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Dashboard At A Glance

The Aurora Cloud Dashboard is the public-facing data browser and product viewer for the Aurora observing stack. It combines vertically resolved remote-sensing instruments, curated 1D station summaries, WXcam imagery/video products, AURORACam still images, and an operational status view into one Panel app.

Main dashboard views

The deployed desktop interface has eight top-level tabs:

  • Overview for a compact station snapshot and instrument-state grouping
  • Interactive Data Browser for live browsing and recent windows
  • Power for the dedicated Aurora Power Supply view and forecasts
  • Science Quicklooks for archived science products and WXcam day views
  • House Keeping Quicklooks for archived diagnostics and housekeeping plots
  • AURORACam for four-camera MX4 still-image browsing
  • UAS for the mirrored Menapia tier log and recent event history
  • Operations Dashboard for source-host status, storage, transfers, mirror verification, and prune-readiness checks

The desktop default is Overview. The phone experience groups the same content into Overview, Power, Plots, Camera, and Ops so the most frequent field checks remain one tap away.

Instrument families

  • Ceilometer and Cloud Radar render height-time plots from Zarr stores.
  • Meteorology, Radiation, and Aurora Power Supply render curated multi-panel 1D summaries from fixed Zarr schemas. Their latest interactive views can start from prewarmed Plotly JSON created by the quicklook generators.
  • WXcam combines a SQLite catalog, stitched MP4 products, hourly representative thumbnails, and an HDR image Zarr. The deployed product streams are currently FISH HDR and PANO HDR.
  • AURORACam reads the four MOBOTIX M24 JPEG folders from the MX4 raw mirror and uses a small metadata Zarr for the rebuilt file index.
  • Operations Dashboard is driven by the ops_monitor raw snapshots and monitoring Zarr, plus the observe-only health JSON/Markdown reports written by the Phase 1 sentinel.

Key product roots

  • raw mirror root: /project/aurora/raw
  • product root: /data/aurora/products
  • quicklooks root: /data/aurora/products/quicklooks
  • interactive prewarm root: /data/aurora/products/dashboard/prewarm

For the full storage breakdown, see Storage layout.