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Detailed report of discussions at the IUGG Meeting 2007 in Perugia regarding portable instrumentation and its role in promoting uniform data archive formats and open data access. The report covers areas of interest, ongoing projects, future possibilities, and best practices for field methods.
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FDSN WG VPortable InstrumentationReport of meeting at IUGG Meeting 2007Perugia
WG V Meetings to date • IASPEI, Santiago, 2005 • EGU, Vienna, 2006 • IUGG, Perugia, 2007 • The focus thus far has been to obtain a consensus on the areas of interest and where this group can make a contribution to the community • 10 institutions represented
WG V Areas of interest • Promote use of uniform data archive formats and access methods • Promote open access to data after exclusive use period • Maintain inventory of available equipment • Maintain archive of metadata • Establish links to OBS pools
Demonstration Project Develop an application that can track information related to future experiments as a bounding box as well as past experiments with actual latitudes and longitudes. MySQL based Output .xls, text and XML versions First prototype with EXCEL Google Earth for display Demonstrate capabilities at next FDSN meeting
Future Possibilities • OBS Instrumentation • Links to OBS pools on FDSN website with contact details • Best Practice • To share best practice for field methods: • NMSOP practice equivalent for mobile instrumentation? • Provide links to pool procedures • Active Source • Encourage similar procedures to passive