rdseed 5.1
Announcing rdseed version 5.1, available from IRIS DMC. You can get to the installer and online manual through the following links:
Description
rdseed is for reading FDSN SEED formatted volumes, enabling conversion of SEED to SAC (binary & ASCII), AH, SEGY, CSS, miniSEED, SEED, and columnar ASCII forms of output. rdseed is available for Windows (CYGWIN), Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, Linux and other UNIX platforms. rdseed comes pre-built with 64-bit binaries that are ready to run. The source code can still be built as a 32-bit application if necessary.
Changelog
- Support for Windows PC utilizing CYGWIN technology. rdseed now runs on Windows within a cgywin shell (Many thanks to Paul Friberg from ISTI for enabling this feature).
- New output file formats. Support for 2 SimpleASCII’ text file formats, time-sample pairing and sample listing.
- Changed internal data representation from floats to doubles to allow for a greater sample range.
- rdseed miniseed output as doubles has been added along with the usual steim compressed integers.
- More sac poles and zeros annotations:
- A0 have been added to the sac poles and zeros file.
- Created date
- Input Units
- Instrument Gain
- Instrument type
- Instrument type
- Output Units
- Sample Rate
- Sensitivity
- Site description
- In the SAC file, SCALE usage was changed, now it is not used as the sensitivity.
- SAC EVDP was changed back to KILOMETERS.
- Summary file processing was upgraded to better support the M quality data.
- Error logging is in one file. Only logs when an error happened. Each error is logged with a time stamp.
by Chris Laughbon (IRIS Data Management Center)
