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Exported survey files

After receiving a payload of data from the field team you should have a collection of directories similar to this,

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Example list of directories to be imported into BTField.

This naming structure can be broken down into 4 components.

"{0}({1} surveys) survexp -{2} at {3}"

where the above tokens indicate,

  • 0: Site Name
  • 1: # of surveys contained within the directory
  • 2: day of the year when exported from BTField
  • 3: time of day when exported from BTField

Post processing begins with importing these directories into BTField (unless you are post processing on the field computer).

Create a new site

Locate the Site tab in the upper left of the application and expand the Site panel to see a tree view of all the sites in the project. A Site can be thought of as a container for all surveys belonging to a survey unit. Where data coverage and MQOs will be evaluated within the singular unit.

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Site panel providing a tree view of all the project's surveys grouped by sites.

Right-click on the root node titled Sites and select the option Create New Site from the context menu.

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Context menu for creating a new site in the tree view.

In the Create New Site dialog window,

  1. enter a Site Name which should exactly match the Site Name token in the directory you are importing. See above. Note: the imported surveys can be re-assigned to a different site after import if need be.
  2. check the Exclude Overlays checkbox
  3. press Save and then OK
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Create New Site dialog window.

Import surveys

Next select surveys to import by selecting the Import Surveys menu option.

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Context menu for import surveys.

Select the survey directory, taking care to select a survey with the same site name token in the folder name as the site your importing into.

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Select surveys to import.

Once the data import operation completes your Sites tree view should look similar to this.

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Sites tree view after data import has completed.