12. Airborne EM Guide

pycsamt.airborne is the technology-neutral airborne data model: flight lines and datasets built from EMTF documents, with no EDI bridge and no impedance requirement, since a genuine airborne EM measurement rarely has one. It sits alongside pycsamt.site (ground, EDI-shaped) rather than inside it, and this section covers that data model on its own terms: building and inspecting flight lines and datasets, reading them through the Sites-shaped AirborneSite view, registering or detecting a technology and a native format, and running structural QC. Start with Airborne Data Model Overview for the full picture of how AFMAG, ZTEM, and MobileMT map onto this shared model.

• 12.1. Airborne Data Model Overview
  • 12.1.1. Core Containers
  • 12.1.2. Technology Subpackages
  • 12.1.3. Where To Go Next
• 12.2. Flight Lines and Datasets
  • 12.2.1. Navigation and Attitude
  • 12.2.2. Records and Lines
  • 12.2.3. Assembling A Dataset
• 12.3. The Airborne Site View
  • 12.3.1. Reading Sample Surveys
  • 12.3.2. Four Response Families
  • 12.3.3. Selecting And Grouping
  • 12.3.4. One Container, Three Diagnostics
  • 12.3.5. Exporting And Round-Tripping
• 12.4. Technologies, Formats, and Native I/O
  • 12.4.1. Built-In Technologies
  • 12.4.2. Identifying A Technology
  • 12.4.3. No Native Reader Yet
  • 12.4.4. Registering A Format
• 12.5. Structural Quality Control
  • 12.5.1. A Compact Inventory
  • 12.5.2. A Clean Survey
  • 12.5.3. Five Real Findings