seabirdfilehandler 0.14.3

DEPRECATED: use new package 'ctdam' instead

Migration notice

This library has been consolidated with others to form the new package "ctdam", whose development can be tracked here.

Legacy description

This is a library for handling the different SeaBird file types. Each file is meant to be represented by one object that stores all of its information in a structured way. Through the grouping of different data types, more complex calculations, visualisations and output forms are possible inside of those objects.

By being able to parse edited data and metadata back to the original file format, this package can be used to process data using custom ideas, while staying compatible to the original SeaBird software packages. This way, one can create new workflows that interchangeably use old and new processing modules. One implementation of this idea is the ctd-processing python package, also developed at the IOW.

The structured metadata does provide the possibility to leverage the vast amounts of information stored inside the extensive metadata header. Sensor data and processing information are readily available in intuitive dictionaries.