A beginner-friendly guide to AquaGrammar

Reading the language of water in spectra.

AquaGrammar Preview turns a MicroNIR data file into a Classic-12 WAMACS Aquagram® — a radar chart of twelve water-related wavelengths — in four steps, with nothing to configure.

A complete run in 60 seconds: open a file, select groups, process rows, read the Aquagram®.

Download AquaGrammar Preview · Start here → Getting started

Is this for you?

Preview is for you if you want to produce an Aquagram® from prepared spectra and understand what you are looking at — whether you are new to aquaphotomics, teaching it, or evaluating whether the method suits your work. Everything you need is bundled: two sample datasets, one fixed workflow, four export formats.

Preview does not do the following. None of it is hidden behind a setting; it is genuinely absent:

  • Live MicroNIR control, or any connection to an instrument
  • Saved projects or sessions
  • Manual preprocessing, or editing which wavelengths count as WAMACS
  • PCA, SIMCA, PLSR, or any other modelling
  • Anything beyond Average, Add, and Subtract on prepared rows

If that is what you came for, Preview will not serve you today — and we would genuinely like to know what you needed instead. This is a preview precisely so that what comes next is shaped by what people ask for. Write to aquagrammar@aquaphotomics.com.

What you get

  • Two bundled datasets. Demo 1 — Natural Systems (nine groups of rock and mineral scans) and Demo 2 — Water (four groups of water-source scans). You can start without supplying anything.
  • Your own files too. MicroNIR .sam, vendor CSV, and vendor XLSX.
  • One approved workflow. SNV across a range you choose, then standardization, then repeat averaging — applied identically every time, so two people with the same file get the same chart.
  • Four exports. XLSX and CSV carry one column per plotted line, enough to redraw the chart in your own tools; PNG and JPG capture the chart with its legend.
  • English and Japanese, switchable at any time.

Where to go next

If you want to…Go to
Install itDownload
Get your first chart in a few minutesGetting started
Be walked through properly, onceTutorial
Understand what the workflow actually doesHow AquaGrammar works
Fix something that went wrongTroubleshooting
Look up a wordGlossary