[IGSMAIL-4035]: SITe utility at SOPAC

[Michael Scharber]

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IGS Electronic Mail      09 Aug 09:56:03 PDT 2002      Message Number 4035
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Author: SOPAC

To the GPS community,

In an ongoing effort to help provide the GPS community with useful ways of
finding and using metadata related to GPS sites SOPAC has developed a
web-based tool for ad-hoc extraction of various pieces of metadata for a
designated combination of sites and/or networks from SOPAC's production
database.  This tool is available to the public, requires no password or
login, and -can- be applied to any/all sites in SOPAC's
database.....keying on four-character site code for site identification.

Site information management, as most people in the GPS community are aware
of, affects nearly every aspect of permanent GPS data collection,
archiving, analysis and post-processing.  To this end, we intend to use
SITe (Site Information Tool [e]) to improve our own information management
for the SCIGN network, and we hope others will find it useful as well.

	http://sopac.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/SITe.cgi

Also noteworthy - over the next few months SOPAC, together with staff from
our SCIGN partners at the United States Geological Survey - Pasadena, hope
to both improve SITe and provide a document clearly outlining the CGI
interface of SITe for those users with an interest in incorporating SITe
functionality into their own utilities and/or web pages.

Finally, we have included a distinct "EarthScope/PBO" network 
category that will allow users to query metadata from the designated 
Western North America PBO region. Currently metadata are included 
from the existing continuous GPS arrays in this region. The tool will 
be useful as a way of tracking new continuous GPS sites as they are 
added to PBO.

Any questions, suggestions or opinions on this topic can be directed to:

	archive at sopac.ucsd.edu

Best regards,

SOPAC

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      	Michael Scharber
	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
	Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
	8785 Biological Grade
	IGPP Room 4212
	La Jolla, CA 92037

	mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu
	(858)534-1750
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