SEG-Y is the most popular seismic data format today. But there are many others and you can find the references from SEG Technical Standards below.
SEG Technical Standards
The following SEG standards are provide in an online, downloadable form as a convenience to the geophysical industry. Many of the earlier standards have been converted to Microsoft Word 7.0 format from the originally published form. Significant care has been taken to accurately convert the documents. If differences are found between the original publications and the online versions or if problems are encountered with the documents, please notify the Chairman of the SEG Technical Standards Committee. In case of differences, the original publications are the authority.
Related Link: SEG Technical Standards Committee
The MS Word documents are provided as read-only documents. When the documents are opened, select the Read Only button on the Password dialog that is displayed by Word.
All standards can be downloaded at once in this ZIP file.
Related Link: Standards ZIP File ( 31M MB)
UKOOA standards also can be found free of charge on the UK Offshore Operators Association Web site.
Related Link: UKOOA Standards
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Digital recorders | 1988 | Digital recorders | Badger, A. S., 1988, Special report on Digital Seismic Recorder specification standards by SEG Subcommittee on digital seismic recorder specifications: Geophysics, 53, no. 03, 415-416. |
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Marine energy sources | 1988 | Marine energy sources | Johnston, R. C., Reed, D. H. and Desler, J. F., 1988, Special report on marine seismic energy source standards *: Geophysics, 53, no. 04, 566-575. (* Errata in GEO-53-7-1011) |
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Marine streamers | 1987 | Marine streamers | Reed, D. H., Selsam, R. L. and Knox, A. E., 1987, Special report on SEG standards for marine seismic hydrophones and streamer cables *: Geophysics, 52, no. 02, 242-248. (* Errata in GEO-52-5-0720) |
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Ancillary Data Exchange | 1999 | SEG ADS | Faichney, Norris, Hiscox, Hovde, Bingham, Stigant, Racer, Reynolds, Hares, 2001, SEG-UKOOA Ancillary Data Standard - Metafile Format Description: Geophysics, 66, no. 06, 1961-1998. |
| Executable | Ancillary Data Exchange | 1999 | SEG ADS reading sample | Approved by the SEG Executive Committee, scheduled for publication in Geophysics. Michael Hares, Sample Code to read an SEG ADS Dataset, 1999. This is a self extracting archive containing C source code. |
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Ancillary Data Exchange | 1999 | SEG ADS Trace Attribute | Norris, Hares, Faichney, 2001, SEG-UKOOA Ancillary Data Standard - ADS Trace Attributes: Geophysics, 66, no. 06, 1999-2039. |
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Ancillary Data Exchange | 1999 | SEG ADS Trace Edit | Norris, Hares, Faichney, 2001, SEG-UKOOA Ancillary Data Standard - ADS Trace Edit: Geophysics, 66, no. 06, 2040-2054. |
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Polarity | 1975 | SEG Polarity 1975 | Thigpen, Ben B., Dalby, A. E. and Landrum, Ralph, 1975, Report on Subcommittee on Polarity Standards *: Geophysics, 40, no. 04, 694-699. (* Discussion in GEO-41-02-0324-0324; Reply in GEO-41-02-0324-0324) |
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Polarity | 1993 | SEG Polarity 1993 | Landrum, R. A., Brook, R. A. and Sallas, J. J., 1994, Polarity convention for vibratory source and recording systems (special report): Geophysics, 59, no. 02, 315-322. |
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Data Archival | 1996 | SEG Rode | Booth, Algan, Duke, Guyton, Norris, Stainsby, Theriot, Wildgoose and Wilhelmsen, SEG Rode Format Record Oriented Data Encapsulation: Geophysics, 61, no. 05, 1545-1558. |
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Data Archival | 1997 | SEG Rode | Updated version of RODE format with amended SEG Y example. This document is an updated version of Booth, Algan, Duke, Guyton, Norris, Stainsby, Theriot, Wildgoose and Wilhelmsen, SEG Rode Format Record Oriented Data Encapsulation: Geophysics, 61, no. 05, 1545-1558. |
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Ancillary Data Exchange | 1995 | SEG SPS | SEG Technical Standards Committee on Ancilliary Data Formats, Shell Processing Support Format For Land 3-D Surveys, Geophysics, 60, no.2, 596-610 |
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Ancillary Data Exchange | 2006 | SEG SPS rev 2.1 | SEG Technical Standards Committee on Ancillary Data Formats, Shell Processing Support Format for Land 3-D Surveys. |
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Data Recording | 1990 | SEG-2 | Pullan, S. E., 1990, Recommended standard for seismic (/radar) files in the personal computer environment: Geophysics, 55, no. 09, 1260-1271. |
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Data Recording | 1967 | SEG-A SEG-B SEG-EX | Northwood, E. J., Weisinger, R. C. and Bradley, J. J., 1967, Recommended standards for digital tape formats: Geophysics, 32, no. 06, 1073-1084. |
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Data Recording | 1972 | SEG-C | Meiners, E. P., Lenz, L. L., Dalby, A. E. and Hornsby, J. M., 1972, Recommended standards for digital tape formats: Geophysics, 37, no. 01, 36-44. |
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Data Recording | 1975 | SEG-D | Barry, K. M., Cavers, D. A. and Kneale, C. W., 1975, Report on recommended standards for digital tape formats: Geophysics, 40, no. 02, 344-352. |
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Data Recording | 1994 | SEG-D rev 1 | SEG Comm. Field Tape Std., 1994, Digital field tape standards - SEG-D, revision 1 (special report): Geophysics, 59, no. 04, 668-684. |
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Data Recording | 1997 | SEG-D rev 2 | Wood, Behn, Borresen, Guyton, Miles, O?Neill, Oishi and Scales, SEG-D, Rev 2 SEG Field Tape Standards, Geophysics, 62, no. 03, 1004-1031. |
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Data Recording | 2006 | SEG-D rev 2.1 | Lewis, Firth, Aatland, Hagelund, Svenkerud, Hamon, Lansley, Stott, Al-Ghambi, Richard, and Hubbell, SEG-D, Rev 2.1 SEG Field Tape Standards. |
| MS WordPDF | Positioning | 1983 | SEG-P1 SEG-P2 SEG-P3 | Morgan, J. G., Spradley, L. H., Worthington, G. A. and McClelland, I. J., 1983, Special report on SEG standard exchange formats for positional data: Geophysics, 48, no. 04, 488-490. |
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Data Recording | 1975 | SEG-Y | Barry, K. M., Cavers, D. A. and Kneale, C. W., 1975, Report on recommended standards for digital tape formats: Geophysics, 40, no. 02, 344-352. |
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Data Recording | 2002 | SEG-Y rev 1 | The SEG Y Data Exchange Format (rev 0) was published in 1975, and has achieved widespread usage. However, since 1975, the nature of seismic data acquisition, processing, and seismic hardware has changed significantly. SEG Y rev 1 addresses these changes and updates the format for modern usage. |
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E&M | 1987 | MT/EMAP | MT/EMAP Data Interchange Standard, Revision 1.0, Dec 1987, David E. Wight. This standard was never published in Geophysics. |
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Positioning | 1990 | UKOOA P1/90 | U.K.O.O.A. P1/90 POST PLOT DATA EXCHANGE TAPE, 1990 format. |
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Positioning | 1991 | UKOOA P2/91 | UKOOA P2/91 EXCHANGE FORMAT, FOR RAW MARINE POSITIONING DATA |
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Positioning | 1994 | UKOOA P2/94 | P2/94 EXCHANGE FORMAT FOR RAW MARINE POSITIONING DATA |
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Positioning | 1994 | UKOOA P5/94 | UKOOA DATA EXCHANGE FORMAT, P5/94, PIPELINE POSITION DATA |
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Units | 1980 | SEG SI Metric | Fred Hilterman, Franklyn Levin, Norman Neidell, Robert Sheriff, Lee Lenz, The SI Metric System of Units And SEG Tentative Metric Standard, 1980, This document was not published in Geophysics. |
Reference: SEG Technical Standards
