SAC Tutorial for Beginners

Tutorial One

• What is SAC?
• Using SAC
• A Simple Example
• Abbreviations
• More Functions

Tutorial Two

• Writing Data Files
• Reading Data Files

Tutorial Three

• Requesting Seismic Data
• Retrieving Seismic Data
• Unpacking Seismic Data
• The SAC Header

Tutorial Four

• Time-Domain vs. Frequency Domain
• Frequency Analysis in SAC
• Filtering

Tutorial Five

• Identifying Seismic Waves
• P and S Waves
• Picking Arrival Times

Tutorial Six

• Earthquake Source Properties
• Source Duration

Tutorial Seven

• Convolution
• Cross-Correlation

Tutorial Eight

• Digital Data and Sampling Rate
• Frequency Content of Earthquakes
• Frequency Content of Noise
• Filtering Out the Noise

Tutorial Nine

• OhioSeis Seismic Data and the Mantle Transition Zone
• Forward Modeling and Synethetic Seismograms

Tutorial Summary

• SAC Command Summary

brudzimr@muohio.edu, 11th June 2008

This tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons License.