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comment |
| whole table |
This is a critical table for controlling the nightly Argos download. Several fields must be populated for a specific PTT download. These are eventid, pttnumber, speciesname, and startdate. Commonly PTTs are predeployed by using temporary eventids and speciesnames. Joins to this table will usually be made to eventid, pttnumber or toppid. |
| enddate |
The Argos data for this tagnumber and pttnumber combo is filtered by this upper date. |
| eventid |
Eventid can take on several forms in this table, but some value is necessary for the record to be active in the Argos download script. Typically we start with a predeploy eventid that omits the 2 digit species prefix. Once the tag has been deployed then a permanent eventid is assigned. It breaks down into several components. The first 2 digits are species ID. Digits 3 and 4 represent deployment year. Digits 5 - 7 count from 1 and represent individual animal deployments for the year. Digits 8 and 9 count from 0 and represent individual tags from the individual animal deployment. |
| predeploy_eventid |
Is the eventid a predeploy ID? A value of 1 is True and 0 is False. |
| speciesname |
Matches lsdname in toppspecies. Controls naming of folders in Argos directory. The predeploy value is usually "unknown" but it can be anything. |
| startdate |
The Argos data for this tagnumber and pttnumber combo is filtered by this lower date. |
| toppid |
The basic ID number for a specific animal deployment. Matches the first 7 digits of eventid. |