Talk:SEG-Y

SEG Y or SEG-Y

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This edit says it's SEG-Y (with a hyphen), rather than SEG Y (with no hyphen) and suggests the article name should change. Do we have a definitive reference as which is correct? SEG's website listing their standards has the hyphen, but the actual rev 1 document is "SEG Y rev 1 Data Exchange format", and mostly (with 2 exceptions) does not use the hyphen. Mitch Ames (talk) 06:33, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Looking through the two revisions of the standard, "SEG Y" appears to be more consistent, and was the exclusive term for rev0. However, as "SEG-Y" is also in rev 1 of the standard (yes, twice), and on SEG's website, it looks like the two are used interchangeably. I'd recommend keeping the page name at SEG Y, and reword the lead to something like `The SEG Y file format (often "SEG-Y") is ...` +mt 04:06, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Done. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:29, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Just in case anyone is concerned, the SEG Technical Standards Committee knows there has been this historical inconsistency and is now uniformly referring to the standard with its version as SEG Y 1.0 (i.e., spaces (no dashes) and no v. or rev. before the version number).Jlhollin (talk) 19:20, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

I've moved this back to "SEG-Y", as the revision 2.0 standard exclusively uses this form. +mt 01:51, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

It's pointless having the reference to 'PASSCAL SEGY' in this article because there's any number of 'variations' of the SEGY format produced by a huge number of seismic acquisition and processing companies, which of course makes a nonsense of having a standard. Speaking as one who has worked in seismic processing since 1974 and in the last 20 years specifically on seismic data formats. J R Spigot (talk) 19:25, 26 November 2022 (UTC)