Built-in reading profiles¶
DASexplorer ships with the following built-in reading profiles. Each profile pairs a reader function with a set of default visualisation parameters tuned for a specific dataset.
| Interrogator | Company | Format | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| HDAS 2.5 | Aragón Photonics Lab. | .bin |
APL HDAS 2.5 (.bin) UPV + APL |
| OptaSense | Luna Innovations | .h5 |
Luna Innov. OptaSense (.h5) OOI-RCA 2021 |
| Silixa iDAS | Silixa | .tdms |
Silixa iDAS (.tdms) OOI-RCA 2021 |
| ASN OptoDAS | Alcatel Submarine Networks | .hdf5 |
ASN OptoDAS (.hdf5) OOI-RCA 2024 |
DASexplorer can also read pre-processed data distributed in standard scientific formats:
| Dataset | Format | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Bouffaut et al. 2022 — Svalbard DAS4Whales | .mat |
ASN OptoDAS (.mat) Svalbard 2020 |
HDAS 2.5 — proprietary binary required
Reading .bin files requires the hdas_reader*.pyd (Windows) or hdas_reader*.so (Linux) binary provided by Aragón Photonics Lab. This binary is not distributed via PyPI and must be placed manually in dasexplorer/tools/apl/ inside your installation directory. Run python -c "import dasexplorer; print(dasexplorer.__file__)" to find it.
Adding a new reader¶
To add a new reading profile, see Adding a reading profile.
If you add a reader and would like it included in a future release, open a Pull Request on GitHub or send an email to sermomon@upv.es with some sample data.