Exports And Reproducibility#

The web app produces two kinds of output: figures you save for reports, and data products (corrected data, inversion figures, and session files) you reuse elsewhere. Because every page delegates to the pyCSAMT package, anything you build interactively can also be regenerated in code — the browser is a convenient surface, not a separate result.

Saving Figures#

Interactive Plotly figures — the Map View, 3-D scene, and many section plots are Plotly figures. Each has a modebar in the top-right corner:

  • the camera button downloads the current view as a PNG;

  • pan, zoom, and autoscale let you frame the figure before you snapshot it;

  • double-click resets the view.

Matplotlib page figures — QC, correction, advanced, forward, interpretation, and results figures are rendered as images. Where a page provides an explicit Export / Export PNG button, use it rather than a screen capture: it writes the figure at full resolution through the app’s download mechanism.

The Results View page with an Export PNG button beneath the plot controls

Pages that render matplotlib figures — like Results View — provide an Export PNG button so you save the figure itself, not a screenshot.#

Page And Tool Exports#

Several pages and tools export more than a single figure:

Surface

What it exports

Correction page

Export Corrected Data writes the corrected response as a downloadable table (CSV) reflecting the current correction chain.

3D Map page

The Export panel saves the 3-D scene as a PNG or a standalone interactive HTML file.

Results View page

Export PNG saves the current results tab (section, convergence, response, depth map, …).

Interpretation page

The Export category saves interpretation products.

Pipeline page

The Export step writes processed EDIs and products to an export folder you choose.

Batch Export Plots (Tools)

Exports many figures at once for the loaded survey.

Batch Export#

For anything more than a few figures, use Tools → Batch Export Plots. It generates a set of plots for the loaded survey in one pass, which is faster and more consistent than exporting page by page — useful when preparing a full figure set for a report.

Session Files#

The Session drawer (see Loading Data And Sessions) downloads a session JSON that captures your workflow state and settings. It is the reproducibility anchor for the browser:

  • Download JSON archives the current session or shares it with a colleague;

  • Restore Session re-opens it in any browser running the app;

  • the What is included? link lists exactly what the file records.

The session JSON stores workflow state, not the raw EDI files. Keep the original survey folder alongside the session so the survey can be reloaded when the session is restored on another machine.

The Settings drawer can likewise download its configuration, so computation defaults and provider settings can be carried between machines.

Note

The AI provider API key lives in the browser’s localStorage and is deliberately not part of shared exports. Each user enters their own key in Settings (see Navigation And Layout).

Reproducing Web Output In Python#

The web app is a view over the package, so its output is reproducible in code:

  • interactive maps and 3-D scenes correspond to the pycsamt.map façade, so a view you build in Map View or 3D Map can be regenerated in a script;

  • corrections applied in the Correction chain correspond to the same catalogue functions available from Python, so a corrected survey can be rebuilt headlessly;

  • the Pipeline page mirrors the scripted load → QC → edit → correct → strike → export workflow, so a pipeline you tune interactively can be run from the Python API on new data.

This parity is what makes the exports trustworthy: a figure in a report can be tied back to a reproducible computation rather than a one-off screen capture.

Practical Export Habits#

  • Prefer a page’s Export button over a screenshot — it saves the figure at full resolution.

  • Give exported files descriptive names (line, quantity, and settings), for example L34_phase_tensor_section.png or modem_run_section.png.

  • Keep the survey folder, the session JSON, and the exported figures together, so any view can be regenerated later.

  • For a full figure set, use Batch Export Plots rather than exporting each page by hand.

Next Steps#