What is it?
Device Search allows you to search for instruments by location, by device category, Principal Investigator, and other means.
Why is this useful?
Let's say you are a marine mammal biologist. You want to know where you can find live Hydrophone data on Oceans 2.0. But with hundreds of instruments with thousands of sensors, where do you start? It's easy with Device Search.
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Personal history - remember searches, save plots, create annotations.
Share: send plots to colleagues and friends.
Community: join research working groups, share ideas for experiments and data analysis.
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Start your Device search by selecting Device Category. The Results tab will display a listing of all devices that match. (click to enlarge)
A different way to search is by filtering by Location; the results tab displays all instruments at that location. Click on the 'Category' column to sort by Device Category.
Click the columns to sort in either ascending or descending order.
Click on Step 2: select daa product. The screen displays a listing of devices historically deployed, a graph of data availability, data product formats, and delivery options.
After your search has completed, you can download the result and open with a zip compression program that supports 64-bit file fornat.
Click on Step 3: view cart. A list of three carts is displayed: open, in progress, and completed. Review your search parameters, and when you're satisfied click 'Checkout All'.
At any point you can review your search cart. In this example, an executing search is highlighted for deletion. This can be done before, during or after searches are executed. Nothing is downloaded to your computer at this time.