Last time we looked, there was something of a tussle between advocates of Bluware VDS data format and the traditionalists rooting for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists venerable SEG-Y. An announcement from Eliis, developer of the PaleoScan seismic stratigraphic interpretation framework, has it that Bluware VDS is now the ‘recognized standard of the OSDU data platform for seismic storage and exchange’.
Eliis joined The Open Group OSDU Forum in 2020 with the objective of evolving PaleoScan to meet the new data standards. As its first step in the OSDU journey, Eliis is leveraging Bluware’s FAST ‘adaptive streaming technology’ to connect PaleoScan with the OSDU platform.
VDS, is described as a ‘powerful and flexible storage format for signal data’ supporting both file-based and cloud-based object storage along with optional data compression. Users can make trade-offs between quality, storage requirements and performance, leveraging different compression modes.
PaleoScan can now work with VDS formatted data streaming from the cloud, leveraging cost-efficient, and scalable object storage (AWS S3 or Microsoft Azure BLOB) with FAST providing on-the-fly translation into PaleoScan volumes on a virtual drive. Paleoscan is now working to store 3D attributes and interpretation volumes on the OSDU platform. More from Eliis.
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