Notes from 23/24
March VTC
Present:
TFRI:
Hen-Biau King <hbking@serv.tfri.gov.tw>
JT Chao <jtchao@serv.tfri.gov.tw>
Chau-Chin Lin <chin@serv.tfri.gov.tw>
Sheng-Shan Lu sslu@serv.tfri.gov.tw
Academia
Sincia:
Charles Chih-Yu Chiu <bochiu@sinica.edu.tw>
Alan Lai <d87625005@ntu.edu.tw>
NCHC:
Fang-Pang Lin <fplin@nchc.org.tw>
Julian Yu-Chung Chen <julian@nchc.org.tw>
Hsiu-Mei Chou <c00xmz00@nchc.org.tw>
Grace Hong <gswhong@nchc.gov.tw>
UW Trout Lake:
Tim Kratz <tkkratz@wisc.edu>
Tim Meinke <twmeinke@wisc.edu>
UW- Madison:
Paul Hanson <pchanson@wisc.edu>
Barbara Benson <bjbenson@wisc.edu>
Dave Balsiger dbalsiger@wisc.edu
UCSD/SDSC
Peter Arzberger <parzberg@ucsd.edu>
Tony Fountain <fountain@sdsc.edu>
Longjiang Ding <ljding@sdsc.edu>
Next
Meeting (Tentative Date/Time):
Tentative date 6/7 April (Daylight savings time in US)
7 April 2004, 9 am Taiwan
6 April 2004, 6 pm San Diego, 8 pm
Wisconsin (need to confirm the time in U.S due to change to daylight savings time)
Action
Items:
- Julian: Order radio this week, keep Tim Meinke informed
- Tim K, Tim M, Paul H: Let Chin know of travel plans and desire agenda
- Chin, Alan, Julian: arrange for Julian to have access to CR10X so he can refine software for downloading data
- All: Comment on the url provided by Longjiang
- Hsui Mei: Make changes to descriptions in database about YYL
- Longjiang and Barbara: Discuss metadata, come up with plan for project
- Dave B: Set up web site before next meeting
o All: Send pictures, ideas, logos to Dave
- Hen-biau, Tim, Peter: Discuss contacts (limnologists) for larger project in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Korea.
- Tim and Peter: Draft note to Limnologists in Australia
Agenda
for Next meeting:
- Finalize travel plans
- Review orders for all equipment (buoys, sensors, dataloggers, radios)
- Update on Data interface
- Update on overall system components (per powerpoint slide of 10/11 March meeting)
- Review action items from last time
- Schedule next vtc.
Summary:
- Will be ready
Order radio this week, do overnight delivery
Need to connect radio with cellular phone (test that system)
Julian needs access to Datalogger (CR10X)
Is there a CR10 with data need to know software program
Who will program datalogger. (Lai need to talk with Julian)
See e-mail from Julian below
- Set dates purchased tickets
- Paul Hanson arrives 17 April departs 24 April
- Tim and Tim arrive 18 April departs 25 April
- 19 23 April All three will be there
- Chin will handle logistic details (number of days in city/YYL; others you want to meet)
i. Go to YYL first
ii. Then visit TFRI, NCHC, Academia Sinica
- Please get logistics to Chin this week.
- Send url to everyone: http://matrix.sdsc.edu:8000/lake0/index.jsp
i. Send Comments to Longjiang about this.
- Other Issues:
i. What Units
ii. Metadata: Human Readable and (Barbara and Longjiang to be in contact)
iii. YYL: Descriptions
5. Doing a test of as much of the system as possible [all]
Review Level 0 Architecture (see notes from 10 March
- Who is responsible for getting meteorological data to NCHC?
1. NCHC does physical connection
2.
Dr Wu (Academia Sinica) (?) to go along test (see note from Julian below)
Is the data monitoring System still being planned?
Charles and Hsui Mei once we have data retrieve program ready NCHC will give web interface
4. Julian will
Need Test data from YYL (Charles to send to Hsui Mei)
- See note from Julian below.
- Talked with Mary Clutter very supportive
- Talked with Keri Ann Jones (mentioned working via Steve Hamburg but we need to discuss this)
- Expand (talk with Hen-Biau next week)
i. NZ
ii. Australia
iii. Japan
iv. Korea
- Once prototype is ready, will make it available for Chinese
- End of next week
- Send comments straight to David Balsinger (pictures, icons, logos)
- Should be able to have prototype web page up by next vtc (April 6/7)
8. Australia project [Peter]
- Send information to Tim/Barbara about Radha Nandkumar (radha@ncsa.uiuc.edu). She is the PI on the NSF award to help build ties between researchers in Australia and the US.
- Meeting in Australia is 8, 9 June 2004
9. Next vtc
Tentative date 6/7 April
Time (daylight savings time in US)
7 April 2004, 9 am Taiwan
6 April 2004, 6 pm San Diego, 8 pm Wisconsin ??? need to double check times
Note from Julian:
Hi all,
Sorry
that I did not make things clear enough in today's VTC.
I would
like to summarize what I said today.
0.
Radio purchase:
a. Julian will push and make sure that
NCHC accountants to wire
transfer
the payment to Freewave
within this week.
b. Tim Meinke mentioned that Freewave
will need about 2 weeks to
manufacture
the radios.
c. Inform Freewave to ship the radios
overnight, so Tim can receive
the
radios as soon as possible.
1. The
wireless connectivity:
We did a lab testing connecting setup
like below.
<data logger> - <freewave
radios> - <GSM modem> ... <telephone
line>
- <modem> - <PC>
The connection is done. And now we can
get the binary data dump
from
data logger through such network setups
in NCHC lab environment.
2. The
software to parse the dumped binary data:
The software we developed needs the
information of the DLD program
in the
data logger. And since we have a
tight schedule here, we would like to
have the exactly same DLD
program
which will be programed in the data
logger on the buoy(YYL). Then once the
binary parse software if
developed,
we can just `plug-and-play' in the
YYL field trip in mid April.
Actually, Dr. Lai just sent me a mail
after the VTC. Here's what we are going to do:
a. Dr. Charles will send the DLD program
in the meteorological
station
data logger to NCHC.
b. Hseu-Mei will send Dr. Lai the trout
lake sample data, so maybe
Dr. Lai
can try to program the
data logger accordingly.
3. Q1
in the level-0 powerpoint diagram
a. Julian talked to Dr. Wu who is the
owner of the data logger in
the
meteorological station before last VTC.
He agreed that we can connect this
data logger to the Freewave
radio
relay.
b. Mr. Wang, who is the person in charge
of downloading the data in this data logger would like to go with
us to physically connect the data
logger to the relay radio.
4. Q2
in the level-1 powerpoint diagram
Once the data retrieval software mentioned
in 1. and 2. is ready.
We will
wrap it with a web interface, so persons who is interested(Dr. Charles and Dr.
Lai) can access it through a web browser.
-
julian