Open Source Software for the Quality Control of Geophysical Observations

Welcome to the kvalobs open source software project (kvoss).

Mission Statement

The project is launched by met.no in collaboration with SMHI

Kvoss is a term to describe a collection of closely related software products dedicated to the quality control of geophysical data, e.g. meteorological observations. The software was initially developed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

Kvoss is made available under the GNU General Public License version 2.

The kvoss bundle comprises:

Project	Description
kvalobs	Automatic quality control system
kvalobs_metadata	A library of quality control scripts which can be automatically implemented by kvalobs
kvhqc	Interface and tools for Manual Quality Control
kvhqc_apps	Miscellaneous utilities

Project Links

Source Code

Bugzilla

Latest News

ECSN Data Management Workshop will take place in Copenhagen, 4-6 november 2009

Meetings

20071011 | 20081121 | 20090505

Documentation

Operational kvalobs implementation at met.no

Original kvalobs documentation tree

kvoss project working documentation

System Documentation

User Documentation

Operational Documentation

To Do List and Related Documentation

Discussion

Discussion

Notes

Additional libraries

HQC requires some libraries located in https://svn.met.no/metlibs and uses miconfparser from kvalobs: https://svn.met.no/kvoss/kvalobs/trunk/src/lib/confparser/.

External resources utilised by kvoss include OMNIORB, Postgresql, BOOST, SQLlite, QT and pkgconfig.

Project email groups

The active project email is kvalobs-dev@met.no

Alternative plans for email groups are archived here.

Miscellaneous items

Preliminary points and proposals prior to open source release

Origin of the term kvalobs

kvalobs is an acronym derived from the Norwegian expression “kvalitetssikring av observasjoner”. The translation of this to English is “quality assurance of observations”.