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# Pyrocko I/O Modules

Input and output of seismic traces.

This module provides a simple unified interface to load and save traces to a few different file formats. The data model used for the pyrocko.trace.Trace objects in Pyrocko is most closely matched by the Mini-SEED file format. However, a difference is, that Mini-SEED limits the length of the network, station, location, and channel codes to 2, 5, 2, and 3 characters, respectively.

Seismic Waveform IO

format	format identifier	load	save	note
Mini-SEED	mseed	yes	yes
SAC	sac	yes	yes	[1]
SEG Y rev1	segy	some
SEISAN	seisan, seisan.l, seisan.b	yes		[2]
KAN	kan	yes		[3]
YAFF	yaff	yes	yes	[4]
ASCII Table	text		yes	[5]
GSE1	gse1	some
GSE2	gse2	some
DATACUBE	datacube	yes
SUDS	suds	some
CSS	css	yes

Metadata IO

• pyrocko.io.quakeml parses QuakeML (https://quake.ethz.ch/quakeml/) into a pyrocko data model.
• pyrocko.io.stationxml represents a FDSN stationXML model.

Notes

[1]	For SAC files, the endianness is guessed. Additional header information is stored in the Trace’s meta attribute.

[2]	Seisan waveform files can be in little (seisan.l) or big endian (seisan.b) format. seisan currently is an alias for seisan.l.

[3]	The KAN file format has only been seen once by the author, and support for it may be removed again.

[4]	YAFF is an in-house, experimental file format, which should not be released into the wild.

[5]	ASCII tables with two columns (time and amplitude) are output - meta information will be lost.

load(filename, format='mseed', getdata=True, substitutions=None)

Load traces from file.

Parameters:

• format – format of the file ('detect', 'from_extension', 'mseed', 'sac', 'segy', 'seisan', 'seisan.l', 'seisan.b', 'kan', 'yaff', 'gse1', 'gse2', 'gcf', 'datacube', 'suds', 'css')
• getdata – if True (the default), read data, otherwise only read traces metadata
• substitutions – dict with substitutions to be applied to the traces metadata

Returns:

list of loaded traces

When format is set to 'detect', the file type is guessed from the first 512 bytes of the file. Only Mini-SEED, SAC, GSE1, and YAFF format are detected. When format is set to 'from_extension', the filename extension is used to decide what format should be assumed. The filename extensions considered are (matching is case insensitive): '.sac', '.kan', '.sgy', '.segy', '.yaff', everything else is assumed to be in Mini-SEED format.

This function calls iload() and aggregates the loaded traces in a list.

iload(filename, format='mseed', getdata=True, substitutions=None)

Load traces from file (iterator version).

This function works like load(), but returns an iterator which yields the loaded traces.

save(traces, filename_template, format='mseed', additional={}, stations=None, overwrite=True, **kwargs)

Save traces to file(s).

Parameters:

• traces – a trace or an iterable of traces to store
• filename_template – filename template with placeholders for trace metadata. Uses normal python ‘%(placeholder)s’ string templates. The following placeholders are considered: network, station, location, channel, tmin (time of first sample), tmax (time of last sample), tmin_ms, tmax_ms, tmin_us, tmax_us. The versions with ‘_ms’ include milliseconds, the versions with ‘_us’ include microseconds.
• format – 'mseed', 'sac', 'text', 'yaff', 'gse2'
• additional – dict with custom template placeholder fillins.
• overwrite' – if False, raise an exception if file exists

Returns:

list of generated filenames

Note

Network, station, location, and channel codes may be silently truncated to file format specific maximum lengthes.

exception UnknownFormat(filename)

exception UnsupportedFormat(format)

Available IO Modules

pyrocko.io.io_common
pyrocko.io.css
pyrocko.io.datacube
pyrocko.io.enhanced_sacpz
pyrocko.io.gcf
pyrocko.io.gse1
pyrocko.io.gse2
pyrocko.io.ims	Module to read and write GSE2.0, GSE2.1, and IMS1.0 files.
pyrocko.io.kan
pyrocko.io.mseed
pyrocko.io.quakeml	QuakeML 1.2 input, output, and data model.
pyrocko.io.rdseed
pyrocko.io.resp
pyrocko.io.sac	SAC IO library for Python
pyrocko.io.segy
pyrocko.io.seisan_response
pyrocko.io.seisan_waveform
pyrocko.io.stationxml
pyrocko.io.suds
pyrocko.io.yaff	File IO module for SICK traces format.