NORSAR is a not-for-profit Norwegian research foundation that conducts research, development and advanced advisory work in the fields of seismology, applied geophysics and earthquake engineering and is one of the world's largest seismological observatories with more than 50 years of experience with advanced seismological data processing, analysis and parameter extraction in near-real time. NORSAR operates one of the largest seismological networks in Europe and thereby has significant experience in seismic instrumentation, technical laboratory equipment and solutions for data transmission and storage.

NORSAR operates the Norwegian national seismometer pool and has access to significant computation clusters for large and complex processing. In addition, NORSAR has developed state of the art in-house software packages for processing, analysis and interpretation of microseismic data. This combination provides unique possibilities for smart analysis of large and complex data volumes.