Zach's Blog

  What did you accomplish this week? This week I met with my team to discuss our video outline and testing plans. Following our meeting I began organizing unit and integration tests for our parsing application and planning another source distribution build and container image build for our custom STAC API What is your plan for next week? Next week I will continue implementing and updating unit and integration tests for the parsing application.  What challenges, if any, are you currently facing in project development? Do you need instructor assistance?  I'm not facing any challenges at this time.

  What did you accomplish this week? This week I met with my team and project mentor to demonstrate the current state of our development. Following our meeting I made updates to our parsing application, converting to API endpoint calls instead of directly interfacing with the STAC database. In addition I added functionality to simplify offline dropsonde parsing, STAC item creation, and STAC item insertion. What is your plan for next week? Next week I will meet with my team to determine next steps for testing and work on writing tests for our system.  What challenges, if any, are you currently facing in project development? Do you need instructor assistance?  I'm not facing any challenges at this time.

What did you accomplish this week? This week I pushed updates to our parser development branch which included additional parsing for remarks and removal of certain metadata properties that were unnecessary for describing the who, what, when, and where of a dropsonde message. In addition I was able to get our parser, STAC API, and STAC browser containers running and hosted AWS, load our STAC database with STAC items using our custom API endpoint integrated with our parser, and test our application's availability on the internet. After confirming our application's accessibility, I scheduled a demonstration with our mentor to show our progress and attain feedback. What is your plan for next week? Next week I will demonstrate our STAC parsing and catalog browsing capabilities within our container hosted on AWS to our project mentor.   What challenges, if any, are you currently facing in project development? Do you need instructor assistance?  I'm not facing any challenges at...

   What did you accomplish this week? This week I looked into integrating the stac-browser container within the docker compose YAML file provided in the stac-fastapi-pgstac project. In addition I cleaned up some unnecessary data included in STAC items written by our parser as well as read further documentation from the National Hurricane Center on how I can do additional parsing on dropsonde remark messages. I also published a build and tested docker image including our team's parsing tools to docker hub to allow it to be pulled from our AWS instance. What is your plan for next week? Next week I will work with my team to get our STAC Server running and hosted within an AWS server for demonstration and testing with our stakeholders.  What challenges, if any, are you currently facing in project development? Do you need instructor assistance?  So far local development has been smooth on a Windows 11 operating system. Containers are able to be built and ran using docker...

 What did you accomplish this week? This week I worked on updating our NHC Recon Dropsonde parsing library with the capability to gather individual dropsonde files by a URL from the online NHC archive web server, gather all dropsonde files using links scraped from an NHC archive page, and integrated pypgstac with psycopg2 to handle inserting generated STAC items into a dropsonde collection and into a PgSTAC database. To familiarize myself with our system and determine the best path forward for deployment, I setup a development environment on my local machine running docker containers for stac-fastapi-pgstac with our parsing package installed on it, stac-db for the Postgres database, and stac-browser to test a web based GUI browser. I made modifications to the fastapi server within the stac-fastapi-container, adding endpoints to post dropsonde file and archive URLs for processing. Following those modifications I ran a manual system test resulting in hundreds of dropsonde observation...