scqc

Derives quality parameters from waveforms.

Description

scqc determines quality parameters of seismic data streams. The output parameters are time averaged quality control (QC) parameters in terms of waveform quality messages. In regular intervals report messages are sent containing the short term average representation of the specific QC parameter for a given time span. Alarm messages are generated if the short term average (e.g. 90s) of a QC parameter differs from the long term average (e.g. 3600s) more than a defined threshold. To avoid an excessive load, QC messages are sent distributed over time.

The following parameters are determined:

Delay [s]

Time difference between arrival time and last record end time plus half record length (mean data latency, valid for all samples in record)

Latency [s]

Time difference between current time and record arrival time (feed latency)

Offset [counts]

Average value of all samples of a record

RMS [counts]

Offset corrected root mean square (RMS) value of a record

Spike (interval [s], amplitude [counts])

In case of the occurrence of a spike in a record this parameter delivers the time interval between adjacent spikes and the mean amplitude of the spike; internally a list of spikes is stored (spike time, spike amplitude); the spike finder algorithm is still preliminary

Gap (interval [s], length [s])

In case of a data gap between two consecutive records this parameter delivers the gap interval time and the mean length of the gap

Timing [%]

miniseed record timing quality (0 - 100 %)

Configuration

etc/defaults/global.cfg

etc/defaults/scqc.cfg

etc/global.cfg

etc/scqc.cfg

~/.seiscomp3/global.cfg

~/.seiscomp3/scqc.cfg

scqc inherits global options.

CreatorId

Type: string

ID of QC message creator Default is smi://de.gfz-potsdam/QcTool_0.3.1.

useConfiguredStreams

Type: boolean

Limit QC determination to processed data streams. Default is false.

streamMask

Type: string

If useConfiguredStreams == False then load (from inventory) only those streams, matching the streamMask

RegEx e.g. "^(NET1|NET2)\.(STA1|STA2|STA3)\.(LOC)\.((BH)|(LH)|(HH))Z$"

RegEx e.g. "^(.+)\.(.+)\.(.*)\.(.+)Z$"

streamMask = "^(.+)\.(.+)\.(.*)\.(BHZ)$"

dbLookBack

Type: int

Database look up for past entries not older than x days (to determine the last QC parameter calculated). Default is 7.

plugins.default.reportInterval

Type: int

Interval for sending the report messages in seconds. Default is 60.

plugins.default.alertInterval

Type: int

Interval for checking the alert thresholds in seconds. Default is 30.

plugins.default.staBufferLength

Type: int

Short Term Average (STA) buffer length in seconds. Default is 600.

plugins.default.ltaBufferLength

Type: int

Long Term Average (LTA) buffer length in seconds. Default is 600.

plugins.default.timeout

Type: int

Generate a report message in case no data is received since timeout in seconds. Default is 0.

plugins.default.thresholds

Type: int

Alert thresholds in percent, single value [or list 25,50,75 ... not yet implemented]. Default is 100.

Command-line

Generic

-h, --help

show help message.

-V, --version

show version information

--config-file arg

Use alternative configuration file. When this option is used the loading of all stages is disabled. Only the given configuration file is parsed and used. To use another name for the configuration create a symbolic link of the application or copy it, eg scautopick -> scautopick2.

--plugins arg

Load given plugins.

-D, --daemon

Run as daemon. This means the application will fork itself and doesn't need to be started with &.

--auto-shutdown arg

Enable/disable self-shutdown because a master module shutdown. This only works when messaging is enabled and the master module sends a shutdown message (enabled with --start-stop-msg for the master module).

--shutdown-master-module arg

Sets the name of the master-module used for auto-shutdown. This is the application name of the module actually started. If symlinks are used then it is the name of the symlinked application.

--shutdown-master-username arg

Sets the name of the master-username of the messaging used for auto-shutdown. If "shutdown-master-module" is given as well this parameter is ignored.

Verbosity

--verbosity arg

Verbosity level [0..4]. 0:quiet, 1:error, 2:warning, 3:info, 4:debug

-v, --v

Increase verbosity level (may be repeated, eg. -vv)

-q, --quiet

Quiet mode: no logging output

--component arg

Limits the logging to a certain component. This option can be given more than once.

-s, --syslog

Use syslog logging back end. The output usually goes to /var/lib/messages.

-l, --lockfile arg

Path to lock file.

--console arg

Send log output to stdout.

--debug

Debug mode: --verbosity=4 --console=1

--log-file arg

Use alternative log file.

Messaging

-u, --user arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.username.

-H, --host arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.server.

-t, --timeout arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.timeout.

-g, --primary-group arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.primaryGroup.

-S, --subscribe-group arg

A group to subscribe to. This option can be given more than once.

--encoding arg

Overrides configuration parameter connection.encoding.

--start-stop-msg arg

Sets sending of a start- and a stop message.

Database

--db-driver-list

List all supported database drivers.

-d, --database arg

The database connection string, format: service://user:pwd@host/database. "service" is the name of the database driver which can be queried with "--db-driver-list".

--config-module arg

The configmodule to use.

--inventory-db arg

Load the inventory database from a given XML file.

--db-disable

Do not use the database at all

Records

--record-driver-list

List all supported record stream drivers

-I, --record-url arg

The recordstream source URL, format: [service://]location[#type]. "service" is the name of the recordstream driver which can be queried with "--record-driver-list". If "service" is not given "file://" is used.

--record-file arg

Specify a file as record source.

--record-type arg

Specify a type for the records being read.