Overview

The International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (FDSN) defines miniSEED as a format for digital data and related information. The primary intended uses are data collection, archiving and exchange of seismological data. The format is also appropriate for time series data from other geophysical measurements such as pressure, temperature, tilt, etc. In addition to the time series, storage of related state-of-health and parameters documenting the state of the recording system are supported. The FDSN metadata counterpart of miniSEED is StationXML which is used to describe characteristics needed to interpret the data such as location, instrument response, etc.

Note

This specification defines version 3 of miniSEED. See Background for information on earlier versions.

• Overview
• Record definition
  • Record layout and fields
  • Description of record fields
• Data Encodings
  • Retroactive future encodings
  • Retired encoding values, not allowed in this specification
• Extra Headers
  • Validation
  • FDSN Reserved Headers
  • Guidelines for Extension
• FDSN Reserved Headers
• Background
  • Changes relative to 2.4
• Appendix
  • A: Extra header examples
  • B: Reference data
  • C: Mapping from miniSEED 2.4
• Software
  • Validation
  • mseedconvert
  • libmseed
• Changes
  • 2021
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