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Technical Standards

The following SEG standards are provide in an online, downloadable form as a convenience to the geophysical industry. Many of the earlier standards have been converted to Microsoft Word 7.0 format from the originally published form. Significant care has been taken to accurately convert the documents. If differences are found between the original publications and the online versions or if problems are encountered with the documents, please notify the Chairman of the SEG Technical Standards Committee. In case of differences, the original publications are the authority.

The MS Word documents are provided as read-only documents. When the documents are opened, select the Read Only button on the Password dialog that is displayed by Word.

All standards can be downloaded at once in this ZIP file.

Related Link: UKOOA Standards

MS Word PDF	Digital recorders	1988	Digital recorders	Badger, A. S., 1988, Special report on Digital Seismic Recorder specification standards by SEG Subcommittee on digital seismic recorder specifications: Geophysics, 53, no. 03, 415-416.
MS Word PDF	Marine energy sources	1988	Marine energy sources	Johnston, R. C., Reed, D. H. and Desler, J. F., 1988, Special report on marine seismic energy source standards : Geophysics, 53, no. 04, 566-575. ( Errata in GEO-53-7-1011)
MS Word PDF	Marine streamers	1987	Marine streamers	Reed, D. H., Selsam, R. L. and Knox, A. E., 1987, Special report on SEG standards for marine seismic hydrophones and streamer cables : Geophysics, 52, no. 02, 242-248. ( Errata in GEO-52-5-0720)
MS Word PDF	Ancillary Data Exchange	1999	SEG ADS	Faichney, Norris, Hiscox, Hovde, Bingham, Stigant, Racer, Reynolds, Hares, 2001, SEG-UKOOA Ancillary Data Standard - Metafile Format Description: Geophysics, 66, no. 06, 1961-1998.
Executable	Ancillary Data Exchange	1999	SEG ADS reading sample	Approved by the SEG Executive Committee, scheduled for publication in Geophysics. Michael Hares, Sample Code to read an SEG ADS Dataset, 1999. This is a self extracting archive containing C source code.
MS Word PDF	Ancillary Data Exchange	1999	SEG ADS Trace Attribute	Norris, Hares, Faichney, 2001, SEG-UKOOA Ancillary Data Standard - ADS Trace Attributes: Geophysics, 66, no. 06, 1999-2039.
MS Word PDF	Ancillary Data Exchange	1999	SEG ADS Trace Edit	Norris, Hares, Faichney, 2001, SEG-UKOOA Ancillary Data Standard - ADS Trace Edit: Geophysics, 66, no. 06, 2040-2054.
MS Word PDF	Polarity	1975	SEG Polarity 1975	Thigpen, Ben B., Dalby, A. E. and Landrum, Ralph, 1975, Report on Subcommittee on Polarity Standards : Geophysics, 40, no. 04, 694-699. ( Discussion in GEO-41-02-0324-0324; Reply in GEO-41-02-0324-0324)
MS Word PDF	Polarity	1993	SEG Polarity 1993	Landrum, R. A., Brook, R. A. and Sallas, J. J., 1994, Polarity convention for vibratory source and recording systems (special report): Geophysics, 59, no. 02, 315-322.
MS Word PDF	Data Archival	1996	SEG Rode	Booth, Algan, Duke, Guyton, Norris, Stainsby, Theriot, Wildgoose and Wilhelmsen, SEG Rode Format Record Oriented Data Encapsulation: Geophysics, 61, no. 05, 1545-1558.
MS Word PDF	Data Archival	1997	SEG Rode	Updated version of RODE format with amended SEG Y example. This document is an updated version of Booth, Algan, Duke, Guyton, Norris, Stainsby, Theriot, Wildgoose and Wilhelmsen, SEG Rode Format Record Oriented Data Encapsulation: Geophysics, 61, no. 05, 1545-1558.
MS Word PDF	Ancillary Data Exchange	1995	SEG SPS	SEG Technical Standards Committee on Ancilliary Data Formats, Shell Processing Support Format For Land 3-D Surveys, Geophysics, 60, no.2, 596-610
MS Word PDF	Ancillary Data Exchange	2006	SEG SPS rev 2.1	SEG Technical Standards Committee on Ancillary Data Formats, Shell Processing Support Format for Land 3-D Surveys.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	1990	SEG-2	Pullan, S. E., 1990, Recommended standard for seismic (/radar) files in the personal computer environment: Geophysics, 55, no. 09, 1260-1271.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	1967	SEG-A SEG-B SEG-EX	Northwood, E. J., Weisinger, R. C. and Bradley, J. J., 1967, Recommended standards for digital tape formats: Geophysics, 32, no. 06, 1073-1084.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	1972	SEG-C	Meiners, E. P., Lenz, L. L., Dalby, A. E. and Hornsby, J. M., 1972, Recommended standards for digital tape formats: Geophysics, 37, no. 01, 36-44.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	1975	SEG-D	Barry, K. M., Cavers, D. A. and Kneale, C. W., 1975, Report on recommended standards for digital tape formats: Geophysics, 40, no. 02, 344-352.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	1994	SEG-D rev 1	SEG Comm. Field Tape Std., 1994, Digital field tape standards - SEG-D, revision 1 (special report): Geophysics, 59, no. 04, 668-684.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	1997	SEG-D rev 2	Wood, Behn, Borresen, Guyton, Miles, O?Neill, Oishi and Scales, SEG-D, Rev 2 SEG Field Tape Standards, Geophysics, 62, no. 03, 1004-1031.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	2006	SEG-D rev 2.1	Lewis, Firth, Aatland, Hagelund, Svenkerud, Hamon, Lansley, Stott, Al-Ghambi, Richard, and Hubbell, SEG-D, Rev 2.1 SEG Field Tape Standards.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	2009	SEG-D rev 3.0	SEG Technical Standards Committee; SEG-D Rev. 3.0 subcommittee
MS Word PDF	Positioning	1983	SEG-P1 SEG-P2 SEG-P3	Morgan, J. G., Spradley, L. H., Worthington, G. A. and McClelland, I. J., 1983, Special report on SEG standard exchange formats for positional data: Geophysics, 48, no. 04, 488-490.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	1975	SEG-Y	Barry, K. M., Cavers, D. A. and Kneale, C. W., 1975, Report on recommended standards for digital tape formats: Geophysics, 40, no. 02, 344-352.
MS Word PDF	Data Recording	2002	SEG-Y rev 1	The SEG Y Data Exchange Format (rev 0) was published in 1975, and has achieved widespread usage. However, since 1975, the nature of seismic data acquisition, processing, and seismic hardware has changed significantly. SEG Y rev 1 addresses these changes and updates the format for modern usage.
MS Word PDF	E&M	1987	MT/EMAP	MT/EMAP Data Interchange Standard, Revision 1.0, Dec 1987, David E. Wight. This standard was never published in Geophysics.
MS Word PDF	Positioning	1990	UKOOA P1/90	U.K.O.O.A. P1/90 POST PLOT DATA EXCHANGE TAPE, 1990 format.
MS Word PDF	Positioning	1991	UKOOA P2/91	UKOOA P2/91 EXCHANGE FORMAT, FOR RAW MARINE POSITIONING DATA
MS Word PDF	Positioning	1994	UKOOA P2/94	P2/94 EXCHANGE FORMAT FOR RAW MARINE POSITIONING DATA
PDF (MS Word not available)	Positioning	1994	UKOOA P5/94	UKOOA DATA EXCHANGE FORMAT, P5/94, PIPELINE POSITION DATA
MS Word PDF	Units	1980	SEG SI Metric	Fred Hilterman, Franklyn Levin, Norman Neidell, Robert Sheriff, Lee Lenz, The SI Metric System of Units And SEG Tentative Metric Standard, 1980, This document was not published in Geophysics.

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