the drill string 112 torque and axial loading weight made at the surface and or in the mwd module 130 may be used in one more computers as will be explained further below the operation of the mwd and lwd instruments of fig1 may be controlled by and sensor measurements from the various sensors in the mwd and lwd modules and the other sensors disposed on the drilling and measurement unit described above may be recorded and analyzed using the surface logging recording and control system 152 the surface logging recording and control system 152 may include one or more processor based computing systems or computers in the present context a processor may include a microprocessor programmable logic devices plds field gate programmable arrays fpgas application specific integrated circuits asics system on a chip processors socs or any other suitable integrated circuit capable of executing encoded instructions stored for example on tangible computer readable media e g read only memory random access memory a hard drive optical disk flash memory etc such instructions may correspond to for instance workflows and the like for carrying out a drilling operation algorithms and routines for processing data received at the surface from the bha 155 e g as part of an inversion to obtain one or more desired formation parameters and from the other sensors described above associated with the drilling and measurement system the surface logging.