Nomenclature
Terms that have specific meanings in the obsinfo universe
- instrumentation
A complete instrumentation (such as an OBS)
- instrument
One channel of an instrumentation, minus the orientation information
- instrument_component
One component of an instrument: a datalogger, sensor, or pre-amplifier
- element
Anything in the information file written as a key in a
key: valuepair- key
Must be a string
- experiment
the highest level of the experiment-campaign-expedition sequence, it represents all data collected at one region (something like an FDSN network)
- campaign
A data collection campaign, which may consist of one or more expeditions. Each campaign generally represents one group of data that will be sent to a data center
- expedition
One data-collection mission, generally a ship leg for OBS deployments