Re: [Nolug] 3d Seismic data SEG-Y stuff

There is a local blogger, Maitri Vatul <http://vatul.net/blog/>, who is a
Geophysicist at Shell, I think. She might be able to help you. You can also
catch her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/maitri.

Chris Johnston

On 6/22/07, Shannon Roddy <sroddy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone here ever do any work with 3d seismic data, as in oil
> exploration surveys. Someone I know has 4 data tapes (8mm 112m tapes)
> that we tried reading in an exabyte drive on Linux. dd wouldn't even
> take a bit for bit image of the tape. Does anyone know if the oil
> industry uses something special to write these tapes? After some
> googling we suspect that the files are written to the tape in an
> industry standard known as SEG-Y that has been around since the 70s.
> There is even some software for Linux we dug up that should have read
> the files, however I think we are dealing with a tape format
> incompatibility. Anyone have a clue?
>
> Thanks,
> Shannon
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