One-Stop Shopping for MBARI Upper Water Column Data : John Ryan's 2 Use Cases This page last changed on Jan 15, 2009 by mccann.
    -----Original Message-----
    From: John Ryan [mailto:ryjo@mbari.org]
    Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:53 AM
    To: McCann, Mike
    Cc: Chavez, Francisco
    Subject: RE: One-Stop Shopping for MBARI Upper Water Column Data kick-off

    Hi Mike,

    You are familiar with some of my use cases, e.g. being able to extend
    mooring data queries/plotting across historical QC'd deployments and the
    current deployment.  More recently, I have been thinking about use cases
    for ship and AUV data:
    1) AUV
    The AUV quicklook plots and data serve well for knowing when, where and
    what, and permitting analysis by various software, and I think a
    relatively simple front-end would facilitate access greatly.  For
    example, I am picturing a calendar top end, in which the user can page
    through year and month and see AUV survey days highlighted.  The links
    from those days bring you to the 2-column quick-look, because this plot
    does the best job of showing where and what for that survey.  Then below
    that plot are the links to other quicklook plots (QC, nav) and data
    files in different formats.
    2) Ship
    Similarly, I like the idea of calendar/quick-look plots as a top-end
    organizer.  For example, say I wanted to look at what was happening at
    M1 during June 2008.  I could tune my calendar to June 2008, see a
    monthly time series from the M1 sensors, select June X on which the
    Lobos conducted a profile and drill down into full-resolution CTD
    profiles, and physical/chemical/phytoplankton results from bottle
    samples.  For the CTD profiles, I like one thing the CIMT data site
    does, which is to show in a quick-look plot the current profile overlaid
    on a background of all profiles taken at that site, so the user can
    readily see anomalies.  There are a number of ways to do this, e.g.
    showing a profile and its anomaly profile (relative to the climatology
    for that month or season), etc.

    Some initial thoughts...

    John

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