Software tools - ASMM
Metadata
ASMM
Airborne Science Mission Metadata
Publisher: EUFAR (Matt Freer, Olivier Henry)
Producer: EUFAR
Platform: Online, Windows, Linux
Software / Code: Java + GWT, Python 3.5, Stand-alone
Software version: 2017
Status: Ready to use
Software sources:
- Online: Sources for the online version
- Offline: Sources for the offline version
- Stand-alone: Installer for the stand-alone version
Features:
Within airborne atmospheric science, mission reports provide valuable details about research flights that are not evident from the instrument data itself. These reports can include environmental details such as types of clouds encountered, surfaces overflown and synoptic features, or mission details such as overall scientific aims, flight manoeuvres undertaken and supporting surface based observations, among many other things. Currently, mission reports take the form of handwritten or electronic notes, thus the quality and content varies greatly between authors, making the reports less useful for filtering or searching of specific flight details in the months and years after the flight.
This project - Airborne Science Mission Metadata (ASMM) - was motivated by the need to create a standard set of mission reports, aiding in classification and searches of data sets based on flight phenomena, mission parameters or other criteria. To meet this goal, an XML format has been developed to store the mission report data in a standard manner, and an easy-to-use graphical user interface has been developed to facilitate creation and display of the standard XML files.