The Digital Seismology Tutor (DST) was written in Java 1.1 to be used in connection with the second edition of the book 'Of Poles and Zeros' by Frank Scherbaum (Kluwer, 2001). All exercises and problems therein can be reproduced using the DST and the data sets provided with it. The chapter 'Solution to problems' in 'Of Poles and Zeros' also contains all the necessary information regarding the operation of the DST in that context.However, the DST can also be used independently as a tool to simulate fundamental properties of linear systems, to design and analyse simple filters, to study the effect of sampling and A/D conversion on digital seismograms (e. g. FIR filter problems).
Authors:
Elke Schmidtke is software engineer at the Institute of Geosciences at the University in Potsdam . Her current fields of interest include development of seismological software in C, C++, and Java for both research and educational purposes.Frank Scherbaum is seismologist and author of the book 'Of Poles and Zeros, Fundamentals of Digital Seismology'. He is currently head of the geophysics group at the Institute of Geosciences at the University in Potsdam and coauthor of PITSA - an Programmable Interactive Toolbox for Seismological Analysis (Scherbaum, Johnson and Rietbrock) from which numerous parts have migrated to the DST. His current fields of interest include array seismology, earthquake hazard analysis with special focus on site effetcs and digital signal processing.
Acknowledgments
We owe thanks to the students in geoscience at the University of Potsdam for there role as software testers during the last two years.
Potsdam, November 2000