Conversion from existing file formats to OceanGliders file format

[lukegre]

Rationale
New file standard will be introduced (OceanGliders), but there's a gap for people to convert their data from proprietary "base station" outputs to the OceanGliders format. GliderTools may be in a position to fill this gap

How would the user call the function

data = gt.load.seaglider_basestation_netCDFs(file_names)
# some steps in harmonising the variable names etc.  
gt.save.as_oceangliders(new_name)

What we need to do this

• Documentation of the minimum requirements for OceanGliders format.
• Existing load modules need to load the data correctly (i.e. netCDF attributes)
• Variable naming will still be an issue. This will probably require a lot of input from the user.
• A lot of checks to ensure that the requirements are met (data format + metadata).

[soerenthomsen]

@vturpin can you provide the most recent documentation of the minimum requirements for the OceanGliders format?

[soerenthomsen]

Any questions related to the OG1.0 format etc should be raised in the official OceanGlidersCommunity repo here:

Thanks @vturpin