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13 - Web services for seismic data archives

from Part V - Web services and scientific workflows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2011

Robert Casey
Affiliation:
IRIS Data Management Center
Timothy K. Ahern
Affiliation:
IRIS Data Management Center
G. Randy Keller
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
Chaitanya Baru
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

Introduction

Seismology has a long tradition of sharing data across boundaries, be they international, institutional, or scientific domain. This sharing began decades before the era of digital data but modern methods of digital access to seismological data have revolutionized the ways in which these data are now available. Normally, seismological information is accessible on a global basis within seconds of real time. Since scientific studies also demand access to data spanning decades, access to voluminous archives of time series data is also necessary. This paper attempts to highlight some of the more recent applications of web services to provide access to seismological data of several types.

There are thousands of seismic stations operating in the world today; most are used for monitoring seismicity on a local, national, regional, or global scale. Broadband seismometers are now more and more common and greatly enhance the scientific usefulness of these data. The IRIS Data Management Center (DMC) is a major center that incorporates data from several seismic networks, including those funded by the US National Science Foundation, US Geological Survey, and networks funded by other international and national sources. As an international data center, the IRIS DMC actively works with international groups in a manner where data from many networks around the world, funded by international sources, are available through the IRIS DMC, as well as through distributed data centers.

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Geoinformatics
Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences
, pp. 210 - 223
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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