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remora

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Rapid Extraction of Marine Observations for Roving Animals

github.com/imos-AnimalTracking/remora ↗

Australia's animal-tracking QC toolkit added a global 3-D ocean dataset, then spent two years absorbing upstream churn.

acoustic-telemetrymarine-sciencequality-controlenvironmental-datar-package
◆Current state
remora quality-controls acoustic telemetry detections from the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility and joins them to environmental data. Its capability surface settled with the 0.8-0 release, which added Bluelink reanalysis access and an interactive QC plot. Since then the work has been keeping data access fast and correct as the upstream providers change underneath it.
◆Where it's heading
The package's releases are paced by its dependencies rather than by feature ambition. The 2023 release had to survive the retirement of rgeos and rgdal — an ecosystem-wide deadline that forced every R spatial package to rebuild — and used the same release to add real capability. The 2025 release is entirely reactive in a different way, tracking an AODN metadata schema change that split one project-name field into two and swapping in tidync for faster environmental downloads. For a tool bound to a national data facility, schema changes at the source are the main release trigger.
◆Prediction
Expect the next release to track further IMOS or AODN metadata changes and continue tuning environmental data access, since two consecutive releases have been driven by upstream schema and package retirements rather than new analysis features.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    Faster environmental downloads and AODN metadata realignment

    Speeds up environmental data download in extractBlue and extractEnv by moving to tidync, and updates example and raw data for an AODN metadata change that splits tagging_project_name into separate device and deployment fields. The schema change is the kind that silently breaks existing scripts, so shipping updated reference data with it matters.

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  2. 2y ago

    remora 0.8-0

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    The release that defines the package's current shape: it survived the rgeos and rgdal retirement while adding Bluelink reanalysis access and an interactive QC plot. Everything since has been maintenance around the surface established here.

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  3. 4y ago

    Initial release of the remora package

    The initial published version, tagged from a commit hash rather than a version tag. The release note records only that this is the first release, so nothing about the package's starting capabilities can be read from the feed itself.

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