Pushing the Limits on Interpretation

How users are customizing their SeisWare workflows

Where software meets creativity

If you’re like me, once you master an application, you can start to get creative. You can start to push the boundaries of what is possible. Sometimes this results in new workflows, new efficiencies, or even writing your own applications to work within your data…Ok I never wrote my own applications, but I have found plenty of existing code and plugins to augment my own workflows.

Removing traditional barriers

Enter SeisWare. We have a lot of long-time and code-savvy users that develop new workflows that work with our software. Because these tend to be developed independently, we don’t often find out about them until they have been fully developed. We’re always impressed by our users’ creativity!

To make it easier for our software users to implement their own coded workflows and open up more possibilities with their data, we offer the Software Development Kit, or SDK. It’s perfect for anyone who has a script or code that they want to run to help them further analyze their data. It allows users to access data from their SeisWare projects and write data back into their projects, removing any barriers imposed by software functionality. In other words, if you build it, you can implement it.

Common uses of the SDK

The SDK is most commonly used to import data from other software packages instead of going through a more tedious and manual import/export process. More creative uses include creating fault throw graphs from fault polygons and grids, running a clustering analysis on log curve data, and creating grids from colored raster images.

Check out this video on writing a custom Python script to analyze fault properties.

Working with the SDK

The SDK requires a license and application installation on a laptop or workstation. SeisWare provides documentation to guide your installation and setup and example code for how to connect, fetch, update, and write data to and from your projects.

With the SDK, the possibilities are endless. You can analyze, QC, and create new data You can link your data to other applications to expand your interpretation capabilities. It’s exciting to think of all doors that the SDK can open up for today’s geoscience techs and interpreters.

Have you implemented a custom workflow? We’d love to hear about it! Reach out to us and share your accomplishments.