Essential Links

Free Seismic

• USGS - from my uneducated experience, lots of scattered 2D seismic/nav/images.  A little bit of 3D to add a little flavor.
• UTIG - lots of seismic,mainly marine stuff.  Offers a lots more bundled seismic/nav zip files when you put in a request.  Lots of data.
• COCORP (Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling) - a handful of seismic by US state (that I've looked at so far).

Navigation Stuff

• APSalin - tons of navigational stuff.  Convert this to that.  Stuff to drool over.
• UTM Conversion - this spreadsheet rocks!  A direct link to the spreadsheet brought to you by somebody to University of Wisconsin.
• RCN - Lots of Lat/Long conversions.

Random Virtual Dust (But Very Essential)

• SEG's SEG-Y Format pdf file.
• Wikipedia's SEG-Y entry.
• SLB's Oilfield Glossary - okay.

Tools at my disposal

Just a quick list of tool I have at my disposal.  All free stuff collected off the web.

• SeisSee - Excellent SEG-Y viewing software.  Modify the headers, EBCDIC, and binary headers.
• OpendTect - Free opensource seismic interpretation software.
• Excel - You know what that is.
• Notepad++ - Excellent text editor.  You can do "a lot" on this one.  Forget notepad.exe (yuck!).
• GoogleEarth - I have not formed an opinion on this one yet.
• DNR Garmin - I'm still getting to know this one.  Converts shapefiles and kml files to stuff and back again.
• ShapeViewer - Interesting little tool that loads shapefiles where you view and export them to xls.  You can additionally get summary from the shapefile.
• Surfer (Demo Version) - Good for QC stuff.  It can handle more rows than Excel ever will.  I can live with the Demo version.  Shhhhh.  Don't tell Golden that.
• ArcGIS Explorer - I'm kind of mixing on this one.  The standalone program doesn't like my video card so I have to use the online version of the software.  The online version has its limitation regarding importing those files.  If I want to do that, I have to use my wife desktop (grrr).

First day on the Underground

This is just a test. This is my underground world of seismic data. All data shown here is publicly available data from this or that place.  You can find it if you google it.  Don't go getting lawyered up.

This stuff discussed on this blog are my ramblings about seismic data, SEG-Y, navigation, velocities, googleearth, ArcGIS, and coordinates.  I mainly discuss my trails and tribulations of learning how to use this stuff to discover what-all's supposed to be going on beneath the earth.