Michaels Engineering Geophysics
Dr. Paul Michaels, PE
Boise, Idaho
Open Source Tools for Engineering Geophysics
Email Contact for Consulting: pmsolidx@gmail.com
Email Contact for Academics: paulmichaels@boisestate.edu
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What's New (July 2024)
- BSU-3.0.3 Basic Seismic Utilities
- Debian-12 (Packages *.deb and source tarball)
- Fedora-38 (Packages *.rpm and source tarball)
- Windows 10. (MingW Cross-compiled statics, ZIP archive of *.exe)
- Debian-12 LIVE Mate Desktop live ISO image with BSU-3.0.3 installed
- Running BSU Documentation updated with new programs.
- Wrappers updated for building octave modules
- HVSR code added
- LAMB code updated with oversampling.
- BTDC code switchd from minimum phase to zerophase anti-alias
- Wave field inversion code prototype for Rayleigh Waves
- Updated MAN pages
Historical Changes . . .
What's New (October 2020)
- BSU-3.0.2 Basic Seismic Utilities
- Debian-10
- Ubuntu-20
- CentOS-7 (best CentOS), CentOS-8 (some plplot issues)
- Windows 8.1 (MingW Cross-compiled statics)
- Chrome Book (Developer mode, Ubuntu trusty)
- Mac Book Pro
- Arch Linux
- Slackware
- Debian-10 Buster live ISO image with BSU installed
What's New (April 2019)
- Build an Arduino-Mayhew Seismic Recorder Plans and Software
What's New (May 2018)
- Download Data: SEGY Data Archive Server and Search Engine
- Download Software: Geophysical Engineering Software New version BSU-3.0.1
New or Debugged Code BSU-3.0.1
- Added Bison Floating Point (2.5word) bis2seg.c
- Fortran 90 versions of PLPLOT codes, compile options for plplot versions
- Gnuplot alternative compile option if PLPLOT not available
- Cygwin replaced with MingW32 for Microsoft (*.exe files)
- ba2s.c revised, converts ASCII file to BSEGY binary
- seg2csv.c new, converts BSEGY to CSV file for spread sheets
- tplt.c new, quick plot of a single trace in a file, Gnuplot
- qplt.c new, quick plot of all traces, Gnuplot
- seg2txt.f converts BSEGY to ASCII text, time in row order
- Support for both Gnuplot 4.x and 5.x (variable area issue)
- Support for both plplot5.9.9-5 or older (old) and plplot 5.10.0 or newer (new)
- Support for kernels 2.6.32 through 4.9.37 (both 32 and 64 bit)
Testing on Different Operating Systems
- Debian 7, 8, and 9
- Apple OSX (Macbook Pro, Sierra, Darwin kernel 16.1.0 64bit)
- Windows 8.1 (run from power shell is best)
- Xubuntu 16.4
- Mint 17.3
- Mint 18.4
- Slackware
- Arch Linux
- CENT OS 6 and 7
- OpenSuse (some remaining issues, like bplt freezing your system)
- Chrome Book, kernel 3.8.11.armv71 64 bit
- Replaced Scilab with Octave or Matlab
Packages (source and binary)
- Debian 9 Stretch (APT) *.dsc and *.deb
bsu_3.0.1-1_amd64.deb
bsu_3.0.1-1+plplot_amd64.deb
bsu_3.0.1-1+static_amd64.deb
- Redhat (RPM) *.rpms *.rpm
bsu-3.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm
bsu-3.0.1+plplot-1.x86_64.rpm
bsu-3.0.1+plplotold-1.x86_64.rpm
- Windows 8.1 (not a wizard, static cross compiled on Linux MingW32 tool chain)
Last Revised 12 December 2024