Open-File Report 2009-1055
Testing and specification of seismic and earthquake-engineering sensors and recorders has been marked by significant variations in procedures and selected parameters. These variations cause difficulty in comparing such specifications and test results. In July 1989, and again in May 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey hosted international pub-lic/private workshops with the goal of defining widely accepted guidelines for the testing of seismological inertial sensors, seismometers, and accelerometers. This document reports the Proceedings of the 2005 workshop and includes as Appendix 6 the report of the 1989 workshop. In a future document, we will attempt to collate and rationalize a single set of formal guidelines for testing and specifying seismic sensors, supplementing Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) guidelines on instrumentation likely used by ANSS as its standard for verification, acceptance, and intermittent testing, as well as for responses to ANSS instrument requisitions. |
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Hutt, C.R., Nigbor, R.L., and Evans, J.R., eds., 2009, Proceedings of the guidelines for seismometer testing workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 9–10 May 2005 (“GST2”): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009–1055, 48 p.
Preface
Workshop Purpose and Objectives
Working Group Reports
Summary
Recommendations
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Appendix B: List of Participants
Appendix C: Working Group I Report
Appendix D: Working Group II Report
Appendix E: Working Group III Report
Appendix F: Working Group IV Report
Appendix G: Progress Report from 1989 Working Group (GST1)
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