About SOD

SOD is a program that automates tedious data selection, downloading, and routine processing tasks in seismology. It allows you to define your desired data based on earthquakes, recording stations, and the resulting combination of information. SOD then retrieves the data that matches the criteria and applies any number of processing steps using processors included in SOD and ones you've written yourself. All of this works for historical data, but as the name says, you can specify a "standing order" with SOD. If your criteria stretch off into the future, SOD will run until that day gathering seismograms for earthquakes as they occur.

To get started, read Getting Started, which will walk you through downloading, installing, and using SOD.

News

5 July 2006

After letting it age for a week, we're ready to release 2.2rc1 as SOD 2.2. No new bugs were discovered and no new features have been added since 2.2rc1. You can get this release on the download page.

27 June 2006

Based on feedback at the IRIS meeting, we've added a few new features and changed the structure of a couple ingredient tags. Since we've made some larger changes we've decided to skip the 2.1.2 release and have released SOD 2.2rc1 today.

It adds six new ingredients:

2.2rc1 also changes the file templating system in breqFastRequest, sacPoleZeroWriter and responseWriter to be like those used in writing seismograms and printline processors. If you're using those ingredients with a customized output location in an existing recipe look at the ingredient docs to see how to update them.

Finally we've documented the externals system in SOD that allows you to write custom Java code that hooks into your recipes. Check out the externals documentation if you need SOD to do something it doesn't do yet.

Go to the download page to get the new version. In the absence of any major new bugs, this will become SOD 2.2 in a week or so.

2 June 2006

SOD 2.1.2rc2 is out. It fixes several bugs and annoyances in the new sacWriter and mseedWriter from 2.1.2rc1 and that magnitudeType wasn't recognized by csvEventSource. It also includes several documentation and tutorial fixes. Go to the download page to get the new version.

10 May 2006

SOD 2.1.2rc1 has been released. 2.1.2rc1 adds the ability to subset by an area polygon, includes documentation on the CSV event system and templating, and fixes a multitude of bugs and annoyances. We're putting out this release candidate so that users that have reported issues can ensure they've been fixed. However, unless they uncover unforseen problems, this release candidate will become 2.1.2 within a couple weeks. Go to the download page to get the new version.

22 September 2005

SOD 2.1.1 has been released. 2.1 would insist there was an update to SOD even though nothing had been released. If you're bothered by this message, go to our download page to get the new version. Nothing besides the update checking has changed.

9 August 2005

SOD 2.1 is out! Since the 2.0 release, we've substantially improved SOD's speed and reliability. We've also added several new processors and subsetters. We recommend all users upgrade from 2.0 as several bugs have been fixed. Go to our download page to get the new version.

11 October 2004

SOD 2.0 is released! You can get it now from our download page . Nothing has changed since RC1, so feel free to continue using it.

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