Operations Manual for Pelagos: An Expert System for Quality Control and FeatureRecognition of Oceanographic Data from the Open Ocean

摘要

An expert system was developed to aid oceanographers and data managers in thequality control and feature recognition of oceanographic data from the open ocean. Oceanographic data collected from the open ocean are screened for proper ranges against data collected from the same area during former cruises. Calculations are also performed on the data as a cross-check of certain parameters against others. The system developed runs on the PC the Macintosh and a UNIX workstation. The system is easily configurable to report only oceanographic parameters of interest. Data are read from, and output to, ASCII files. Source code is provided, and a list of avenues for further development is presented.