This page is just a place for me to jot down notes and links that I think might be generally useful from time to time.

March 2, 2005

Enjoyed meeting and seeing everyone at the QARTOD 2 meeting :)

Mapserver GIS product for visualization of in-situ, remote sensing and modeling data layers

Here's the link to the second part of my powerpoint presentation where I was talking some about the IOOS interoperability project and some of the technical backend notes on the Seacoos product.

The Seacoos Mapserver GIS portal is at http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/portal_rs

We are currently collecting and displaying HF radar off the coast of North Carolina, Miami using the 'fixed-map' format category documented in the Seacoos netCDF convention and have demonstrated the ability to do this with HF radar datasets from Alaska(AOOS) as well. Model particle trajectories are also a data layer as well.

A generalized powerpoint presentation (12 MB) on this product is at http://caro-coops.org/documents/presentations/seacoos/seacoos_mum_2004.ppt

My earlier technical documentation on this product is at http://twiki.sura.org/bin/view/Main/DataStandards

My earlier technical documentation on the general software we use is at http://www.carocoops.org/misc/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=249

Seacoos data dictionary and netCDF convention

Data Dictionary

Note that the Seacoos working group considers these draft and not final documents.

Data dictionary http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/twiki_dmcc/pub/Main/WebHome/seacoos_draft_data_dictionary_v2.0.csv

Online version http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/seacoos_dd/php/dd_login.php

More data dictionary documentation http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/twiki_dmcc/bin/view/Main/DataDictionary

netCDF convention

This document includes netCDF examples of 6 general categories which we are trying to capture in the convention(fixed-point, fixed-profiler, fixed-map, moving-point-2D, moving-point-3D, moving-profiler).

http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/twiki_dmcc/pub/Main/WebHome/SEACOOSNetCDFStandardv2.0.doc

And here are the perl scripts which leverage the perl netCDF packages for interfacing with netCDF files as well as 'udunits' a library for time and units conversion of netCDF attributes to create SQL INSERT statements.

http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/seacoos_data/CSV/data_scout/

Seacoos netCDF convention qc discussion draft

Draft notes for discussion on presenting qc attributes within the Seacoos netCDF convention

http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/twiki_dmcc/bin/view/Main/QCNotes#Sample_qc_netcdf_description

netCDF convention parallel XML development track

Draft notes for discussion on providing a xml and xml schema that provides a parallel track to netCDF convention development

http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/twiki_dmcc/bin/view/Main/JCNotes#Seacoos_data_import_flatfile_for

DODSFilterColumn

The code at the below link is designed to be used stand-alone and/or as a web service to help tranform the DODS client http ascii output(the 'Get ASCII' button) to something more column oriented (CSV Comma Separated Value). This can help the data be more easily viewed and understood as well as fed into other analysis tools, web services and databases. General and technical description available.

DODSFilterColumn

Other links

http://twiki.sura.org
http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/twiki_dmcc
http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/misc/phpBB2/index.php
http://marinemetadata.org
http://www.opengeospatial.org
http://www.gomoos.org/intra/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osioss

-- JeremyCothran - 02 Mar 2005
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