Frequently Asked Questions

Datum and projection transforms for Grids and Databases in WinDisp

Notes prepared by Vicki Thomson and Peter Kowalczyk

(1) When WinDisp starts (or from Edit > Posting > Select Posting File)
choose "Post data" (from text file, for example - this includes a
Geosoft XYZ).

(2) Go through "Data File Specification" window assigning "First Line
with Data" and "Line with Data Names" (note here that in a Geosoft style
XYZ file, the line numbers are included in the data lines, so for
example / Line 1 will be the first line with data.

(3) Go through "Specify Data Names" window, changing null values or
variable names if you wish.

(4) Select "Data Posting Style" (this only affects the display, and for
gridding purposes makes no difference).

(5) The "Data Posting Coordinates" window is the important part: choose
"Decimal degrees" under "Coordinate Style" and specify the "Input zone"
(e.g. 36 for Tanzania). Now click "Define Projection and Datum
Transform". Fill in "Projection" and "Spheroid" information from
drop-down menus - make this the desired output coordinate system even
though it says it is for source data. For example, use UTM and spheroid
WGS84, or else UTM and spheroid Clarke 1880 for the Arc1960 system. Fill
in "Zone Number" and "Hemisphere" and click "Done". Back in the "Data
Posting Coordinates" window, if you already have WinDisp set up in
another coordinate system, untick the box "Use same projection as
current layout". Now specify the longitude variable as "X Variable" and
the latitude as "Y Variable". If the file is Geosoft style XYZ with line
numbers as / Line 1 etc, then check the box "Geosoft Line Definition".
Click "OK".

(6) In the "Data Posting Specifications" window, choose the variable you
want to post in the drop-down menu under "Name of Data Variable", and
click "Display Data Range". You should see the Easting and Northing
limits expressed in UTM for example rather than decimal degrees. Click
Copy Limits > To PLot Limits to automatically set the scale for
displaying the data. You can grid the data in UTM coordinates in this
window, or return to the main WinDisp window and click Display to post
the data.
 

1. Start WinDisp and display the image in the target projection (eg UTM/GDA zone 56S)
2. Click on the Edit> Images menu item and then click on the Transform Grid button
3. Change the Current Grid coordinates to Grid
4. Ensure that the Use same projection as current layout is turned on
5. Click on the Define Projection and Datum transform button
6. Change the Source projection spheroid to the one desired (eg Australian National Spheroid zone 56)
7. Click on the Datum Transform drop-down list in the Optional Datum shift box and select the required data from the list (eg AGD84 to GDA 94). If the datum transform is not in the list, simply type in the name and parameters on the form.
8. (Optional) Click on the Test Transform button, enter the coords to test as East/North coords, click on the East/North to Lat/Lon button to see the geographic coords, then click on the Convert Source to Map button to convert to GDA geographic coords and finally click on the lower Lat/Lon to East/North button to convert to MGA east/north values. Then click on Done to go back to the projection form.
9. Click on Done to return to the transform form, specify the desired x/y cell sizes (generally the same as the source grid)
10. Specify an output grid file name and format and click on the Perform Transform button
11. Select the new grid file created and click on the Copy Limits to Plot limits menu item
12. Click on Display and the new grid file will be displayed


 

The data is available in 1 x 1 degree blocks at ftp://e0mss21u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm

srtm conversion and proceed as follows:

1. Start a new layout and select Display an image

2. Select the srtm file to convert

3. Click on the Copy Image Limits to Plot limits menu item

4. Click on the Transform Grid button (no need to display the image)

5. Select Convert Geographic grid transform and turn off the Use same projection as current layout (as there is none)

6. Click on the Define Projection button, select UTM and GRS80 as the spheroid

7. Specify an output grid file name and format

8. Specify an output grid cell size

9. Click on the Perform Transform button

The resulting grid looks ok and does not have any datum shift applied, but I don't have any independent data to confirm that it is correct. But I can confirm that the datum shift part of the code is not being used as I have not define a datum in the above steps.

The latest version of WinDisp will calculate an output grid cell size if you don't specify one, but specifying a value will make sure that the grid is reasonable

1. Start WinDisp, double click on the Display an Image option, select the required grid file and the Image File Specifications form will be displayed
2. If you want to view the image before transforming it, select the required Image Style, click on Done, enter the required map scale and the image will be displayed
3. If you displayed the image in step 2, click on the Edit> Images menu item on the main WinDisp form to display the Image File Specifications form
4. Click on the Transform Grid button to bring up the Grid Transformations form
5. Click on the Transform Using dropdown list and select the required transform (Continuation for this case)
6. Turn on the FFT checkbox if required. If the FFT is not turned on, the transform will be performed using a convolution filter. This is faster than the FFT, but has different frequency response characteristics as it is not sensitive to the longer frequency content in the image.
7. If you have the FFT option turned off, specify the filter half-width for the convolution filter. If you have the FFT option turned on, specify the Edge roll-off half-width value. The latter is the minimum number of padding cells which are to be added at the edge of the image before the grid size is increased to the next larger power of 2 for performing the FFT.
8. Decide what form of detrending is to be applied to the grid. The options are No detrend, Remove Detrend and Remove and Restore Detrend. The Detrend option (if applied) calculates a planar fit to the data at the edges of the image. Removing the planar detrend can reduce artefacts introduced by the FFT due to discontinuities due to the implied periodicity of the data. Restoring the detrend is only useful when working with smoothing transforms for data like elevations.
9. Specify the Continuation distance. This value is in distance units (not cell counts) and is positive for upward continuation and negative for downward continuation.
10. If you wish to save the grid file, specify an Output file name and format. If you do not specify an output file name, the transformed grid is kept in memory as the current grid file. This allows you to perform multiple transform operations, view the results and then save the final grid.
11. Once all of the required parameters have been specified, click on Perform Transform and the requested transform will be computed.
12. Once the transform has been applied, click on Done to return to the main Image form. If you did not specify an output file name, you can click on Done again and then display the transformed grid.
13. If you did specify an output file name, you can select the transformed image on the Image Specifications form and then display it
14. If you have a transformed image in memory that you wish to save, click on the Export menu item on the Image Specifications form, select the required grid format, specify an output file name and then click on the Store Grid button on the Grid Output form.
15. If you have a transformed image in memory that you do not want, click on the Release Loaded Grids button to remove the transformed image and return to the original grid file.
 

1. Start WinDisp and display the gravity image (just to see what it looks like)
2. Click on the Edit. Images then the Transform Image button, turn on FFT, set filter half-width to 11
3. Set the minimum distance to 0, maximum to 2000 and increment to 100 (or whatever values suit you)
4. Specify an output file name and click on Perform Transformation
5. Select Yes or No according to whether you want the worms to go up or down in space
6. Click on Done and Done again to get back to the main WinDisp form and click on the 3D Models menu item
7. Load the mesh and model file you just created
8. Set the blue/red and isosurface values to something reasonable and click on the Start 3D Viewer
9. Leave the viewer open, go back to the 3DModeller form and click on the Data Files tab on the 3D Files tab
10. Double-click on the first line, select the extrema.dat file, set the First line to 2 and the name line to 1
11. Turn on the Colour Using check box and click on the Colour column box and select grad from the list
12. Click on the Local locations button to check that the data is being read ok
13. Click on Done and then click on the Create New 3D object menu item
14. Specify a name for the new display item (eg extrema) and then click on Done and the points will be displayed
15. Once you have created the model, click on File> Save binary model and save the model file
16. On the 3DModeller form you can also click on File> Save model layout to save the definitions used for creating the 3d model
 

VTEM Geosoft Databases

Converting and displaying a Geosoft VTEM database

Converting and displaying CDI grids from a Geosoft VTEM database

Sample database

1. Start WinDisp and double click on the Post Data from a Geosoft Database option
2. Select the required gdb file (NB you have to have the Geosoft API installed. The install set is on the main downloads page http://www.scicomap.com/downloads.htm)
3. Click on Done on the File Display form and the Data Names form will be displayed
4. Click on Done and the Posting Style form will be displayed. Leave the style as Value and click on OK
5. The Data Posting Coordinates form will then be displayed
6. Select X as the X variable by clicking on the text box and selecting X from the list
7. Do the same to select Y as the Y variable
8. Select LineNumber as the Line Variable and turn on the Line Variable is Text check box
9. Click on OK and the Data Posting Specifications form will be displayed
10. Click on the N/A in the first line in the Data Variable list and select Z as the value
11. Click on the second line and select Alt as the value
12. Click on the Display Data Range button and the data will be read from the database and the limits displayed.
13. Click on the Copy Limits> To Plot Limits menu item and specify the required plot scale (note that you can modify the x/y limits before copying them to make the plot area a little bigger)
14. Click on Done and then on the Define Data Variable button and change the Label Size to 0
15. Click on the drop-down list at the bottom left side of the form and select the other data variables and change the label size to 0
(Note that steps 14,5 are only necessary if you are going to display the plot as the labels get too cluttered for this dataset)
16. If you want to check the flight lines, click on Done, OK and then Display!
17. If you displayed the plot, click on the Edit> Posting> Edit Posting Specifications to bring up the posting definitions form
18. Click on the Options> Generate CDI grids menu item to display the CDI grid output form
19. The File name is ignored at the moment, so ignore it
20. The Start X,Y and Line azimuth fields can be left blank, but can be filled in if you need to
21. Select the Z as the DTM field by clicking on the text box and selecting it from the list
22. Select Alt as the Alt field
23. You can select Depth1 as the field defining the layer depth, but in this case all layers are 10m thinck, so just change the Layer Thickness text box to the value 10
24. Select Conductance1 as the Data field and change the Data type to be Conductnace
25. Set the Z and X cell sizes to be 10, the Max Depth to be 800 and the Depth Clip Method to be Draped from DTM
26. If you want to use the xyz data for gridding in another program turn on the Output xyz data using uniform samples option (if the checkbox is turned off, the xyz data is only output for each layer)
27. Turn on the Output NN gridded images (where NN is Nearest Neighbour - which is the only option at the moment)
28. Turn on the Output station based images and select whichever of the res, log res and conductivity images you want created
29. Click on the File> Save setting menu item and write out the definitions (these can then be loaded in the next time you run the process)
30. Click on the Output Data button and the data will be read and the images created. Each line in the database is processed separately and the files are written to a separate folder for each line

1. This is pretty similar to the 3D display, but first save the current CDI data posting layout and then click on the File> New menu item
2. Double click on the Start New Layout option
3. Click on the Edit> Multi-panel Display/TEM profile menu item to display the Multi-panel list
4. Drag and drop the sct files on to this list
5. Once all files have been added, click on Done, specify the Plot Scale and then click on Display!

The coordinates used for the CDI grids depend on the option you chose on the CDI grid creation form. If the lines are almost EW or NS (as your lines are), you can choose the Coordinate based option and the most appropriate coordinate will be chosen (in your case this would be the northing). For oblique lines it's best to use the station based grids. The station is calculated by subtracting the Start X/Y coords from the CDI gridding form from the actual x and y coords and then rotating by the negative of the line azimuth. The resulting x coordinate is used as the station value. Doing it this way means that the 2d grids can be lined up correctly, though this is less important in the 3d display.
 

Load a dtm grid as the topo grid on the 3DModeller form (3D files> Topography)
Define the observed data points as 3D points (3D Files> Data Files and click on the Add new file button)
Click on the Load Locations button to read all the points
Click on the Calculate Terrain Correction and enter the desired parameters for the calculation:

density contrast: this value is used to calculate the total Bouguer using the FreeAir data column loaded as the Colour column (ignored otherwise)
Average topo elevation: this value is used for the infinite slab part of the calculation. If it is -1e32, the average dtm value will be used. You only need to set the value if you want to calculate the TC for multiple separate surveys in the same area
Zone width: This is the width of the padding area around the survey data and is used to speed the calculation for areas of the dtm remote from the survey data (500 seems to work reasonably well for standard surveys)
Insert observed locations into topo: turn this option on to ensure that the dtm used for the response calculation matches the survey data points
Topo DC shift: This is a simple DC shift which can be used to ensure that the dtm elevations match the survey data elevations


The program will then calculate the total Bouguer value and writes it out to a data file.

Notes:

If you select values for the Colour By and Size by, these are also written to the file. Selecting the Free air value is useful as the total Bouguer value is calculated for the specified density and written to the output file.

The average topo can be left as the null value (-1e32) and the program will work out the average topo for the grid and use that. If you want to compare different surveys in the same area which have different topo grids, then the average topo will be different for each and there will be an offset between the terrain corrections for each survey. In this case, you should set the average topo to a reasonable estimate and use the same value for each survey. The value should not be zero as it is not the datum for the survey, but rather the height of the infinite slab used outside the region covered by the terrain grid.

The observed data points should be close to the dtm surface as any discrepancies between the two cause large differences in the total Bouguer.

The dtm grid file should be large enough to provide terrain information around the survey (at least 8 cell widths is adviseable).

The first three columns in the output file will be x,y,z. Next are any data columns loaded as colour or size fields. Next is the total response for the topo, followed by the Total Bouguer if a colour field has been specified. If the Map onto topo option is used, there will be a final column with the elevation shift at the obs data point.

The computed value is the total Bouguer and is applied in exactly the same way as the Bouguer value ie multiply by the density and subtract from the free air.

A full TC using the full resolution of the dtm grid can be calculated by setting the zone width to 0.

If a draped image grid is specified in addition to the topo grid on the 3DModeller form, it can be used either as a regional topo grid (for areas where the topo grid is not defined) or as a variable density grid.

1. Start WinDisp and open one of the pseudosection displays for an IP line
2. Click on Display! to check that you have the pseudosection that you need
3. Click on the Edit> Posting> Edit Posting Specifications menu item
4. Click on the number 2 in the list of data variable (should be the line that says Chargeability)
5. Click on the Define Data Variable button
6. Click on the Edit Image button
7. Click on the Display Histogram button
8. Change the Minimum Value to 0 and the Maximum value to 20 (or whatever maximum is appropriate for the data)
9. Click on the Histogram Distribution drop-down list and select Uniform
10. Click on the Update Histogram button
11. Click on the Histogram Options> Save Histogram menu item and save the histogram file somewhere that you'll remember and use a name something like IP_0_20.hst
12. Click on The Done button to close the Histogram form
13. Click on the Done button to close the Image form
14. On the Posting Variable form, click on the button next to the Histogram File text box and open the histogram file that you saved
15. Click on Done and then OK and then Display and check that the IP section looks ok (ie the image should go from Blue to red)

You can repeat this process for the resistivity section by selecting the number 1 in step 4. For resistivity values you should set the minimum value to be a nice round number smaller than the current minimum. For example if the minimum is 43.1, change it to 40, but if the minimum is 4.3 change the minimum to 1. But always make the minimum some positive number. Similarly for the maximum, change it to a larger number which encompasses the range of resistivity values for all of the lines eg if the maximum is 782 then change the maximum to 800. Then change the Histogram distribution to Log (and not Uniform), click on the Update Histogram button and save the histogram file using a useful name.

Once you have set up the histograms for the resistivity and chargeability for one line, save the specifications using the File> Save Layout menu item so that the changes to the histogram are remembered. For the rest of the lines, you can then just open the pseudosection display using the File> Read Layout menu item, click on the Edit> Posting> Edit Posting Specification menu item, click on the number 1, click on the Define Data Variable button, click on the Histogram File button, select the saved resistivity histogram file, click on the Done button, then click on the number 2, click on the Define Data Variable button, click on the Histogram File button, select the saved chargeability histogram file. Then click on Done, OK and then Display! and check the display. Then click on the File> Save Layout to save the changes.

Repeat this process for all of the lines in the survey to make sure that the images all look ok. Then once you have made sure that the ranges for the resistivity and chargeability are ok, go back and display each of the IP lines, click on Display!, then click on the File> Print menu item, click on the PDF/PostScript option. change the Page Size to Plot Limits, click on the Print button and save the pdf output. Then send the client the saved pdf files.
 

The IP posting is based around a single IP line and although it is possible
to add grid files from other lines, it is best to keep it for the single
line. Instead there is another display mode where you can set up multiple panels in which you can display up to 64 different images.

To use this mode proceed as follows:

1. Start WinDisp and start a new layout
2. Click on the Edit> Multipanel/TEM display menu item
3. Click on the Define panel contents button (or double click on the number for the first blank line)
4. Click on the Image and Topo tab
5. Select the required image and display style and click on the Set limits from Image file button
6. If required, click on the Area Limits tab and change any limits and panel labelling options
7. Click on OK and repeat steps 3 to 6 for the required number of images
8. On the main multi-panel tab click on the Panel Header for each panel and change the headline text as required
9. Click on the Column to Use value and change the column as required
(panels are displayed from top to bottom in the layout using the column
number to determine the lateral position of the panel)
10. Change the Row and column alignment drop-down selections as required
11. Click on Done and specify a map scale if prompted and then Display! to show the layout

In this mode and individual images, posting and overlays are ignored and not displayed. Similarly the area limits are ignored, but plot scale and projections are used. Also you can add a pre-existing posting layout as a panel using the Posted Data tab. Similarly, you can add contours, DXF and shape/mapinfo overlays over posted data or images.

I generally show inversions for multiple lines using the multi-panel option with the northernmost line at the top and resistivity in column 1 and chargeability in column 2. I have also set up multipanel displays for the IP inversion posting displays, but for these, I split the IP inversion layouts into separate res and chargeability displays (by taking the standard mod layout and deleting either the res or the chargeability and saving it as a new layout) as then the coordinates will line up correctly in the data columns.

There is also an IP batch processing utility with which you can set up a
wizard file for one of the lines to be processed and then adding all of the remaining lines so that they all get processed in the same way. I have not yet added the res2d files to this option, but it does work for UBC and Zonge inversion files.
 

1. Start WinDisp, click on OK to start a new layout, click on the 3DModels menu item
2. Change the Model type in the dropdown list on the Mesh/model tab to resistivity (even though you don't have a model loaded)
3. Click on the Observed data tab and load up the xyz file that you want to work with
4. Set the number of header lines, the name line to whatever is appropriate and ensure that the X,Y and Z coords are specified correctly
5. Turn on the Colour using value option, click on the Colour Column text box and select the resistivity data column from the drop-down list
6. Click on the Load Locations button
7. Click on the Start 3DModeller button, specify a world plot scale and
check the display of the points
8. Go back to the 3DModeller form and click on the 3D Gridding> Observed data point menu item
9. Supply a name to give the gridded model (without an extension of res) and click ok
10. Specify a horizontal search radius and vertical search radius values and turn on the Maintain positivity option and click Done
11. follow the prompts, (choose No to the binary format question if it
appears) and the mesh and model will be written out and then loaded
12. load the topo grid on the 3D Files, Topo grids page
13. go to the display model tab and change the x/y padding cells as required to chop off the padding cells
14. Click on the Edit> Topo> Specify model above topo option and
enter -99999 to mask the gridded model above the topography
15. Click on File> Save model to save the trimmed model (optional, but saves you having to repeat the process next time you load the model)
16. Set the red/isosurface value to whatever level you want
17. If you have closed the 3d viewer click on the Start 3D modeller button, otherwise click on the Create new 3d object menu item and give the isosurface a name (eg Res 1000)
 

1. Start the program and click on File> Create a new database
2. Click on the Import Data> Field data menu item and select the required dump file to import (it will also import Geosoft dat files, but the naming convention for the columns has to be right)
3. If the file format is recognised, the file will be scanned and decoded
using the current import settings
4. If the file wasn't decoded correctly, change the settings on the file
format definition part of the form and click on the Scan File button. The main ones to change are the Array Type and Tx Current fields. You may also need to change the Pole-dipole or Gradient settings (if relevant) and the Tx and Rx line numbers if they have not been decoded correctly from the file.
5. The main fields to check in the file scan window are the Tx and Rx line number, the electrode coords and the Res and Mx values.
6. Once the data is ok, click on the Import Data button. The file will then be rescanned and you will be prompted to provide a location where the data should be stored. The data is stored using a tree structure and I set up default nodes in the database, so if you have pole-dipole data, you just need to click on the Pole-dipole node in the list and click on Done and the program will create a new node under the Pole-dipole node with the line number for the data you are importing and store the data there. If you then import another dump file for the same line, you still click on the Pole-dipole node and the program will append the new data to the existing line. Once the data has been imported, the program tries to work out the conversion between local and world coords (which is a bit meaningless for most data files, and I'll probably take this out in the next version and put the check in somewhere else). Just click on OK if it asks you about transform defintions.
7. With the data loaded in the database, the node list and plan view maps are updated. To see the data for a line in the database, just click on it in the node list at the top left.
8. When you click on the line, the plan-view will show you the latout of the plot-points and electrodes and the pseudosection view will show you a simple pseudosection plot.
9. If you click on a point in the pseudosection, it will display the decay
curves of all repeats for that point.
10. You can change the colour range for the pseudosection plot by clicking on the Database> Set Plot Defintions and clicking on the Psudosection tab. You can also bring up this form by clicking on the middle button in the navigation panel.
11. You can navigate through the pseudosection using the navigation buttons of the keypad buttons (a full list of the navigation keys can be viewed by clicking on the Help > Keycodes menu item.
12. You can turn individual repeats on and off by clicking on the repeat
number checkbox next to the decay curve plot.
13. You can edit individual points on the decay curve, by clicking on the bad point and dragging it up or down. If you change a decay cure, you have to click on the Save button above the repeat list or the changes will be discarded when you change repeats.
14. You can move a decay up or down by holding the Shift key down while dragging the point.
15. Turning of a decay only turns of the chargeability value and not the
resistivity. To turn of the resistivity, click right on the point in the
pseudosection, scroll to the relevant repeat and turn off the Use Res
check box or the Use data check box (for both res and Mx).
16. Once you have loaded and reviewed your data, you can output the data by clicking on the Output Data menu item to bring up the output form. On this form you can specify the output format and also filter the data selection for the data to be written. Hopefully the form is clear enough to be self-explanatory, but let me know if you have any questions.
 

 

The topo file format is basically pretty simple, but there are a lot of nuances that can cause complications for me on the database side.

The simplest is to have a data file with three columns - Line, Station, Elevation. eg

Station, Line, Z
1400.0, 6500N, 755.0
1450.0, 6500N, 650.0
1500.0, 6500N, 630.0
1550.0, 6500N, 645.0
...

With a file in this format, click on the Import Data> Locations menu item, select Line/station as the import style, set the first line as 2, line containing names as 1, Line column as Line, Station column as station, leave the Geosoft option turned off, Line Number text box blank and Line is Local N selected. Then select Elevation to be Z, click on the Scan File button and then Import data.

There are lots of variations possible. If you have line numbers in Geosoft format (ie there ate lines of the form Line 6500 in the file), then select the first such line as the first data line, turn on the Geosoft Line header option and then import the data.

If you only have data for one line in the file and no line number column, turn the Line number column off (and also Geosoft line option off), enter the actual line number in the text box, scan and then import the file.

Line numbers can have a NSEW suffix or not. If there is no suffix, the line direction is determined by the Line is local N or Line is local E option and the sign of the line value determines whether it is N,S E or W. eg if the Line is local E and the line number in the file is -850, then the line will be 850W.

When the Line/station values are read, they are decoded and converted to a local X/Y coordinate value (eg 1400, 6500N converts to the X/Y coord (1400,6500)). These are the base coordinates used for displaying the data. If there are real world coordinates to go with the electrode locations, you can also specify the X and Y coord columns. These are interpreted as map coordinates and can be used both for displaying the electrode locations and for exporting to various inversion formats.

 

The new TQIPdb has an option to export individual line files to separate directories when writing out Geosoft dat files and All Lines is selected.

I created a separate directory (CLP and CGP) for each reading sense.

The new TQIPdb also creates an ipb file with a list of the data files and basic information to be included in the legend.

Once data is exported, start WinDisp and display the combined IP data file (for all lines) to set up a composite histogram for the res and IP grids

With the combined IP pseudosection display loaded in WinDisp, click on the Utility> IP Batch Processing menu item.

Click on the File> Read Batch setup> All definitions menu item and select the ipb file created by TQIPdb

Click on the File> Read IP Wizard settings and read the wiz file created when the combined IP pseudosection was created (note that you can also click on the Add Files button to select files or drag files from a File Explorer window to create a new file list) from scratch)

Click on the Define Files button and fill in the missing information (or modify existing values). Clicking right on the labels on the form brings up a Copy to All popup menu which copies the current value to all defined files. Using the Copy All button at the top of the form copies all values for the current tab to all defined files.

Scroll through the list to make sure all the definitions are ok.

Click on the Define Title button to fill in the title information

Click on the File> Save Batch setup to ensure that the current settings have been saved

Turn on the Create PDF output (if you want pdf files to be created)

Click on the Process Files button to generate the IP psuedosections and pdf output

Click on Show File List (if the file definitions are displayed) and then click on Done

Notes:

turning off the check box for a file means that that file will be skipped

turning off a checkmark on the file definition display means that that item will not be included in the plot

there are still some improvements that I need to make to the code (especially when you close the form and then open it again), but I've run out of time

the display that was current when the IP batch form is loaded will no longer be valid when you close the batch form and you may also not be in the same directory

the ipb reading code does not check that the IP file actually exists (as the file contains an absolute path), so if you need to run the batch process on your own computer, you may need to edit the wiz and ipb files to correct the file paths

Just set up the IP pseudosection display with a topo profile panel and then turn on the Drape IP under topo check box on the posting form. The first defined topo section to use for draping.

If you just want the IP, click on the Edit> Posting> Edit Posting Specifications and turn off the panels that you don't want. You may also have to change the Column number from 2 to 1 so that it gets plotted at the left.

Ditto for the inverted res and IP sections. Note that you simply delete the panels you don't want by left clicking on the number in the list of variable and then right clicking and selecting Delete from the pop-up menu. You can also do cut/paste this way to reorder the panels.

The size of the topo draped IP panel is set using the min/max topo values from the first defined topo panel. So double click on the Topo panel in the variable list and then change the min/max values as required.

If you want to plot a profile of the soil geochemistry in the IP panel display, then proceed as follows:

1. Start WinDisp with the IP panel display
2. Click on the Edit> Posting> Edit posting specification menu item
3. Click on the first blank panel and select the last item Topo File/Model image item in the drop-down list
4. Click on the number of the panel that you have just defined and click on the Define Variable button
5. Select the geochem profile data file as the topo file (note it must use the same coordinates as the IP data)
6. Click on the Set Topo File Format, set the Line number column to 0, the along line coordinate as the same as the IP coordinate
7. Set the elevation column as the required assay column and then click on the Calculate Statistics button
8. Since the assay value is plotted at the same vertical scale as the depth, you may need to change the Scale value to get a reasonable range in the display
9. Click on the Done button and then click on the Set Limits from topo file button to calculate the vertical range for the panel
10. Change the min/max elevation values as required and specify the Data legend and Axis labels to text appropriate for the assay values
11. If you want to plot multiple profiles, repeat the steps 3 to 10 to add another profile display and change the Display In value to the panel number where you want the multiple profiles to be displayed.

The latest version of WinDisp now provides a means for converting SEG-Y seismic files to a form which can be used in normal displays or in the 3D Modeller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To use it, start WinDisp as usual, start a new layout, click on the Utilities> SEG-Y File Utility menu item to bring up the SEG-Y File form:

 

Click on the File Selection button at the bottom of the form, navigate to where you have stored the SEG-Y files and select the file of interest. Once the required file has been selected, the program scans the file to ensure that the format is valid. Currently WinDisp only supports files which contain a standard 3200 byte EBCDIC header followed by a 400 byte reel header followed by multiple trace records. The trace records may optionally contain a trace header, but they must all be of the same length.

If the file has been decoded successfully, click on the EBCDIC Header tab to display the header:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the Reel Header tab will display the Reel header:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the Trace Data tab will display the Trace data records:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This form displays the Trace header in the top part of the form and the converted trace data in the bottom part of the form. To facilitate the examination of the traces, you may set the minimum and maximum times to be displayed and the minimum and maximum amplitudes. The scroll bar at the right of the form can be used to select which trace to display.

When the mouse is moved in the trace graph, the first panel in the status bar displays the trace number, the second panel displays the delay time and the third panel displays the amplitude.

Once you have verified that the data has been decoded correctly, return to the Convert Data tab. This form has a number of data values which you need to sepcify in order to convert the seismic data to a usable form.

First Trace

Use this value to select the first trace to export. The default (and minimum) value is 1.

Last Trace

Use this value to specify the last trace to export, The default (and maximum) value is the number of traces read from the data file

Start Easting

This value specifies the start grid coordinate to be assigned to the first exported trace

Shot Spacing

Use this value to specify the separation in m between consecutive shot points. Note that it is assumed that the shots are uniformly spaced and recorded in order in the SEG-Y file. The SEG-Y file does have information about the actual shot locations, but this appears to be generally unreliable, so is not used at present.

First Time

This value specifies the first time slice to be exported. The default (and minimum) value is 0. The SEG-Y file may contain information that can be used to determine the actual time delay for the first time slice, but this information is not used at present.

Last Time

This value specifies the last time slice to be exported. The default (and maximum) value is the total number of time slices times the sample interval.

Use Scaled Time

Select this option to perform a simple time to depth conversion. If this option is selected, you need to specify the minimum and maximum depths for the exported minimum and maximum times:

Min Depth

This is the depth associated with the first time slice to be exported. When the export grid is generated the depth is converted to elevation (ie multiplied by –1).

Max Depth

This is the depth associated with the last time slice to be exported. When the export grid is generated the depth is converted to elevation (ie multiplied by –1).

Use Velocity

If this option is selected, you need to specify the velocity-time transform function. To do this enter the end-time for each slice (in milliseconds) in the first column of the velocity profile grid and enter the corresponding velocity (in m/sec) in the second column. Keep entering end-times and velocities for all bands that you wish to specify. If the last end time does not cover the full trace, the last specified velocity band is extended to cover the entire trace duration. The start of the first time band is assumed to be at 0ms delay.

Save Velocity Profile

The values you enter on the Velocity Profile Grid will be lost when the form is closed. To save you having to reenter this information again, click on the Save Button and specify a file name to save the velocity profile.

Load Velocity Profile

Click on the Load button to read a previously saved velocity profile function. Select the file to read and the values in the file will be loaded onto the velocity profile grid.

Here is an example of what the form will look like with the above values specified:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once all the required information has been specified, click on the View Image button and the data on the form will be check and then used to convert the trace data to a grid file:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If the grid is acceptable, click on the Save Grid File button, specify a file name and location and the seismic data will be written out a Geosoft binary grid file. This grid file can then be displayed in the usual way in WinDisp or loaded up as a vertical section in the 3DModeller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To help in assessing the grid file, the Display Style list can be used to select Seismic, Colour or Greyscale. The seimic option is illustrated above with red assigned to hign, blue to low and white in between. The colour option is the usual blue to red rainbow and the greyscale option is the usual black to white.

The Histogram Equalise option can be used to perform a colour stretch on the image to highlight low releif feature in the image.

Note that the Start Northing and Line Azimuth values are not used in the current version, but will be used for generating VRML output in the next version.

 

 

1. Start the 3DViewer with the mesh and model file (if you have one)
2. Click on the Interpretation> Create New Modelling Node menu item and specify a name for it
3. Specify the name of the mesh file that you want to use for creating the UBC model
4. Optionally add the topo, mag and grav grids
5. Click on the Define Rock Types menu item and define the types of rocks you may want to model (sample file attached)
6. Click on Done to go back to the 3DViewer form
7. Add the interpretation features to the modelling node and use the lookup table to specify the rock type (click on the Copy Properties button to copy the values from the table to the body)
8. Double click on the Modelling node name in the display list, select the required rock property to use (eg density) from the list, click on the Create Model File button and specify a model file name

The program will then build a model file and populate it with the bodies belonging to the modelling node (only if they are also turned on for display).

Notes:

1. If you are using actual densities for the rocks, you should specify the regional density value for the area. This value is then subtracted from the rock density and you'll get a reasonable anomaly value.
2. You can also define multiple layers for the survey so that you can model things like overburden
3. If you already have a 3D model set up with the interpretation features defined, just add the modelling node to it as above and then move the interpretation features so that they belong to the modelling node
 

1. Start WinDisp and start a new layout (once you get WinDisp working)
2. Click on the Utility> Import UBC/Zonge IP inversion
3. Open up the dc inversion input file and the form should fill in all of
the remaining files (if not, then load any of the missing files)
4. Click on the Generate Grids and Layouts button and the files will be read and grids and contour files and layouts created
5. Click on Done to dismiss the form and then click on the File menu item.
You will see that four layouts have been added to the MRU file list. The
layouts consist of a standard res/ip (and topo if it exists) pseudosection
display, a layout with observed res/ip along with the inverted res and IP, a layout with observed and modelled res/ip and inverted res and IP, and a layout showing observed and modelled along with error pseudosections.
6. You can modify the display scale and area limits using the Edit> Area
Limits, Scale and Projection menu item
7. You can change the title block using the Edit> Frame, Border and Colour
ranges menu item
8. You can change the data display using the Edit> Posting> Edit Posting
specification. Each panel in the display is listed on the posting form and
the display parameters can be accessed by selecting the required one and
clicking on the Define Data Variable button or by simply double-clicking on
the number for the one you want to modify

On the inversion import utility form, you can also specify a depth of
investigation inversion. This inversion is used to mask the inverted model using the specified DOI factor.

Displaying UBC 3D IP inversion files

1. Start a new layout in WinDisp
2. Click on the 3DModels button to bring up the 3DModeller form.
3. click on the Mesh file selection button and open the required UBC mesh file.
4. Do the same for the Model file and then click on the Load button to the right of the model file.
5. Once you have a model loaded, check out the data statistics on the Display options tab to give you an idea of the distribution of the inverted parameter in the model.
6. Click on the View Model tab and you will see a section display of the model. You can scroll through the sections using the scroll bar at the right and you can change the colouring of the section using the Red/Blue values at the bottom of the form
7. You can change the section being displayed using the Section to View drop-down list
8. You can save the current section grid as a Geosoft or ErMapper grid using the Save Current button. The Save All button lets you save all of the section grids (you'll be prompted with a list where you can select just the ones that are required)
9. To view the model in 3D, set the Isosurface value to the value you want and click on the Start 3D Viewer button.
10. Once the viewer is open, you can add more isosurfaces by changing the Isosurface value on the form and then clicking on the Create New 3D Object on the 3DModeller form
11. You can add a variety of 3d data to an existing 3d model in the viewer by clicking on the 3D Files tab on the 3DModeller form and then clicking on the required data type tab, specifying the data to display and then clicking on the Create new 3D object menu item
12. Once you have a 3d model built, you can save it using the File> Save Model menu item on the 3D Viewer
13. You can add more 3d objects to an existing 3d model by loading it into the viewer, defining the new object in the 3D modeller form and then clicking on the Create new 3D object menu item. Every time you add a new object, the current model is automatically saved as current.bin in the current working directory, so you always have the latest model you created
available in the event that the program dies for any reason
 

It is possible to do both using WinDisp, but neither are entirely obvious or easy. You can set up a reference model as follows:

1. load the mesh for the current inversion and click on the Create model from mesh and specify the background level for the model and a file name for saving it
2. Once the model is saved, click on the Load Model button to ensure that it has been defined and loaded correctly and click on the View Model tab
3. Click on the Edit> Edit model menu item and define a body type that you want to add to the reference model
4. scroll through the model display to get to the location you want to add the body (the Display> Mesh and Display. Section lines help to show you where you are in the model) and click on the displayed model image to add the body
5. Repeat this process until you have built a reference model that you want to use and save it using the File> Save model menu item
6. Click on the Create> Weighting matrices menu item and the standard
weighting matrices for the current mesh are created

Once you've built the model and weighting matrices, you need to edit the inversion input files to include them in the inversion process. The code I have implemented was more of a test for doing constrained inversion using drillhole sus values, so it's probably not much use for the general constrained case, but it does at least create the standard files for you. Eg, the components for the weighting matrices are written out separately along with corresponding mesh files, so you can load them up and edit them to build a more realistic weighting, but you then need to combine the edited components (in the order Ws, Wx, Wy and Wz) into a single file in order to use it.
 

1. Set up and display the IP data (resistivity and chargeability/phase)
2. Add any topo for the line if there is any
3. Click on the File> Options> Modify Defaults and select the IP inversion method
4. Click on the Utilities > Create ... IP inversion and generate the
inversion files
5. Run the IP inversion (external to WinDisp for Loke) from the Utilities> UBC/Zonge IP inversion interface
6. Once the inversion has finished, select the *_mod.csf file (created by WinDisp in step 4) and display the results of the inversion as
observed/modelled psuedosections and inverted model

Notes:

1. For UBC and Zonge inversions, the Utilities> UBC/Zonge IP inversion
interface can be used to monitor and modify the inversion process
2. The Loke inversion process is a bit different as you have to run res2dinv directly to perform the inversion and then use the Utilities> Import res2d IP inversion process to convert the Loke output
3. If you are supplied with UBC inversion files run by someone else, you can convert them for display using the Import UBC/Zonge IP inversion
4. If you have Zonge ipd/ipm files, you can import them directly using the normal IP wizard display process
5. To add the topo to an IP display, set up the display as usual, click on
the Edit> Posting> Edit posting specifications. Then click on the first
blank line in the variable list and select Topo/Model Image from the
drop-down list and click on the Define Data Variable button to select and define the topo file and format

There is some documentation on displaying and inverting IP data on the page www.scicomap/WinDisp_help/windisp_ip_posting_menu.htm, though it is a little out of date. Also there is a free utility (IPUtil) available on the downloads page for doing some simple QC on IP instrument dump files which outputs the data to standard Geosoft format.

Also, if you are going to run the inversions, you need to download the IP Inversion Utilities from the WinDisp downloads page and copy them into a directory which is in your path.
 

To use the utility, start windisp and click on OK to start a new layout. Then click on the menu item Edit> Import UBC IP inversion to bring up the Import form. On the inversion Files tab select all the res and ip files used for the base inversion by double-clickin on the file name text box or on the button at the right. (I'll try to add an automatic file selection process that selects all the file once you choose a res/voltage file, but that can wait a little while). If there are no DOI inversion files you can then click on the Generate grids and layouts button to set up the standard grid files and layouts for the inversion. If you do have DOI files click on the second tab and select the relevant files before clickong on the Generate button.

When you click on the Generate button, you'll be prompted to specify the name of a data file to store the IP data. The process generates quite a few grid and conour files, so it's probably best to create a new sub-directory
and store the IP data file in it. The process uses the file name you specify to create a sub-directory below where the IP data file is to be created (with the same name as the data file, but with _ubc appended).

The program then creates the IP data file and generates grids and contours for the observed IP data and a csf file for displaying the observed pseudosections and topo (if there is any). Once this has been created, the inversion and error csf files are also created. The csf with err in it displays observed and modelled pseudosections for res and ip as well as %difference and Z-score pseudosections so you can see how good the fit is.

After generating the base layout, the program then reads the mesh, topo and model files, masks the res and ip using the doi inversion, writes out an xyz data file and generates the grids and contours required for the error and inversion layouts. Once the process is complete, click on Done to get rid of the import form and select the layout you want to display from the file list under the File menu item. You may have to play around with the bottom depth for the inverted models as my default bottom depth is fairly conservative.

To use the DOI with DCIP2D:

- perform a first inversion with some reference model (mref1).

- perform a second inversion with a different reference model (mref2).

mref2 should be different from mref1 by about a factor of 5.

Also, when you are doing the second inversion, the only parameter

in the interface that you should change is the "reference model".

- When the inversions are finished, make sure that in both cases they

have converged, and are equal to the reference model at depth.

- the DOI index is calculated using the following formula:

DOI = (m1 - m2) / (mref1 - mref2)

where m1 and m2 are the inversion results.

Therefore, on the surface where the model is controlled by the data,

DOI is close to 0. However, at depth where the inverted model approaches

the reference model, the DOI approaches 1.

Right click on the object in the display list and select the Split option in the popup menu. Specify the minimum number of faces and the name of the parent where they should be added and the bodies will be split into separate objects.

1. Register the GIF image to produce a world or tab file so that WinDisp knows how to convert between the "real" coordinates and pixel coords. You can do this using the Utilities> Register a raster Image menu item in WinDisp. This requires that you specify 3 point on the image along with the corresponding real coordinates. I wasn't sure how to register your image as the coord along the top of the image did not seem to match the name column in the csv file. Normally you would specify the x axis limits of the image file using a station number (or profile distance) defined in the baseline file.

2. Load up the baseline file as point data in the 3DModeller, start the
3DViewer and specify the mesh depth limits to encompass the depth of the seismic section

3. Click on the 3D Files> Section grid tab on the 3DModeller form and
double-click on the first line in the section grid list

4, Select the registered GIF image on the Image files tab

5. Click on the Display Definitions tab and set the Raster Null drop-down to None

6. Click on the Baseline Definitions tab, select the line2.csv file as the
Baseline, set the first data line to 2, read increment as 1, station as 1,
X=2, Y=3 and Z=4

7. Click on Done to go back to the Modeller form and then either close the 3DViewer and click on the Start 3DViewer button, or click on the Create New 3D Object and then Done to create the new Section object. This will create a seismic section in the 3DViewer which will be a pretty representation of the gif image as it will be heavily pixellated, but it will at least confirm that the definitions are ok.

8. Assuming that it is ok, close the 3DViewer and go back to the modeller form and click on the Topography images tab and change the Maximum Cells value to 1024 (large enough to handle the full number of cells in the depth direction).

9. Click on the Sections grid tab and click right on the section grid line
that you have already defined and select the Copy menu item. The click left on the first blank line, click right and select paste. Repeat this 4 time until you have 5 section grids defined

10. Double click on the first section grid to edit the definitions, click on the description and change it to line2000 part 1

11. Click on the Baseline definitions tab and change the End Grid value to 1992 (assuming the min value is 1880.7, the max is 2435.4, so 1/5 of the length is 111, so 1880 to 1992 will be 1/5'th of the total image). Click on the drop-down list at the bottom of the form and repeat the process for the second grid (Description: Line2000 part 2, min=1990, max=2101), and repeat for the rest of the sections.

12. Once you've defined the sections, click on Done and then on the Start 3DViewer button and the 3d model will get built (which may be pretty slow as it is duplicating a fair amount of work in loading and accessing the image file for each section grid).

13. Once the model has been built, click on the Sections name in the display list to select it, then click right and select Toggle smoothness from the popup menu.
 

It's pretty simple, but not entirely obvious. You just start up WinDisp as
normal, go to the 3DModeller and load the mesh file you used to build the original model (though it doesn't need to be exactly the same one). Click on the Start 3D Viewer button and then in the 3DViewer click on File> Read binary model to load the existing model file. You can then go back to the 3DModeller form, define whatever it is you want and the add it to the 3D model using the Create new 3D object menu item on either the 3DModeller form or the 3DViewer form. Once you're done, don't forget to save the new 3D binary model file.

The other way to do it is to build a 3D model of the new stuff you want to add to the existing model, save it as a binary file, load up the old binary model file and then click on the File> Append 3D model menu item. This will prompt you for a vertical offset (which should be 0 if you have used the same mesh file) and add the new model as a new one in the existing model. You can then move the graphic object into the main part of the model and delete the remaining extraneous objects.

 

1. Start 3DModeller and 3DViewer and load the existing model
2. Specify the base grid on which you wish to drape an image. If this is a dtm grid in the same coordinate space as the model then you do not need to change the image base, offset and image shift values. If the base grid is something like TMI or Bouguer, then you may need to specify values which will transform the actual grid value into a range that is comparable to that displayed in the 3D model
3, Select display style as Elevation and click on the Create New 3D Object menu item to ensure that the base grid is consistent with the current 3D model limits
4. Once you know that the base grid is displaying correctly, change the Display Style to Draped Image and select the draped image grid. This image can either be a normal value type grid or a raster style image (eg bmp or jpg).
5. Click on the Create New 3D Object menu item to display the draped image
 
Note that you may need to specify a different value for the Maximum Cells item at the top of the form. If the base grid size is nx,ny then the grid is sub-sampled until the actual number of cells satisfies sqrt(nx*ny)<= max cells. If the max cells is too large, then the number of triangles required to display the image can be so large that the image display is very slow. If the max cells is too small, then you can lose resolution in the image display.
 
Note too that it is often better to use WinDisp to display a sun-illuminated TMI image and then export the image as a BMP to then drape over the DTM. This give much better control over the displayed image as the 3DModeller only has limited control over how the draped image grid is displayed.

 

Adding a single drill hole

Go to the Create New 3D Object menu:

Click on the Determine Surface Coordinate button and use the right mouse to draw the drillhole:

Make note of the following parameters:

Now go to the interpretation menu:

 

 

 

 

 

Prepared by:

Yvonne Wallace yvonne_wallace@placerdome.com

Laverton, Western Australia 08 9088 2218

Ian Neilson : Jigsaw Geoscience         ineilson@jigsawgeoscience.com.au

Edited: P. Kowalczyk 2005.10.14

 

To convert a batch of files Start WinDisp as usual, close the opening form, click on the Utilities>Batch Converter menu item to bring up the converter form.

Next click on the Select Files to Convert and this brings up the Facet File list form. Click on the Add Files button, navigate to the source

directory, specify the file type to add and click on Open. Repeat this process for as many different file types that you want. Note that you can use the standard windows multiple select process to select the required files in one hit.

Once you have your list of files, click on the first file in the list and ensure that the file format is ok. The file format is based on the file extension, so if it's not one of the standard 00t or bt2 or ts files, you may need to specify the format. Also if the files for any faceted body are coord/facet file pairs you need to select the coord file from the Add Files button and then add the facet file in the format definition.

Once the files have been selected and the formats checked, click on Done to return to the Batch Converter form.

Next click on the First Stage Transform button and define or load the

transform to be applied. This is not required if you just want to do a

format conversion, in which case you should turn off all the check marks in case you have previously defined one or more of the transforms.

If you need to change the projection and/or datum shift of the coordinate system, then it is necessary to specify some or all of the Source projection datum shift and target projections (depending on the source and target coord types).

There is also an option to apply a Final Stage transform (same format as the first stage transform), just in case there are situations where it is required.

Once the transforms have been defined, click on the test buttons to check that the specified transforms are actually doing the right thing. Once this has been verified, click on the Specify Output tab, select the required output location and (optional) new directory name where the files are to be created, select the desired output format and click on the Perform the Conversion button. Note that the program won't let you output a file into any of the source data directories, but other than that the program will overwrite any existing files in the target directory. This saves having to clean up any previous conversion attempts.

Once the facet files have been converted, click on Done to return to WinDisp.

The Facet model display part of the 3DModeller code allows multiple facet files to be loaded and displayed. The process uses the same Facet List form as the Batch Converter. The 3DModeller form displays the current list of selected files. Click on the Modify Facet File List

button to bring up the Facet List form and add or remove files using this form. Also use this form to modify the facet file format. Click on Done or Cancel once you've finished with the file list.

After a list of files has been selected, the files can be assigned unique colours by clicking right on the Facet File grid and selecting the desired option from the Assign File Colours menu options. If you click on a single file in the list you can also delete it using the Delete File menu option. Once all the facet files have been selected and the colours assigned, they will all be loaded when you start the 3DModeller.

When you have mixed data for one area (eg dtm, mag and drillholes), you just set up each type of data in the one session and display the model. For example you may have a mag image draped over the dtm in the Topography grid tab on the 3D Files tab and define the drillholes on the Drillholes tab.

If you have multiple sets of the same type of data (eg gravity image as well as mag image to drape over the dtm), then you simply build the model using the first set of data, then (keeping the 3DViewer open), you go back to the 3DModeller form, change the data you want to display and then click on the Create New 3D Object menu item on the 3DModeller form and give the item a new name and it will be added to the current 3D model.

So adding several kinds of data is a progressive process of defining the
initial model to display and then adding new objects to build the complete model (Note that it's a good idea to save the model layout definitions using the File> Save Model layout menu item on the 3DModeller form for each item that you are defining so that it's easy to load the definitions later on if you want to rebuild the model).

Alternatively, you can build a separate 3d model containing each separate 3D object and save it as a separate binary model. The use the File> Read binary model menu item on the 3DViewer form to read the initial model and then use the File> Append 3D binary model menu item to add each of the separate model files you created. If you use this approach, the appended models are added a new node in the model tree so you'll want to move the nodes in the sub-tree to the main tree and delete the unwanted nodes. You can move nodes by selecting them in the tree list and dragging them to the place you want them or you can select the node to move by clicking on it and then clicking on the Move button. Similarly you can delete a node by selecting it and then right-clicking on it and selecting Delete this node from the pop-up menu.
 

Datamine loading isn't all that obvious on the facet definition form. For datamine facet models, they model the file into two files. One for the corner coords and one for the triangles. These files have standard data columns for the coords (XP, YP, ZP) and for the triangles (PID1, PID2, PID3). The data columns are usually in standard column order, but there is no guarantee of this, so I've defaulted the XP, YP and ZP columns to be 1, 2, 3 and the PID1, PID2,and PID3 to be 2,3,4 respectively. Also I've modified the code to add a Datamine point binary file (*pt.dm) so that if a coord file is selected with a name of this form, I also check if there is a corresponding *tr.dm or *tri.dm file and use it as the facet definition file if it exists.

I've also modified the View File code for Datamine files, so that you can view the actual data names and values in the file to make sure that the files do contain the correct data.

Note too that when you select the facet coord files, you can do a multi selection (using the usual shift or ctrl keys) to select all of the files that you want to display.