VES - Vertical Electrical Sounding software

Water4 Project

Used for geophysics for groundwater, well siting, well drilling

Filesize requirements: ~740mb free space.

Windows 64-bit Installation Instructions

1. Download VES zip file from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/561373/ves_ajoros.zip to C:/ drive

• NOTE: If you run into permission (admin priviledge) error during download process just download to C:/Users/. After this, drag and drop (or extract) the .zip file from C:/Users/ to C:/
• NOTE: If you have any issues, make sure to right-click and run as administrator

2. Unzip to C:/ drive. Once successfully unzipped you should see the main.py in the folder path C:/ves_ajoros/ves/main.py
3. Download Win64 miniconda installer: https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe
4. Right click .exe > Run as Administrator (IMPORTANT STEP) and follow the instructions on the screen. Simply accept the defaults as they all can be changed later.
5. Run run_ves_install.bat from C:/ves_ajoros. This installs the dependencies that run_ves_field.bat uses.
6. After observed data is collected, double click run_ves_field.bat.

Once inside VES software

1. Insert observed/survey data into table, and press "Computer and Plot Resistivities" to generate graph plot.
2. Press "Launch VES Inverse Analysis"
3. Enter appropriate table data, longitude, latitude, and date/time information
4. To launch Monte Carlo Simulation press "Re-Run Using Monte Carlo Simultation"

• NOTE: Please be patient while Monte Carlo simulations runs. Takes ~5-20 seconds. Program may hang but this is normal.

5. PDF output will then be available at C:/ves_ajoros/ves/report_pdfs