willemarcel
commented
7 months ago I wasn't able to read the files for the Citation platform of OLYMPEX campaign, example https://data.ghrc.earthdata.nasa.gov/ghrcw-protected/gpmnavcitolyx__1/olympex_navcit_20151219_004208.txt
It's different from other icartt or txt files, as the columns are not separated by comma. I tried alternative solutions to read it, but I didn't succeed.
heidimok
This is an epic level issue that provides context and tasks to track progress. Separate issues will be linked based on sprints.
Problem
Feature Context
CASEI is an inventory of NASA’s airborne and field campaigns for Earth Science where scientists can look for metadata across four main categories even though they are also interconnected: campaigns, platforms, instruments, and data products (most recently added). This feature focuses on platforms, which are stationary or non-stationary structures like aircraft, balloons, field sites, vehicles, ships, and buoys that carry instruments. There are many types of platforms but at a high level they are either stationary (with a lon/lat) or non-stationary (series of lon/lats creating a path).
Current State
Currently in CASEI, we portray platforms through images, descriptions, links, and associations to other metadata both as its own feature page on the website, as well as in the associated campaigns and instrument pages.
Below is an image of a campaign page for IMPACTS. The cover image shows a bounding box over the area of campaign deployments, but we do not show the actual moving path or static location of the platform used in that deployment.
Additionally, each campaign page has an interactive timeline showing the different campaign deployment periods, but it only focuses on the timeframe without details about the actual deployed platforms.
Problem/Opportunity
Even though airborne data is spatial, CASEI does not currently highlight the spatial aspects of the data as well as it could in order to support metadata discovery. We showcase the spatial bounds of a field campaign, but without any other detail. In particular, campaign platforms like aircrafts have flight paths that could be showcased to allow scientists to better see and explore data (and areas) of interest.
Use Case - When scientists are looking at a campaign, they would have an enhanced view of each deployment by seeing precisely where a plane traveled throughout the field investigation.
How might we give airborne scientists the ability to see the flight path of an aircraft platform for a given deployment within a Campaign page?
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Key Considerations
Indicative Sketch of Desired Outcome