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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template Matching App (aka xcorr[^1])
 
 >>>
-*offical name suggestions* :question::thought_balloon:
+*offical name suggestions*:
 
 * temapy, SED-MaFiApy,
 * **seis**scanpy, **seis**matchpy, **seis**TMpy, **seis**Xcorrpy,
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 >>>
 
 
+
 ## Setup
 
 1. Put all the code of this project somewhere into a folder called `code_TM_app` (a suggestion).
@@ -19,12 +20,10 @@
     git clone git@gitlab.seismo.ethz.ch:microEQ/TM.git somewhere/code_TM_app
     ```
 
-    and install the required dependencies
+    and install the required dependencies:
     
     ```
-    pip3 install --user obspy
-    pip3 install --user mpi4py
-    pip3 install --user sortedcontainers
+    pip3 install --user obspy mpi4py pyFFTW sortedcontainers pillow psycopg2 tqdm pandas joblib
     ```
 
 
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@
 (a suggestion).
 
     The `_sequences` directory will contain all data and results of different scans 
-    (e.g., different regions, different stations, different setups, etc.).
+    (e.g., *different regions, different stations, different setups*, etc.).
     
     This is a suggested layout:
     
@@ -40,17 +39,18 @@
     .
     └── _sequences
         ├── data                                              <- (e.g., .sql script, .csv catalog)
-        │   ├── SED-events_region1_{station}_mseed            <- Created automatically to contain 
-        │   ├── SED-events_region2_{station}_mseed               catalog event waveforms and their plots
+        │   ├── catalog-events_region1_{station}_mseed        <- Created automatically to contain 
+        │   ├── catalog-events_region2_{station1}_mseed          catalog event waveforms and their plots
+        │   ├── catalog-events_region2_{station2}_mseed
         │   └── ...
         │
         ├── results_region1_{station}_{startdate}_{enddate}   <- The results of a particular run on your sequence 
-        ├── results_region2_{station}_{startdate}_{enddate}      (with station name and date span)
+        ├── results_region2_{station1}_{startdate}_{enddate}      (with station name and date span)
+        ├── results_region2_{station2}_{startdate}_{enddate}
         ├── ...
-        └── config_region1.ini
-        └── config_region2.ini
-    
-    
+        ├── config_region1.ini
+        ├── config_region2_station1.ini
+        └── config_region2_station2.ini                       <- ... scan at another station
     ```
     
     If you want to separate different regions, you can also create a 'sequence'
@@ -63,20 +63,24 @@
     .
     ├── _sequence_region1
     │   ├── data
-    │   │   └── SED-events_region1_{station}_mseed
+    │   │   └── catalog-events_region1_{station}_mseed
     │   |
-    │   ├── results_{station}_{startdate}_{enddate}   <- with config.set_dir(regionName=False)
-    │   └── config_region1.ini
+    │   ├── results_{station}_{startdate}_{enddate}
+    │   └── config_region1.ini                        <- set OUTDIR_REGION_NAME = NO (to omit region name in results folder name)
     │
     └── _sequence_region2
         ├── data
-        │   └── SED-events_region2_{station}_mseed
+        │   ├── catalog-events_region2_{station1}_mseed
+        │   └── catalog-events_region2_{station2}_mseed
         |
-        ├── results_{station}_{startdate}_{enddate}   <- with config.set_dir(regionName=False)
-        └── config_region2.ini
+        ├── results_{station}_{startdate}_{enddate}
+        ├── config_region2_station1.ini               <- set OUTDIR_REGION_NAME = NO
+        └── config_region2_station2.ini                  (also here)
     ```
 
-3. Edit the file config.ini and run the tool.
+3. Edit the file config.ini to your needs and run the tool.
+
+
 
 ---
 
@@ -84,64 +88,91 @@
 
 1. Provide a reference catalog in csv-Format
     * Option 1: provide the file in appropriate format
-    * Option 2: query the SED-DB with a sql-file in the `data` directory; an example can be found in `Example/data/seddb_SQL_query.sql`. At the end of the example file there are the parameters you need to change:  Station,  Lat ,  Lon , Radius, max. depth. Once the settings have been updated you can run the following command, which will use the file just edited, to query the events from the SED database.
+    * Option 2: query the SED-DB with a sql-file in the `data` directory; an example can be found in `Example/data/seddb_SQL_query.sql`.
+    At the end of the example file there are the parameters you need to change: 
+    *Station*, *Lat*, *Lon*, *Radius*, and *max. depth*.
+    Once the settings have been set, you can execute the following command to query the events from the SED database.
 
     ```
     python3 xcorr.py config.ini --get-from-DB
     ```
-   
+
 2. Preload your catalog events and place them in the data folder, so that you can inspect them:
 
     ```
     python3 xcorr.py config.ini --preload-events
     ```
+
+    Now go through the waveform plots in the `data/catalog-\*` directory and review your new waveforms.
+    Comment out events you don't want to use as templates (e.g., low quality events) in the `seddb-\*.csv` file (with a `#` at the start of a line).
     
-    Now go throug the waveform plots in the data/catalog-\* directory and comment-out all low quality events that you not want to use as templates in the seddb-\*.csv-file (# at start of line)
-    
-    Important: 
-    
-    After you have commented-out events, delete the "data/catalog-\*"-directories and rerun the preload-events command.
-    
-    Important: 
+    **!! Important:** If you commented out events in the `seddb-\*.csv` file, delete the `data/catalog-\*` directories and rerun the preload-events command.
     
-    If you update the seddb-\*.csv file, make sure to keep the seddb-\*.csv.old-part of your catalog unchanged. Only add new events from the seddb-\*.csv file that are junger than 
-    the oldest event in the seddb-\*.csv.old-file to the end of the seddb-\*.csv.old-file. Rename this combined file to seddb-\*.csv and run the preload-events command. Review your new waveforms, commet-out events you not want to use as templates in the seddb-\*csv file, delete the data/catalog-\* directories and rerun the preload-events command.
+    **!! Important (for updating the scan later on):** If you update the `seddb-\*.csv` file (with the command in step 1),
+    make sure to keep the `seddb-\*.csv.old`-part of your catalog unchanged.
+    Only append new events from updated new `seddb-\*.csv` file that are junger than the
+    oldest event in the `seddb-\*.csv.old` file to the end of the `seddb-\*.csv.old` file.
+    Rename this `seddb-\*.csv.old` file to `seddb-\*.csv`.
+    Now you are ready to execute the preload-events command.
     
-    !!If you not follow this steps your magnitude regression and event assoziation might go wrong!!
+    **If you do not follow these steps, your magnitude regression and event association might go wrong!!**
 
-3. Run the cross correlation
+3. Run the cross correlation:
 
-    
     ```
     python3 xcorr.py config.ini
     ```
     
-    or faster:
+    or in parallel (recommended):
     
     ```
     mpiexec -n CORES python3 xcorr.py config.ini --mpi
     ```
+    
+    (*CORES*: the number of processor cores *+ 1*; the additional '*+1*' will be reserved for the master process, which usually does not use much CPU)
 
-4. Run the post processing (plots)
+4. Run the post processing:
 
     ```
     python3 xcorr.py config.ini --post-processing
     ```
 
-**Note**
+    This performs:
+    1) merging the detections of individual templates ('unique'),
+    2) determining the magnitudes ('regress-mags'), and
+    3) plotting the magnitude vs. time plots of the detections ('plot-timeline').
+
+    These and more post-processing steps can be executed individually with:
+    ```
+    python3 xcorr.py config.ini --post-processing {basic, unique, regress-mags, plot-timeline, plot-detections, plot-helicorder}
+    ```
+
+
+---
+
+### Notes
+
+The paths for executing the tool need to be specified according to your current working directory in the terminal:
 
-you might be either in
-   * the sequency directory
+   * from the sequency directory:
        * then you have to give the path to `xcorr.py` (can be relative): 
        ```
        python3 ../../xcorr.py config.ini --post-processing
        ```
-   * anywhere
-       * then you have to prepend the path of _both_ `xcorr.py` and `config.ini`:
+   * from anywhere else:
+       * then you have to prepend the path to _both_ `xcorr.py` and `config.ini`:
        ```
        python3 ../xcorr.py region1/config.ini --post-processing
        ```
 
+
+To see all possible command line arguments and a brief help, execute:
+
+    ```
+    python3 xcorr.py config.ini --help
+    ```
+
+
 ---
 
 [^1]: xcorr: cross-correlation