Session Recording HereGoogle folder with presentations and other documents Session Chairs: Eugene Burger and Lacey Mason
The data management for environmental data workflows once data have been received from observing platforms are reasonably well documented and understood. It is the data handling from the observing platform sensor to the data collections point that is less standardized and is the component of the data workflow that can benefit significantly from optimization. Data integrity considerations should also be factored into this portion of the data lifecycle. Many platform operators have been required to write a unique parser for data delivered by an observing platform. Data parsing is often complex, prone to error, and requires software updates when the platform reporting format is updated. What if we could eliminate any custom development for the parsing of data from observing platforms? It is understandable that there may be cases where this is not possible, but it is not too difficult to grasp the potential benefits if the majority of platform data can be rendered in a parsed format without having to write any custom code.
This session will focus on activities and solutions that strive to reduce the complexity of data handling while improving on rapid data availability to data users. It is targeted to data practitioners and platform and sensor engineers that are the first to work with data, from platform data logger to data acceptance from communication platforms. This session will attempt to understand the scope of this work in NOAA with the goal of an ongoing discussion on data landing optimization.
Presentations:
(abstracts by session here)1.
The Cellular Cooperative Observer Program Project- Pilar Trevino, Brian Warren, Bryant Korzeniewski
2.
Great Lakes Real-time Coastal Observation Network: from sensor to public access- Steve Ruberg
3.
Observing Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Blooms from Airborne Systems – Reducing the Complexity of Hyperspectral Data and Transferring Data to Users- Andrea Vander Woude
4.
NCEI Surface Underway Marine Database (SUMD) and Uncrewed Surface Vehicles (USV) data- Sharon Mesick
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Skip the Parsing Blues: Interoperable Data delivery from Observing Platforms- Eugene Burger
6.
NOAA Finite and Infinite data game- David Fischman
