<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello Web Service users,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The fdsnws-station service has been updated to version 1.1.18.</div><div class=""><a href="http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/" class="">http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This update includes several changes to the service including the addition of a new parameter, a bug fix related to restricted data, and minor changes to the StationXML content to conform to the schema.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The full list of changes are included here:</div><div class="">* A new search parameter called ‘sensor’ has been added to the service. This parameter will filter output according to instrument type. The parameter is case-insensitive and matches any part of the string contained in the StationXML <Sensor>::<Description> element.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* The sensor description previously contained in StationXML element <Sensor>::<Type> has been moved to <Sensor>::<Description>. This is the same information reported in SEED metadata in Blockette 52, field 6 (instrument identifier).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Fixed a bug where specifying ‘includerestricted=false’ with wildcarded expressions for network selection resulted in incomplete results being returned.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* The StationXML element <InstrumentSensitivity> is removed if it is empty to conform to the schema.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* The StationXML element <NumeratorCoefficient> contains an indexing attribute, which has been changed from “number” to “i” to conform to the schema.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">IRIS DMC</div></body></html>