'PTTC—'reproducible' open source software in geophysics

摘要

Seminal workshop hears from Fusion, BP, Austin University, Z-Terra, Weinman, Stanford. The Petroleum Technology Transfer Council held a workshop1 in Houston last month to promote 'reproducible' geophysical computing with open software. Reproducible research is a new concept for communicating geoscience technology, both in the public domain and inside individual organizations. It was first proposed by Jon Claerbout in 1992 who observed that 'electronic documents give reproducible research a new meaning.' Computational experiments with geophysical data are captured in the form of transferable 'recipes' which can be shared and modified by users. The recipes are embedded in publications, typically 'live' hyperlinked documents. The main vector for reproducible geophysical computing are Clarebout's Stanford Exploration Project (SEPlib) and Madagascar, but the PTTC meet was a venue for other open source geophysical software including Seismic Unix (SU), FreeUSP, DDS, JavaSeis, JTK, Pseis, OpendTect, CPseis and Madagascar.