What is the purpose of the OPERA radar archive database?
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I noticed on the opera map that OPERA also has an RADAR ARCHIVE (raw file). Some of the radars have a number identical to the RADARS database.
The main difference seems to be that these radars have a new property finishyear and a status 0, with the exception of skjav and skkoj (also appearing in RADARS) that have status 1 and an invalid finishyear.
@leijnse I assume the purpose of this file is to track historical radars? If so, can we suggest to merge this information with the RADARS database/file: it already contains 39 radars with "status": "0" and would make for a single reference.
You're right about the purpose of the radar archive. I will discuss the option of merging the two databases at the OPERA meeting in 1.5 weeks.
@leijnse @BarVodSur I'd like to pick up this issue again. It would be great if both files could be merged and all radars have a finishyear property (that is empty for active radars). It would also be good to have a replacedby property, to link replacements of radars or radar codes.
Although a single file would be better in my opinion (with e.g. different numbers assigned to radars that got replaced but didn't change their odimcode like deeis), we can currently deal with 2 files. Those are merged in this script (https://github.com/enram/aloftdata.eu/blob/main/_data/OPERA_RADARS_DB.R) to create a single list at https://aloftdata.eu/radars/