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Data Quality Assurance at the IRIS DMC: Expanding and Improving the MUSTANG System
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  • Gillian Sharer,
  • Mary Templeton,
  • Laura Keyson,
  • Jerry Carter
Gillian Sharer
IRIS

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Mary Templeton
IRIS
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Laura Keyson
IRIS
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Jerry Carter
IRIS
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Abstract

The IRIS Data Management Center (DMC) maintains a large assemblage of pre-computed and dynamically generated quality assurance metrics for seismic data by means of its MUSTANG system. Freely accessible through web services at http://service.iris.edu/mustang, this collection of measurements includes basic statistics, data latency, data availability, miniSEED flag counts, Power Spectral Densities (PSD), Probability Density Functions (PDF), and more. The metrics produced are suitable for a wide range of uses such as data selection for research projects, identification of data and metadata problems, assessment of station health and upgrades, and characterization of environmental noise, among others. Currently, MUSTANG measurements for seismic channels span our entire primary data repository from the year 1972 to the present. We are expanding MUSTANG’s utility to the broader geosciences community by calculating measurements on our active source, PH5 data repository and by working towards including other types of data such as infrasound. We will also present improvements to metric visualization and quality assessment tools like the MUSTANG Databrowser (basic metric plots and boxplots), MUSTANGular (map-based metric plots), and ISPAQ (a stand-alone Python utility for calculating metrics for miniSEED data stored locally or at any FDSN data center).