# Processing of Areal Electromagnetic Data

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**Category:** Electromagnetics\
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://simpeg.discourse.group/t/processing-of-areal-electromagnetic-data/147 "2020-11-06T19:36:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaushik67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@kaushik67](https://simpeg.discourse.group/u/kaushik67)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://simpeg.discourse.group/t/processing-of-areal-electromagnetic-data/147/1 "2020-11-06T19:36:57Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to process Areal Electromagnetic data with AEM2018 program package. The data is available in this link [https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5ca6ce7ee4b0c3b0064c2ce5?fbclid=IwAR2qhN3m6jUwpH7rSKMpBEJtzJqw9Umi-gaUSEjhTKMgPDzGgdWbiFmmkLY](https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5ca6ce7ee4b0c3b0064c2ce5?fbclid=IwAR2qhN3m6jUwpH7rSKMpBEJtzJqw9Umi-gaUSEjhTKMgPDzGgdWbiFmmkLY)  
However, I am totally new to this. I think I have successfully installed and created the python environment required to run the program through jupyter notebook. I was also able to run the program for the given data. But I don’t know how to create an input file from raw data and process that to get a 2D resistivity/conductivity model from AEM data. It would be helpful to get some instruction about the processing of AEM data.

Sincerely,  
Kaushik Sarker

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**Author:** ![lheagy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/simpeg.discourse.group/lheagy/32/6_2.png) [@lheagy](https://simpeg.discourse.group/u/lheagy)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://simpeg.discourse.group/t/processing-of-areal-electromagnetic-data/147/2 "2020-11-15T16:58:43Z")

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Hi @kaushik67, thanks for your question! If you are new to SimPEG and python, I would recommend taking a look through the tutorial we ran as a part of the Transform 2020 conference. This focusses on DC / IP data, but will give you an overview of the framework and running inversions with SimPEG [https://github.com/simpeg/transform-2020-simpeg](https://github.com/simpeg/transform-2020-simpeg).

@yangdikun also recently gave a tutorial on time-domain EM modelling. Dikun, would you mind linking your notebook here too? Thanks!