological Survey this week issued another report that moves Kansas forward in the use of mathematics in solving geological problems.
The report is "Mathematical Conversion of Section, Township, and Range Notation to Cartesian Coordinates" by Donald I. Good. It opens the door to increased use of computer techniques in geologic research because most geologic problems involve geographic locations for observed data.
The geologic problem may relate to regional exploration for oil and gas, to study of ground-water conditions in a given area, or to evaluation of a mineral deposit at a definite location. Whatever the geologic problem, whenever mathematics can be applied reliably in relating the observed data, many of them geographic, to the overall problem, time is saved and greater accuracy assured.
A major part of the Geological Survey report, which presents a two-dimensional coordinate system suitable for mathematical treatment, is the explanation of the mathematical equations. The efficient use of these equations, however, depends upon programming them for a computer.
The report therefore contains, in an appendix, a program, written in Fortran II and developed on an IBM 1620 computer, for the mathematical conversion of geographic locations in Kansas. Flow charts of the various functions are included.
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