Welcome to the beampower repository!
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About the package
beampower is a package for beamforming (or backprojection) of seismic signal for event detection and location. The Python wrapper
can call the C (CPU) or CUDA-C (GPU) implementation. See the documentation at https://ebeauce.github.io/beampower/.
Installation
The simplest way to use BeamPower:
pip install beampower
GPU support is included if available.
Learn More
- Documentation: https://ebeauce.github.io/beampower/
- Tutorials: See the notebooks in the
notebooks/folder- Download seismic data
- Pre-process waveforms
- Calculate travel times
- Locate events
For Developers
Clone and install locally:
git clone https://github.com/ebeauce/beampower.git
cd beampower
# option 1:
pip install .
# option 2 (check name of wheel in dist/):
python -m build
pip install dist/beampower-XXXX.whl
If you modify C or CUDA code:
# option 1:
pip install . --no-cache-dir --force-reinstall
# option 2:
# Clean up previous Python and CMake build artifacts
rm -rf build/ dist/
# Re-run the build from scratch
python -m build
# Then reinstall to pick up changes:
pip install --force-reinstall dist/beampower-XXXX.whl
Reference
Please, if you use this package for your research, cite:
Beaucé, Eric and Frank, William B. and Seydoux, Léonard and Poli, Piero and Groebner, Nathan and van der Hilst, Robert D. and Campillo, Michel (2023). BPMF: A Backprojection and Matched‐Filtering Workflow for Automated Earthquake Detection and Location. Seismological Research Letters. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230230.