tlPicker Overview
tlPicker is a Matlab GUI-based script to pick seismic refraction data stored in the SEG-Y format and is designed as supporting software for the Stingray/TomoLab ray tracing and tomographic inversion sotware maintained by Doug Toomey at the University of Oregon (see http://pages.uoregon.edu/drt/Stingray/). tlPicker is partially based on the Matlab 5 upicker code written by William Wilcock which in turn was partially derived from picking code developed at the University of Oregon.

The software allows the loading, display and picking of seismic traces from an experiment described by Stringray structures and cataloged SEGY data (software is included to create the catalog).  Picks and pick metadata are stored in flat ascii files with a separate file for each station-phase combination.  Additional capabilities are envisioned to select data from a display of the experiment geometry, pick phases (semi-)automatically and generate TomoLab tlArrival structures.  The experiment geometry is also plotted.

The software includes only limited input checking but the script-based approach allows it to be easily restarted after crashing and for users to document bugs by saving their workspace after a crash.
 
Description of tlPicker Directories

Directory
Description
tlpicker/
M-files for tlPicker    
tlpicker/catalog
M-files to create a SEGY catalog
tlpicker/documentation
Documentation
tlpicker/testdata
Inputs used to test and debug the algorithm.  Presently quite a large directory but will eventually be shrunk


The tlpicker directory must be in the Matlab path