New workgroup on seismic field storage medium recommendations

Technical Standards Committee invites participation in workgroup on seismic field storage medium recommendations

Since the removal of tape device recommendation from the SEG-D standard for copyright reasons, the industry has been requesting some guidance on what storage media are suited for seismic survey field usage. The TSC is therefore forming a workgroup with this focus.

The workgroup will evaluate traditional storage such as various tape storage devices, but will also look into the usage of other storage options such as disk, flash drives and memory sticks. The result of the work will be a document describing the recommended usage of the various storage options with respect to their suitability as primary data storage, long term storage or transient/short term storage. The recommendations from the workgroup will be published on the TSC pages at www.seg.org.

People and organizations wishing to participate in this effort, either by providing input to the workgroup or by active workgroup participation, are kindly requested to contact the TSC chair Rune Hagelund (rune.hagelund@roxar.com), or the leader of the workgroup Nils Aatland (n.s.aatland@fugro.no). Regular status updates on the workgroup's work will be available at www.seg.org.