Author: mdoray Date: 2012-12-14 17:56:47 +0100 (Fri, 14 Dec 2012) New Revision: 787 Url: http://forge.codelutin.com/projects/echobase/repository/revisions/787 Log:

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Modified: trunk/src/site/en/rst/index.rst Modified: trunk/src/site/en/rst/index.rst =================================================================== --- trunk/src/site/en/rst/index.rst 2012-11-25 11:42:20 UTC (rev 786) +++ trunk/src/site/en/rst/index.rst 2012-12-14 16:56:47 UTC (rev 787) @@ -31,15 +31,22 @@ the French Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) has designed an open software suite for storing fisheries acoustic data and computing acoustic indicators for survey-based ecosystem monitoring. It comprises a postgreSQL -database designed to store acoustic, navigation and fishing data from ecosystemic surveys (Echobase) +database designed to store acoustic, navigation and fishing data from ecosystemic surveys (EchoBase) and a suite of R codes (EchoR) for computing fish population indicators based on Echobase data. -This site describes the Echobase database. If you are interested in geoR, please visit the `Ifremer forge`_. +This site describes the Echobase database. If you are interested in EchoR, please visit the `Ifremer forge`_. -Echobase provide a web-browser interface for importing, editing and querying data, -large storage capacities, and an easy integration into Geographical Information Systems or dynamic websites. -The Echobase acoustic metadata format follows the `ICES WGFAST`_ Topic Group on metadata standards recommendations. +EchoBase is built upon an open source PostgreSQL database, ensuring large storage capacities and easy integration into Geographical Information Systems or dynamic websites. +It has been designed to store data collected during both acoustic and bottom trawl based ecosystemic cruises. +The EchoBase data model is based on the `ICES WGFAST`_ Topic Group on metadata standards recommendations1. +It comprised a main « cruise metadata branch » on which are plugged acoustic and fishing (« Operation ») data. +Biomass estimation results can also be stored in the database at both the acoustic cell (small scale results) and voyage (large scale results)levels. +The database also allows for the storage of length-weight and Target Strength-length reference relationships, as well as map data at the voyage level. +EchoBase features a Java web-browser interface for selecting working databases, managing users, importing, editing and querying data. +It also can be easily connected to LibreOffice base or the R statistical software for querying data. +Portable H2 databases can be extracted from the server-based EchoBase instance and stored on a local harddrive. + Documentation -------------