Wireline Sonic Waveform Data
ODP logging
contractor: LDEO-BRG
Hole: 858F
Leg: 139
Location: Middle Valley-Juan de Fuca Ridge (NE Pacific)
Latitude: 48° 27.369' N
Longitude: 128° 42.527' W
Logging date: August, 1991
Bottom felt: 2426.2 mbrf (used for depth shift to sea floor)
Total penetration: 296.9 mbsf
Total core recovered: 10.2 m (4 %)
TOOL USED: SDT (Sonic Digital Tool, also known as Array Sonic)
Recording mode: depth-derived, borehole compensated
Remarks about the recording. The sonic waveforms are not on depth with the other logs: they show an offset of about 26 m downward with respect to the base of the bottom hole assembly.
Acoustic data were recorded in LIS format. Each of the four waveforms consists of 504 samples and is recorded at a sampling rate of 0.1524 m. The original data in LIS format is first loaded on a Sun system using GeoFrame software. The waveform data files are then converted into ASCII and finally binary format.
Each row of the binary file is composed of the entire waveform set recorded at each depth, preceded by the depth. In the general case of 4 waveforms with 504 samples per waveform, this corresponds to 1 + 4x504 = 2017 columns. In this hole, the specifications of the files are:
Number of columns: 2017
Number of rows: 1639 (pass 1)
Number of rows: 1858 (pass 2)
All values are stored as ' IEEE floating point numbers' (= 4 bytes).
Any numerical software or programing language (matlab, python,...) can import the files for further analysis of the waveforms.
The following files were converted:
SDT from DIT/SDT/NGT (pass 1, bottom hole assembly at ~2482 mbrf)
858F-p1.bin: 2474.214-2723.8452 mbrf
SDT from DIT/SDT/NGT (pass 2, bottom hole assembly at ~2482 mbrf)
858F-p2.bin: 2435.352-2718.3588 mbrf
The sonic waveform files are not depth shifted to a reference run or to the seafloor. For depth shift to the sea floor, please refer to the DEPTH SHIFT section in the standard log documentation file. Also, please refer to the "Remarks about the recording" note above.
NOTE: For users interested in converting the data to a format more suitable for their own purpose, a simple routine to read the binary files would include a couple of basic steps (here in old fashioned fortran 77, but would be similar in matlab or other languages):
The first step is to extract the files dimensions and specification from the header, which is the first record in each file:
open (1, file = *.bin,access = 'direct', recl = 50) <-- NB:50 is enough to real all fields
read (1, rec = 1)nz, ns, nrec, ntool, mode, dz, scale, dt
close (1)
The various fields in the header are:
- number of depths
- number of samples per waveform and per receiver
- number of receivers
- tool number (0 = DSI; 1 = SonicVISION; 2 = SonicScope; 3 = Sonic Scanner; 4 = XBAT; 5 = MCS; 6 = SDT; 7 = LSS; 8 = SST; 9 = BHC; 10 = QL40; 11 = 2PSA)
- mode (1 = Lower Dipole, 2 = Upper Dipole, 3 = Stoneley, 4 = Monopole)
- vertical sampling interval *
- scaling factor for depth (1.0 = meters; 0.3048 = feet) *
- waveform sampling rate in microseconds *
All those values are stored as 4 bytes integers, except for the ones marked by an asterisk, stored as 4 bytes IEEE floating point numbers.
Then, if the number of depths, samples per waveform/receiver, and receivers are nz, ns, and nrec, respectively, a command to open the file would be:
open (1, file = *.bin, access = 'direct', recl = 4*(1 + nrec*ns))
Finally, a generic loop to read the data and store them in an array of dimension nrec × ns × nz would be:
do k = 1, nz
read (1, rec = 1+k) depth(k), ((data(i,j,k), j = 1,ns), i = 1,nrec)
enddo
For further information about the logs please contact:
Cristina Broglia
Phone: 845-365-8343
Fax: 845-365-3182
E-mail: Cristina Broglia