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Station Response Manager - Quick Start Guide

Important (NRL)

  • This project requires a local NRL folder to run.
  • The NRL must be extracted (unarchived) as a normal directory tree, not kept as a .zip/.tar file.
  • On startup, SRM first checks its default NRL path.
  • If not found, it will prompt you to manually select the NRL folder.
  • After a valid NRL is available, SRM initializes the NRL index.
    • If no index exists (or it is outdated), SRM builds/rebuilds it.
    • If an index is already valid, SRM loads it directly.
  • If you cancel and no valid NRL is available, the app exits.

1. Launch

  • Launch the app. Main window
  • Open data with File > Add Data (the whole folder), or drag and drop .xml/.dataless/.dless files into the main window.
  • The first tab is always Manager.

2. Tweak UI a bit

  • Open View and play a bit with the theme (Dark/Light, also works for the MPL resps now) and font size.

3. Understand the Manager Window Layout

In the Manager tab:

  • Left side: Loaded Inventories tree.
    • Double-click a file item to open its Explorer tab.
    • Buttons under the tree: New, Copy, Paste, Delete - for doing high level maintenance at the file level.
  • Right side: Two sub-tabs.
    • Map: station map view. Zooms to the station if the station is selected. Offline map works only for low level zoom.
    • Timeline: channel/station time coverage view.

Important: The Timeline is a tab inside Manager (right panel), not a top-level window tab. It is easy to miss.

Main window_timeline

4. Timeline Tab

Open Manager > Timeline to use the coverage timeline.

Key interactions:

  • Double-click a timeline row to jump to that item in Explorer.
    • Station row opens the file in Explorer and selects the station.
    • Channel row opens the file in Explorer and selects the channel.
  • Filter bar supports quick text and wildcard patterns.
    • Examples: BHZ, HH?, *BHZ, NET.STA.LOC.CHA

Timeline controls:

  • T+ / T-: zoom time axis in/out.
  • R+ / R-: show more/fewer rows.
  • All: fit all rows and full time range.
  • Rst: reset to default row count and view.
  • Mouse wheel:
    • Ctrl + wheel adjusts visible row count.
    • Ctrl + Shift + wheel zooms time axis.

5. Explorer Tab (Metadata Editing)

Open an Explorer tab by:

  • Double-clicking a file in Manager tree, or
  • Double-clicking a row in Timeline.

In Explorer:

  • Edit values directly in the Value column.
  • Use top filters:
    • Filter by network/station.
    • Property filter.
  • Use New/Delete to add or remove fields/items.
  • Double-click the Response node under a channel to open the Response editor tab.

6. Response Tab

In Response tab:

  • Left side: response tree editor.
  • Right side: amplitude and phase plots (auto-updated).
  • Buttons:
    • New: add response stage or poles/zeros entries.
    • Delete: remove selected stage/entry.
    • Replace Response: load response from NRL selection.
    • Revert Response: undo all changes made in this response tab.
  • Double-click pole/zero values to edit complex values in a dialog.

7. Save Your Work

  • Response and Explorer edits update objects in memory as you work.
  • Use File > Save All Files to write all loaded inventories back to disk or Ctrl+S

8. Other Features

  • Tools > Build Inventory:
    • Creates a new inventory via a wizard.
    • Can optionally start from a miniSEED file to pre-fill station/channel basics.
  • Tools > Convert to XML:
    • Converts dataless/RESP input to StationXML output.