Install

Everything needed to get pyCSAMT onto your machine and productive: a guided first run for newcomers, and the complete installation reference when you need the full pip/conda picture.

• New to pyCSAMT, or just want to see it work? Start with Getting started — a short guided walkthrough from a fresh environment to your first figure.

• Already comfortable with pip/conda and want the full picture (extras, compiled solvers, backend requirements, verification)? Go to Installation.

• 1. Installation
  • 1.1. Requirements
  • 1.2. Standard Install
  • 1.3. Optional Feature Groups
  • 1.4. Console Commands
  • 1.5. Conda Environments
  • 1.6. Install From Source
  • 1.7. Compiled Inversion Solvers
  • 1.8. Verify The Installation
  • 1.9. Upgrade Or Remove
  • 1.10. Troubleshooting
  • 1.11. Next Steps
• 2. Getting Started
  • 2.1. Start here
    • 2.1.1. The recommended path
    • 2.1.2. Choose a shorter entry point
    • 2.1.3. What Getting Started does not do
    • 2.1.4. Before leaving this section
  • 2.2. Install pyCSAMT
    • 2.2.1. Check Python
    • 2.2.2. Create An Isolated Environment
    • 2.2.3. Install The Core Package
    • 2.2.4. Verify The Installation
    • 2.2.5. Add Optional Features Only When Needed
    • 2.2.6. Continue With Your Data
  • 2.3. Identify your data format
    • 2.3.1. Choose the nearest input family
    • 2.3.2. Load EDI data directly
    • 2.3.3. Convert transfer-function formats when necessary
    • 2.3.4. Distinguish spectra from impedance EDI
    • 2.3.5. Treat time-domain data as a separate measurement family
    • 2.3.6. Check units and spatial references
    • 2.3.7. Continue from the identified format
  • 2.4. Configure a first session
    • 2.4.1. Start with a small explicit setup
    • 2.4.2. Choose station ordering deliberately
    • 2.4.3. Choose a plotting preset
    • 2.4.4. Keep API result views at their default initially
    • 2.4.5. Use temporary settings for isolated work
    • 2.4.6. Reset the settings you changed
    • 2.4.7. Configuration that can wait
  • 2.5. Inspect a first survey
    • 2.5.1. Load the survey
    • 2.5.2. Review source files and parser errors
    • 2.5.3. Build the station inventory
    • 2.5.4. Inspect one station
    • 2.5.5. Plot a survey fingerprint
    • 2.5.6. Decide whether to continue
  • 2.6. Quickstart
    • 2.6.1. Load and inspect
    • 2.6.2. Normalize for processing
    • 2.6.3. Save one diagnostic figure
    • 2.6.4. Complete script
    • 2.6.5. Continue with the appropriate depth