Equipment

Description

Equipment class describes the characteristics of a particular instrumentation or instrument component, such as the vendor, model, serial number and calibration dates.

Python class:

Equipment

YAML / JSON label:

equipment

Corresponding StationXML structure

Equipment
Datalogger
Sensor
Preamplifier

All of these classes have the same attributes as the obsinfo class, which are populated from the Equipment subclass of Instrumentation, Sensor, Preamplifier and Datalogger in obsinfo

Object Hierarchy

Superclass

None

Subclasses

None

Relationships

Belongs to:

Instrumentation
Datalogger
Sensor
Preamplifier

Attributes

Name	Type	Required	Default	Equivalent StationXML	Remarks
type	string	Y	None	type	Not required in StationXML
description	string	Y	None	Description	Not required in StationXML
manufacturer	string	Y	None	manufacturer	Not required in StationXML
model	string	Y	None	model	Not required in StationXML
vendor	string	N	None	vendor	Not required in StationXML
serial_number	string	N	None	serial_number	Not required in StationXML
installation_date	date	N	None	startDate	Not required in StationXML
remove_date	date	N	None	endDate	Not required in StationXML
calibration_date	date	N	None	calibDate	Not required in StationXML

(str):
- vendor (str):
- serial_number (str):
- resource_id (str):
- obspy_equipment (object of class Equipment from obspy.core.inventory.equipment

JSON schema

https://www.gitlab.com/obsinfo/obsinfo/data/schemas/network.schema.json

https://www.gitlab.com/obsinfo/obsinfo/obsinfo/data/schemas/definitions.schema.json

Example

FDSN Network_info section referred in network information file.

network:
    code: "4G"
    name: "Short period OBSs"
    start_date: "2007-07-01"
    end_date: "2025-12-31"
    description: "Short period OBS network example"
    comments: ["Lucky Strike Volcano, North Mid-Atlantic Ridge"]