Tutorial Overview

The following tutorials will help the first-time user understand the basic functions of MESA, such as layout and shooting.

Lesson #1: Receiver and Source Layout:

In the first lesson, you will be creating an eight-square-mile 3-D survey. The parameters will be:

Receiver Interval 220

Receiver Line Interval 880
Source Interval 220
Source Line Interval 1320

An 8 x 36 patch size will be used to shoot the survey. The purpose of the lesson is to demonstrate one of the methods used to lay out a survey and how to shoot the
program with the automatic template centering. Some design editing will be done, and the coordinates will be output to an ASCII file in a standard format.

Lesson #2: Importing Coordinates and Grid Based Shooting:

In the second lesson, you will be importing the coordinates that were output in Lesson #1. After importing, you will be using the shooting grid method to reshoot the 8 x 36
patch.

Lesson #3: Exclusion Zones and Survey Editing:

In the third lesson, you will take the survey created from Lesson #1 and add some exclusion zones. We will then briefly introduce you to the editing functions for
repositioning receiver and source positions.

Lesson #4: Unit Template:

This lesson will familiarize you with the Unit Template layout option. The exercise demonstrates how to define a template that will create a survey and simultaneously shoot
it, while fitting the survey to a predefined area. This is a different design methodology from Lesson #1, in which we laid out the receivers and sources sequentially and then
defined the shooting parameters.

Lesson #5: Transition Zone Example:

This lesson is not a step-by-step tutorial, but an overview of how several of the advanced features of MESA can be used together to solve a complicated design problem.
In this transition zone example, user-defined attributes, data filtering, and multiple shooting methodologies will be used to design a survey.

LESSON #1: Receiver & Source Layout

The first lesson allows you to become familiar with laying out a 3-D seismic survey using MESA. The exercise demonstrates a direct path through MESA without much
diversion. You will be laying out sources and receivers, defining a bin grid, shooting the survey, and calculating diagnostics.

Different types of geometries can be created. Layout types such as slant, zig-zag, radial, button, random, etc., can all be created. This exercise will focus on a simple,
straight line orthogonal layout.

1) From the Layout menu, select Receivers to open a drop-down menu listing the options available for layout.

2) Select the Lines/Bricks option to bring up the Line/Brick Layout dialog. In this dialog, you can input the receiver and line intervals, line bearings, overall size, numbering,
etc. Fill in the dialog as shown in the following diagram.
Survey size can be defined by numbers of receivers and lines or by the inline and crossline size. In this lesson we will be defining by the number of lines and receivers per
line (25 lines by 48 receivers). Press the OK button to generate the receiver lines. The Design Window will show the receiver lines you have just generated.

3) Return to the Layout menu and select Sources. Again, choose the option for Lines/Bricks to open the Line/Brick Layout dialog for sources. Fill in the dialog
parameters as shown in the following diagram.
The survey in the Design Window is now an eight-square-mile survey. Receivers have a 220 group interval and an 880 line interval for a total of 1200 receivers Sources
have a 220 source interval and a 1320 line interval for a total of 864 sources. These values can be verified by selecting Land Survey Statistics from the Utilities menu.
If your Design Window does not show the same survey as in the following diagram, review steps 1 through 3 to make sure all parameters were filled in correctly.

You are now going to translate the project from the (0,0) grid origin, renumber the survey, define the bin grid, shoot the program, calculate diagnostics, and then write the
coordinates to an ASCII format.

Save the project now as "lesson1". This project will be used again in lesson #3. Select Save Database from the File menu and enter the name lesson1 when prompted.

4) From the Utilities menu, select Translation. This will open the Translation/Rotation dialog. Fill in the parameters as shown in the following diagrams.
This dialog allows you to change from a theoretical coordinate system to a real-world coordinate system. In this example, receiver 10001 is assigned the coordinate
(500000, 750000), and all other points in the survey are translated accordingly. The survey can also be rotated to a different azimuth, but the orientation will be left alone in
this lesson.

5) In the next step we will change the numbering scheme for the sources and receivers. In the Design Window, select the drop-down menu next to the Receiver
Display button. Select Renumbering and then select Sequential Receiver to open the Sequential Renumbering dialog. (Note: The Source Display button has an identical
drop-down menu for renumbering source points.)

We are going to impose a six-digit numbering scheme in which the first three digits represent the line number and the last three digits represent the point number. The
receiver line numbers will be 101, 105, 109, etc. The receiver numbers will be 501, 502, 503, etc., for combined numbers of 101501, 101502. The source line numbers will
start with 501 and the source numbers will start with 101, progressing in the same manner as the receivers. Fill in the renumbering parameters as shown in the diagrams.
Renumber the receivers first and then select the identical menu options for the sources.

6) In the next step, we will create the bin grid. Select Bin Grid Settings from the drop-down menu of the Bin Grid visibility button. This will open the Bin Definition dialog.

Fill in the dialog as shown below. Enter 110 for the inline and crossline bin size. Press the Bin Grid visibility button to display your bin grid in the Design Window.
7) The survey will now be shot using an 8 x 36 shooting patch. From the icon bar at the top of the Design Window, press the Shoot Options button.

This will open the Shoot dialog as shown below. In this dialog, press the Create Template button to open the Rectangular Template dialog. Fill in the Number of Lines with
an 8 and Receivers Per Line with 36 to create the template. Press the OK button in the Rectangular Template dialog to return to the Shoot dialog. Your new template will
be named "8x36" and listed in the Select Template list box. Make sure your 8x36 template is selected in the list.

Next, select the Automatic Template Centering radio button. Finally, press the Shoot button to assign your 8x36 template to every source in the survey.

8) Now that the survey has been laid out and fired, and the bin grid has been defined, bin attributes can be calculated for your survey. From the Bin Analysis menu,
select Fold Calculation to open the Fold Calculation dialog.
Select the Fold, Offsets, and Azimuths radio button. Press OK to start the calculations. After the calculations are complete you can display bin attributes in the Design
Window. Press the Fold Graph, Offset Graph, or Azimuth Graph buttons to display the results. The following diagram shows a fold display.

Save the project now to ensure all of the calculations that have been done will not be lost. Select Save As New Database from the File menu to save the project again.
Save the project as "MESA1" when prompted.

At this point, your first trip through MESA is complete. You have been introduced to laying out a survey, shooting it, and displaying bin attributes. The lesson will continue
with an introduction to survey editing and output.

9) From the icon bar at the top of the Design Window, select Edit Receivers from the Receiver Display submenu.
The Design Window is now in receiver edit mode and an additional toolbar appears at the bottom of the window.

10) Select the Group Selection Mode icon. From the list box of editing options, select Delete from the list. Zoom in on the lower right-hand corner of your survey by
holding down the right mouse button and dragging out a rectangle with the mouse. In order to delete a group of receivers, you must define a polygonal region with the
mouse. Click out the vertices of a polygon with the left mouse button. On your last vertex, double click the left mouse button to close the polygon. You will be prompted
to Delete the receivers inside the polygon. When you have deleted the receivers, deselect the Edit Receivers menu item from the Receiver Display submenu to exit
receiver editing mode.

11) Next, delete the sources from the same region. From the icon bar at the top of the Design Window, select Edit Sources from the Source Display submenu. As with the
receivers, select the Group Selection Mode icon and from the list box of editing options, select Delete from the list. Delete the source points from the same region so that
your survey looks like the following diagram. When you have deleted the sources, deselect the Edit Sources menu item from the Source Display submenu to exit source
editing mode.

12) As the last step in this lesson, we will be writing our edited survey coordinates to an ASCII file. These files can be used to transfer survey information to
acquisition, processing, or modeling systems. Source and receiver files will be named
lesson1.sps and lesson1.rps respectively.

From the Output menu, select SPS to open the SPS Output dialog. In the Source File group box, press the File button. You will be prompted to name the output source
coordinate file. Enter the name lesson1.sps. In the Receiver File group box, press the File button. You will be prompted to name the output receiver coordinate file. Enter
the name lesson1.rps.

Press OK and the SPS ASCII files will be written to disk. These files will be used in Lesson #2.

LESSON #2: Importing Coordinates & Grid-Based Shooting

The second lesson provides practice importing source and receiver coordinates from ASCII files. The coordinate files were generated in Lesson #1
(lesson1.rps and lesson1.sps). After the sources and receivers have been imported, a shooting method for irregularly shaped surveys will be covered. Whenever your
survey designs have an irregular set of receiver lines (i.e. different lengths, missing receivers, etc.), it is a good idea to use the "shooting grid" when shooting your designs.

1) You will need to import the coordinates for the receivers from the file lesson1.rps. From the Layout menu, select Receivers and then select File Import from the
secondary menu. This will open the Receiver Import Setup dialog.

There are three options for importing the file. The first option is to use a standard configuration file for importing. If your ASCII coordinate file is in a standard format, you
can select a standard configuration from the list box (such as SEG-P1 or SPS). You then press the Open Data File button to specify the name of your ASCII coordinate
file. Pressing the OK button will import the file into MESA. By default, MESA's standard configurations are stored in a directory named config below the directory where
the executable program was installed.

The second option is to use a configuration file that you have created or modified. Press the Configuration File button to open your own configuration file. This option is
useful when your data files are a modified version of the SPS standard or some other column-based format. By defining your own configuration file you can save a great
deal of setup time. Next, press the Open Data File button to specify the name of your ASCII coordinate file. Pressing the OK button will import the file into MESA.

The third option is to interactively define the format of the data that you are importing. This is the option that will be explained in this lesson. Press the Import
Window button to open the Import window.
2) Press the Open Data File icon from the Import window toolbar.

Specify the name of the receiver file to import. In this case, the file is named lesson1.rps. Find lesson1.rps and open it. Since this file is a standard SPS receiver file, it
contains many lines of header information. These lines have the letter H in the first column. Use the scroll bar to scroll the data file until you can see the data (letter R in
the first column).

3) The first step in defining the import format is to specify where the header information stops and the data begin. Click your mouse on the first line of data in the file (an
arrow points to this line in the previous diagram). It doesn't matter where on the line of data you click the mouse, you are simply setting the cursor position. Next, press
the Set First Line button.

A dialog box will appear for setting the first line of data to import. The dialog reports the line number of the line you selected with the mouse. Make sure this is the number
in the edit box and press OK.
4) The next step in the import process is to define the location of various data fields. The list box in the leftmost pane of the window contains a list of data fields that can be
imported. For receivers, this list is Line Number, Line Name, Receiver (number), Point Index, Point Code, X Coordinate, Y Coordinate, and Z Coordinate. For this exercise,
we will be importing Line Number, Receiver, X Coordinate, and Y Coordinate.

For the first step, select Line Number from the list. Next, hold down the left mouse button, drag your mouse over the three characters in the data file that contain the line
number, and release the mouse button. Refer to the following diagram.

After you have highlighted the characters "101" on the first data line of the file, press the Define Type button. This will open the Format Definition dialog.

For every piece of data that is imported into MESA, the data type must be defined. Depending on what you are importing, the data type could be integer, floating point, or
text string. For Line Number, set the data type to INTEGER and press OK.

5) Repeat this process for the other three data items that we are going to import. First, select Receiver from the list box and highlight the characters "501". Press
the Define Type button and set the data type to INTEGER.
Next, select X Coordinate from the list box and highlight the characters "492080.0". Press the Define Type button and set the data type to FLOAT.

Finally, select Y Coordinate from the list box and highlight the characters "750000.0". Press the Define Type button and set the data type to FLOAT.

6) After you have finished defining the data fields for import, it is always a good idea to check your work. Press the Review Configuration button.

When you press this button, the message strip at the top of the window will display the import settings for each data item. Press the button repeatedly to cycle through all of
the data items. If you have defined an item for import, the box will turn green and the data columns in the file will be highlighted. If you have not defined an item for import,
the box will turn red. It is not necessary to define every item in the list. For coordinate import, the four items that we defined in this lesson are sufficient.

7) When you have verified that the format definitions are correct, press the green GO button. You will be prompted with a question box on how to proceed.

Answering No will stop the import process. Answering Cancel will return you to the Import window. In this case, answer Yes to continue with the import process. This will
open the Import Options dialog. The import is very flexible and allows you to update existing data or append to your existing survey. In this case, we don't have any
existing data that needs updating, so select the Remove Existing Lines radio button. Press the Combination Options button to open the Import Combine Options dialog.
MESA uses point label numbers to identify receivers and sources. It is a good idea to combine the line and receiver numbers into a single unique receiver number during
the import process. In our example, we have arbitrarily broken the number into two pieces just to illustrate how to combine the line and point number during import. In
many ASCII files, the line number and the receiver number occupy separate columns.

In the Import Combine Options dialog, select the checkbox to Combine Line Number and Receiver Numbers. The next step is to specify how many digits are required for
the receiver number. In our file, all of the receiver numbers are between 1-999, so enter "3" for Receiver Number Digits. Press OK to return to the Import Options dialog.
Press OK in this dialog to import the receiver file.

8) Repeat the previous process to import the source coordinate file, lesson1.sps. From the Layout menu, select Sources, and then select File Import from the secondary
menu. Import line number, source number, x-coordinate, and y-coordinate from this file. After you have successfully imported both the receiver and source files, save the
project now as lesson2. Select Save Database from the File menu and enter the name lesson2 when prompted.
12) In Lesson #1, we used the Automatic Centering option to shoot the survey. This method works great when the receiver lines are laid out in a regular grid with squared
edges. Since our current survey has an irregular set of receiver lines, we need to illustrate the use of the "Shooting Grid" in this lesson.

Press the Shoot button in the Design Window. This will open the Shoot dialog. As in Lesson #1, press the Create Template button and create a template with 8
receiver lines and 36 receivers per line. Next, check the Use Shooting Grid checkbox. Press the Grid button to open the Shooting Grid dialog.

In the Shooting Grid dialog, press the Auto Fit button. This will fit a grid to the receiver lines. There are options in this dialog that provide better user control over the size
and orientation of the shooting grid, but they are not necessary in this example. Press OK to return to the Shoot dialog.

13) In the Shoot dialog, make sure you have selected Automatic Template Centering and that you have selected the 8x36 template from the list. Press the Shoot button
to shoot the survey.

14) To verify that the survey has been shot properly, select Edit Templates from the Utilities menu.

A new toolbar will be added to the bottom of the Design Window. These buttons allow you to navigate through the shooting results, edit the templates, etc. For our
example, it will be sufficient to simply check the results. Click your mouse on any source point in the survey. The receivers in the template will be highlighted in the default
color (magenta). The other source points that fire into this set of receivers will also be highlighted. As you click on different source points, analyze the active receiver
template to verify that the shooting was performed properly. For most surveys, you should spot-check different areas--particularly areas of the survey that have undergone
editing, have irregularities, etc.

For this survey, click on a few shots on the left side of the survey. The template will be perfectly rectangular. If you click on source points on the right side of the survey,
you will see irregularities in the template due to the shape of the receiver lines. If we had not turned on the shooting grid option, the templates on the right side of the
survey would be incorrect due to the staggered nature of the receiver lines.
To exit Edit Templates mode, deselect Edit Templates from the Utilities menu.

15) It is left as an exercise to fit a bin grid to your survey and calculate bin attributes for display. Save your work as lesson2 when you are finished. Also, it is very
informative to shoot this survey again without using the shooting grid. Return to the Shoot dialog. Clear all of the templates. Shoot the survey again using Automatic
Template Centering without turning on the shooting grid. Examine in the results using the Edit Templates tool.

LESSON #3: Exclusion Zones and Survey Editing

This lesson is an introduction to defining exclusionary zones and modifying your survey based on topographical or cultural obstacles. Although the term "exclusion zone"
implies a region that is off-limits to sources and receivers, exclusions have a variety of purposes in MESA. You can use them to delimit property boundaries, mark the
positions of roads, etc. It is best to think of MESA exclusion zone functionality as an annotation tool that can be used to modify sources and receivers.

1) From the File menu, select Open Database and open lesson1 (your survey saved from the first lesson).

2) Select Edit Exclusions from the submenu next to the Exclusion Display icon. A toolbar will be added to the bottom of the Design Window. The second set of
buttons contains five icons for setting the shape of the exclusion. From left to right, your options are Circle, Polyline, Polygon, Boundary , and Marine
Boundary. By default, Circle should be selected. Press this button if it is not selected.

There are additional controls on the toolbar. Set the Radius of circular exclusion zones to 500.
Next, randomly define a few circular exclusion zones across your survey. Click the left mouse to define the center point of each exclusion zone.

3) Next, we will modify the properties of the exclusion zones that we just defined. Press the Edit
Exclusion button on the toolbar. While you are in this mode, you
can change the size, position, layer, or properties of each zone. Press the Modify Exclusion button to open the Modify Exclusion dialog.

In the Modify Exclusion dialog, select all of the exclusions in the list box.

Next, we will modify the properties of these exclusion zones. Click and hold on the color square next to Exclusion Color to bring up a color palette. Move the
mouse to select a new color (green is nice) and release the mouse. Change the Radius to 1000. In the Exclude group box, check the boxes
for Receivers and Sources. By setting this property, we are specifying that these circular exclusions will "kill" all source and receiver points inside of the regions.
Press the Apply button to set these new properties. Press OK to exit the dialog.
4) On the right end of the toolbar, press the Recalculate Effects button (looks like a hand calculator). MESA will cycle through every source and receiver point
and calculate which points fall inside exclusion zones. If an exclusion zone's properties are set to kill sources or receivers, those points will be toggled off. For large
surveys with a multitude of exclusion zones, this calculation is not instantaneous, so it is not performed automatically every time an exclusion is modified. For our simple
survey, several sources and receivers have been toggled off by the recalculation function. These points are now colored grey, the default color for dead sources and
receivers. These points will not be included in any bin attribute calculations.

5) Uncheck the Edit Exclusions menu item from the submenu next to the Exclusion Display icon. This will exit exclusion editing mode.

6) From the submenu next to the Receiver Display icon, select Edit Receivers. The editing toolbar will be added to the bottom of the Design Window.

The first three icons toggle you between point, line, and group editing mode. The fourth icon puts you in a mode for automatically moving receivers outside of exclusion
zones. The fifth icon puts you in a mode for assigning user-defined attributes for groups of points. The next control is a drop-down list that contains all of the possible
editing functions. For this exercise, press the Point editing button (leftmost button) and select Move from the drop-down list.

7) Zoom in on one of your exclusion zones. Zooming is accomplished by holding down the right mouse button and dragging out a rectangle in the Design Window.
You are in "single receiver move" mode. Click and hold your mouse on one of the receivers inside the exclusion zone. Drag it to a point outside the exclusion and release
the mouse button. Repeat this process on several points.

8) Next, press the Group editing button (third from left). Leave the editing mode set to Move. You must now define a polygon with the mouse. Pick out a set of
receivers. Click out three vertices of a rectangle around the receivers with the left mouse button. On the fourth vertex, double click the left mouse button. A polygon will be
drawn around the points.
Click and hold the left mouse button on your polygon. Drag the polygon outside of the exclusion zone and release the mouse button.

After you have dragged the polygon to the desired location, double click the left mouse button to move all the points to their new positions.
To exit receiver editing mode, deselect Edit Receivers from the submenu next to the Receiver Display icon.
9) Notice that the receivers that you moved outside of the exclusion zone are still toggled off. As noted earlier, the calculation that determines if points are inside the
exclusion zone is not instantaneous. After an editing function such as this, the effects of the exclusion zones should be recalculated. Select Edit Exclusions from
the submenu next to the Exclusion Display icon. From the toolbar, press the Recalculate Effects button. The receivers that have been moved outside the
exclusion are toggled back on and are displayed in their "live" color (blue, by default). Uncheck the Edit Exclusions menu item from the submenu next to the
Exclusion Display icon. This will exit exclusion editing mode.

This concludes this lesson. It is left as an additional exercise to try the other receiver and source editing functions.

LESSON #4: Unit Template

In this lesson, we will introduce the use of the Unit Template function. There are several ways to design a survey in MESA. You can lay out source and receiver lines and
then shoot the survey using various methods (Lesson #1). You can import survey coordinates (and template information) from ASCII files (Lesson #2). The Unit Template
methodology is a third method of laying out a survey design. With this method, you design a basic source-receiver relationship and repeat that relationship to generate the
survey.

1) Start the MESA application. The Design Window will appear. By default, the bounds of the map display are only a few feet on a side. Press the Zoom Out 1
Level button from the Design Window toolbar. Every time you press this button, the bounds of the map will increase slightly. Press this button 14-15 times to increase
the bounds of the map to roughly the size shown in the following diagram.
The exact dimensions are irrelevant. We just want to create enough room to draw a polygonal exclusion zone.

2) Select Edit Exclusions from the submenu next to the Exclusion Display icon. A toolbar will be added to the bottom of the Design Window. The second set of
buttons contains five icons for setting the shape of the exclusion. From left to right, your options are Circle, Polyline, Polygon, Boundary , and Marine
Boundary. Select the Boundary button.

With the mouse, click out a polygonal exclusion zone that looks roughly like the following diagram. At the last vertex of the exclusion zone, double click the mouse to
complete definition of the polygon.

Deselect Edit Exclusions from the submenu next to the Exclusion Display icon to exit edit exclusion mode.
3) Select Unit Template from the Layout menu. The Unit Template window will open.
Press the Layout Template button on the toolbar (circled in red on the previous diagram). A dialog will appear that prompts you for the grid size. Enter "25" for the
grid size. Press OK to continue. The Template Layout dialog will appear.

4) In the Template Layout dialog, you will first be defining a receiver template. Fill in the Receiver Layout edit boxes as shown in the following diagram. We want to
make a template that has 64 receivers in the x-direction and 8 receivers in the y-direction. Take special note of the spacings (50 in the x-direction, 200 in the y-direction).
Everything in the Unit Template window must be defined on a grid, so the spacings you enter must be evenly divisible by your grid size. After you fill in the Receiver
Layout quantities and spacings, press the Apply button (in the same group box). Your receiver lines will appear in the Unit Template window as shown below.
5) Next, we need to define some sources that fire into this set of receivers. Fill in the Source Layout edit boxes as shown in the following diagram and press
the Apply button in the Source Layout group box.
Press the Exit button in the Template Layout dialog to close the dialog.

6) There are many options for making very sophisticated unit templates that can define brick, slant, and variable line spacing surveys. In this example, we will stick with a
very simple four source salvo that shoots into a 8x64 receiver template. Press the Shoot Options button from the toolbar to open the Unit Template Repeat dialog.

In the Unit Template Repeat dialog, we define the roll parameters for our unit template. In the Spacings group box, we need to
enter Inline and Crossline spacings. The Inline spacing equates to our receiver line spacing (200) and the Crossline spacing equates to our desired source
line spacing (also 200).

We also need to choose dimensions for our survey. In the Survey Size group box, we have three choices for replicating the unit template. We can specify
a Number of Rolls in each direction. We can also define the dimensions of a rectangle to fill using the Fill Rectangle option. In this example, we will
select Fill Polygon. Using this option, we will select an exclusion zone to fill with sources and receivers. Select a Zone from the drop-down list. In our case, the
only exclusion to choose is our Survey Boundary.

Finally, we have to specify Clipping parameters. We will select Clip Receivers/Sources to Bounds in this example; however, there are additional
options for fitting the full fold region to the polygon and extending sources and receivers outside the region. Press OK to generate the survey.
7) At this point, your survey is both laid out and fired. Bin attributes can be calculated directly. You might also choose to do further editing on your survey, add exclusion
zones, etc.

LESSON #5: Transition Zone Example

In this example, several different MESA features will be demonstrated to solve a complicated shooting problem. This is not a step-by-step tutorial. Instead, it is intended to
show you how some of MESA's newer features work together.

1) The following diagram shows the acquisition environment for our transition zone example. The green exclusion zone represents the "land" portion of our survey. Source
points in this region are dynamite, receiver points are geophones. The blue exclusion zone represents the "open water" portion of our survey. Source points in this region
are air guns, receiver points are bottom cable hydrophones.

2) The shooting template needs to vary across our survey. For the land sources, we want to use an 8x64 receiver template centered around each source point.
For land sources close to the shoreline, we still want 8 receiver lines centered around the source. However, we can only deploy two bottom cables at a time. Six of the
lines need to truncate at the shoreline, and two lines need to extend out into the water.

For the marine source points, we can still only deploy two bottom cables at a time. In order to tie the marine data with the land data, we also want some of the land cables
active during marine shooting. A 4x128 template is chosen, with the middle two lines extending into the water and the outside lines truncated at the shoreline. Instead of
centering the template around each source point, 40 sources will be fired into each template. The template will roll two receiver lines.

3) In order to efficiently shoot this design, we need to be able to distinguish between the land and marine points. This can be done by assigning user-defined attributes.
Select Add/Remove Attributes from the Attribute Visibility icon submenu. For sources, make two attributes named "Land Source" and "Marine Source". Both
attributes should be of type Integer. For receivers, make equivalent attributes named "Land Receiver" and "Marine Receiver". For more information on attributes, refer
to Introduction to Attributes.

4) There are several ways to assign attributes to source and receiver points. Since this project already has exclusion zones that delineate the land and marine portions of
the survey, we'll use the Exclusion Record Assignment function from the Source and Receiver Editing Toolbars.

The first step is to open the receiver editing toolbar and press the Exclusion Record Assignment button. Select the Select Exclusions
Manually radio button. Select Land Receiver from the Attribute list and set the Value equal to "1". Click on the green (land) exclusion zone to set this
attribute value for every receiver inside of this zone. Return to this dialog box and select Marine Receiver from the Attribute list and set the Value equal to
"1". Click on the blue (marine) exclusion zone to set this attribute value for every receiver inside of that zone.
The next step is to open the source editing toolbar and press the Exclusion Record Assignment button. Perform the identical steps for the sources to set the
"Land Source" and "Marine Source" attributes.

5) In order to verify that the attributes have been assigned properly, the Design Window can be toggled to show a color map of attribute data. From the Attribute
Visibility button submenu, select Attribute Display.

The Attribute Display dialog has a drop-down list for source attributes and a drop-down list for receiver attributes. Select an attribute for display from each list. In this case,
select Land Source and Land Receiver .

Pressing the Attribute Visibility button will produce a color map of the selected attributes. In this case, it is apparent that the left half of our survey has been
tagged with attributes that designate it as the land portion of the survey.
6) The survey will now be shot in two pieces. Since the land and marine sources fire into different templates, we will use the filtering functionality to segregate the data into
subsets that can be shot differently. From the Record Filter button submenu, select Filter Options.

In the Filter Definition dialog, define a Source

Filter such that "Land Source EQUALS 1". This is shown in the following diagram. It is also necessary to define
a Receiver Filter such that "Land Receiver EQUALS 1" (not shown).

After the filters have been defined, it is necessary to apply the filters to the survey. This is done by pressing the Record Filter button in the Design Window. While
the filters are applied, only the visible source and receivers are used in program calculations. In this example, only the land sources and land receivers will be used until the
filters are turned off or modified. For more information on filtering, refer to Introduction to Filters.
7) The land sources are going to be fired using an 8x64 template. For many of the sources, the template will be perfectly rectangular. For the sources near the shoreline,
we want the centermost two lines in the template to extend out into the water. This means six of the lines will be truncated at the shoreline. In the current configuration, if
we used the regular automatic template centering, all eight of the receiver lines would get truncated at the shoreline because the marine receivers are filtered out.

To solve this problem, open the Shoot dialog. Create an 8x64 template and select Automatic Template Centering. Next, select the Use Line
Filtering checkbox and press the Line Filters button.

This will open the Line Filtering dialog. By default, receivers in a shooting template honor the current filter settings. That is, if receivers are filtered out, they do not get used
in the shooting template. (Note: Filtered receivers are used in the centering and rolling of a template, but they are not considered live receivers.) In the Line Filtering
dialog, we have the option to override this default behavior and specify that certain receiver lines in the template ignore the filter settings. This is necessary because we
want 6 of the 8 receiver lines to truncate at the shoreline and 2 of the 8 receiver lines to extend into the water. Select the middle two receiver lines (Segment
4 and Segment 5) from the list and select the Override Filter Settings for this Template Segment radio button. The other six receiver lines
will be set to Use Filter Settings for this Template Segment. During shooting, this means that segments 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8 will honor the filter
settings and be truncated at the shoreline. Segments 4 and 5 will include both land receivers and marine receivers even though they are currently filtered out. For more
information, refer to Line Filtering.
After shooting, the land receiver templates will appear as shown in the following diagrams.

8) The next step is to shoot the marine sources. The shooting template is going to be a 4x128 template with a 40 source salvo. In this case, we want two of the receiver
lines to truncate at the shoreline and two of the receiver lines to extend into the water. It is necessary to redefine our filter settings. In the Filter Definition dialog, we are
going to change our Source Filter so that "Land Source NOT EQUALS 1". Note: There are several ways to accomplish this task. We could have defined just as
easily a new Source Filter such that "Marine Source EQUALS 1".

After the modified filter has been applied, our survey appears as shown in the following diagram.
9) Open the Shoot dialog and define a 4x128 template. Next, select the Use Line Filtering checkbox and press the Line Filters button. As was done with the
template for the land sources, we need to define which receiver lines will honor and ignore the filters for the marine template. Select the middle two receiver lines
(Segment 2 and Segment 3) from the list, and select the Override Filter Settings for this Template Segment radio button. The other two
receiver lines will be set to Use Filter Settings for this Template Segment.

Since we aren't going to center this template around every marine source point, we can't use the Automatic Template Centering option. Instead,
select Salvo Shooting in the Shoot dialog. In the Design Window, set up salvo shooting as shown in the following diagram:
Forty sources are fired into the template. The template will roll two receiver lines and one source line, and 40 more sources will get fired--generating many duplicated
source points with each roll. In the setup it is important to note that, by necessity, the marine receivers are filtered out and can't be seen while defining the salvo shooting.
The two marine cables in the template will be active during the actual shooting.

When the shooting is complete, turn off the filters and examine the templates. The templates will be assigned as shown in the following diagram.

10) The survey is now fired properly. When all of the filters are turned off, you can define a bin grid and calculate attributes.

Lesson Recap:

There are many different ways that this problem could have been solved. The key point of the lesson is that MESA has the ability to divide your survey into subsets so that
program functions can be performed on certain points while other points are temporarily hidden. In this example, it was necessary to specify which points were on land and
which points were in the water.

The land sources could have been fired using automatic template centering, salvo shooting, rectangular shooting, or label-based shooting. The marine sources could have
been fired using either salvo shooting or label-based shooting. Refer to Introduction to Shooting for more information.

The attribute and filtering functions are not limited to transition zone designs. You may have design issues related to source type (dynamite, VibroSeis, different charge
sizes, etc.) or receiver placement (clearing issues, planting issues, etc.). As long as the problem can be defined by dividing your survey into subsets, the filtering
functionality should give you a path to your solution.