GSDS Home

Introduction

What's new in GeoData Manager

FAQ

What is GeoData Manager ?

Tutorials

Getting familiar with GeoData Manager

Entering and editing data

Changing how GeoData Manager looks

Selecting data

Outputting the data

Scenarios for using GeoData Manager

Data types and nodes

Help with data types and nodes

Reference

Managing databases

Graphs

Exporting data

Importing data

Units

The commands

Settings and preferences

Thermodynamic calculator

Glossary

Installing GeoData Manager

For evaluation

Setup with a key

On another PC

Upgrading GeoData Manager

Registration

Single-user dongle

Network dongle

Uninstalling

Tutorial: MT: using EDI files & 1-D modelling

This describes how to use Geophysics MT. You usually work at three nodes in Geophysics > MT: Sounding, Resistivity and Model:

1. At Sounding: the soundings; each has the location and time of the measurements.
2. At Resistivity: each sounding's resistivity measurements; GeoData Manager automatically adds impedance measurements to Impedance.
3. At Model: create one or more 1-D models for each sounding.

Importing EDI files with Add Many

Here we import several EDI files, to create corresponding soundings, impedances and resistivities:

1. At the node Geophysics > MT > Sounding, right click in the header window (top right):

   

2. Click Add Many ...:

   

   This window has 3 options:

   • Enter location data manually or import from file or spreadsheet: A convenient way to enter several soundings manually, or from a file.

   • Select a folder, import all EDI files and generate impedance and apparent resistivity data sets: Import all EDI files from a folder; create all the corresponding Sounding, Impedance and Resistivity data sets.

   • Import seledted EDI files and generate impedance and apparent resistivity data sets: The same as the previous option, but you can select which EDI files to import.

3. For now, click the third option to import selected EDI files and click OK:

   

   Navigate to the folder with your EDI files and select the ones to import. Use the standard windows clicks:

   • Click to select one file.
   • Ctrl+click to select or deselect several files.
   • Shift+click to select a range of files.

   Here, I've selected 3 EDI files to import.

4. Now click Open:

   

5. Click Check, then Apply, then Save:

   

   Enter an MT resistivity ID for all imported soundings, then click OK. You are done.

6. You can see the imported soundings at Soundings, Impedances and Resistivities. Here is Resistivities; note the MT Resistivity comment and SourceDataFile:

   

Note You can also enter a sounding and its measurements manually, one at a time. First create a new sounding, and enter the location and time of the measurements. Then, at Resistivity: add your measurements for the sounding, either by hand or by importing from a spreadsheet.

Working with MT 1-D models

This shows how to use GeoData Manager's 1-D modeller to create a 1-D model for the sounding:

1. At the node Geophysics > MT > Model, right click in the header window (top right) and click New:

   

   
   

2. Find the sounding name in the list, click it and click OK.

   

   
   

3. Enter the identifiers for the new model and click OK. GeoData Manager creates a new model, with no resistivities or depths:

   

   
   

4. Click to start the 1-D modeller.

   If you get an error like this see Measured resistivity data below:

   .

   
   

   The modeller:

   

   Change the model's resistivities and depths until the model's apparent resistivity and phase curve matches the measured apparent resistivity and phase data. Click Help in the modeller to get help for using the modeller.

5. Click Done when you are satisfied with the model. The modeller stores the model's resistivities and depths in the dataset:

   

   
   

Measured resistivity data

• The modeller always uses RhoINV and PhaseINV as the measured data for the model. This is calculated from the other measured resistivity data when the resistivity data is saved. If you get an error like this when you start the modeller:

  

  then go to edit the resistivity data for the sounding and click Save. Then start the modeller again.

• The modeller can also use RhoINV Smoothed PhaseINV Smoothed as the measured data for the model if these are available. If they are available, then the modeller button Using measured data is active. Click the button to use the smoothed data; the button changes to Using smoothed data.

Note

• If the model dataset does not have any resistivities and depths when you start the modeller, then it will use some default values.

• As you are using the modeller, you can click Done at any time (even though the model is not good) to return to GeoData Manager. You can return to the modeller later.

• Use multiple graph to compare several models, either for the same soundings or for different soundings, for example: