Re: Sidenote - station data

[Jonathan Callahan <Jonathan.S.Callahan@xxxxxxxx>]

Adam,

At this point in time neither Ferret nor LAS is able to work with raw 
OPeNDAP sequence data.  However, there is already an example 
TMAPDapper.pm driver that ingests OPeNDAP sequence data from a Dapper 
server by launching the OPeNDAP asciival program.  So it's a problem 
that is mostly already solved.

Here's what it would take to make it possible for the current version of 
LAS to work with OPeNDAP sequence data -- You would have to write a perl 
based driver (much like TMAPDapper.pm) that is subclassed from 
las/xml/perl/TMAP/TMAPDBI.pm.  This driver must know how to make an 
OPeNDAP request and then ingest lon, lat, time, z and spit out the LAS 
intermediate file.

Instructions are here:  
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/LASdoc/serve/cache/25.html

A generic LAS driver for OPeNDAP sequence URLs would be a very nice 
contribution if anyone wants to tackle it.


-- Jon


Adam Baxter wrote:

> Thanks again for all of the help so far. We're almost ready to go live.
> I was asked this morning to see if we could put the IGRA up on LAS - 
> is it possible? The station data is accessible via GDS (example: 
> http://nomads4.ncdc.noaa.gov:9091/dods/IGRA_STATION_RAOBS/425/igra.72327 
> for Nashville), but when doing a test ingest I receive "Error: DODS 
> sequence not supported at dds.y line 5".
> We're attempting to find some solutions, but that'll take a while due 
> to number crunching.
> Any ideas?
>
> Adam