Export data to usable format?

[alexkinsella]

Hi, thanks for this great tool. I'm working with Garmin .RSD files and I'd like to export the data to a format that's easier to work with, like NetCDF. Can I do something like that with PINGMapper? I am able to successfully export the file metadata and sonogram tiles, but am I able to also export the raw data itself to some other file format?

[CameronBodine]

Thanks! I don't currently have that functionality built into PINGMapper but it would be a great addition. PINGVerter would be a better home for such a utility. It is the decoding and conversion utility for this and other software in the PING Ecosystem. I will add this as a functionality request. If this were something you would be interested in contributing, I think others would benefit as well. It would take me a while to get around to developing this functionality.

I do know about one Humminbird utility called PingData by @NeptuneProjects that contains the type of functionality you are looking for.

I am happy to help if you are interested in pushing forward with this.

[alexkinsella]

Great, thank you. I will try to implement this with PINGVerter for my case (.RSD to NetCDF) and share the results.

[CameronBodine]

Any updates?

[alexkinsella]

Hi Cameron,

Yes, I was able to process one of my .RSD files with pingverter using gar2pingmapper, which gave me the directory of metadata. Is there documentation about the contents of the resulting files?

By the way, when I installed pingverter using pip, it came with Pandas 3.0.0, which then gives you an error when you use gar2pingmapper related to a change with ffill. I reinstalled using Pandas 1.5 and NumPy 1.24 and then it worked. So maybe the pip install should come with specific versions of dependencies.

[CameronBodine]

Great. Some details, though probably not complete, on metadata items can be found here: https://cameronbodine.github.io/PINGMapper/docs/gettingstarted/Exports.html

I am also working on the pandas/numpy issues as we speak.

[CameronBodine]

Any updates?