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I. Introduction

II. Procedures

A. Preparing the Instrument

B. Instrument Calibration

C. Set Measurement Parameters

D. Preparing Sections// Preparing Samples

E. Making a Measurement

F. Evaluating your Measurement

G. IMS Utilities

III. Uploading Data to LIMS

A. Data Upload Procedure

B. View and Verify Data

C. Retrieve Data from LIMS

IV. Important Notes

V. Appendix

A.1 Health, Safety & Environment

A.2 Maintenance and Troubleshooting

B.1 IMS Program Structure

a) IMS Program Structure

b) Communication and Control Setup

B.2 Motion Control Setup

C.1 Hardware

VI. Credits

VII. Archived Versions

Introduction

The section half image logger (SHIL) takes digital images of the flat face of split cores using a line scan camera and generates RGB data. All 'Archive' section halves are imaged on the SHIL. Sediment cores are imaged as soon as possible after splitting and scraping to minimize color changes that occur through oxidation and drying. The SHIL can also be used to image the outside of a whole round hard rock section (see section 360° Imaging Hard Rock for details).

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