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 Links

• Source Code
• Bugzilla

• 20090505 met.no kvalobs work meeting to take place!

• 20071011 | 20081121 | 20090505

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

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”.