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PH5: Why Another Archival Data Format?




Computers and hardware ready for data download. at the High Lava Plains experiment, Burns, Oregon 2008.

PH5 addresses these limitations of SEG-Y as it:

  • allows the user to archive all waveforms early in the archiving process, minimizing meta-data problems from inhibiting the start of the archiving process. 
  • allows for the editing of the meta-data in data sets already archived, saving the archiver time and effort, otherwise necessary for reprocessing and re-archiving a data set.

  • provides for customizable data requests, where the user may request data, defining a unique start time and duration, in multiple formats; current formats available include SEG-Y and PASSCAL SEG-Y.