OpenVDM is a ship-wide data management platform for research vessels.

OpenVDM is a ship-wide data management platform for research vessels. It retrieves and organizes files from multiple instrument and data-acquisition systems into a unified cruise data package, with web-based access and a plugin architecture for custom data processing.

Key Features

  • Automated data ingestion from local directories, rsync servers, SMB shares, SSH servers and FTP servers
  • Cruise data transfers to backup drives, NAS, servers and rclone cloud remotes
  • Cruise and lowering lifecycle management: create, monitor, and finalize cruise and dive/lowering data packages
  • Data dashboard with maps, time-series charts and depth profiles, generated by plugins, including parsers for Sea-Bird CTD and MK21 XBT casts
  • Ship-to-shore transfer of selected data, by priority, to a shoreside data warehouse
  • Extensible plugin system for custom per-file parsing, statistics and quality tests
  • Web-based administration for managing transfers, extra directories, and hooks