Announcing the Caltech DAS Hub

[Zhan, Zhongwen]

Dear DAS Community, 

At the SSA Annual Meeting last week, I announced the Caltech DAS Hub, a new effort at Caltech Seismological Laboratory to help make Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) more accessible to the broader community.

What is the Caltech DAS Hub? In simple terms, it is shared infrastructure for DAS operation, data, and workflows. The goal is to lower the barrier to using DAS by providing a place where users can freely access data, work closer to the data, and build and test processing and monitoring tools without each group needing to start from scratch.

We see this as a service to the DAS community. DAS has reached the point where the main challenge is not only new science, but also operations, access, and usability. We hope the Hub can help move DAS toward broader and more routine use in seismology and beyond.

We are now welcoming applications to the Caltech DAS Hub. Resources are still limited at this stage, so access will need to be selective, but we are excited to work with users who want to help test, use, and grow this effort.
More information and application link:

https://dashub.caltech.edu/
https://dashub.caltech.edu/use-dashub

You can also subscribe to the mailing list just to stay informed of new resources in the future. Please feel free to forward this to people/community who may benefit from the DAS Hub.

Current open resources:
1. Multiple years' continuous data from three DAS arrays (see map).
2. Real-time data from these three arrays in the future.
3. Free CPU/GPU computing resources for users to process data.
4. Bonus: One month of DAS data from the South Pole station.

Zhongwen, on behalf of the DAS Hub Team. 

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Zhongwen Zhan

Professor of Geophysics

Director, Seismological Laboratory

California Institute of Technology

http://zhan.caltech.edu