http://myportal.org/measurements/url_create?instrument_id=25&wdir=038&wspd=3.2
http://myportal/api/v1/data/3.csv?last
Cloud.HOsted.Real-time.Data.Services or CHORDS is a masterpiece of the NSF EarthCube project. It is a real-time data service for the geosciences that provides an easy-to-use system to acquire, navigate, and distribute real-time data via cloud services and the Internet. CHORDS aims to lower the barrier to these services, especially for small instrument teams, and broaden access to real-time data for the geosciences community.
The CHORDS Portal is being developed under NSF grant funding and is not guaranteed to be bug free. Even so, this work has produced a capable, stable and useful product. CHORDS is productively employed by many “friendly users”, and we encourage you to use it, appreciate the simplicity that it brings to real-time data distribution, and provide us with feedback on how it can be improved. CHORDS consists of two components:
- a real-time instrument data management server (Portal)
- a collection of higher level web-services that provide advanced, standards based processing (Services).
The CHORDS Portal:
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web server and database that accepts real-time data from distributed instruments and serves the measurements to anyone on the Internet. The data streams are pushed to and pulled from the portal using simple HTTP requests.
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management tool that allows you to monitor your remote instruments, ensure correct operation, and maximize data collection.
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rolling archive from which scientists and analysts can easily fetch the data in real-time, delivered directly to browsers, programs, and mobile apps. It will only hold a certain amount of data, but usually enough to give you plenty of time (e.g. months) to transfer to your own archive system. One click brings you a CSV or GeoJSON file. A few lines of code brings data directly into your analysis programs.
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entry point to sophisticated real-time web services that can convert your data streams to standardized formats, and provide mapping, visualization, discovery, aggregation, and many other web-enabled functions.
Current and Future
Currently, portals only process time-series measurements. Plans are underway to add additional data types, such as ray-oriented measurements and imagery. We are always open to suggestions for other observation types. You can send us suggestions or questions via email at chords@ucar.edu or visit us on our github https://github.com/earthcubeprojects-chords.
Citing CHORDS and Sponsor Acknowledgements
CHORDS has been issued a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) from DataCite.org
We request that researchers cite its use in any relevant publication or other context using this format:
Please see data.datacite.org to view the relevant DOI metadata fields.
CHORDS is being developed for the National Science Foundation’s EarthCube program under grants 1639750, 1639720, 1639640, 1639570 and 1639554.
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