Near Real Time (NRT) Animal Tagging Location Data Quality Control (QC) Process: SMRU

Overview

Teaching: 120 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• How to receive metadata & data access from a researcher to set up satellite data harvesting

• How to use the metadata to create a config file

• How to push that config file somewhere so it can be processed regularly by the RT process

• How to process a dataset that is no longer real-time - delayed-mode

Objectives

How to receive metadata & data access from a researcher to set up satellite data harvesting for SMRU tags

Metadata

The minimum metadata required by the QC process is:

1. species common name.
2. species scientific name.
3. release site (e.g., Sable Island).
4. release country.
5. SMRU campaign id(s) (e.g., ct190).

Use whatever method for obtaining these metadata from the researcher works for you.

Data access

Ensure you have the researcher’s username and password to access the data on the SMRU server. The server page is accessible to anyone to view SMRU tag deployments by registered project, but access to data within individual deployment “campaigns” are behind a WAF.

Once you have the researcher’s username and password, these can be entered in the config file harvest block.

How to use the metadata to create a config file

All details for constructing ArgosQC config files are in this Jupyter notebook

How to push that config file somewhere so it can be processed regularly by the RT process

Details on how to do this are in this Jupyter notebook

How to process a dataset that is no longer real-time - delayed-mode

Tag datasets that are no longer real-time (deployments have ended) may be processed in the same manner as real-time datasets, except that the QC process only needs to be run once.

Key Points