Annotating Tripod Images Using VARS

These notes were prepared by Brian Schlining. Last updated on 2015-01-21

Loading images into VARS

In order to annotate images in VARS they need to be loaded. In order to load a set of tripod images do the following:

Annotating using VARS

The VARS applications can be launched by clicking on a web link. The VARS applications can be found at http://seaspray.shore.mbari.org/vars/. For the Tripod images launch the annotation for images application. NOTE: The tripod images sets are very large so it may take a minute or two for VARS to open a set. Be patient!!

Load log

The following commands have been run to load tripod images:
gsh ../scripts/groovy/load_tripod.groovy http://search.mbari.org/ARCHIVE/VARS_Stn-M_Image_Archive/ImageArchive/TripodM/Pulse%2055/101NC_D3/ 55 -123.26766666666667 34.96033333333333 4460 2.3 32
gsh ../scripts/groovy/load_tripod.groovy http://search.mbari.org/ARCHIVE/VARS_Stn-M_Image_Archive/ImageArchive/TripodM/Pulse%2056/100EOS5D/ 56  -123.28179 34.94849166666667 4075 2.3 32
gsh ../scripts/groovy/load_tripod.groovy http://search.mbari.org/ARCHIVE/VARS_Stn-M_Image_Archive/ImageArchive/TripodM/Pulse%2057/DCIM/100EOS5D/ 57 -123.24912166666667 34.96555166666667 4066 2.3 32
gsh ../scripts/groovy/load_tripod.groovy http://search.mbari.org/ARCHIVE/VARS_Stn-M_Image_Archive/ImageArchive/TripodM/Pulse%2058/ 58 -123.08617 35.10547 4050 2.3 32

Notes

VARS Timecodes have essentially no meaning for Tripod images. I tried using time as the timecode, but do to the long duration of tripod deployments that would lead to numerous images using duplicate timecodes (This is a no-no in VARS). Instead, I just converted the sequence number of the image (starting at 0) to a frame count.