Big and little-endian are used to describe the order in which bytes are read by a computer. This order is also referred to as a high-byte and low-byte order. A computer must know which way a file was written in order to read the file. After all, there is a big difference between a fire truck and a truck fire.
Occasionally, you will find a SEG-Y file that was written using one endian for header values and another for trace data samples. Sometimes, you will even find files with a mixture of endian in headers. This is not standard and is not supported in WinPICS. When this occurs, you may not be able to import the file without having a data prep service ‘fix up’ the file for you. You can try the following:
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