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Standard Products

In addition to realtime quality controlled MET and TSG data, R2R will create and serve four standard products for each cruise:

(1) A standard metadata record consisting of:

  • “Cruise-level” metadata including cruise id, vessel, operator, primary and ancillary project titles and funding awards, science party, ports, dates, and survey targets.
  • Inventory of underway data sets including class, vendor and model of each instrument system along with directory, format, and release status of data files.
  • Cruise track as an abstracted set of “control points”, serialized as an ISO-standard geometry that can be stored in a XML field.

(2) Operations report - organized into standard (required) sections providing all of the cruise-level metadata:

  • Cover page (with operator and R2R logos, vessel image, and publication date)
  • Overview map (produced automatically from the control-point track with a standard coastline database and physiographic gazetteer)
  • Basic cruise information (including cruise id, vessel, operator, project titles and funding award abstracts and numbers, science party manifest, ports, dates, brief science plan, and survey targets)
  • Inventory of underway data sets (including class, vendor, and model of each instrument system along with directory, format, and release status of files)
  • Appendices for National Facilities Reports (when supplied)

These standard sections will be populated directly from the relational database, and composed into online (HTML) and downloadable (PDF) formats via a XSLT stylesheet. The stylesheet will be published as a community reference, so that operators may produce reports of the same format while at sea if desired.

(3) Final quality-controlled navigation

  • original resolution (typically 1-sec GPS)
  • 1-minute resolution
  • abstracted set of “control points”

(4) Scientific Sampling Event Log (when supplied)

Including event numbers unique for the cruise, time, position, station and cast identifier as appropriate to the sampling event, sampling instrument name (e.g. CTD, TM, MOC10), name of person responsible for the sampling event and a comment field to record additional information.