How to Set Up a Station

The term station originates with weather stations, but has since been used more generally. A station in Dendra simply means a datalogger at a site.

What follows are instrunctions on how to onboard a datalogger and its sensors.

A. Check your Organization’s Controlled Vocabularies

Under the System Organizations tab, select your organization. If you are a Curator for your organization you will be able to edit the organization’s configuration. Near the bottom is a section called Subscribed vocabularies. By default all organizations use the Measurement (Dq) as required. This ensures consistency and findability across orgs. However, you can add other vocabularies as Required or Optional.

How to Configure a New Station

1. Choose Stations, near the top in the menu.
2. + New button on the top right brings up a new station dialogue. If you do not see the button, check that you are in the correct Organization (listed at top) and that you have Curator status within your organization.
3. Name the station. The full dialogue shows up once it is named.
4. !Important! Station readiness checklist now appears in the top right corner in bright red. The checklist is your guide to setting up a station. Refer back to this checklist as you work through the steps.
5. Define a Site where the station is located. This can be done from within the Station configuration form.
   1. Scroll down to Station deployments
   2. Click + Add
   3. If you have already created a Site, choose the existing site, otherwise the system will use the station’s name for the Site as well.
   4. You MUST choose a Time zone. The Time zone is critical for processing and distributing the data.
   5. Finally, specify when the station was first deployed. Dendra allows stations to be moved, so multiple deployments are supported. If this was a finite campaign, close out the deployment with an end date. Otherwise, leave it blank for ongoing.
   6. Rare: If you have a mobile system, such as a boat or ship mounted logger, or a drone or car based system, select Roaming deployment. This assumes the data coming have x,y,z on every datapoint along with the timestamp.
   7. Hit Save
6. Fill out as much information as you have. We strongly encourage Curators to add photos of their station. Ideally photos from each cardinal direction and a photo of the inside of the logger box for troubleshooting, if appropriate. See Section XXX for a fuller discussion of Station configuration.
7. Check your Station readiness checklist