GLOBE Claritas Flexibility

Flexibility has been an important part of the Claritas design philosophy over the years. The advantage of this is that it is usually possible to accomplish non-standard tasks - you are not always locked out by a black-box approach.

This may be illustrated by a few examples:

• The geometry definition input files use a straightforward text format which allows for non-standard acquisition geometries.
• Text files are used wherever possible - binary files are only used if storage space is a critical concern, of if user editing of the file is categorically disallowed (eg, the data processing history!)
• Separate text files are used in preference to a database. This makes the data stored in them much easier to access outside of the normal usage.
• The display and plotting routines allow you to position traces according to header variables (eg offset) rather than just sequentially side-by-side.
• You can easily customise your processing - from a few lines of code to a collection of your own routines.