Category Archives: Software

Basemap supports UTM

Posted on July 13, 2012 in pSysmon, Software

The new matplotlib basemap release version 1.0.4 supports UTM projections. The release notes of basemap-1.0.4 say: * add k_0 keyword for projection = ‘tmerc’ so UTM zones can be created. Also can be used with ‘lcc’,’omerc’ and ‘stere’. Added “utmtest.py” … Continue reading →

pSysmon – edit geometry

Posted on February 21, 2012 in pSysmon, Software

I’m falling in love with Python more and more while encountering the beauty of this language and the trillions of already existing excellent code libraries. pSysmon is now doing it’s work using the multiprocessing module to provide real parallel computing. … Continue reading →

tracedisplay development – stations and channels

Posted on October 31, 2011 in pSysmon

The development of pSysmon’s major visualization tool keeps on going. I already have added the support for channels and stations. The next steps will be to add user interactivity and a dynamic integration of processing plugins.

tracedisplay development – first visualizations

Posted on October 23, 2011 in pSysmon

After a hard struggle with the correct resize behaviour of matplotlib canvases in wxPython panels I have finished the first step towards a pSysmon tracedisplay module. See the following screenshot for a quick stack of TdView panels. Each TdView holds … Continue reading →

seismon breaking free

Posted on October 20, 2011 in pSysmon

After a positive evaluation of Python to replace Matlab and the discovery of the great work done by the obspy guys I have decided to free Seismon and translate it to the Python programming language. Seismon is becoming pSysmon. Follow … Continue reading →

EGU 2011

Posted on March 25, 2011 in Daily routine, Seismon

In almost a week the European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2011 is going to start in Vienna. I’ll be there the whole week and it would be a good possibility to meet each other, have a short chat about Seismon … Continue reading →

Developer’s Guide

Posted on March 24, 2011 in Seismon

I have updated the documentation and added the Developer’s Guide. The Developer’s Guide will help you to add your own code to Seismon. The currently available chapters in the Developer’s Guide explains how to create tracedisplay tools and gives some … Continue reading →

Bug reports and Twitter

Posted on March 2, 2011 in Software

I have added a Bug Tracking tool to the homepage and you can follow me now on Twitter. The reported bugs and feature request as well as their status changes (e.g. fix of a bug) are tweeted, so you can … Continue reading →

Seismon at Prague

Posted on December 7, 2010 in Seismon

The last week I have been invited to Prague by the Institute of Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. I’m in a cooperation with the group running the West Bohemian network (WEBNET) who are currently working … Continue reading →

MiniSeed Toolbox and the LCC compiler

Posted on October 29, 2010 in MiniSeedToolbox

Today we have encountered some problems with the miniseed toolbox and the LCC compiler that comes with Matlab. This compiler has a bug that causes strange results when working with 64bit variables. This bug caused some troubles when reading gapped … Continue reading →