Adaptable Seismic Data Format

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Name Adaptable Seismic Data Format
Ontology
Extension(s) presumably .asdf
Released 2016Date of [1]

The Adaptable Seismic Data Format (ASDF, not to be confused with the Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a format for storing seismic data as a replacement for SEED, although the authors claim that in a limited area of application SEED will continue to be useful[1], section 3.1. It is based on HDF5, and has 4 main sections (implemented as HDF5 groups, except for the first, which is a single binary record):

  • Non-time series data about seismic events, specified using an embedded QuakeML document[2]
  • Time series waveform data[3]. Metadata about the station that produced the data is optionally stored in an embedded StationXML file
  • "Auxiliary data", which holds anything miscellaneous[4]
  • Provenance of waveform[3] or auxiliary[4] data, specified with SEIS-PROV (a spun-off format)[5]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Lion Krischer, James Smith, Wenjie Lei, Matthieu Lefebvre, Youyi Ruan, Elliott Sales de Andrade, Norbert Podhorszki, Ebru Bozdağ, and Jeroen Tromp, "An Adaptable Seismic Data Format", Geophysical Journal International, Volume 207, Issue 2, November, 2016, pp. 1003–1011; online at [1].
  2. https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/events.html
  3. 3.0 3.1 https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/waveforms.html
  4. 4.0 4.1 https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auxiliary_data.html
  5. https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/provenance.html
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