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Wednesday, 9 December 2009

A special thanks

Special mention goes to John Sutherland who works as Data Management Assistant for the RSPB based at their headquarters in Edinburgh.  John has spent a lot of time, working hard on a special computer programme for us to help download all the sat tag data in a faster, more efficient way.  A lot of work goes into filtering out all the initial data that first of all comes pinging through as one email package into the final kite positions that you see here on the website map.  You will see, Im avoiding going into all the technical in's and out's, basically what he's come up with will save us an inordinate amount of time that had previously been spent copying, pasting and re-naming several different files and that's for one kite only!  Of course, with the sat tags not giving us much to go on at the moment, it will really be into the spring months when we will be able to use this programme to its full advantage.  We will certainly benefit from all the time thats freed up that can be directed onto other kite related tasks!  Thanks again to John for all his hard work!