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Software Earth Imager 1D Teoria y Calculo de Sondeo PDF
Software Earth Imager 1D Teoria y Calculo de Sondeo PDF
for
EarthImager 1D
Version 2.0.4
1D Resistivity Inversion Software
Copyright 2006-2009 by
Advanced Geosciences, Inc.
2121 Geoscience Drive
Austin, Texas 78726
Phone (512) 335-3338 Fax (512) 258-9958
Email: sales@agiusa.com
Website: http://www.agiusa.com/
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WELCOME ................................................................................................................................ 4
1.1 EarthImager at a Glance ................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 Where to Get Help ............................................................................................................................ 4
2. INSTALLATION ....................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 System Requirements ....................................................................................................................... 6
2.2 Installation......................................................................................................................................... 6
2.2.1 Installation of EarthImager.......................................................................................................................... 6
2.2.2 Dongle driver installation ............................................................................................................................ 6
2.2.3 Support for 64-bit Windows........................................................................................................................ 7
2.3 Software Protection with dongles or hardware keys ..................................................................... 8
2.4 EarthImager Upgrade ...................................................................................................................... 8
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5. TOOLS ...................................................................................................................................... 28
5.1 Forward Simulation ....................................................................................................................... 28
5.2 Combine 1D Raw Data Files .......................................................................................................... 28
5.3 Combine 1D Inverted Resistivity Models ..................................................................................... 29
7. HELP ........................................................................................................................................ 34
7.1 Instruction Manual in PDF ............................................................................................................ 34
7.2 AGI Home Page .............................................................................................................................. 34
7.3 EarthImager User Group .............................................................................................................. 34
7.4 Upgrade ........................................................................................................................................... 34
7.5 About EarthImager 1D .................................................................................................................. 34
7.6 EarthImager 1D Release Notes...................................................................................................... 34
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1. WELCOME
We, all of us at Advanced Geosciences Inc. (AGI), thank you very much for purchasing our
EarthImager 1D software. Resistivity data inversion with EarthImager 1D is easier, more fun and
more productive than ever. We look forward to hearing your success stories through the use of
our products.
1.1 EarthImager at a Glance
AGI EarthImager 1D is a Windows 32-bit platform based computer program that interprets onedimensional (1D) electrical resistivity sounding data and produces a layered resistivity model
that reveals subsurface geology.
EarthImager 1D processes vertical electrical sounding (VES) data collected with Schlumberger,
Wenner, dipole-dipole, pole dipole and pole-pole arrays.
We will support any resistivity data format in addition to AGIs STG files if a sample data file is
available.
1.2 Where to Get Help
This instruction manual is the ultimate resource for everything about EarthImager. This manual
may be found in the installation folder as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. AGIs website will have
the latest updates about EarthImager and free downloads with improvements and bug fixes. You
are encouraged to go through the suggested readings at the end of this manual for in-depth
understanding of resistivity data inversion.
Your satisfaction is our top priority. If you find any feature is missing in our EarthImager, please
let us know. We will add it for you as soon as possible if we think that your suggested feature
would benefit other EarthImager users. This version of EarthImager will read AGIs STG data
files. If you have any resistivity data file format other than the STG format, please send us a
sample data file. We will let EarthImager support your data format.
EarthImager clients will have access to EarthImager User Group online. Download links to the
latest version of EarthImager and document are available in the User Group. To enter the User
Group, go the AGI website at http://www.agiusa.com/ and choose EarthImager User Group
under the File Areas, or go to the page http://www.agiusa.com/files/eicust/earthimageruser.shtml
directly. You will be asked to type in your user name and password that are given to you at the
time of your purchase. Inside EarthImager, you may choose the menu item Help | EarthImager
User Group to enter the User Group. Your user name and password should be shown. If your
EarthImager is over six (6) months old, this is an indication that you have missed many new
features.
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For further questions, you may contact our tech support team by phone or email listed below.
Tech Support
Email: softwaresupport@agiusa.com
Phone: +1 512 335-3338 ext. 1023
AGI directory is listed here http://www.agiusa.com/directory.shtml.
Snail mail:
Advanced Geosciences, Inc.
2121 Geoscience Drive
Austin, Texas 78726
U. S. A.
Website: http://www.agiusa.com/
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2. INSTALLATION
2.1 System Requirements
EarthImager will run on IBM PC and compatible models on any 32-bit Windows operating
system that include Windows NT/ME/2000/XP. The performance of EarthImager on the
Windows 98 platform is not stable due to its poor OpenGL support. EarthImager 1D does NOT
require a lot of memory. Here are our recommended minimum system requirements.
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Intel Pentium IV or up
10 MB or more disk space available on the hard drive
20 MB or more available (free) RAM
2.2 Installation
2.2.1 Installation of EarthImager
We created a Windows standard setup program for ease of installation. Insert CD with
EarthImager setup program into the CD ROM drive and the installation wizard should pop up
automatically. One may also start the installation by double-clicking the AGIEarthImager1Dx.x.x.xxx.exe on the CD ROM (x indicates a variable version number). Before the installation of
EarthImager, make sure that the dongle is unplugged and NOT connected to your computer.
Follow the onscreen instructions until the installation finishes successfully. Read the
EarthImager license agreement carefully during the installation. It is suggested that you install all
AGI computer programs under C:\Program Files\AGI\.
If the installation starts with errors and is unable to finish successfully, you may need to install
the dongle driver before your installation of EarthImager. The dongle driver may be found on
the EarthImager CD or downloaded from the EarthImager User Group on the AGI website at
http://www.agiusa.com/files/eicust/earthimageruser.shtml
2.2.2 Dongle driver installation
The dongle driver, i.e., Sentinel System Driver, is automatically installed onto your computer
while installing EarthImager. If you observe any of the following error messages when you
launch (start) EarthImager, this indicates that the dongle driver is NOT installed correctly. To fix
the dongle driver problem, follow these steps:
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From the menu item Help | About EarthImager 1D, you can find your dongle serial number, a
unique number to identify your dongle. The Option Number tells what EarthImager 1D module
you have purchased. Option 0 indicates a base version with most of EarthImager1D features.
2.4 EarthImager Upgrade
We have different definitions for EarthImager update and upgrade. An update means changes
from an older EarthImager version to a newer EarthImager version. AGI gives away free updates
of EarthImager year-round. Please go to AGI EarthImager User Group
http://www.agiusa.com/files/eicust/earthimageruser.shtml to download the latest version.
An EarthImager upgrade means to add one or more special-purpose software modules to
EarthImager. For example, EarthImager 2D has three modules: Time Lapse Inversion, CRP, and
IP Survey Planner.
In addition, one may add EarthImager 2D and 3D licenses to existing EarthImager 1D dongle.
The software download is free from EarthImager User Group. After purchase of EarthImager 2D
and/or 3D, we will email you an upgrade code to activate your dongle for both EarthImager 2D
and/ or 3D.
AGI charges an upgrade fee for adding a new module. It is easy and convenient to upgrade your
EarthImager. You do not need to send the dongle (hardware key) back to AGI. Instead, AGI will
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5) Click the OK button to complete the dongle upgrade. One of the message boxes below will
pop up to show the success or failure of the upgrade.
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The function of a tool button is displayed when the mouse cursor hovers over a button. Here are
the functions of all tool buttons.
Read a raw data file. The AGI STG file is a default.
Open inversion Settings Window so a user can set desired settings.
Start inversion.
Stop inversion.
Save any on-screen image as a bitmap/JPEG file.
Print out any on-screen image.
Open the current trial folder in Microsoft Windows Explorer. This helps locate the current
trial folder and browse/check the files in it.
, To change distance (length) unit of the image or show the electrode number on the
horizontal axis for a surface data set.
To set Windows true type font for captions and labels of an on-screen image.
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There are two ways to edit the raw data. The first approach is to drag a data point up or down
with the left mouse button after reading a raw data file. However, one cant add or delete a data
point in this way. In the second approach, a user can manually modify data values in a
spreadsheet. After opening a data file, go to the menu Edit | Edit Data to launch a spread sheet.
After all necessary changes, click the button Update Data to update the raw data plot.
3.3 Array Types and Data Format
EarthImager 1D supports five common array types: Schlumberger, Wenner, dipole-dipole, poledipole, and pole-pole arrays. AGI defined a simple raw data format (*.dat) for EarthImager 1D
users to input raw data manually. Go to the menu File | Input Raw Data and bring up this
interface.
Schlumberger Array
Wenner Array
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To input your raw data on this window manually, choose the array type, the distance unit, and
the number of data points. Apparent resistivity values are not needed and not saved in the data
file and they are calculated/updated by clicking the Update button or double-clicking the left
mouse button in the spreadsheet. Only one of apparent resistivity and V/I columns are required.
The other column can be updated. Here are column headers of five arrays:
-
Schlumberger array:
Wenner array:
Dipole dipole array:
Pole dipole array:
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Here are two sample DAT files for the Schlumberger array and Wenner array respectively.
Schlumberger Array
Unit=meters
;#
AB/2
MN/2
1,
2,
1,
2,
3,
1,
3,
5,
2,
4,
8,
2,
5,
10,
2,
6,
12,
4,
7,
20,
4,
8,
25,
4,
9,
30,
6,
10,
50,
6,
11,
80,
6,
12,
120,
10,
13,
200,
10,
14,
300,
10,
15,
500,
16,
V/I
17.0787
7.38018
5.302
2.0307
1.27373
1.81631
0.668214
0.441833
0.485544
0.207408
0.099555
0.086385
0.027763
0.008765
0.003118
Wenner Array
Unit=meters
;#
A
V/I
1,
0.3,
52.7267
2,
0.46,
35.953
3,
0.76,
21.2928
4,
1,
16.0521
5,
1.5,
10.4878
6,
2.26,
7.05041
7,
3,
5.3731
8,
4.5,
3.60188
9,
9,
1.90944
10,
15,
1.31389
11,
21,
1.17109
12,
30,
1.10146
13,
45,
1.08453
14,
60,
1.03488
15,
75,
0.944382
16,
90,
0.876246
17,
125,
0.732803
Pole-pole array
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After reading the data, EarthImager 1D recommends a layered model with many layers, e.g. 12,
for automatic inversion. At the end of automatic inversion, this starting model will be replaced
with the inverted model. At this point, a user has following options to update the starting model.
1) Combine Layers. This will combine neighboring layers based on a user-defined
logarithmic resistivity contrast threshold. The default threshold is 10%. Combine
Layers also deletes thin layers if a neighboring layer is 20 times thicker. Combine
Layers may be executed/clicked multiple times. There are two access points of Combine
is on the tool bar and another Combine button on the Settings
Layers: a tool button
Window.
2) Manual update on the spreadsheet of Starting Model. A user may construct a new starting
model manually based on the inverted resistivity model from automatic inversion and any
a-priori information at the survey site. One may change the number of layers, layer
thickness and resistivity values, delete any specific layer.
3) Manual update of the starting model by dragging the blue inverted model curve on the
main window. This dragging update utility wont change number of layers, but it is useful
to alter layer resistivity and thickness. Then combine layers
for better results. An
instant forward modeling is carried out after dragging and the modeled apparent
resistivity curve is updated right away.
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d iPr ed d iMeas
d iMeas
i =1
N
N
RMS =
100 %,
where N is the total number of measurements, dPred is the predicted data and dMeas is the
measured data. It is clear that the RMS error depends on the number of bad data points and how
bad each bad data point is.
Note that the RMS error is an average data misfit over all data points. A single erroneous data
point could lead to a large RMS error. A large RMS error is the result of
1)
2)
3)
4)
Data noise,
Numerical modeling error,
Inability to model 2D and 3D objects with a 1D modeling program, and
Poor inversion settings.
It is generally expected that data misfit, e.g. RMS error, be reduced from iteration to iteration.
The first several iterations have a larger RMS error reduction than later iterations. When RMS
error reduction is very small or RMS error increases, the inversion should be terminated. This
parameter sets a threshold for this purpose. It is recommended that the inversion stop when error
reduction is smaller than 5%. Sometimes it is normal that the convergence of inversion is not
monotonic. This error reduction factor may cause termination of the inversion prematurely. This
is why the box in front of this setting is unchecked by default.
3.5.6 Damping factor
This factor suppresses the effect of small eigenvalues of the inversion kernel matrix at earlier
iterations so that it stabilizes the inversion process. The default value is 100.
3.5.7 Depth factor
EarthImager 1D defines the depth of penetration based on the median depth values defined by
Edwards (1977). The median depth ranges from 15% to 25% of the array span depending on the
array type for any four-electrode array. However, these median depth values seem
underestimating the depth of investigation for 1D VES. We also considered the depth suggested
by Zohdy (1989) to set the layer depth values in EarthImager 1D.
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For a vertical electrical sounding with Schlumberger array, the potential electrode spacing is
increased as the signal strength become very small. As a standard practice, two measurements
are made at the same AB but different MN during the transition. These two apparent resistivity
values differ due to 2D and 3D effect of subsurface media, creating a clutch on the 1D apparent
resistivity vs. AB/2 curve. Average Clutch will reset both measurements to the average of two
different apparent resistivity values.
A resistivity survey project has a project name such as DEMO. The project name may be used as
the top-level folder name for data processing. All data files for this project should be stored in
this project folder. Each data file would correspond to a sounding point. Under the project folder,
a subfolder will be created for each data file automatically when you open a data file. This
subfolder will be named after the data file name without extension. Schlum1D, for example, will
be the subfolder name for data file Schlum1D.stg. For every inversion trial, a trial subfolder is
created automatically under the sounding folder with a folder name of trial plus a trial
sequential number. The folder hierarchy will look like the figure below.
In a trial folder, these files are saved with the default names. The INI file is the inversion settings
file and may be read back into the EarthImager for inversion of other data sets. The OUT file is
an inversion log file containing inversion settings, raw data, mesh definition, inverted results of
all iterations. The STG file or DAT file contains the raw data used in the inversion and it may
also be saved optionally by the user from the menu File | Save STG Data. The JPG file is an
image file. The MOD file is an ASCII text file of inverted resistivity model.
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One may start inversion by either clicking the green tool button or choosing the menu
Inversion | Start Inversion. Two files will be created and saved automatically in the current trial
folder. The INI file contains the settings for current inversion. OUT files are inversion log files
with inversion settings and results for all iterations. At the end of inversion, you may use the
mouse wheel to navigate through inverted results at all iterations.
1D inversion is an interactive process in which a user improves the layered resistivity model
iteratively from one inversion to the next. Obtaining a small RMS error is generally not a
difficult task in a 1D inversion because of nonuniqueness of 1D inversion. However, searching
for a geologically-sensible resistivity model can be very challenging.
At the end of one inversion, a user often changes the number of layers and layer resistivity value
based on the previous inversion results, and starts a new inversion with an improved model. This
process can go on and on. The Iterative Processing in EarthImager 1D automates this iterative
process by
1) Starting the inversion with many layers, e.g., 12 layers.
2) Combining neighboring layers with a small resistivity contrast based on a user-specified
threshold.
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Choose View | Graphics Settings | General Settings. Type the desired titles in the box below.
This will show measured apparent resistivity data in a spreadsheet. The data shown in the
spreadsheet may be saved as an ASCII text file and printed as a hard copy. Note that the column
header may vary depending on the measurement array configuration. The distance unit can be
changed from the control in the toolbar. The resistivity unit may be changed from a setting at the
bottom of this spreadsheet.
This option lists the inverted resistivity model in a spreadsheet. The layered model shown in the
spreadsheet may be saved as an ASCII text file and printed as a hard copy.
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Click this tool button to show or hide a project information table placed at the lower right
corner of the main window. To change the project information, go to the menu View | Project
Information. You must check Show Project Info to view the project information at the lower
right corner of the screen. Please note that the text field has a fixed length, so you should keep
your input short. To fit more characters in the table, you will have to reduce the font size.
There are two flavors of the project information table. The new Custom Project Information
Table gives the user more options to define his or her own project information table. Most fields
except data file name and processing software name are editable. This would be valuable for
users whose language is not English.
3.12 Copy Image to Clipboard
You may copy an on-screen image to the Windows clipboard by choosing Copy Image to
Clipboard menu item from the Edit menu or from this button on the toolbar. Then the image
on the clipboard may be pasted to any Windows program such as MS Word, Powerpoint, Paint,
and Photo Editor.
3.13 Save Image
The onscreen image may be saved as a bitmap, JPEG or Windows metafile file at any of three
or
resolution levels. To save an onscreen image, you may either click Save Image tool button
choose Save Image menu item from File menu. In the Save as type box at the bottom, choose
your desired image file type and resolution. You have three graphics file types to choose from. A
suggested image file name may look like this: Schlum1D_trial3_DataFitInvModel5.jpg.
Schlum1D is the prefix of the STG file name (Schlum1D.stg). The current trial is trial 5.
3.14 Save STG Data
Choose Save STG Data from the File menu. A saved STG data file will be in the 3D (x, y, z)
STG format. When one reads in a non-STG data file, this feature may be used to convert a nonSTG file into an STG file.
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or choose Print
To print an onscreen image, you may either click Print Image tool button
Image menu item from File men. For custom printing, choose Page Setup from File menu. You
are given options for page orientation, margins, and output resolution. High resolution is the
highest DPI (dots per inch) of the printer. Medium resolution is one half of printers DPI. Low
resolution is one quarter of printers DPI. The printed image will be stretched to fit the settings in
Page Setup, but the orientation, aspect ratio, and size may differ from the onscreen image.
3.16 Inversion with Topography
EarthImager 1D (version 1.x.x) can invert a data set collected on an uneven ground surface. You
have two ways to tell EarthImager your electrode geometry. First, you may use horizontal
projected distance that is equivalent to the horizontal coordinate. Second, you may use tape
measure or slope distance. In this case, the distance measure in the raw data file and the
command is also defined by the tape measure or slope distance. The second option is much
easier to implement and used more commonly. Here is a sample terrain file (Wenner1D.trn).
; TRN File
unit= Meters
2
-500, 101
-200, 100
-190, 108
-165, 110
-148, 113
-120, 105
-87, 103
-46, 98
-14, 95
0, 97
22, 100
56, 99
72, 101
133, 106
150. 102
169, 99
194, 101
234, 102
1000, 101
The terrain file (*.trn) is a two-column comma separated text file that may be created in any text
editor such as the NotePad. To process a data with topography, follow these steps:
1) Read Data.
2) Read a terrain file from the menu File | Read Terrain File.
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4. THEORY OF INVERSION
4.1 What Is Inversion?
Resistivity surveys measure injected current (I) through transmitting electrodes and potential
difference (voltage V) between two receiving electrodes. Measured current and voltage together
with electrode geometry (K) may be converted into apparent resistivity (a). Normalized voltage
by current (V/I) and apparent resistivity a are data in the inversion. V/I and a data are
equivalent quantities that can be transformed back and forth with the help of a geometric factor
K.
The goal of resistivity survey is to image a subsurface resistivity distribution which is closely
correlated with subsurface geology. The subsurface resistivity distribution (or its reciprocal
electrical conductivity) is the model parameter in the inversion.
The model is the partial differential equation that governs the relationship between data and
model parameters.
Forward modeling is defined as the process of predicting the data on the basis of the known
distribution of model parameter, electrode configuration and model. It is a mapping from the
model space to the data space. Forward modeling creates synthetic data sets. Forward modeling
is also known as forward simulation, forward problem, and forward solution.
Inversion is defined as the process of determining the estimates of the model parameter on the
basis of the data and the model. Inversion is a mapping from data space to model space, and it
reconstructs the subsurface resistivity distribution from measured voltage and current data.
Inversion is also known as inverse modeling, inverse simulation, and inverse problem.
The resistivity data inversion proceeds as follows.
1) A starting resistivity model is constructed based on either the average apparent resistivity,
or apparent resistivity distribution, or user assumption, or a-priori knowledge of
subsurface resistivity distribution.
2) A virtual survey (forward modeling) is carried out for a predicted data set over the
starting model. The initial root mean squared (RMS) error at the zero-th iteration may be
calculated at this step.
3) Solve a linearized inverse problem based on the current model and data misfit for a
model update (m).
4) Update the resistivity model using a formula like this: mi+1 = mi + m. The model
parameter m consists of electrical conductivity of all model blocks in the finite difference
or finite element mesh. The symbol i is the iteration number.
5) Run a forward modeling (virtual survey) based on the updated model for an updated
predicted data set.
6) Calculate a new RMS error between the predicted data and the measured data.
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V V
2
+
k V = I ( x) ( z ) ,
x x z z
where V is the scalar electrical potential in the Fourier transform domain, and I is the electric
current source. k is the wave-number in the transform domain. is electrical conductivity as a
function of (x, z). We implemented both finite difference and finite element methods.
The newer version 2.x.x of EarthImager 1D conducts its forward modeling through an analytical
solution by digital filtering.
4.3 Damped Least Squares Inversion
For a nonlinear inverse problem, the data vector, d, is a nonlinear function of the model
parameter vector, m, that is, d = g(m). The objective of least squares inversion is to minimize a
weighted data misfit,
(J
Wd J + I m = J T Wd (d obs g(m) ) ,
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where J =
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5. TOOLS
5.1 Forward Simulation
This is a forward modeling tool which generates a synthetic data set from a layered resistivity
model built by the user. Follow these steps to run Forward Simulation.
1) Read Command File from the menu File.
2) Build a layered resistivity model from the menu Settings | Starting Model
3) Start the Forward Simulation from the menu Tools. The synthetic model (*.mod) and
data (*.stg) are saved in the current trial folder.
3)
4)
5)
6)
selecting different file extension. On the screenshot below, two STG files (Test1.stg and
Schlum1D.stg) were added first. Wenner1D.dat was added later by choosing a new file
extension DAT.
All raw data files may have the same sounding location (Mid-X) in the files. To combine
them together, we must transform them to the same global coordinate system by
reassigning a new Mid-X to each sounding.
Choose a distance unit for Mid-X which is the mid point of 1D sounding. However, the
combined 2D data file will always use the meter unit.
Input Mid-X coordinates for each 1D sounding.
Combine all raw data files together to form a 2D data set by clicking the Combine button.
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6. MULTILINGUAL SUPPORT
6.1 Introduction
We added multilingual support to our data processing software such as AGI SuperSting
Administrator, EarthImager 1D, EarthImager 2D and EarthImager 3D. To change the language
of labels and captions on EarthImager GUI, choose your language option from the Language
menu if available. However, if your language is not supported, you can translate EarthImager
GUI into your own language by yourself. To add support for a new language, all you need to do
is to translate the language file ENGLISH.LNG into your language.
A Language menu was added on the main menu of EarthImager. Supported languages are
listed under the language menu. In the screenshots above, both English and Chinese are
supported. More languages will be added soon. The language files are installed, by default, in the
folder: C:\Program Files\AGI\EarthImager2D\lang. All supported languages would have a
language file listed in this folder.
To display EarthImager user interface in a different language, one needs either a local-language
version of Windows or appropriate setups for the local language. These settings are located in
Control Panels | Regional and Language Options. Two screen shots below show the Englishversion Windows setups for display of the EarthImager user interface in Chinese.
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1) [Info]
2) Language=English
3) [Font]
4) Name=MS Sans Serif
5) Charset=1
6) [TfrmMain]
7) Caption="AGI EarthImager 1D"
8) tbSettings.Caption="Settings Window"
9) tbSettings.Hint="Settings Window"
10) tbPrintImage.Caption="Print On-screen Images"
The line numbers from 1 to 10 are not part of the language file and they are added for illustration
purpose only. On the second line Language=English, change the word English into your
language name. This name will be the menu item name under the Language menu. On Line 4,
choose a font name of your native language. Finally, translate all quoted text on the right hand
side of = sign from Line 7. That is, you should translate "AGI EarthImager 1D", "Settings
Window", etc. into your own language. The double quotation signs should be kept and your
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Once you complete the translation of English language file into your language, please email us a
copy of your new language file (yang@agiusa.com). If you find any inappropriate translation in
any language file, please inform us or email us the corrected language file.
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7. HELP
7.1 Instruction Manual in PDF
This menu item brings up a PDF help file in Acrobat Reader.
7.2 AGI Home Page
This will lead to the website of Advanced Geosciences, Inc. at http://www.agiusa.com/.
7.3 EarthImager User Group
This is an AGI EarthImager support page with software updates for users to download. The
website address is http://www.agiusa.com/files/eicust/earthimageruser.shtml. Refer to the
Section 1.2 for more detail.
7.4 Upgrade
The menu item Help | Upgrade brings up a dialog box for user to enter an upgrade license code.
An EarthImager upgrade means to add one or more special-purpose software modules to
EarthImager and AGI charges an upgrade fee to add a new module. Refer to the Section 2.4 for
more detail. The license code below is invalid and it is for illustration only.
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SUGGESTED READINGS
Constable, S., Parker, R.L., and Constable, C.G., 1987, Occams inversion: A practical algorithm
for generating smooth models from electromagnetic sounding data, Geophysics, 52, 289300.
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