Title :
Methods of statistical evaluation of data from long-term measurements of soil temperature profile using open-source tools
Author :
Fabo, Peter ; Gaspar, Gabriel ; Pavlikova, Sona ; Siroky, Peter
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Mechatonics, Alexander Dubcek Univ. of Trencin, Trencin, Slovakia
Abstract :
This paper describes the statistical evaluation of collected data from measuring the temperature of the soil profile to determine the thermodynamic parameters of the soil thermal collector. Data analysis is aimed at determining the periodicity of changes in temperature, heat transfer parameters depending on the depth, thermal conductivity and accumulation characteristics of soil thermal collector. To save the measured data, there was used relational database server MySQL, for the data evaluation there were used numerical libraries for data processing of Python programming language, for data visualization there was used application Scidavis and to post data to a web site there were used modules modpython and matplotlib of the Python programming language.
Keywords :
data handling; geophysical techniques; geophysics computing; heat transfer; public domain software; soil; statistical analysis; terrestrial heat; thermodynamics; MySQL database server; Python programming language; Scidavis; data evaluation; data processing; data visualization; heat transfer parameters; long-term measurements; matplotlib; open-source tools; soil temperature profile; soil thermal collector; statistical evaluation; thermal conductivity; thermodynamic parameters; Computer languages; Data analysis; Heat transfer; Open source software; Soil measurements; Temperature dependence; Temperature distribution; Temperature measurement; Thermal conductivity; Thermodynamics; measurement; statistics; temperature;
Conference_Titel :
MECHATRONIKA, 2010 13th International Symposium
Conference_Location :
Trencianske Teplice
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7962-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-80-8075-451-8