Development of a Flexible Multi-Channel Spatiotemporal Geophysical HDF5 Data Format Supporting FAIR Completed
A unique opportunity for USGS to collaborate with IRIS-PASSCAL (the national seismic instrument facility) has presented itself to develop a geophysical data archive format that follows FAIR principles. IRIS-PASSCAL is extending facility to include magnetotelluric (MT) instruments prescribing the need for them to archive collected MT data by extending their existing protocol. Concurrently, Congress has mandated the USGS to collect nationwide MT data (5000 stations) which will all need to be archived under FAIR principles. In collaboration with IRIS-PASSCAL, we propose to develop a generalized HDF5 format for archiving MT data which can easily be extended to other geophysical data in the future. This project will not only be beneficial to USGS and IRIS-PASSCAL but also international facilities that need a comprehensive format to store geophysical data.
Principal Investigator : Jared R Peacock
Cooperator/Partner : Anna Kelbert, Paul A Bedrosian, Andy Frassetto
- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 5e9db82882ce172707fb8cf7)
Metadata standards for Magnetotelluric Time Series Data
Jared Peacock
Research Geophysicist
Paul A Bedrosian
Research Geophysicist
- Overview
A unique opportunity for USGS to collaborate with IRIS-PASSCAL (the national seismic instrument facility) has presented itself to develop a geophysical data archive format that follows FAIR principles. IRIS-PASSCAL is extending facility to include magnetotelluric (MT) instruments prescribing the need for them to archive collected MT data by extending their existing protocol. Concurrently, Congress has mandated the USGS to collect nationwide MT data (5000 stations) which will all need to be archived under FAIR principles. In collaboration with IRIS-PASSCAL, we propose to develop a generalized HDF5 format for archiving MT data which can easily be extended to other geophysical data in the future. This project will not only be beneficial to USGS and IRIS-PASSCAL but also international facilities that need a comprehensive format to store geophysical data.
Principal Investigator : Jared R Peacock
Cooperator/Partner : Anna Kelbert, Paul A Bedrosian, Andy Frassetto- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 5e9db82882ce172707fb8cf7)
- Data
Metadata standards for Magnetotelluric Time Series Data
Magnetotellurics (MT) is an electromagnetic geophysical method that is sensitive to variations in subsurface electrical resistivity. Measurements of natural electric and magnetic fields are done in the time domain, where instruments can record for a couple of hours up to mulitple months resulting in data sets on the order of gigabytes. The principles of findability, accessibility, interoperabili - Connect
Jared Peacock
Research GeophysicistEmailPhonePaul A Bedrosian
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