USArray Quality Assurance: Enhancing Data Integrity and Accuracy
Learn how USArray ensures high-quality seismic data, identifies issues, and provides solutions for consistent data quality. Automated metrics, synthetics, and reporting processes enhance network performance. Visit the link for station information and QA details.
USArray Quality Assurance: Enhancing Data Integrity and Accuracy
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USArray Quality Assurance Mary Templeton IRIS Data Management Center
USArray • National Science Foundation Initiative: • Transportable Array (400 broadband stations)
USArray • Reference Network (116 broadband stations)
USArray • Flexible Array (2400-instrument pool for short-term targeted experiments)
USArray Data • Transportable Array and Reference Network data receive QA:
USArray Quality Assurance • Report problems that can be fixed • Document problems that cannot be fixed • Provide information so that others can characterize data quality
USArray Quality Assurance • Spotting problems: • Automated Metrics • Synthetics: events and earth tides • Three analysts review: • waveforms • metadata • metrics & synthetics
Automated Metrics • QUACK • Power Spectral Density (PSD) tools • hardware problems • instrument response issues • noise characterization
Automated Metrics • Station Ranking (PSD weekly modes) • pinpoints anomalous stations
Synthetics 2011/10/28 Central Peru, Mw=6.9 Earth tides • hardware problems • instrument response issues • phase, orientation errors
USArray Quality Assurance • Reporting: • Reports and emails to network operators • Data Problem Reports • Performance Metrics • Station histories
Data Quality Reporting data problem report station histories, and other QA info http://crunch.iris.washington.edu/stationinfo/_US-TA-StationList.shtml