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SeisComP3 - Automatic and Interactive Real Time Data Processing

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SeisComP3 - automatic and interactive real time data

processing
B. Weber (1), J. Becker (1), W. Hanka (1), A. Heinloo (1), M. Hoffmann (1), T. Kraft
(1), D. Pahlke (1), J. Reinhardt (1), J. Saul (1), H. Thoms (1)
(1) GFZ Potsdam (weber@gfz-potsdam.de)

SeisComP is likely the most widely distributed software package for seismological
data acquisition and real-time data exchange over Internet. Its data transmission pro-
tocol SeedLink became a defacto world standard. Seiscomp provides tools for auto-
matic real-time event processing and dissemination of event alerts. In the context of the
GITEWS (German Indian Ocean Tsunami Early Warning System) project additional
functionality for 24/7 early warning control centers will be developed. In this presen-
tation we describe the concept of SeisComP3 which has been designed to perform this
task. SeisComP3 fully supports fast automatic and manual data processing and inter-
active review of processing results. The acquisition of raw data is based on SeedLink
ensuring the compatibility to already existing hard- and software infrastructures. The
new architecture of SeisComP3, based on a modular design of thin clients commu-
nicating over a messaging system using a TCP/IP infrastructure, allows distributed
computing and easy implementation of custom clients. For seismological metadata ex-
change a XML schema called QuakeML has been developed in cooperation with the
ETH Zuerich. It has been implemented in SeisComP3 for internal client communica-
tion and as database storage schema. For developing new clients SeisComP3 provides
an API supporting several programming languages. Due to these features SeisComP3
will be used in many current scientific projects (e.g. the European NERIES project)
dealing with seismological data mining and real time seismology as infrastructure for
data acquisition and processing.

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