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SeismNet Manager: A Web Application to Manage Hardware and Data of a Seismic Network

Giovanni Iannaccone
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano

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	INTRODUCTION

 
Modern seismic networks have grown to become increasingly complex infrastructures, composed of hundreds of devices and data streams scattered over wide geographic regions. Among the components of such networks are heterogeneous seismic and environmental sensors, digitizers, data loggers, data collection servers, wired and wireless communication hardware, and other devices and software subsystems charged with different data handling tasks, such as continuous data storage or analysis. In order to be effectively managed, a seismic network therefore needs a tiered software application. This application encompasses tasks that range from the low-level (hardware monitoring for failure detection) to the mid-level (data quality control) to the high-level (managing the final output of the network: recorded events, waveforms, and parametric data). At the same time such an application should provide a centralized and easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI).

Over the past two decades, several institutions and commercial companies have devoted great efforts to the development of software tools to manage and centralize the data acquisition and analysis for regional to global seismic networks. Among the most valuable products worth mentioning are: Earthworm, an open-source real-time seismic management system developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (Johnson et al. 1995); Antelope, a commercial real-time system for environmental data collection, developed by Boulder Real Time Technologies (BRTT 2008); and the more recent SeisComP (Hanka et al. 2000), an open-source tool for real-time data acquisition and analysis developed by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ-Potsdam).

Although well-suited for real-time data collection and analysis, these systems do not currently provide advanced features for managing the infrastructure of a seismic network, such as state-of-health monitoring of the instrumentation or tracking all the network appliances.

Trying to fill this gap, Instrumental Software Technologies (ISTI 2008) has recently developed SeisNetWatch (SeisNetWatch . . . [Full Text of this Article]

AMRA Scarl
RISSC-Lab
Via Nuova Agnano, 11
80125 Napoli, Italy
elia@ov.ingv.it
(L. E.)
satriano@na.infn.it
(C. S.)

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Osservatorio Vesuviano
Napoli, Italy
iannaccone@ov.ingv.it
(G. I.)