Software/Tools "MGL_QuickView"

MGL_QuickView is a stand-alone JAVA / Linux application enabling quick view of FG5 or A10 absolute gravity data acquisition results acquired through the MGL (Micro-g LaCoste) “g” software ( http://www.microglacoste.com). MGL_QuickView was initially developed as a script, then we initiated its development in a Java environment. Since May 2020, MGL_QuickView is available on Windows NT platforms but only with GMT 6 (see later). MGL_QuickView reads the standard MGL “g”output Ascii files (project, set and drop files) and uses the standard graphical and mathematical Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) free library to generate a PostScript© plot file displaying in a synthetic way the main information related to the data acquisition. The information displayed from the original MGL project file on the results and the parameters of the data acquisition contains: • General information on site and project (site and project name, geographic coordinates, elevation, local gravity gradient and polar motion parameters corresponding to the data acquisition period) • Instrument data parameters (meter type and serial number, Rb frequency, factory height) • Acquisition setting parameters (number of drops per set, Drop and sequence intervals, Instrumental setup height) • Processing results parameters (number of collected and processed sets, number of accepted and rejected drops, transfer height) • Plots of time series of measurements (reduced absolute gravity values and their standard deviation) and environmental or instrumental monitored parameters (temperature and atmospheric pressure , Ion pump and laser voltages) The graphical Java interface also enables refreshing of the produced Postscript file using customized graphic parameters as well as selected observations (data sets).