Roadmap

A collection of ideas of what could be added or improved in empymod. Please get in touch if you would like to tackle one of these problems!

  • Additional modelling routines
    • tdem (TEM) [empymod#8]: Issues that have to be addressed: ramp waveform, windowing, loop integration, zero-offset (coincident loop).
      • in-loop
      • coincident loop
      • loop-loop
      • arbitrary shaped loops
    • Ramp waveform [empymod#7]
    • Arbitrary waveform [empymod#7]
    • Improve the GPR-routine [empymod#9]
    • Load and save functions to easily store and load model information (resistivity model, acquisition parameters, and modelling parameters) together with the modelling data (using pickle or shelve). Probably easier after implementation of the abstraction [empymod#14].
  • Inversion [empymod#20]: Inversion routines, preferably a selection of different ones.
    • Add some clever checks, e.g. as in Key (2012): abort loops if the field is strongly attenuated.
  • Additional (semi-)analytical functions (where possible)
    • Complete full-space (electric and magnetic source and receiver); space-time domain
    • Extend diffusive half-space solution to magnetic sources and receivers; space-frequency and space-time domains
    • Complete half-space
  • Transforms
    • Fourier
      • Change fft to use discrete sine/cosine transforms instead, as all other Fourier transforms
      • If previous step is successful, clean up the internal decisions (utils.check_time) when to use sine/cosine transform (not consistent at the moment, some choice only exists with ffht impulse responses, fqwe and fftlog use sine for impulse, and all three use sine for step-on responses and cosine for step-off responses)
    • Hankel
      • Add the fht-module from FFTLog for the Hankel transform.
    • Hankel and Fourier
      • Include the method outlined by Mulder et al., 2008, Geophysics (piecewise-cubic Hermite interpolation with a FFT) to try to further speed-up the splined versions.
  • Extend examples (example-notebooks)
    • Add different methods (e.g. DC)
    • Reproduce published results
  • Abstraction of the code [empymod#14].
  • Replace (and extend) the use of numexpr with numba.
  • GUI.
  • Move empymod from channel ‘prisae’ to ‘conda-forge’ (pros/cons?).