Thread: distaz output units

Hi Oliver,

The result values are all in degrees, we will clarify that and other aspects of the calculation in a future update.

regards,
Chad

On Dec 7, 2011, at 2:50 AM, Oliver Henriot wrote:

Dear IRIS webservices list members,

Can anyone tell me in what units the distance output of Distaz is? I doesn't seem to be specified on the services' page.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Oliver Henriot
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Hi

Pretty sure they are degrees as the distance from (0,0) to (0,90) is
90, but it would be nice if that was specified in the docs.

It would also be nice to document whether it uses an ellipticity
correction. Chad said in an email that the answer was yes, but that
information is not on the web page.

Is there any reason that the calculation source code is not publicly
available? Seems like the DMC should open source this type of thing.
Just fyi, I have put distaz routines in several languages, with
ellipticty, here if you are interested in calculating locally and
being able to see exactly what is happening.

http://www.seis.sc.edu/software/distaz/

Philip

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Oliver Henriot
<Oliver.Henriot<at>ujf-grenoble.fr> wrote:

Dear IRIS webservices list members,

Can anyone tell me in what units the distance output of Distaz is? I doesn't
seem to be specified on the services' page.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Oliver Henriot
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webservices mailing list
webservices<at>iris.washington.edu
http://www.iris.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/webservices