dc.contributor.author | Gregor, Luke | |
dc.contributor.author | Ryan-Keogh, Thomas J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nicholson, Sarah-Anne | |
dc.contributor.author | du Plessis, Marcel | |
dc.contributor.author | Giddy, Isabelle | |
dc.contributor.author | Swart, Sebastiaan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-30T19:22:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-30T19:22:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 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.2019.00738 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11329/1470 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-972 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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, photosynthetically available radiation (PAR)
corrections and data interpolation in the vertical and horizontal dimensions. Many of
these processes have been described in several other studies, but do not exist in a
collated package designed for underwater glider data. Importantly, we provide potential
users with guidelines on how these tools are used so that they can be easily and rapidly
accessible to a wide range of users that span the student to the experienced researcher.
We recognize that this package may not be all-encompassing for every user and we
thus welcome community contributions and promote GliderTools as a community-driven
project for scientists. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject.other | Python | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Fluorescence | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Backscatter | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Gridding | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Interpolation | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Software | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Gliders | en_US |
dc.title | GliderTools: A Python Toolbox for Processing Underwater Glider Data. | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Contribution | en_US |
dc.description.refereed | Refereed | en_US |
dc.format.pagerange | 13pp. | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fmars.2019.00738 | |
dc.subject.parameterDiscipline | Parameter Discipline::Physical oceanography | en_US |
dc.subject.dmProcesses | Data Management Practices::Data acquisition | en_US |
dc.subject.dmProcesses | Data Management Practices::Data quality control | en_US |
dc.bibliographicCitation.title | Frontiers in Marine Science | en_US |
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 6 | en_US |
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue | Article 738 | en_US |
dc.description.sdg | 14 | en_US |
dc.description.maturitylevel | TRL 8 Actual system completed and "mission qualified" through test and demonstration in an operational environment (ground or space) | en_US |
dc.description.bptype | Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc) | en_US |
obps.contact.contactname | Luke Gregor | |
obps.contact.contactemail | luke.gregor@usys.ethz.ch | |
obps.resourceurl.publisher | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00738/full | en_US |