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You have reached the website of the Source Inversion Validation (SIV) project. You may learn more about the project by reading the wiki and contribute to it. In addition You may browse the public availabe Benchmark solutions under Benchmarks. As a registered user, you can upload your own solutions and compare them with the solutions in the database. You can decide whether or not your solutions should be visible to the general public or only to the other registered users. To become a registered user send an us an

The SIV toolbox provides a number of utilities to evalaute mistfits/similarity of the waveforms, and to compare source models:

  • Waveform plots
  • Assesment of Waveform misfits/similarity using different metrics: correlation analysis, root-mean-square error, 1-norm, 2-norm, and percentage variance reduction
  • Analysis using Fourier Amplitude Spectra
  • Waveforms comparision using the time freqency envelope and time phase envelope as parameters for misfit/goodness of fit between two signals
  • Summary statistics for source models
  • Contours and grid comparisions of source models

The SIV project, and in particular, the benchmark exercises, has been discussed in the following publication:

Mai P. M., D Schorlemmer, M. Page, J.‐P. Ampuero, K. Asano, M. Causse, S. Custodio, W. Fan, G. Festa, M. Galis, F. Gallovic, W. Imperatori, M. Käser, D. Malytskyy, R. Okuwaki, F. Pollitz, L. Passone, H.N.T. Razafindrakoto, H. Sekiguchi, S.G. Song, S.N. Somala, K.K.S. Thingbaijam, C. Twardzik, M. van Driel, J.C. Vyas, R. Wang , Y. Yagi, and O. Zielke (2016). The Earthquake‐Source Inversion Validation (SIV) Project, Seismological Research Letters , 87(3), 690-708.

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