org.mbari.oasis
Class OMSUtil

java.lang.Object
  org.mbari.oasis.OMSUtil

public class OMSUtil

extends java.lang.Object

Utilties used for netcdf file construction

Version:

29 Sep 1999

Author:

Brian Schlining

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	getDataSymbol(OMSSensor s) Returns a short symbol used to represent the data in equations.
static java.util.Date	getDateFromName(java.lang.String filename) Converts a file name like '99123' or '1999123' to a Date object
static int	getDay(java.lang.String filename) Extract the day from filenames of types 'yyddd' or 'yyyyddd'.
static java.lang.String	getLongName(java.lang.String name) Assign a long descriptive name based on the short name found in the calibration files.
static java.lang.String	getSortableName(OMSSensor s) Assign each variable in an OMSSensor array a unique name that that can be used for sorting
static java.lang.String	getUniqueName(OMSSensor s) Assign each variable in an OMSSensor array a unique name
static java.lang.String	getUniqueName(java.lang.String name, int bank, int channel) Assign each variable in an OMSSensor array a unique name
static float	getWavelength(OMSSensor s)
static float	getWavelength(java.lang.String name)
static int	getYear(java.lang.String filename) Extract the year from filenames of types 'yyddd' or 'yyyyddd'.
static java.lang.String[]	sortFiles(java.lang.String[] strArray) Sorts an array of Strings alphabetically

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getLongName

public static java.lang.String getLongName(java.lang.String name)

Assign a long descriptive name based on the short name found in the calibration files.

Parameters:

name - String which is to be the name of this Attribute

Returns:

longName String describing the short name

getUniqueName

public static java.lang.String getUniqueName(java.lang.String name,
                                             int bank,
                                             int channel)

Assign each variable in an OMSSensor array a unique name

Parameters:

name - The short descriptive name of a sensor variable

bank - The bank number of the sensor

channel - The channel number of the sensor

Returns:

A unique name for the sensor created by comining the name, bank and channel

getUniqueName

public static java.lang.String getUniqueName(OMSSensor s)

Assign each variable in an OMSSensor array a unique name

Parameters:

s - An OMSSensor object

Returns:

A unique name for the sensor created by comining the name, bank and channel

getSortableName

public static java.lang.String getSortableName(OMSSensor s)

Assign each variable in an OMSSensor array a unique name that that can be used for sorting

Parameters:

s - An OMSSensor object

Returns:

A unique name for the sensor created by comining the name, bank and channel

getDateFromName

public static java.util.Date getDateFromName(java.lang.String filename)

Converts a file name like '99123' or '1999123' to a Date object

Parameters:

filename - The file name of the data file

Returns:

A date object corresponding to the date of the filename

getYear

public static int getYear(java.lang.String filename)

Extract the year from filenames of types 'yyddd' or 'yyyyddd'.

Returns:

The year represented in the file name

getDay

public static int getDay(java.lang.String filename)

Extract the day from filenames of types 'yyddd' or 'yyyyddd'.

Returns:

The year-day represented in the file name

sortFiles

public static java.lang.String[] sortFiles(java.lang.String[] strArray)

Sorts an array of Strings alphabetically

Parameters:

strArray - An array of strings

Returns:

The array of string sorted alphabetically

getWavelength

public static float getWavelength(OMSSensor s)

getWavelength

public static float getWavelength(java.lang.String name)

getDataSymbol

public static java.lang.String getDataSymbol(OMSSensor s)

Returns a short symbol used to represent the data in equations. For example Ed490 in Channel 0 will return "Es" as the symbol

Parameters:

s - An OMSSensor object

Returns:

symbol A string of the symbol corresponding to the data collected by the sensor.