[ANSS-netops] Inventory & Responses: New SIS (Station Info System)

[Philip Crotwell]

South Carolina is using SIS, and have all of our metadata and inventory in
it. Full disclosure, I am on the SIS TIC and so have been involved in
advisory role. It works quite well I think, and the developers are very
responsive. The hardest part, as with any system like this, is the initial
population. After that, SIS allows you to do what you need to do to track
inventory and build dataless and stationxml with a minimum of pain.

I would be happy to answer any specific questions, but my overall opinion
is that at this point in time not using SIS is way more painful. I think
you will find SIS a huge improvement over Inv.

Let me know if you have questions.
Philip



On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Meremonte, Mark <mmeremonte at usbr.gov> wrote:

> May I ask regional networks if any are set up and using the SIS (
> http://maui.gps.caltech.edu/SIStrac/wiki/SIS) system and, if so, your
> experience and comments?
>
> When I was at USGS-Golden we used the ANSS_Inv system to keep track of
> station instrumentation trees and epochs.  Then from the epochs we
> generated the response SEED volumes that went to IRIS-DMC.   I do not know
> if regional networks ever used this package but it functioned quite well
> supporting the IRIS Nominal Response Library even though a bit non-user
> friendly.  However, I understand it is giving way to SIS based & managed at
> CalTech with a browser interface it appears.
>
> Reason I inquire is due to fact that at my current post there is no
> inventory to keep track of station instrumentation trees/epochs or other
> equipment and, thereby, facilitate the generation of accurate response
> files.  Thus, I am deciding whether to install the soon to be unsupported
> ANSS_Inv or participate in SIS which requires mandatory data availability
> to ANSS and/or IRIS.
>
> Thank You,
> Mark
> --
> *********************************************************
> Mark Meremonte         Geophysicist
> U.S. Bureau of Reclamation:  Seismology, Geomorphology, and Geophysics
> Group
> Denver Federal Center            Work: 303-445-3298  Cell: 303-808-3894
> POBox 25007, 85-833000      Email: mmeremonte at usbr.gov
> Denver, CO  80225                  Web: http://www.usbr.gov
> Ship:  U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, DFC, Bldg. 67-10th Floor, Denver, CO
> 80225
> **********************************************************
>
> _______________________________________________
> ANSS-netops mailing list
> ANSS-netops at geohazards.usgs.gov
> https://geohazards.usgs.gov/mailman/listinfo/anss-netops
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://geohazards.usgs.gov/pipermail/anss-netops/attachments/20150409/3599369c/attachment.html>