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The IRIS DMC: Global Real-Time Collection and Distribution of
Seismological Data and Products
Rick Benson, Tim Ahern
IRIS Data Management Center
A perpetual data management facility providing waveform and parametric data from 1960’s to current real time access
DMC Holdings & Collaborators
Permanent & Temporary Networks
Access Software
The IRIS DMC is the primary archive for all International FDSN data, IRIS
GSN & PASSCAL, and spans over 40 years of digital seismic data.
In addition, the archive is host to all USArray, PBO and SAFOD data and
products, and regional networks within the US and from abroad.
All of this data is managed in uniform repositories with all other time-series
data, including a completely automated offsite backup system located in
Socorro, NM. For the user this means that all of these data are seamlessly
available using the DMC’s access methods (see handouts).
Archive QC & Distribution Statistics
The“mousepad” shows
all the data discovery
options. You can click
on content and get linked to
information about each
application or repository.
Read all about it at
http://www.iris.edu/news
/newsletter/vol9no3/page2.htm
Current Real-Time sites (Oct 2008)
Quality Control
In addition to traditional archive management and data access,
the DMC continuously applies Quality Control (QC) techniques
to ALL real-time data. This QC effort is divided into two categories:
• Automated Techniques
The DMC’s QUACK system makes
automated QC measurements on all data
arriving at the DMC as real-time streams.
The measurement results are publicly
available via QUACK’s web interface.
www.iris.edu/servlet/quackquery/
JWEED, a sophisticated
data delimiting request tool to
help gather event data & generate
a request for accompanying
seismic data. Watch an online
tutorial at
Power spectral densities (PSD
also generated for near real-t
and stored as probability den
functions (PDFs) (McNamara
Buland, 2004). They are view
through QUACK and during m
waveform review.
http://www.iris.edu/tutorials/jweed/
1742 Stations
6475 Channels
71 Networks
• Manual/Observational Techniques
GMS: IRIS Google Mapping Service
Discover real-time station/channel information through a Virtual Network
@ http://www.iris.edu/gmap/_REALTIME
SPADE archives products like
all phase picks from the
USArray network.
Refer to http://www.iris.edu/data/dmcseedlink.htm
The manual QC of USArray data is performed, as the data is received, by DMC
who
• review raw waveforms
• verify sensor polarity
• review metadata
• compare waveforms with synthetics
• analyze background noise and
• log Data Problem Reports
15 Gb are archived annually,
with 42 Tb getting sent
to users- illustrating a very active
archive.
This map displays ALL stations within the DMC holdings, 1960-2009. It also
Illustrates how you can use URL path names as parameters to generate your
own maps, by time or space. Read help on http://www.iris.edu/gmap
This map is http://www.iris.edu/gmap/?timewindow=1960/6/1-2008/12/31&sidebar=0
You can access all real-time data using numerous protocols using client
software, and monitor all data feeds with the Bud_Monitor.
Refer to http://www.iris.edu/data/dmc-seedlink.htm &
http://www.iris.washington.edu/bud_stuff/dmc/bud_monitor.ALL.html