Catalyst documentation

This is the documentation for the Catalyst package in version 2026.303#c164295 for the evaluation and refinement of event-parametric catalogues in SeisComP.

About

• Introduction
  • Concept
  • Applications
• The main window
  • Toolbar
    • Profile
    • Database
  • File menu
  • Selecting origins
• Glossary
• References

• Change Log

Methodology

• Nucleation
  • DBSCAN
    • Choosing the parameters from trusted events
  • Back projection
    • EDT stacking
  • GaMMA-lite
  • Grid search (scautoloc approach)
  • EDT location
  • Choosing a method
• Pick aggregation and filtering
  • How picks are grouped
  • Modes
    • Generate virtual pick
    • Keep preferred pick
  • Pick filters
    • Histogram bins
    • Isolated picks
    • Infrasound trace velocity
• Analyst rules and Smart-locate
  • Part 1 — Analyst rules
    • What the analyst reads off the plot
    • Rules
    • Summary
  • Part 2 — Smart-locate
    • Step 0 — origins that cannot be solved
    • Step 1 — clean-up
    • Step 2 — measuring the band
    • Step 3 — choosing the rule
    • Step 4 — relocation with recovery
    • Step 5 — refine loop
    • Step 6 — minimum number of phases
    • Settings that affect Smart-locate
• Quality control
  • Quality metrics
    • Score
    • Spectra
    • Infrasound
  • Conditions and rules
    • Actions
  • Rule sets
  • QC zones

Interactive Analysis

• Tutorial: a week of Alaska picks
  • Step 1: Load the picks
  • Step 2: Nucleate seeds with DBSCAN
  • Step 3: Locate the seeds
  • Step 4: Look at the result
  • Step 5: Remove the bad outliers with QC
  • Step 6: Merge duplicate origins
  • Step 7: Calculate the spectra
  • Step 8: Review the large origins
  • Step 9: Send the result
  • What you did
• Typical workflow
  • Load the data
  • Find the events
  • Locate the events
  • Review single origins
  • Check the quality
  • Send or save the results
• Refining origins
  • Relocate tab
    • Relocation
    • Association
    • Merging
  • DD tab: double-difference relocation
  • Swarm tab: recovering further events
    • Template match
    • Swarm consensus
    • Match Slow/Baz
    • Fingerprint match
  • Origin table actions
• Maps and plots
  • Map panel
    • Map
    • Hexmap
    • 3D
  • Picks panel
    • Pick map
    • Slow/Baz
    • Baz/time
  • Origins panel
    • Events and origins
    • Wadati
  • Active origin panel
    • Baz residual
    • Infrasound
    • Spectra
    • Move-out
    • Travel-time

Installation and Setup

• Installation and Update
  • Installation
  • System dependencies
  • Optional components
  • Package update
• Setup and configuration
  • Starting Catalyst
  • Plugins
  • Processing limits
  • Over-detecting stations
  • 3D view
  • Travel-time models
  • Processing profiles
  • Window layout
• Processing profiles
  • Declare profiles in catalyst.cfg
  • Profiles shipped with Catalyst
  • Other module settings
  • The .profile files
  • Using profiles in the GUI
  • Settings keys
    • Nucleation
    • Pick aggregation and filters
    • Relocation, association and merging
    • QC, references and display
    • Spectra tab
    • Infrasound tab
    • Database bar
  • Rule formats
    • qc.ruleSets
    • merge.preferRules
    • picks.aggregation.preferRules
  • Not stored in profiles
  • Converting old profiles
• catalyst
  • Description
  • Module Configuration
  • Command-Line Options
    • Generic
    • Verbosity
    • Messaging
    • Database
    • Input