Research and Station Management
Dendra is a cloud-based, multi-organizational system, designed to support massive permanent monitoring efforts.
It is not intended for individual researchers or for short term ( < 1 year ) campaigns.
Researchers and Field Technicians
Section titled “Researchers and Field Technicians”Dendra services both those who conduct research and those who manage research assets such as stations, dataloggers, and the resulting metadata concerning station status and sensor health.
The two primary user types are field technicians and researchers.
Field Technicians
Section titled “Field Technicians”Field Technicians are part of an organization that uses Dendra to operate their sensor observatory. Field techs conduct station management, monitor datalogger health, and are responsible for station deployment and data curation for a given organization.
Researchers
Section titled “Researchers”Researchers often have no affiliation to an organization, as typically one is not required to access an organization’s publicly available data. Researchers may or may not have a Dendra login.
Station Management
Section titled “Station Management”Much of the functionality discussed in Core Concepts is aimed at the managers and field technicians from an organization.
As a real-time system, Dendra provides a status page for an organization’s stations and sends notifications (email, slack, or text) when a station goes down (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Sparc-lines of logger voltage are displayed as a diagnostic of station health.