Environmental data asset and report generation management system

Abstract

In this thesis, the primary objective was to implement a data management solution for the gener-ation of time-series environmental data assets and reports. Overall, the system should aid in pre-paring for a more open-science approach to asset generation by allowing versioning, metadata annotation, and the ability to trace how and why data assets were created. In order to facilitate collaboration on such data-driven work, a technology stack consisting of multiple open source solutions were chosen. The solution should enable researchers to perform a variety of duties, in-cluding data collection, metadata injection, data versioning, and asset materialization, with relative ease. The implemented system makes it apparent how data assets are dependent on one an-other and how, by utilizing the tools, users can determine what type of data they are working with. As a result of implementing such a solution, an environmental data asset and report system was developed for two Tahkuse environmental measurement station gas analyzers, allowing for the generation of multiple data assets and reports in a clear, comprehensible, validated, versioned, and visually understandable way.