A tool for converting images to SEG-Y files.
Note
img2segy is offered under an open source non-permissive license, the AGPL 3. Alternative commercial license terms may be available from Sixty North AS, as is help on using or extending img2segy. Only basic support and fixes are provided gratis.
Install img2segy from the PyPI with pip:
python -m pip install img2segyor if you have pipx and only want to run img2segy from the command line:
pipx install img2segyGiven an image file, such as a my_cross_section.png containing a vertical cross-section provide information about the location of the image in a text (TOML) file called my_cross_section.toml, and run the img2segy convert command, supplying the image filename. If the TOML file has the same filename stem it will be discovered and used:
img2segy convert my_cross_section.pngThe resulting SEG-Y file will be called my_cross_section.segy.
The configuration file contains subsections which describe the position of the image in geographical space, the coordinate reference system in use, and control over how the image should be represented in SEG-Y:
[position]
left.x = 527501
left.y = 4840781
right.x = 527326
right.y = 4829018
depth.top = 0
depth.bottom = 4300
[coordinate-reference-system]
map-projection = "WGS-84 UTM"
zone-id = 15
horizontal-units = "m"
vertical-units = "m"
[segy]
# encoding = "ASCII"
# byte-order = ">"
trace-position.use-source-coord-fields = true
trace-position.use-group-coord-fields = true
trace-position.use-cdp-coord-fields = true
trace-number.use-trace-number-field = true
trace-number.use-crossline-number-field = true
base-trace-number = 1Some of the fields, such as map-projection are ignored, but it's wise to include them anyway so that the date is more self-documenting and the meaning of the numbers is clear to others and your future self.
The [position] section contains information which locates the corners of the supplied image in geographical space. The left.x and left.y entries are the geographic eastings and northings respectively of the left edge of the image. Similarly, the right.x and right.y entries are the geographic eastings and northings respectively of the right edge of the image. The depth.top and depth.bottom entries give the depths of the top and bottom edges of the image.
The number of traces in the resulting SEG-Y file will be equal to the horizontal number of pixels across the supplied image. The number of samples per trace will be equal to the vertical number of pixels down the image. If you want a different number of traces or samples than that which corresponds to the pixel dimensions of the image, you should pre-process the image using other tools before converting to SEG-Y.
The [[segy]] section specifies how the SEG-Y data will be written and controls which header fields are used, and for what.
The optional trace-position entries trace-position.use-source-coord-fields, trace-position.use-group-coord-fields and trace-position.use-cdp-coord-fields control whether the horizontal component of geographic position of the trace, as linearly interpolated between the two end points of the image, it written into the corresponding trace-header fields.
The trace-number entries trace-number.use-trace-number-field and trace-number.use-crossline-number-field control whether an integer trace number is written into the corresponding trace-header fields. By default, the left-most column of pixels will be given a trace-number of zero. You can control this by setting base-trace-number to some other value, such as one. If you need trace numbering to start from the right edge of the image, you should flip the image left-to-right before using img2segy.