Creating an Investigation
Once you have set up a Logger Module, you can create and log investigations. If you haven't step up a project you can see the guide for this step here. This guide assumes you have created a project and are within your logger module. The landing page once you have created a project should be similar to the screenshot below.
Select "Create Investigation" to get started
Fill the required fields indicated by the *. The required fields are Investigation ID, Type, Latitude, Longitude, Elevation, Logged by and Start date.
There are other fields that are not required, but may useful to fill in when logging investigations. Depending on the type of investigation, different fields may pop up.
An example of this is for a Rotary Core investigation type, you can add the inclination and orientation of the borehole for the case you have an inclined borehole.
The main optional field you would want to fill in, is the shear vane calibrations, this step allows you to keep a stored set of shear vane calibrations that can be used to calculate your shear vane value while you are logging your investigations.
To do this you can enter an ID/ Name for a borehole and fill in the calibration factor.
There is no limit to the number of shear vanes you add to each investigation point.
General features and how to add data
Once you have created your investigation you can log, depending on the type of investigation you will be able to log different data sets. For example I have created a Rotary core investigation type meaning that I can log Discontinuities as an option, but I wouldn't be able to for a Hand Auger investigation type.
Each create button takes you to a form with some required fields and additional optional fields.
Viewing your data
As you create layers, you can visualise your information in a few different ways. In a table, on a limited view preview and on a PDF.
Table View
The table view will show you a table with limited entered data depending on the category. The "Method" and "Geology" tables are shown below.
Preview View
The table view is focused on a single category at a time the preview and pdf view is putting the data together so you can see how things interact with each other. The preview for the same data shown in the table view is shown in the preview view below
PDF View
The PDF view is an enhanced view of the preview. The intent of the preview is to give an overview while you in the field logging, the PDF gives a more detailed view that could be used in reports. Note the PDF view is unavailable on the app and is intended to be used on the web only.
From the PDF view you can change the template type, meters per page and download your PDF.
Reviewing your Investigation
All investigations have a status associated with them, the two statues are "In Progress" and "Reviewed". When you first create your investigation, the status is "In Progress" once you have logged your investigation and have completed any QA processes you can mark the investigation as reviewed. To do this, go to the "More Options" drop down and select complete review
Select a reviewer and click "Submit Review"
This will mark your investigation as reviewed and the status will change to reviewed
You will now be able to publish the investigation to Apeiron allowing other users outside of your project to use the information you have collected in their own projects.
Publishing your Investigation
While investigations that are "Not Published" can be used within your own project, they cannot be used in different projects, to allow to others to use the investigation you can publish the investigation to Apeiron by going to "More Options" and selecting publish.
From here you can either upload your own PDF log or click Digitise to use the PDF view shown above
Alter the PDF view to how you want it and Click "Save PDF"
Fill in any missing metadata, and select a confidentiality level and save changes to create a draft investigation. At this point, other users within your organisation can use the investigation in their own project.