User Guide#
The user guide is the practical companion to the pyCSAMT science API, applications, and command-line tools. It explains how users load survey data, inspect quality, apply processing workflows, build maps, prepare inversions, run AI-assisted tools, and move from station-level data to reproducible project outputs.
This section is organized as an operational workspace. Start with the core
workflow pages when you want a guided path through common tasks. Open the
domain guides when you need deeper package-specific documentation for
emtools, site containers, forward modelling, external model integrations,
pipelines, agents, or maps.
Reading Paths#
Different users usually arrive here with different goals:
New survey users should begin with Data Loading, then continue through Data processing, Map Tools, and Interpretation.
Processing and QC users should pair Data processing with EM Tools Guide and Site Tools.
Inversion users should read Inversion, then move into the Classical model integrations and Pipeline System guides.
AI and agent users should combine AI inversion with Agents.
Mapping users should start with Map Tools.
Core Workflow Guides#
Load EDI directories, explicit station files, API survey views, and
existing EDI-like objects into the canonical Sites container.
Move from loaded data to QC tables, cleaning, correction, static shift, tensor checks, and reproducible processing outputs.
Build station maps, survey-line views, pseudosections, and visual checks that make field data easier to inspect.
Prepare data, model settings, exports, and review steps for 1-D, 2-D, and external-engine inversion workflows.
Connect processed responses, plots, inversion products, and geologic reasoning into reviewable interpretation workflows.
Work with sensor-oriented or streaming workflows when survey data arrive from connected acquisition and monitoring contexts.
Domain And Package Guides#
Detailed narrative pages for pycsamt.emtools modules, including QC,
static shift, tensor, strike, frequency, and plotting tools.
Understand station wrappers, Sites containers, selection, editing,
coordinates, exports, reports, and recomputation helpers.
Predict synthetic responses, configure solvers and grids, and connect forward experiments to inversion design.
Run preset and configured processing chains, compare outputs, preserve manifests, and move between Python and CLI execution.
Work directly with the Python mapping layer for stations, profiles, overlays, 3-D quick looks, exports, and map APIs.
Reference And Next Steps#
Follow longer task-oriented walkthroughs after choosing the relevant user-guide path.
Install pyCSAMT, verify the environment, and complete the first practical survey run before diving into advanced workflows.