# obspy.core.inventory.station.Station.select

`Station.``select`(location=None, channel=None, time=None, starttime=None, endtime=None, sampling_rate=None)

  Returns the `Station` object with only the `Channel`s that match the given criteria (e.g. all channels with `channel="EHZ"`).

  Warning

  The returned object is based on a shallow copy of the original object. That means that modifying any mutable child elements will also modify the original object (see https://docs.python.org/2/library/copy.html). Use `copy()` afterwards to make a new copy of the data in memory.

  Example

      >>> from obspy import read_inventory, UTCDateTime
      >>> sta = read_inventory()[0][0]
      >>> t = UTCDateTime(2008, 7, 1, 12)
      >>> sta = sta.select(channel="[LB]HZ", time=t)
      >>> print(sta)
      Station FUR (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, GR-Net)
          Station Code: FUR
          Channel Count: None/None (Selected/Total)
          2006-12-16T00:00:00.000000Z -
          Access: None
          Latitude: 48.16, Longitude: 11.28, Elevation: 565.0 m
          Available Channels:
              FUR..BHZ, FUR..LHZ

  The location and channel selection criteria may also contain UNIX style wildcards (e.g. `*`, `?`, ...; see `fnmatch()`).

  Parameters: | location (str) Potentially wildcarded location code. If not given, all location codes will be accepted. channel (str) Potentially wildcarded channel code. If not given, all channel codes will be accepted. time (`UTCDateTime`) Only include channels active at given point in time. starttime (`UTCDateTime`) Only include channels active at or after given point in time (i.e. channels ending before given time will not be shown). endtime (`UTCDateTime`) Only include channels active before or at given point in time (i.e. channels starting after given time will not be shown).

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#### Contributors

- Ackerley, Nick
- Allgeyer, Sebastien
- Ammon, Charles J.
- Antunes, Emanuel
- Arnarsson, Ólafur St.
- Bank, Markus
- Barsch, Robert
- Behr, Yannik
- Bernardi, Fabrizio
- Bernauer, Felix
- Bes de Berc, Maxime
- Beyreuther, Moritz
- Boltz, Shawn
- Bonaimé, Sébastien
- Carothers, Lloyd
- Chamberlain, Calum
- Chambers, Derrick
- Chen, Zhao
- Clark, Adam
- Danecek, Peter
- Egdorf, Sven
- Engels, Fabian
- Ermert, Laura
- Eulenfeld, Tom

- Fabbri, Tommaso
- Falco, Nicholas
- Fee, Jeremy
- Grellier, Clément
- Grunberg, Marc
- Hammer, Conny
- Heimann, Sebastian
- Heiniger, Lukas
- Hope, Gaute
- Igel, Heiner
- Inza, Adolfo
- Isken, Marius
- Ketchum, David
- Koymans, Mathijs
- Kremers, Simon
- Kress, Victor
- Krieger, Lars
- Krischer, Lion
- Kula, Damian
- Käufl, Paul
- Köhler, Andreas
- Lecocq, Thomas
- Leeman, John
- Legovini, Paride

- Lesage, Philippe
- Li, Yulin
- Lomax, Anthony
- Lopes, Rui L.
- MacCarthy, Jonathan
- Maggi, Alessia
- Martin, Henri
- Medlin, Andrew
- Megies, Tobias
- Meschede, Matthias
- Michelini, Alberto
- Miller, Nathaniel C.
- Morgenstern, Bernhard
- Nof, Ran Novitsky
- Panning, Mark P.
- Parker, Tom
- Pestourie, Romain
- Rapagnani, Giovanni
- Reyes, Celso
- Ringler, Adam
- Rothenhäusler, Nicolas
- Russo, Emiliano
- Sales de Andrade, Elliott

- Satriano, Claudio
- Saul, Joachim
- Scheingraber, Chris
- Schneider, Simon
- Sippl, Christian
- Snoke, Arthur
- Stange, Stefan
- Stähler, Simon C.
- Sullivan, Benjamin
- Tian, Dongdong
- Trabant, Chad
- Trani, Luca
- Uieda, Leonardo
- Walker, Andrew
- Walther, Marcus
- Wassermann, Joachim
- Williams, Mark C.
- Winkelman, Andrew
- Zaccarelli, Riccardo
- Zad, Seyed Kasra Hosseini
- Zhu, Lijun
- van Driel, Martin
- van Wijk, Kasper

#### Funds

ObsPy was partially funded by the

- German Science Foundation (DFG) via grant DFG IG 16/9-1
- German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), GEOTECHNOLOGIEN grant 03G0646H.
- NERA project (Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation) under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) grant agreement n° 262330
- Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG)
- VERCE EU-FP7 project (no. 283543)