SKATE: A Web‐Based Seismogram Digitization Tool

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Research Article| August 08, 2018 SKATE: A Web‐Based Seismogram Digitization Tool Andrew H. Bartlett; Andrew H. Bartlett aRetriever Technology, 1600 Lena Street, STE D1, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Benjamin A. Lichtner; Benjamin A. Lichtner aRetriever Technology, 1600 Lena Street, STE D1, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Marius Nita; Marius Nita aRetriever Technology, 1600 Lena Street, STE D1, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Benamy Yashar; Benamy Yashar aRetriever Technology, 1600 Lena Street, STE D1, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Lowell E. Bartlett Lowell E. Bartlett aRetriever Technology, 1600 Lena Street, STE D1, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Seismological Research Letters (2018) 89 (5): 1886–1893. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180006 Article history first online: 08 Aug 2018 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew H. Bartlett, Benjamin A. Lichtner, Marius Nita, Benamy Yashar, Lowell E. Bartlett; SKATE: A Web‐Based Seismogram Digitization Tool. Seismological Research Letters 2018;; 89 (5): 1886–1893. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180006 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search ABSTRACT Vast stores of paper‐ and film‐based seismograms require novel solutions to extract their unique seismological data. We created a prototype software tool called SKATE (Software Kit for Automatic Trace Extraction) that is designed for high‐speed, low‐cost digitization of these archives. SKATE is a web‐based program that requires a user only to navigate to a website (see Data and Resources) to begin digitizing seismogram images. The software is free, is server based, requires no software downloads, is open source, and has digitized up to the point of editing more than 30,000 World‐Wide Standard Seismographic Network (WWSSN) images. It is based on a set of image‐processing algorithms that identify real seismogram features while rejecting spurious noise and which attempts to assign these features to their proper place in a time series. Users can edit the results and download the data for further processing. The code is publicly available and is readily modifiable by qualified researchers. You do not currently have access to this article.