Services
Training Services
ISTI provides seismic data processing software training and short courses to clients. The most popular courses include Earthworm and SeisCompP earthquake management systems.
ISTI Courses
+ AQMS
AQMS is the ANSS Quake Monitoring System which is a 100% open source wrapper around Earthworm involving a Postgres database. AQMS can be used to recalculate earthquake hypocenters and magnitudes using an advanced Graphical User Interface (GUI) known as Jiggle. It also provides a management platform for the earthquake catalog, complete with distribution tools via web services. AQMS runs on Linux systems (it did, however, originate on Solaris and rely on Oracle), but analysts can use the Jiggle GUI on any platform since it is coded in Java and works remotely from the server.
Currently, AQMS training is offered as part of a 3-Day Earthworm/AQMS intensive course. In the course, we will provide an expert’s insight into the system. You will learn tricks and tips from our decades of experience operating and programming Earthworm and AQMS. You will learn how to set up regional automatic earthquake detection with the latest release of Earthworm.
This course covers:
- Working with the Earthquake Catalog
- Earthquake re-picking and relocating with Jiggle
- Setting up an Earthworm System to feed AQMS
- Back-end AQMS modules to go between Earthworm, Jiggle, and the database. Definition/ Configuration/ Troubleshooting
- Basic care and feeding of AQMS – standard database maintenance and troubleshooting
- Postgres and Oracle
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+ Earthworm
Earthworm is the popular open source regional earthquake data acquisition and location processing system. Initially developed by the USGS, it is now maintained and moved forward by a group of developers that ISTI organizes.
As the team providing developer coordination for the Earthworm System and in charge of preparing and releasing Earthworm updates, ISTI proudly provides EW training courses. Our introductory course provides an overview of the EW system and teaches basic operator usage. Our EW programming course offers in-depth instruction on EW configuration and illuminates the details of the EW Programming Interfaces. These courses are taught periodically in NY, and we are available to teach them upon request in our offices or at a client’s site. Class size is limited to 20 participants.
The course provides an expert’s insight into the system. You will learn tricks and tips from our decades of experience operating and programming Earthworm. You will learn how to set up regional automatic earthquake detection with the latest release of Earthworm. This course will be useful to anyone setting up, managing, tuning, or developing for an Earthworm system.
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+ Q330
As the author of many Q330 and Baler control and data acquisition tools, ISTI teaches a 1- or 2-day course on using the Q330/Baler and will work with the client on customizing the Q330 programming for their particular needs. In addition, we can assist the client with integrating the Q330 with their in-house data acquisition system. Class size is limited to four participants.
+ SeisComP
SeisComP is a popular open-source earthquake data acquisition and global location processing system. SeisComP is used worldwide because of its user-friendly graphical interface, automatic earthquake locations, and manual post-processing options. ISTI is an open source developer of SeisComP modules and has years of system integration experience.
In the course, we will focus on the open-source modules of SeisComP; free for non-commercial uses. We will be providing an expert’s insight into the system. You’ll be taught data acquisition and archiving. You’ll learn how to configure and tune global, regional, or local automatic seismic event detection. When the course is over, you’ll be able to improve automatic solutions by re-picking with the graphical user interface.
A typical week-long course will cover:
- Initial installation, including database configuration
- Basic configuration, including station inventory, automatic location bindings, and Seedlink data sources
- Data archiving and data exchange
- Work with the SeisComP GUIs, including viewing event catalogs, and post-processing — picking and relocating events
- Playback and system tuning
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+ Custom Courses
Upon request, ISTI can design a custom training course on any of our tools or software systems with which we are familiar. Courses may be held in Saratoga, NY, or at your location.
Please contact ISTI directly for pricing information.
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