EurOCEAN 2000 - Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

FIGURE 3. Seismic rolls arrive in cartons at one of the scanning centres.
CONCLUSION
This project has addressed a major task of locating and securing the seismic data that has been
acquired during the past 4 decades; data that European funding institutions have already
invested in. In the initial days of the SEISCAN proposal the project was quizzed as to how
much data was in need of rescue and archive, and partly criticised for not knowing the answer.
Well, we still don’t know exactly. But one thing we are sure of is that there is actually more
than we anticipated.
The work required for the scanning, management and archiving of the images has been
substantial and project resources have been stretched. Our success has also been assisted by
additional support from our home institutes in recognition of the importance of the initiative.
There has also been considerable effort by all project members in creating dialogue with
institutions who have kindly taken the project on its integrity and loaned data for scanning. We
are sure they are satisfied with the results, particularly as they can now show that long term
archiving has been achieved.
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