Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Review of Standard Underway Instrument Formats Across the US Academic Research Fleet
Abstract
Since 2009 the Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program ( www.rvdata.us ) has been supporting acquisition, documentation, preservation, and enhanced usability of underway environmental sensor data from scientific cruises conducted onboard the U.S. Academic Research Fleet (ARF). These data are received directly from ship operators with the primary data types routinely submitted to the NOAA NCEI long-term archives. Devices like ADCPs, CTDs, echosounders, expendable probes, flow water sensors, gravimeters, magnetometers, meteorological sensors, multibeam sonars and navigation instruments are common across the ships of the US ARF and are used to acquire data both during transits and survey operations. While information concerning these devices and the data they produce has traditionally been viewed in the context of a single expedition, assembling and aggregating metadata and documentation about these data systems for the fleet has enabled the R2R Program to develop a holistic perspective on sensors and data acquired across not only multiple expeditions, but across multiple vessels. This enables the rapid evaluation of the variety and trends of data formats and instruments across the US ARF. This information is useful not only for domain specialized groups focused on a particular data type and/or instrument and science users conducting research, but also for archivists and program managers who are interested in long-term trends and needs with respect to assets and usage. Here we present examples of how these systems have changed across the fleet over the history of R2R.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMIN43C..07O
- Keywords:
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- 0394 Instruments and techniques;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 1910 Data assimilation;
- integration and fusion;
- INFORMATICS;
- 1926 Geospatial;
- INFORMATICS;
- 4294 Instruments and techniques;
- OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL