Quality Assurance Advisory Committee Meeting
Winter Teleconference
Thursday, January 14, 2021
1-2:30 PM EST (10-11:30 AM PST)
Topic | Presenter |
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Roll Call and Introductions |
V. Lekic (Chair) |
Membership rotation |
V. Lekic |
Review of Action Items |
V. Lekic |
PIQQA (PI’s Quick Quality Assessment) |
J. Sweet |
QA updates: ○ New ASL contributed metric: gsn_timing ○ Issue: MUSTANG PSDs lacking values for 23:00-00:30 hour ○ Upcoming changes to the on-the-fly availability metrics (ts_ metrics) ○ Metrics coverage for sample_rate_resp, sample_rate_channel, max_range ○ Tools: QuARG release and ISPAQ version 3 (in development) |
G. Sharer |
New Action Items and final comments |
V. Lekic |
Action Items:
JUL2016-002: DMC network QA reports and QuARG report tool development
Responsible: Laura Keyson and Gillian Sharer
Status: QuARG was released in November 2020. CLOSED.
JUL2019-003: Update on progress of FDSN QA
Responsible: Jerry Carter
Status: Next FDSN meeting will be in Summer 2021, virtually.
JAN2020-001: Create a plan to rotate QAAC members. After approval from the QAAC, send plan to the Board of Directors.
Responsible: Vedran Lekic
Status: In progress
JAN2020-006: Send letter to the USGS asking about their procedures for evaluating new sensor models in-house and suggestions for QA metrics used.
Responsible: Vedran Lekic
Status: Corresponded with Dave Wilson and Adam Ringler. CLOSED.
JUN2020-001: Collaborate with Mladen Dordevic (IRIS HQ) to bring the QAAC into theCommittee database to align with the other Committees
Responsible: Gillian Sharer
Status: Completed. CLOSED.
JUN2020-002: Assemble existing scripts/tools for MUSTANG interactions with MATLAB
Responsible: Vedran Lekic
Status: Follow up with Andy and Kasey to put together one or two example scripts that can be added to the IRIS QA web pages.
JUN2020-003: Summarize communication with ASL about strong motion and broadband metrics and send report to the QAAC
Responsible: Morgan Moschetti
Status: No updates.
JUN2020-004: Provide current PASSCAL outbrief document to the QAAC
Responsible: Justin Sweet
Status: Completed. CLOSED.
JUN2020-005: Establish relations between the QAAC and the Instrumentation Committee by contacting Andy Frassetto or Gary Pavlis.
Responsible: Vedran Lekic
Status: Completed. CLOSED.
JUN2020-006: Compile reports of QA problems caused by COVID-19; including data availability, sensor performance, etc. Quantify in some way the data availability / quality reduction due to deferred maintenance.
Responsible: Katrin Hafner
Status: No Progress.
(NEW) JAN2021-001: Initiate further discussion of the tasks needed to integrate MUSTANG into the new IRIS/UNAVCO merger (including QA for GNSS) and future deployment to the cloud, the usefulness of associative QA measurements (mass position, synthetics), and the dissemination of sensor operator knowledge.
Responsible: Vedran Lekic