Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
This report describes the design and implementation of a
database to store zooplankton net tow data and the applications
programming done to update and access the database using the
Sigma 7 Extended Database Management System. The database contains
information about each tow (cruise name, tow number, type
of tow, year, month, day, time of day, longitude, latitude,
area of tow, day-night code); each sample (depth code; minimum
and maximum depth; minimum, maximum and average values of
temperature, salinity, oxygen, light and chlorophyll; total
biomass; aliquot size; and volume of water filtered); each
species (family, genus, species names, and catch per 1000 m3).
Information can be retrieved by user-written applications
programs or with the Sigma 7 Interactive Database Processor,
which can either print a report of the retrieved data or store
it in a file for further processing. As presently formulated,
the database can store up to 500 tows or samples, 10 families,
100 genera, 500 species and 50,000 catch records.
Description:
Prepared for the Office of Naval Research under Contract
N000 147?9- C-0071; NR 083-004.
Keywords:
Information storage and retrieval systems
;
Zooplankton
;
MOCNESS Net Tows
;
CODASYL Database for Zooplankton
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Technical Report
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