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.

Kvoss does no longer exist as common technical unit, but exists on github as different repositories: |

Project	Description	Path on github
kvmeta	Metadata scripts for MET Norway's kvalobs installation	https://github.com/metno/kvmeta
kvalobs	Open Source Software for the Quality Control of Geophysical Observations	https://github.com/metno/kvalobs
kvqc2d	https://github.com/metno/kvqc2d
kvjava	https://github.com/metno/kvjava
kvsynopd	https://github.com/metno/kvsynopd
kvhqc	Interface and tools for Manual Quality Control	https://github.com/metno/kvhqc
kvmodelpopulate	Populate kvalobs model data tables from api.met.no	https://github.com/metno/kvmodelpopulate
kvnorcom	https://github.com/metno/kvnorcom
kvbufrd	https://github.com/metno/kvbufrd
kvaggregated	https://github.com/metno/kvaggregated

There exist an subversion for older stuff - generally not in use

Source Code

Latest News

Meetings

20071011 | 20081121 | 20090505 | 20100110 | 20101123

Documentation

Operational kvalobs implementation at met.no

This is the original place of the documentation

Kvalobs documentation tree

The kvalobs documentation is moved to here:

Kvalobs documentation tree

kvoss project working documentation

System Documentation

To Do List and Related Documentation

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”.