v0.6.2

Overview

This is a minor release that includes a few new features and memory efficiency-related changes that make echopype better.

New features

• Add a new subpackage consolidate that contains functions to consolidate data across the calibrated Sv dataset and the corresponding raw-converted file
• Add function consolidate.add_location to interpolate location to calibrated dataset (#749)
• Add function consolidate.add_depth to convert range_meter to depth with information on transducer tilt and depth (#738)
• Move function that swaps the channel with frequency dimension (now as consolidate.swap_dims_channel_frequency) (#738)
• Add new functionality to allow control of logging outputs (#772)

Under the hood enhancements

• Improve memory usage while converting files that require significant NaN-padding and previously would incur very large memory expansion (#774)
  • This is achieved by directly writing variables that may incur a large memory expansion into a temporary zarr store
  • Beta function that will benefit from user feedback
• Overhaul access pattern for EchoData (#762)
  • Remove previous access pattern for different groups in the raw-converted file
  • Starting from this release all groups are accessed with echodata["GROUP_PATH"], e.g., echodata["Platform"], echodata["Sonar/Beam_group1"], etc.
• Make long_name in ds_power for EK80 consistent with other sonar model (#771)
• Modify set_beam() so it returns a list (#780)
• Change the order in _save_groups_to_file so the order of groups is preserved when opening a converted netcdf file (#779)
• Remove the user option to select NMEA sentences in open_raw to ensure raw data is preserved (#778)

Infrastructure

• Update CI set up to avoid exceeding GitHub actions memory limitation (#761)
  • decrease the number of workers from 4 to 2