[MSNoise] MSNoise 1.5

[Thomas Lecocq]

Dear all,

There is a small bug in MSNoise 1.5: when creating a new 
project/database, the new "indexes" of the tables are not created 
automatically, so, until we release a bugfix version 1.5.1, please 
always do an "msnoise upgrade_db" right after "msnoise install". This 
way, the DB created will be complete.

Also, on Ubuntu 16.4LTS, there might be an issue with the SQL 
configuration and the group-by scheme, if this occurs for you, please 
check those solutions: https://github.com/ROBelgium/MSNoise/issues/72

Cheers,

Thomas


Le 28/04/2017 à 13:53, Thomas Lecocq a écrit :
> Dear community,
>
> About 1 year after the last major release (MSNoise 1.4 
> <http://msnoise.org/doc/releasenotes/msnoise-1.4.html>) we are proud 
> to announce the new MSNoise 1.5 
> <http://msnoise.org/doc/releasenotes/msnoise-1.5.html#>. It is a 
> *major* release, with a massive amount of work since the last one: in 
> GitHub numbers 
> <https://github.com/ROBelgium/MSNoise/graphs/contributors?from=2016-06-02&to=2017-04-28&type=c> 
> , it’s over 120 commits and over 2500 lines of code and documentation 
> changed or added!
>
> MSNoise 1.5 introduces a series of *new features* :
>
>  * We have started to move core math functions to ObsPy, currently the
>    only one ready is linear_regression, a function I wrote to remove
>    the dependency to |statsmodels|, required to move mwcs to ObsPy later.
>  * The preprocessing routine has been isolated, rewritten and
>    optimized. It is now a standalone script, callable by plugins. It
>    returns a Stream object with all the data needed for the analysis.
>  * This change in preprocessing was done mostly to allow
>    cross-component, auto- correlation and cross-correlation, with or
>    without rotation, to be done with the same code. CC, SC and AC are
>    now supported in MSNoise with proper whitening (possible to disable
>    spectral whitening for specific cases).
>  * This documentation is now available in PDF
>    <http://msnoise.org/doc/MSNoise.pdf> too (easier for offline usage)
>    and it also includes a new tutorial for setting up the MySQL server
>    and Workbench.
>  * Last but not least: MSNoise is “tested” automatically on Linux
>    (thanks to TravisCI) & Windows (thanks to Appveyor), for Python
>    versions 2.7 and 3.5. With MSNoise 1.5 we also added the MacOSX
>    tests on TravisCI. With these tests, we can guarantee MSNoise works
>    on different platforms and Anaconda (or miniconda) python versions.
>
> This version has benefited from outputs/ideas/pull requests/questions 
> from several users/friends (listed alphabetically):
>
>  * Raphael De Plaen
>  * Clare Donaldson
>  * Robert Green
>  * Aurelien Mordret
>  * Lukas Preiswerk
>  * The participants to the NERC MSNoise Liverpool Workshop in January 
> 2017
>  * all others (don’t be mad :-) )
>
> Thanks to all for using MSNoise, and please, let us know why/how you 
> use it (and please cite it!)!
>
> To date, we found/are aware of 25 publications using MSNoise ! That’s 
> the best validation of our project ever ! See the full list on the 
> MSNoise website <http://www.msnoise.org/they-cite-msnoise/>.
>
> /Thomas, Corentin and others/
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> PS: if you use MSNoise for your research and prepare publications, 
> *please consider citing it*:
>
> *Lecocq, T., C. Caudron, et F. Brenguier (2014)*, MSNoise, a Python 
> Package for Monitoring Seismic Velocity Changes Using Ambient Seismic 
> Noise, /Seismological Research Letters/, 85(3), 715‑726, 
> doi:10.1785/0220130073.
>
>