soildesc

Soil description parsing

Visual descriptions

Visual descriptions help engineering technologists and field engineers log soil conditions at a drilling site. A relatively plain-english, descriptive format is used :

sand, some gravel, wet

Soildesc parses these descriptions and returns data in a format that is easier to use with a database or programming language:

> sand, silty, wet

{
    "ordered": ["sand", "silt"],
    "primary": "sand",
    "secondary": "silt",
    "moisture": "wet"
}

> loose water bearing silts, sands

{
    "ordered": ["silt", "sand"],
    "primary": "silt",
    "secondary": "sand",
    "consistency": "loose",
    "moisture": "wet"
}

Methodology

The text string is scanned, looking for key terms. Note: Field descriptions are generally written with the most significant soil type first, unless a qualified term is used (e.g. in "silty sand", sand is the most significant term). Soildesc handles these cases by looking for the first "non qualified" term and putting the "-ey" term second.

Usage

Running the unit tests:

go test

Building the binary:

go build

Running the server:

./soildesc

Send a test request:

curl -X POST localhost:8000/describe -d desc="very wet sand and gravel"