As we noticed many of our visitors appreciate a list of Free SEGY viewers for download... tadah!
There are a lot of options out there, but here are the ones you can quickly download for free or as a trial. Most of the time you just want to check some loading parameters or header info, right? Additions are welcome, just post a reply!
SeiSeeFree download (Very complete functionality)
-shows seismic in various modes (wiggle, variable area, variable density, color)
-scaling seismic image, gain control, axes labeling setup
-SEG-Y trace headers display
-trace searching by header item value
-many other features! See the website...
SEG-Y DetectiveFree download-Displays SEG-Y headers and traces in any number-representation format with any byte order.
-User-defined headers of any format with any, even odd, offsets with a possibility to save and load customized header templates.
-Editing of header field values.
-Support of SEG-Y revision 1 (more than one textual headers in file).
SEISVU SEG-Y viewerFree download (simplified version of SEISVU with functionality described below)
-View the seismic data (colour display and as conventional black and white traces)
-View all the file header information (i.e. the EBCDIC, binary (or reel) header)
-View all the trace headers
GSEGYView 0.2 (by Vladimir Bashkardin)Free download Requires: GTK+ version 2.4.x & GtkGLExt
-View the seismic data
-View all the file header information
-Automatic Gain control
SEG-Y ViewerFree download Requires password for download: "askgeophysics"
Note this is actually the software formerly offered by IHS that is now merged in the PetraSeis package.-See the trace header values,
-View the traces
-Gain control
-more...
Seismic Toolkit 3.5SharewareNote this download seems to be installing a 3rd party downloading program!-Conversion of SEGY file trace header coordinates.
-Text,binary and trace headers can be viewed and edited.
-Reports of selected trace header values can be generated and saved to ascii file.
-Concatenation and splitting of SEGY files.
-Zeroing of noisy samples and traces.
-Padding missing traces in 3D SEGY files.