This step describes sensors which are connected to small platforms e.g. bouys, glider, etc., for platforms itself, e.g. satellites, and especially for vessels and stations that are not equipped with a DSHIP system.
The platform transfers its sensor data via satellite internet connection link to e.g. a ftp-server or send it by mail.The "Near Realtime Data Collection"-System (NRT-System) installed at the AWI Computing and Data Center provides several procedures to download and process further steps of these sensor data automatically. The system checks the server at a specified time or in time intervals for new sensor data. If available, the data will be downloaded and stored at a central temporary disk space, ready for the archiving procedureFurthermore the NRT-System can separate certain sensor data out of the downloaded file(s) for storing in the central database (NRT-DB). Thereby the file-format must meet the requirements of a standard NRT-Data-Input-File (read more).To define this procedure for the NRT-System some information have to be declared once:
Several control parameters (e.g. servername or server address, username, passwords, etc.) are necessary in order to have access to measurement data.In order to select the downloadable file(s), the directory- and filename(s) must be defined by regular expressions. Placeholders, such as YEAR, MONTH, and DAY are possible.Finally, we need the time periods to check for new sensor dataUse the ingest tab in sensor.awi.de (see spaces.awi.de/x/kaG0FQ for detailled procedure).