1. SEG Technical Standards Committee Meeting
SEG Annual Meeting - San Antonio
Tuesday Sept 20, 2011

2. Overview TSC meetings in San Antonio
1:00-1:30 SPS/P1 coordination meeting (James Musser, Saudi Aramco)
2:00-3:00 Open public Technical Standards Meeting
3:00-4:00 EM subcommittee meeting (Friedrich Roth, EMGS)
4:00-5:00 Seismic field storage medium recommendation workgroup meeting (Nils Aatland, Fugro)
4:00-4:30 IBM Presentation (Jim Karp, Senior Development Engineer, IBM Data Protection and Retention)
4:30-5:00 Oracle Presentation (Robert Raymond, Senior Manager, Oracle Tape Engineering)
Anyone with an interest in the topics of the separate group meetings are invited to attend.

3. Agenda New TSC online collaboration site
SEG-D Rev 3.0, May 2011 version and coming measurement update
New P1/11 and P2/11
SEG-Y update
Launch of workgroup for storage format recommendations
Report from sub-committees and workgroups
SPS 3.0 status
Seismic field storage medium recommendations
EM data standard
AOB

4. Technical Standards Committee 2011-2012
Chair – Rune Hagelund
Vice-chair – Stewart Levin

5. Important web addresses
Technical standards
Technical Standards Committee online collaboration site

6. SEG Online Collaboration Site
New site for exchange of information from the TSC
Announcements
Document exchange
TSC forum
Wiki page
RSS and subscription options available

7. Discontinue use of Troika ftp/mail-lists
The Troika ftp site and mail lists are discontinued as of May 2011
All messages to and from the TSC will go through the new site.
User account at required
Non-SEG members can create one
Notification published in The Leading Edge June 2011
To continue to receive info from TSC regarding standards development etc. you must subscribe to forums and announcements at the community site

8. SEG-D Rev 3.0, May 2011 SEG Denver 2010 – update needed
Meeting held in Oslo Jan 2011
Draft published Mar 2011
No modification of the binary format
Clarifications and ”bug fixes”
Release letter included

9. Important clarifications
Use of Extended Recording mode
Non-continuous acquisition, length of traces, new example E11, etc.
CRS definition, use of multiple stanzas
Source definition block structure, associating positions etc. with source.
Usage of SEG-D when “millivolt” samples are undefined
Extended channel type and physical unit list.

10. Upcoming SEG-D update Energistics UoM available SI Units only!
Measurement block completed
Quantity Class (length, time, pressure, …)
Unit of Measure (m, s, Pa)
Measurement Description (equipment width, uphole time, equipment pressure)
See

11. P1/P2 update New specification of Coordinate Reference Systems
Improved position specification
Position quality information
Will likely affect SEG-D, SEG-Y.
Update required?
How and when to be discussed

12. SEG-Y Update SEG-Y 2.0? SEG-XML? SEG-D Rev 3.0 functionality
P1/12 functionality
Other issues
Need to launch sub-committee asap
Volunteers needed

13. Sub-committees and workgroups

14. Seismic storage format recommendations
Launch of workgroup
Headed by Jill Lewis

15. SPS 3.0
Report from sub-committee

16. “Seismic field storage medium recommendations” workgroup
Report from workgroup

17. EM sub-committee
Report from sub-committee

18. AOB?

19. Thank you for attending!