- Antelope Release 5.1-64 SunOS 5.10 2011-04-28
Some information about the 5.1-64 Antelope release
These pages provide some hints about how to configure and use an Apple Macintosh computer.
These pdf documents provide detailed information in a more tutorial format for various parts of the Antelope system.
- Data Flow Within Antelope [pdf]
- Antelope Seismic Information System (Datascope) [pdf]
- Software Development with Antelope [pdf]
- Analysis of Seismograms and Event location (dbloc2) Gary Pavlis
- Adding new velocity model to dbgenloc, Gary Pavlis
- Antelope Toolbox for Matlab (courtesy of Kent Lindquist) [pdf]
Selected Antelope Programs
Top Level Introduction
- Introduction to the Antelope Environmental Monitoring Software
- set up Antelope environment variables
- ANTELOPE environment variables overview
- check for uninstalled patches from BRTT
- Abbreviated Unix Reference List
Real Time System Installation and Setup
- Setting up a real time system
- setting up an rt processing node
- real time system user setup
- set up a simple directory structure for rtexec
- restart real time system on reboot
- setup to run an Antelope realtime demo
Real Time System Core Programs
- real time data acquisition system executive
- run a command with the rtexec environment
- orb ring buffer server
Real Time System Monitoring and Display
- Real Time System Monitor
- real-time waveform trace display
- monitor Quanterra digitizers
- monitor packets for error conditions
- orb ring buffer status information
Real Time System Data Import
- transfer data from a Quanterra digitizer to an orb
- import data from an IDA hub to a Datascope ORB
- transfer data from a Kinemetrics Altus digitizer to an orb
- receive alpha (cd1) packets and copy to an orbserver
- copy data from one orb to another
Real Time System Data Archiving
- create continuous database from orb ring buffer
- read Datascope database packets from an ORB and write to a database
- eliminate old lines in a log file.
Real Time System Data Processing and Analysis
- multi-frequency STA/LTA detector
- parameter file trigger of a program execution
- make waveform measurments (e.g. magnitudes) from an ORB
- Make arrival associations and predicted arrivals
Real Time System Data Export
- copy data from one orb to another
- Antelope IDC/GSE2.1 AutoDRM Server
- move arbitrary files using an orb
- transmit cd1 packets using alpha protocol with orb as lifo
- send log files as packets into an orb
Real Time System Reports
- summarize log reports
- report some statistics on real time network performance
- create a bulletin from a database
- show data gaps for a database over a time period
- collect some snapshot data from an Antelope real time system
- collect some system related information when a program dies
Analyst Review
- Display seismic events and waveforms
- interactive hypocenter location
- locsat location program
- genloc location program
- spatial grid search location program
- compute a travel time grid file
- dump the contents of the ttgrid file
- waveform review, pick arrivals, and edit a CSS relational database
- compute waveform related quantities like magnitudes
- magnitude computation super class for evproc
- traditional Richter magnitude computation
- body wave magnitude as computed by US NEIC
Database Analogs of Real Time Processing
- multi-frequency STA/LTA detector
- spatial grid search based associator/locator
- associate and merge new event into a database
- dbwfproc - generalized real-time waveform processor
- dbevproc - generalized real-time event processor
Waveform Data Import
- scan PASSCAL SEED volume and produce database
- create css database from sac headers
- convert data in PASSCAL SEGY format to CSS format
Waveform Display
Waveform extraction and export
- extract waveform segments from a database
- create a SEED volume from a CSS 3.0 database
- convert waveforms to SAC
- convert waveforms to AH
- convert waveforms to segy disk image
- print a few samples from waveforms in a database
Waveform manipulation
- Decimate waveform data
- Compute time-varying spectragram
- make power spectral density plots of noise
- Make helicorder type plot of waveform
Database Manipulation
- explore a database schema
- database editor/viewer
- describe the format of a Datascope database
- reformat schema file as troff document
- create and edit Datascope schema files
- perform some consistency checks on a database
- copy database
- find differences between two databases
Database Command-line Operations
- join several database tables
- find records which don't join with another table
- sort database tables
- subset database tables
- join database tables according to an expression
- unjoin database tables
- print selected fields and expressions from database
- change field in database
- add database tables
- add records to a table
- crunch out null records from a database
- mark or delete all records in a view
- completely delete a database
Miscellaneous Utilities
See section (3) for c interfaces, section (3p) for perl extensions and section (3t) for tcl/tk extensions
Selected Antelope Development Man Pages
Introduction
- Introduction to the Antelope Enviromental Monitoring Software Programming Interface
- Antelope Makefile format
- print prototype Antelope makefile
- generate Makefile ldlibs line
Perl Interfaces
- perl interface to Datascope and related functions
- perl interface to orb and packet routines
- system info from perl
Tcl/tk Interfaces
c Interfaces
- Basic Utilities
- Read parameter files
- Get parameters from parameter space
- manipulate associative arrays
- manipulate lists
- manipulate sorted lists
- error handling routines
- time manipulation routines
- save and restore program state between executions
- Files and path names
- Datascope
- introduction to the Datascope database library
- add a record to table
- add a new, null row to a table
- delete rows from tables
- delete databases, truncate database tables
- database expression evaluation
- search for matching record in table
- free datascope memory
- get, put plain ascii tables, records, or fields from/to a database table
- read and write values from fields in a database table
- group a sorted table
- join two database tables
- lookup indexes from ascii names
- find matching records in second table
- return a view composed only of records which don't join
- open a database
- get ancillary information about a database
- create a sorted view
- create a subset view
- create new tables from a joined table
- return lists of constituent records of views
- Orbserver connections
- Trace Library
- introduction to trace manipulation routines
- utility functions for trace calculations
- display a trace object
- load waveform data from CSS database into trace table
- read trace data from file into memory
- add error message to log for trgetwf errors
- save trace object waveform data to new database
- free up memory buffers and clear trace object tables
- close a trace database and eliminate all memory used and files created
- truncate a tr database table
- splice together data segments
- break up waveform records at marked bad data
- subtract mean (DC) value from trace or trace segment.
- compute derivative of trace data
- integrate waveform segments
- Geophysical functions
Standard Perl Man Pages
There are various Antelope user meetings each year. Kent Lindquist maintains an Antelope User Group site, and manages the Antelope contrib archive which is hosted on github.com
Get help with Antelope by exploring the Antelope Wiki, posing questions (and answers!) on the Antelope Mailing List, or contact BRTT directly via email or through the support page.
