This is good, but if you are looking for a good open-source seismic
processing system, I recommend SU
(http://www.cwp.mines.edu/sututor/node1.html ), developed and maintained by
Colorado School of Mines, a leading exploration geophysics school. SU is
written in C and was developed during the 80's and 90's by leading academic
and industry geophysicists such as Ken Larner, Einar Kjartansson, Dave Hale,
Chris Liner and many others. New algorithms are still being added.
I was one of the many contributors to Chevron's seismic processing system.
I feel safe in saying that a large, Fortran-based seismic processing system
developed in-house at a major oil company and maintained by "an army of
programmers" is of more historical than practical interest. Also, given
algorithm
equivalence and equal coding skills, I think it is unlikely that a Fortran
program
could equal the performance of a C program on Linux. (Processing seismic
reflection data is one of the most compute-intensive applications around,
right up there is cosmologic modelling, etc.)
ProMax is the leading commercial seismic processing system - if you've got
the bucks, this is the way to go.
Richard Anderson, Ph.D
www.raycosoft.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Seattle, WA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 8:21 PM
Subject: BP adds to Open Source
>
> I made a rather amazing discovery. BP (the oil company) has released the
> Amoco seismic processing library for Unix as open source.
>
> http://www.freeusp.org/
>
> I recommend reading the history - it's a nice read. And kudos to BP for
> contributing to the open source community.
>
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