“Preferences” panel

The User Preferences panel permits to change the default settings of the application, allowing the user to preset the most frequently used design parameters. The parameters are grouped in six sections: General, Georeferencing, Survey area, Transceivers, Transmissions and Field parameters.

Preferences panel.

Fig. 19 Preferences panel.

Changes made by the user can be made permanent through the Save command and will be active at software restart. To restore the factory parameters select the Reset command. User preferences are saved inside a text file (ertdesign_ms_config.ini) in the preferences folder of the software installation directory.

General

General Preferences.

Fig. 20 General Preferences.

Use this section to set the language option for the user interface, choosing between English and Italian.

Georeferencing

Georeferencing preferences.

Fig. 21 Georeferencing preferences.

The section allows to preset the ellipsoid for the conversion of the geographic coordinates (Latitude and Longitude) to the UTM projection plane. You can choose from 23 different ellipsoids. The default uses WGS84.

Survey area

Survey area preferences.

Fig. 22 Survey area preferences.

Find in this section the defaults on the geometry of the survey area, to be generated as an alternative to the import from KMZ/KML files. The parameters present are the same as described in the section related to “Define survey area” panel of this manual.

Transceivers

Transceivers preferences.

Fig. 23 Transceivers preferences.

My BOX names/IDs

This parameter allows to store a list of strings with the parameters identifying the multisource boxes for the field operations. This option is fundamental to save the configuration file for the Multisource software that remotly controls the acquisition. Each line in the list identifies a box and consists of 3 elements:

  • Number of the box unit.
  • Serial of the box unt.
  • Id of the the box unit.

E.g.: 1 0013A27840A29250 Unit_ERTdesign

The list of box names/IDs can be manually edited or imported from a configuration or .wdat file through the command Load from cnfg file.

Nr. of boxes in the two directions

The parameters present here are the same as described in “Transceivers” section of Survey design panel.

Local coordinates for electrodes

The parameters present here are the same as described in “Transceivers” section of Survey design panel.

Advanced settings

The parameters present here are the same described in the section related to Transceivers of Advanced Settings panel.

Transmissions

Transmitters preferences.

Fig. 24 Transmitters preferences.

The parameters present here are the same described in the Survey Design panel and in the section related to Transmissions of Advanced Settings.

Field parameters

Field parameters preferences.

Fig. 25 Field parameters preferences.

The parameters here store presets related to the fieldwork scenario:

  • Background Rho: this is the value (in Ohm m) of the site background resistivity.
  • Injected current: this is the value (in mA) the user supposes will be able to inject into the ground at the transmitting dipoles.

The parameters Alert on Vmn MIN and MAX allow to preset the alarm thresholds (in mV) to alert the user in case of too low potentials or in case of risk of overload at receivers.