From that moment on, i was hooked on surveying and mapping caves. Though there have been a few highprofile stories of institutions using lidar to map caves, the tool remains out of the reach of the average citizen scientist like adam. Hi all, just downloaded the newest version of therion cave. Padavka chamber somewhat complicated realcave example tar. Therion is an open source cave surveying software package which is designed to. Cave surveying and mapping an introduction to caves and caving. It is used match the scale and rotation of your finished maps so the sketch maps can be easily traced. Default settings should work fine for users using just latin characters1, standard tex and metapost.
A guide to the content of the cave surveying course run by the cave surveying group. Settingup environment therion reads settings from the initialization file. The following is a list a windows software of interest to cavers. Data file used by therion, a cave system visualization application. A practical guide to the essentials of cave mapping, by john ganter.
If you want to use own fonts for latin or nonlatin characters in pdf maps. A gps receiver is used to determine the coordinates of the starting point. Compass cave survey and mapping software home page. Arcgis gis mapping software arcgis desktop gis desktop mapping software cave survey wikipedia wikipedia with explanation of grading systems. Its purpose is to help archive survey data on computer in a form as close to the original notes and sketches as possible and retrieve them in. The tools most commonly used by cave mappers include notebooks, tape measures, and pdas yesthey still sell these on ebay, which are used for sketching maps. Therion is a complete package which processes survey data and generates maps or 3d models of caves. I tried to collect some basic information about cave. Since 2003 the mulu caves project has experimented with therion on a number of cave. Indiana cave survey is not associated with any of the software applications or sites listed.
The programs in the system allow you to enter cave data, revise the data, generate statistics on the cave, close loops, view plots from various angles on the screen and finally, print finished quality plots on almost any of dot matrix, laser, ink jet. Padavka chamber somewhat complicated real cave example tar. Therion is a complex software tool for archiving data which describes a cave, a cave system or a karst area. Pockettopo is the software part of the paperless cave surveying package developed by beat heeb. Its particularly well suitable for documenting large and complicated cave. The program enables the user to visualize the cave in three dimensional space and provide information as to the quality of the survey. Therion cave survey drawing and cave data management application with viewer. Therion solves the most annoying problem of cave cartography how to keep a map of large and complicated cave system always uptodate. Paperless cave survey with distox, pockettopo and therion.
The map is automatically updated after loop closure, blunder fix or map symbol set change. Map yet another piece of therion s puzzle map is a list of scraps, surveys or maps to create printed or 2d outputs therion. The walls download site is hosted by the texas speleological survey. Cavesurvey tries to aid data collection while surveying caves. Survex is very powerful cave survey software, and is actively developing into a complete cave visualisation package. It is the only version that will work on windows vista, windows7 and windows 8. Indiana cave survey is not associated with any of the applications listed. It also allows you to do realtime, movielike flythroughs of the cave. Abris cave survey software adobe acrobat paper cave map viewing. It runs on a wide variety of platforms including linux, windows and mac os x. The map is automatically updated after loop closure, blunder fix or.
Humminbirds powerful builtin and premium chart and mapping options give you the detail, accuracy and innovative, oneofakind features you need to eliminate unproductive water and. Additional program information, along with a link to the most recent walls build, will normally be available at the tss web site. Data collected can be verified on site with simple. During the development period for winkarst2010 the older 12. If youre not a fan of writing in a cave, you can use in cave software as well. Walls cave survey program texas speleological survey tss. I then went on to my first cave map with coon cave and gremlin cave, both of which were discovered by fss cavers. It is completely free, released under the terms of gnu gpl, with source code available. The society has, therefore, carried out a great deal of survey work and has published in its proceedings a large number of cave.
See the description of the surface command in the therion book for more details. Therion solves the most annoying problem of cave cartography how to keep a map of large and. Loop closures remorph affected scan scraps automatically so your cave map. A cave survey is a map of all or part of a cave system, which may be produced to meet differing standards of accuracy depending on the cave conditions and equipment available underground.
Survex is very powerful cave survey software, and is actively developing into a complete cave. Using its advanced 3d engine, cavewhere automatically morphs your 2d cave survey notes in 3d. How to get a copy of compass software tools cave survey. The route from station to station coupled with splay measurements allow software called compass cave to construct a 3d model of the cave and draw a. Structure of map drawings is fully independent on survey data draw partial maps as you are exploring and surveying the cave. Compass is a cave mapping software package designed to edit, process, analyze and view cave survey data using an ibm pc compatible computer. The svg exporter handles svg export, roundtripping, morphing, map.
Therion and distox training course guide cave surveying group. Feb 20, 2020 cavesurvey tries to aid data collection while surveying caves. This is an enhanced viewer that produces very realistic passage models. Mapping of new cave entrances with trimble juno and terrasync. Output is in single sheet or atlas style pdf or svg files. Abris cave survey software adobe acrobat paper cave map. You can fast and easily create maps of caves, rotate them in 3d and convert. High performance minecraft map renderer renders minecraft worlds to high detail maps with isometric 3d andor 2d topdown perspectives viewable in any webbrowser. The programs in the system allow you to enter cave data, revise the data, generate statistics on the cave. The finished map was done by lunchtime the next day, with minimal effort compared to an equivalent paper survey. Contribute to theriontherion development by creating an account on github. Therion processes survey data and generates maps or 3d. Cave surveying 2d and 3d drawing software therion aids the process of drawing up cave surveys maps. In a cave map, a given piece of passage my be represented more than once, but it is an overriding design goal that nothing should need to be drawnmore than once, so carto has a concept of different views of the same artwork.
The two most renowned and widely used software applications according to corvi survey corvi, 2017 fig. The most developed instance of this is in the page object. Programs and editorsmapping official minecraft wiki. Pockettopo is free, but you must buy your own disto, upgrade kit and computing device. Therion interworks with survex to help produce 2d and eventually 3d maps. It runs on windows devices pda and desktop and is best used in conjunction with a modified leica disto x310 making it a distox2 to cavers. Draw cave maps with copycave copycave is a program that runs on windows. Finally, the resolution of mapping is superior to that typically provided by cave divers because of the richness of data collected by multiple ultrasound sensors. Therion is an free and opensource cave surveying software, designed to process survey data. It is designed to be portable and can be run on a variety of platforms, including linuxunix, macos, and microsoft windows. A bit more time is spent sketching in the cave, but much more detail tends to be collected, and it would appear to be more accurate. All data is stored in text files and a map editor xtherion is provided to aid in the creation of the. What does therion mean definition of therion word finder.
Therion is considered by many to be the most complete software of cave measurement analysis see wookey, 2004. Therion aids the process of drawing up cave surveys maps. Google earth 3d earth viewing application using satellite images no cost but proprietary. Mar 25, 2011 their low cost also makes them relatively expendable. Therion was developed by the slovakian cavers martin budaj and stacho mudrak 4 but is available in english. This course guide was written using the following software versions. Since 2003 the mulu caves project has experimented with therion on a number of cave surveys none of which has yet produced definitive results. In spite of having a professional photographers on staff, divers took some photos with the nautiz x8 because it was always at hand. Its particularly well suitable for documenting large and complicated cave systems.
It doesnt require any other commercial software to run. Therion is considered by many to be the most complete software of cave. Receiving noaa 19 rtlsdr apt decode, sdrsharp, wxtoimg, orbitron, autodoppler duration. Measurements can be populated with the devices you already have. Winkarsts help file is available in pdf format for easy printing or online. Many can be deployed, yet a survey is a success if information is retrieved from only one sensor. Therion software therion is free and opensource cave surveying software, designed to process survey data. Export to popular desktop applications for cave mapping distox support walls guidelines based on lrud data crosssections support map symbols and labels additional line types attaching photos. Jan 20, 2015 3d cave mapping european space agency, esa. It takes only a few minutes to install therion, run the example and get maps and model of the cave. Some cave survey data measurements and sketches taken underground therion cave survey drawing and cave data management application with viewer pockettopo software used to record measurements and sketch cave passages underground and run on a windows mobile pda. When generating surface data in therion format, therion needs to be told the coordinate system used for the surface data in a form that it recognises e.
Drawings are done over scans and can be distorted to fit the centreline data. Another great resource is a guide to cave mapping, by john ganter. I tried to collect some basic information about cave surveying practices around the world, and the report summarizes what i could gather during the past months. Cavewhere is cave survey software with an intuitive design that enables building and visualizing underground cave maps. International mapping worked with the national park service and argentine productions to create an animation showing the extent of the mammoth cave system and the most popular cave. Therion is free and opensource cave surveying software, designed to process survey data. The following is a list a android apps of interest to cavers, several of which also bluetooth live to a distox. An excellent first reference for anyone interested in speleocartography. You will also need a copy of the following applications. Topparser converts top files from pockettopo to therion, producing all the files needed. Any serious research which deals with caves requires the use of a survey, or map, of the caves. Mar 21, 2012 mapping of new cave entrances with trimble juno and terrasync software. The programs in the system allow you to enter cave data, revise the data, generate statistics on the cave, close loops, view plots from any angle and finally, print finished quality plots on almost any printer or plotter.
The bca cave surveying group have just announced an intermediate therion training course. Therion and distox training course guide cave surveying. This is the editor used for editing, trimming, scaling and morphing scanned images of your survey sketches. Survex is a free software open source software package for mapping caves, licensed under the gpl. Walls cave survey program texas speleological survey. The scope of this training course is to improve the skills of people who ideally as a minimum have attended a csg paperless surveying training course or are currently using therion for their mapping. There are a few rough edges to the software, so it pays to practice the whole process before doing a real survey. A new method is proposed and realized by the means of modern technologies in the pepelyankata cave nearby the village of bosnek, pernik province.
It processes input files, which include 2d maps in text format, and creates files with 2d maps or 3d model as the output. One can also have notes, gps locations, pictures, sketches etc. Compass is a cave mapping software package designed to edit, process, analyze and view cave survey data using any windowsbased computer. Upated geomagnetic parameters for the 20102015 epoch. My interest turned towards surveying underwater caves when steve gerrard began a project to re map. Leads the reader through a basic exercise in mapping, showing the principles, equipment, and steps involved in creating a finished product. Therion solves the most annoying problem of cave cartography how to keep a map of large and complicated cave. There are also other applications available which can be used in conjunction with survex.