Introduction

A simulated survey is made up of a series of building blocks. The Survey object requires the following top-level building blocks:

  • Area: the spatial boundaries of the survey

  • Assemblage: the artifacts or other features

  • Coverage: the survey strategy

  • Team: the individuals who will carry out the survey

There are also lower-level building blocks that can be used to construct the four top-level blocks.

  • Layer and Feature blocks make up the Assemblage

  • SurveyUnit blocks make up the Coverage

  • Surveyor blocks make up the Team

Each building block is its own Python class which defines different parameters that are accounted for when the Survey is “run”. The power of prospect comes from keeping many aspects of the building blocks constant while varying certain parameters or properties of interest.

The following sections are designed to introduce the parameters of a prospect simulation, some common non-prospect object types, and each of the simulation’s building blocks.

Installation Parameters