Working with Data¶

This section describes how to track and manage SeisIO data.

Creating Data Containers¶

Create a new, empty object using any of the following commands:

Object	Purpose
SeisChannel()	A single channel of univariate (usually time-series) data
SeisData()	Multichannel univariate (usually time-series) data
SeisHdr()	Header structure for discrete seismic events
SeisEvent()	Discrete seismic events; includes SeisHdr and SeisData objects

Acquiring Data¶

Read files with read_data
Make web requets with get_data
Initiate real-time streaming sessions to SeisData objects with SeedLink!

Keeping Track¶

A number of auxiliary functions exist to keep track of channels:

findchan(id::String, S::SeisData)¶

findchan(S::SeisData, id::String)

Get all channel indices i in S with id $\in$ S.id[i]. Can do partial id matches, e.g. findchan(S, “UW.”) returns indices to all channels whose IDs begin with “UW.”.

findid(S::SeisData, id)¶

Return the index of the first channel in S where id = id. Requires an exact string match; intended as a low-memory equivalent to findfirst for ids.

findid(S::SeisData, Ch::SeisChannel)

Equivalent to findfirst(S.id.==Ch.id).

namestrip!(S[, convention])

Remove bad characters from the :name fields of S. Specify convention as a string (default is “File”):

Convention	Characters Removed:sup:(a)
“File”	`"$*/:<>?@\^\|~DEL`
“HTML”	`"&';<>©DEL`
“Julia”	`$\DEL`
“Markdown”	!#()*+-.[\]_`{}
“SEED”	`.DEL`
“Strict”	!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^`{\|}~DEL

^(a) DEL here is \x7f (ASCII/Unicode U+007f).

timestamp()¶

Return current UTC time formatted yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS.μμμ.

track_off!(S)

Turn off tracking in S and return a boolean vector of which channels were added or altered significantly.

track_on!(S)

Begin tracking changes in S. Tracks changes to :id, channel additions, and changes to data vector sizes in S.x.

Does not track data processing operations on any channel i unless length(S.x[i]) changes for channel i (e.g. filtering is not tracked).

Warning: If you have or suspect gapped data in any channel, calling ungap! while tracking is active will flag a channel as changed.

Source Logging¶

The :src field records the last source used to populate each channel (usually a file name and path or a web request URL).

When a data source is added to a channel, including the first time data are added, this is recorded in :notes with the syntax (timestamp) +src: (function) (src).

Channel Maintenance¶

A few functions exist specifically to simplify data maintenance:

prune!(S::SeisData)

Delete all channels from S that have no data (i.e. S.x is empty or non-existent).

C = pull(S::SeisData, id::String)

Extract the first channel with id=id from S and return it as a new SeisChannel structure. The corresponding channel in S is deleted.

C = pull(S::SeisData, i::integer)

Extract channel i from S as a new SeisChannel object C, and delete the corresponding channel from S.

Taking Notes¶

Functions that add and process data note these operations in the :notes field of each object affected. One can also add custom notes with the note! command:

note!(S, i, str)

Append str with a timestamp to the :notes field of channel number i of S.

note!(S, id, str)

As above for the first channel in S whose id is an exact match to id.

note!(S, str)

if str* mentions a channel name or ID, only the corresponding channel(s) in **S is annotated; otherwise, all channels are annotated.

Clear all notes from channel i of S.

clear_notes!(S, id)

Clear all notes from the first channel in S whose id field exactly matches id.

clear_notes!(S)

Clear all notes from every channel in S.