GliderTools: A Python Toolbox for Processing Underwater Glider Data.

View/ Open
Average rating
votes
Date
2019Author
Gregor, Luke
Ryan-Keogh, Thomas J.
Nicholson, Sarah-Anne
du Plessis, Marcel
Giddy, Isabelle
Swart, Sebastiaan
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Underwater gliders have become widely used in the last decade. This has led to a
proliferation of data and the concomitant development of tools to process the data.
These tools are focused primarily on converting the data from its raw form to more
accessible formats and often rely on proprietary programing languages. This has left
a gap in the processing of glider data for academics, who often need to perform
secondary quality control (QC), calibrate, correct, interpolate and visualize data. Here,
we present GliderTools, an open-source Python package that addresses these needs of
the glider user community. The tool is designed to change the focus from the processing
to the data. GliderTools does not aim to replace existing software that converts raw
data and performs automatic first-order QC. In this paper, we present a set of tools,
that includes secondary cleaning and calibration, calibration procedures for bottle
samples, fluorescence quenching correction, photosynthetica.....
Journal
Frontiers in Marine ScienceVolume
6Issue
Article 738Page Range
13pp.Document Language
enSustainable Development Goals (SDG)
14Maturity Level
TRL 8 Actual system completed and "mission qualified" through test and demonstration in an operational environment (ground or space)Best Practice Type
Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc)DOI Original
10.3389/fmars.2019.00738Citation
Gregor, L.; Ryan-Keogh, T.J.; Nicholson, S-A,; du Plessis, M.; Giddy, I.; and Swart, S, (2019) GliderTools: A Python Toolbox for Processing Underwater Glider Data. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6:738, 13pp. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00738Collections
The following license files are associated with this item: