Catalyst documentation

This is the documentation for the Catalyst package in version 2026.286#5b7c125 for the evaluation and refinement of event-parametric catalogues in SeisComP.

About

• Introduction
  • Concept
  • Applications
• Glossary
  • SeisComP terms
  • Scientific and technical terms
    • Distance terms
• References

• Change Log

Methodology

• Nucleation
  • DBSCAN
    • Choosing the parameters from trusted events
  • Back projection
    • EDT stacking
  • GaMMA-lite
  • Grid search (scautoloc)
  • 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
  • Conditions and rules
    • Actions
  • Rule sets
  • QC zones

Interactive Analysis

• The main window
  • Toolbar
    • Profile
    • Database
  • File menu
  • Selecting origins
• 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
    • Slow/Baz
    • Baz/time
  • Origins panel
  • Active origin panel
    • Baz residual
    • 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
  • 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
    • Database bar
  • Rule formats
    • qcProfiles
    • preferRules
    • pickPrefRules
  • Not stored in profiles
• catalyst
  • Description
  • Module Configuration
  • Command-Line Options
    • Generic
    • Verbosity
    • Messaging
    • Database
    • Input

Generic SeisComP Parameters

• Global parameters
  • Station meta data
  • Modules
  • Bindings
  • Extensions
  • Module Configuration
  • Bindings Parameters
  • Command-Line Options
    • Generic
    • Verbose
    • Messaging
    • Database
    • Records
    • Cities
    • User interface