Abstract. This paper focuses on major issues related to data reliability and MOBNET network performance in the AlpArray seismic experiments, in which twenty temporary broad-band stations of the Czech MOBNET pool of mobile stations have been involved. Currently used high-resolution scientific methods require high-quality data recorded for a sufficiently long time interval at observatories and during full time of operation of temporary stations. In this paper we present both new hardware and software tools that help to assure the high-quality standard of broad-band seismic data. Special attention is paid to issues like a detection of sensor mis-orientation, timing problems, exchange of record components and/or their polarity reversal, sensor mass centring, or anomalous channel amplitudes due to, e.g., imperfect gain. Thorough data-quality control should represent an integral constituent of seismic data recording, pre-processing and archiving, especially for data from temporary stations in passive seismic experiments. Large international seismic experiments require enormous efforts of scientists from different countries and institutions to gather hundreds of stations to be deployed in the field during a limited time period. In this paper, we demonstrate beneficial effects of the procedures we have developed for having a sufficiently large set of high-quality and reliable data from each group participating in field experiments.
Review of "Data quality control and tools in passive seismic experiments exemplified on Czech broad-band seismic pool MOBNET in the AlpArray collaborative project" by L. Vecsey et al.
