Scripts for working with (EIDA) FDSN web services.
The fdsnws_scripts is a collection of next-generation distributed data request tools that are based on FDSN [http://www.fdsn.org/webservices web services] and the EIDA [http://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/eida/eidaws/routing routing service].
You may use these tools to request
- seismic waveform data, as mini-SEED, using the fdsnws-dataselect web service,
- seismic metadata, as FDSN Station XML, using the fdsnws-station web service.
More information about FDSN web services is available at GEOFON [http://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/waveform/webservices.php] and of course from FDSN, at http://www.fdsn.org/webservices/ .
There are three tools here:
- fdsnws_fetch can request waveform data or metadata, from multiple data centres (access points) with a single command. It does this using the EIDA routing service to discover which data centre(s) holds the data requested.
- fdsnws2sds supports requests for larger amounts of data, saving it in an SDS tree-like file system structure. (The SeisComP Data Structure is defined [http://www.seiscomp3.org/doc/jakarta/current/apps/slarchive.html here] and [https://www.seiscomp3.org/wiki/doc/applications/slarchive/SDS here].)
- fdsnws2seed provides full SEED and dataless SEED using EIDA FDSN web services. Modern applications should use [http://www.fdsn.org/xml/station/ FDSN StationXML] instead of SEED.