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3 March 2017

Data Products

Added DFO Hydrophone data products
Added State of the Ocean plots for
Improvements to CSV data products

SeaScript

Improvement to Camera Control Page to show scheduled SeaScript jobs (shows next upcoming job)
Improvements to visibility of SeaScripts (now visible from any device that the SeaScript controls)

Miscellaneous

Added support for the ARIS Sonar device
Improvements to Instrument Point People interface
State of the Ocean plot generation has been streamlined and the plots have been expanded to cover more locations
Improvements to Device Workflow Administration page
Improvements to edge cases in Plotting Utility PNG generation
Properties discovery service now returns flags indicating the properties that can be used in a location search vs primary sensor search.
Locations discovery service provides more options for filtering, e.g. on data product code
ERDDAP datasets can be generated for devices with a mobile heading sensor
Enhancements to the Pacific Salmon Foundation Citizen Scientist app
Improvements to the layout of the Search Hydrophone Data Viewer

2 February 2017

Data Products

Added support for more complex calibration information, which is needed for icListen AF hydrophones in order to generate spectrograms.
Added support for interleaved dual frequency data for Nortek Signature 55 data products.
Added support for AZFP Echosounders, to account for the mounting height of transducers
Data Search and Data Preview plots now include additional information when the "Average" or "Min/Max + Avg" option is chosen. The data rating (how often the data is collected) as well as the averaging interval is now displayed.
Data Preview now shows Kongsberg rotary sonar daily plots.
Hydrophone spectrograms are now available for all hydrophones that use FFT format.
The Kongsberg SMB data product has been improved.

Data Restrictions and Agreements

Company logos can now be uploaded to be used in data products controlled by data agreements

Dive Logging

Added several Save options when creating a dive observation:
- Save & Exit - the original Save feature. Returns you to the dive log page.
- Save & Refresh Time - saves the observation, stays on the Observation page, and updates the timestamp. Used when you want to make new observations often.
- Save & Keep Time - saves the observation, stays on the Observation page, but keeps the same timestamp as the observation you just saved. Used when you want to make multiple different observations that refer to the same point in the video.
Separated dive log tags and quick entries by organization. At the time that a new cruise is defined (now renamed to "expedition"), you define which organization the cruise is for. The choices for observation quick entries and tags is different for all dives assigned to that expedition, depending on the organization selected. At the moment we support two organizations - ONC and NOAA.
When creating and editing dive log tags and quick entries, these functions have now been separated into separate UI pages under the SeaScribe menu.

Search Hydrophone Data

Implemented data access agreements, similar to what was added a few months ago to Data Search.
- Access agreements are controlled by the Data Product Permissions tab in User Management
- Access to hydrophone data can be embargoed for a certain date range, or its access can be delayed until it is older than a certain value that can be defined.
Added a choice of displaying spectrograms produced from WAV files or FFT files (depending on the type of hydrophone).
Added the ability to specify a date range to view spectrograms. They are still displayed one day at a time but if you use the Next and Previous features it will automatically skip over dates that have no data.
Added a number of annotation-related features:
- Ability to display the number of hydrophone annotations that apply to each spectrogram time period, with a hyperlink to open a table to view those annotations
- Ability to view all the hydrophone annotations for the currently displayed day.
- Ability to filter the annotations being viewed to show only those containing a specified text string.
- Ability to export the displayed annotations to a CSV file.
- Ability to search a range of dates and only show spectrograms that have been annotated with a specified text string (this filters the spectrograms and other data, as opposed to the feature above that only filters the table of annotations).

Miscellaneous

On the Device Details page, main tab, a link has been added called Instrument Point People Group. It lists who from each department is responsible for that instrument.
State of the Environment plots are now updated automatically using a recurring scheduled job.
Added support for the Campbell Sci Data logger to be installed on ferries.
Added support for the Pump and Valve Control System (PVCS) for the ferries.
Added support for autonomous temperature sensors to be used at Endeavour.
Created a page in Oceans 2.0 (not in oceannetworks.ca) to display real time data for the Campbell River Maritime Heritage Museum. This includes the latest underwater video and sensor readings.
Continued development of methods to search for data programmatically, including methods to discover where data of a certain type exists if you are not already familiar with ONC's instruments and their locations. This feature is still under development.

3 January 2017

Data Search

Improved the visibility of "Min/Max + Avg" plots to make it more obvious where the average points are.
Created scalar profile plots for casts of vertical profilers.
Created a tabular data product for hydrophones based on spectral probability density percentiles.
Created data products for the Nortek Signature 55 current profiler.
Created cast data products for the PSF instruments (Pacific Salmon Foundation or Salish Sea Marine Survival Project) for raw and corrected data versus depth.
The CSV data product now supports company logos and acknowledgement where data agreements exist.

Instruments and Parsers

Modified the data parser for the Nanometrics Titan accelerometer used for Earthquake Early Warning to add two additional "derived" sensors for diagnostic purposes. These sensors will give an indication of how close an earthquake came to exceeding the detection threshold, both for the P-wave and the S-wave, to help us tune the detection thresholds.
Wrote a parser for the EV Nautilus navigation data.
Wrote a driver and parser for the Hemisphere GNSS V104S GPS compass used on the B.C. ferries.

Hydrophone Viewer ("Search Hydrophone Data")

Added the option to view FFT-generated spectrograms (called "Broadband Spectrogram" in the Plot drop-down list) where they exist (does not apply to all makes of hydrophones).
Added the option to view SPD (spectral probability density) spectrograms although they will not be available until later.
Improved the annotation feature on this page so that a table of annotations that apply to a given spectrogram can be displayed if there is more than one. The list can then be filtered by specifying a text string to filter on, and the table can be exported to a CSV file.

Miscellaneous

Added deep links to the Data Monitoring tool (in Device Console) so that results can be shared.
On the Camera page, the Presets section was removed as cameras can now be controlled using SeaScript.
Improved the Data Product Permissions tab in User Management to better support the administration of data access permissions. For example if the list of access rules is large, it will automatically paginate which greatly improves the speed of opening a large group.
Started development of the Kalman Filter algorithm for Earthquake Early Warning. This filter and other code will allow us to use data from GPS sensors that will be installed on the land sites in order to improve our earthquake magnitude estimates.
Continued development of methods to search for data programmatically, including methods to discover where data of a certain type exists if you are not already familiar with ONC's instruments and their locations. This feature is still under development.

ONC Website (oceannetworks.ca)

Developed a mini website for the ISSMMTC conference (8th International Symposium on Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences). See http://igcp640.oceannetworks.ca/
Modified many of the Community Observatory pages to make them all consistent in appearance, including:
- Shorter introduction with a "Show More" link added
- Consistent Latest Readings variables.
- Consistent titles on data plots
- A photo album to look through photos rather than placing them all on the page at the same time.
- Added an Instrument Health section header with content to be filled in later.
Did a complete overhaul of the structure of the Installations section of the website, which has been renamed to Observatories. Highlights include:
- New landing page called Expeditions. Content will be added soon, but for now it gives access to sub pages including Wiring the Abyss.
- Installations sub–heading has been renamed to Notices.
- The number of Observatories has been reduced by grouping everything under Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific, and Mobile Platforms.