EarlyBird modules for UNIX now

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Paul Friberg

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Jul 13, 2012, 1:05:13 PM7/13/12
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Hi All,

ISTI is pleased to announce that the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (ATWC) EarlyBird picker and locator are now available for Unix platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris). Originally written for Windows, these two venerable Earthworm modules provide new teleseismic capabilities to Earthworm for UNIX installations. They have been used in the mission critical environment at the US Tsunami Warning Centers and provide rapid and good results.

Now you can have an Earthworm system that can do your local to regional picker/binder/hypoinverse events, and a global solution to detect teleseismic events too!

The locator uses the Iaspei91 travel time model and the picker computes amplitudes for Mwp, Mb, and ML. More details about how the pick_wcatwc and loc_wcatwc work can be found by  referring to the ATWC web pages on EarlyBird:

        http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/DataProcessing/ew-eb.htm

Note there was a new public release of EarlyBird in May of 2012. The picker and locator are now in the Earthworm Subversion repository and will be available in the upcoming v7.6 of Earthworm--compiling on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and naturally still Windows.

Many thanks to the developers at ATWC who are keeping their source open and available to all. Keep up the good work ATWC folks!

This porting work was funded by ISTI for the benefit of the Earthworm user community. Please pay it forward and if you develop any codes off of this new development, share them back. Thanks.

Of course ISTI is available to help you build and configure Earthworm and EarlyBird systems that use this capability and provide commercial support for your systems afterwards. We have been working with Earthworm for going on 14 years now.

Cheers,

Paul

Branden Christensen

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Jul 13, 2012, 1:11:47 PM7/13/12
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Paul and gang:

AWESOME news!

Thanks for the contribution. EB is top notch software. We can now fold our EB Windows machine into our EW linux server which means tighter integration.

Will the EB GUIs be coming soon?

Kind Regards from your friends in Panama,

Branden

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Jean-Marie SAUREL

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Jul 13, 2012, 3:06:10 PM7/13/12
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Hello,

That's a good news !!

... and an opportunity to test face to face the two main automatic
location processes in use today : EarthWorm/EarlyBird and SeisComP3.
With our module to import results from EarthWorm to SeisComP3, we should
be able to have everything stored in the same database, and them able to
compare efficiency and results ... if we have time to set-up such machine.

Have a nice week-end.
Regards.

Jean-Marie SAUREL.

Le 13/07/2012 18:05, Paul Friberg a �crit :
> Hi All,
>
> *ISTI* is pleased to announce that the *Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
> (ATWC)* *EarlyBird* picker and locator are now available for Unix
> platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris). Originally written for
> Windows, these two venerable Earthworm modules provide new teleseismic
> capabilities to Earthworm for UNIX installations. They have been used in
> the mission critical environment at the US Tsunami Warning Centers and
> provide rapid and good results.
>
> /Now you can have an Earthworm system that can do your local to regional
> picker/binder/hypoinverse events, and a global solution to detect
> teleseismic events too!/
>
> The locator uses the Iaspei91 travel time model and the picker computes
> amplitudes for Mwp, Mb, and ML. More details about how the pick_wcatwc
> and loc_wcatwc work can be found by referring to the ATWC web pages on
> EarlyBird:
>
> http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/DataProcessing/ew-eb.htm
>
> Note there was a new public release of EarlyBird in May of 2012. The
> picker and locator are now in the Earthworm Subversion repository and
> will be available in the upcoming v7.6 of Earthworm--compiling on Linux,
> Solaris, Mac OS X and naturally still Windows.
>
> Many thanks to the developers at ATWC who are keeping their source open
> and available to all. Keep up the good work ATWC folks!
>
> This porting work was funded by ISTI for the benefit of the Earthworm
> user community. Please pay it forward and if you develop any codes off
> of this new development, share them back. Thanks.
>
> Of course ISTI is available to help you build and configure Earthworm
> and EarlyBird systems that use this capability and provide commercial
> support for your systems afterwards. We have been working with Earthworm
> for going on 14 years now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
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Paul Friberg

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Jul 15, 2012, 11:46:37 AM7/15/12
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Thanks Jean-Marie,

Well my intent was not to do a head to head comparison, but let us know how it goes if you find the time.

My intent was to provide EW systems who wanted to run teleseismic locations in Earthworm Unix shops to be able to run a single system instead of a cross between Windows and Linux/Solaris and what not. I guess one could effectively do that if they ran Anthony Lomax's NonLinLoc which has global location capability (via the EW module nll_mgr), but sadly does not come with an global associator. Probably the best global association program out there is still GLASS (that is in Hydra) and maybe someday I will work on a port of that to UNIX, but it's a little more heavily integrated with Windows GUI baggage than is the EarlyBird picker/locator.

ISTI has already built a few hybrid local/regional EW combined with EarlyBird systems for customers and they work quite well with each doing a rapid and good job on earthquake locations if tuned appropriately.

Cheers,

Paul

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Jean-Marie SAUREL <sau...@ipgp.fr> wrote:
Hello,

That's a good news !!

... and an opportunity to test face to face the two main automatic location processes in use today : EarthWorm/EarlyBird and SeisComP3.
With our module to import results from EarthWorm to SeisComP3, we should be able to have everything stored in the same database, and them able to compare efficiency and results ... if we have time to set-up such machine.

Have a nice week-end.
Regards.

Jean-Marie SAUREL.

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AAbrego

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Jul 24, 2012, 3:01:29 PM7/24/12
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Paul:

 

Are these modules available for downloading somewhere, or we need to wait until the release of v7.6?

 

Antonio A. Abrego M.

Ingeniero Civil

Unidad de Ingeniería Geotécnica

División de Ingeniería

Tel. 276-1989

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Paul Friberg

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Jul 24, 2012, 3:37:26 PM7/24/12
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Hi Antonio,

They are not available as compiled executables until 7.6 is released, but you can get them out of subversion and compile them yourself.

Directions for subversion are here: http://earthworm.isti.com

Regards,

Paul
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Antonio Cao

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Paul Friberg  13 july 2012  wrote:

Hi All, ..... 
More details about how the pick_wcatwc and loc_wcatwc work can be found by  referring to the ATWC web pages on EarlyBird:

        http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/DataProcessing/ew-eb.htm

That link is dead.
   The actually working is:

 
   with good documentation about the open source code,
   but nothing on the cryptic Windows' binary installer.

   Regards,
   
   Antonio Cao.

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