SegyPY : A Python module for reading/writing of SEG-Y formatted files

Copyright (C) 2005-2026 Thomas Mejer Hansen, thomas.mejer.hansen@gmail.com

Currently you can READ IBM Floats, IEEE, 1, 2 and 4 byte INTEGER formatted data, and WRITE anything but IBM Floats.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Secchi Angelo (with Howard Lightstone and Anton Vredegoor): The Ibm2Ieee conversion routines are developed and made available for SegyPY by

Pete Forman

Andrew Squelch. Extensive reformatting from version 0.3.0 to 0.3.1

INSTALLATION

pip install segypy

Example

import segypy

# Set verbose level
segypy.verbose=1;

filename='shotgather.sgy';

# Get only SegyHeader
SH = segypy.getSegyHeader(filename);


#  Read Segy File
[Data,SH,STH]=segypy.readSegy(filename);

# Plot Segy file
scale=1e-9;

# wiggle plot
segypy.wiggle(Data,SH,1e-9);
# image plot
segypy.image(Data,SH,scale);