v0.9.0

Overview

This release includes a number of new features and performance enhancements, as well as fixes for bugs and warnings. We have fully switched to using the trunk-based development workflow in this release.

New features

• Add noise and attenuation functions from Ryan et. al. 2015 and echopy by @ctuguinay in #1316
• Add .bot and .idx files to EK60/EK80 parsing by @ctuguinay in #1318
• Add index aggregation option for cleaning mask functions by @ctuguinay in #1326
• Added alpha-version code for new AZFP6 format by @dash-uvic in #1323
• Use latest MRU parser version and enable ep.consolidate.add_location can be based off datagram type by @ctuguinay in #1359

Enhancements

• Support lazy-loaded EK80 broadband-complex data by @leewujung in #1311
• Allow MVBS into ep.mask.apply_mask, and add alignment check for target variable and mask by @ctuguinay in #1345
• Enhance ep.calibrate.compute_Sv scalability by enabling EchoData chunking and removing eager computation by @ctuguinay in #1331
• Use Echodata Platform and Beam_group1 variables to compute depth for EK60/EK80 by @ctuguinay in #1319
• Allow waveform mode "FM" in calibrate by @ctuguinay in #1363
• Allow external arrays in add_depth and add an universal ping time alignment function by @ctuguinay in #1369

Bug and warning fixes

• Fix duck array RuntimeWarning for EK60 ep.open_raw by @ctuguinay in #1337
• Coding: channel_mode dtype from float16 to float32 by @ctuguinay in #1350 and #1351
• Fix problems in applying compute_Sv on combined EchoData object by @leewujung in #1328
• Fix data type check for padding short complex pings by @ctuguinay in #1353
• Update xr.drop to xr.drop_vars by @ctuguinay in #1364

Documentation

• Update docs for visualization by @leewujung in #1347
• Merge data processing level changes from stable by @leewujung in #1355
• Add the Ping acoustic library to other resources by @gavinmacaulay in #1362
• Update contributing guide and README/index by @leewujung in #1356 and #1373

Others

• Remove the deprecated visualize subpackage by @leewujung in #1336
• Temporarily skip datagrams generated by EC150 by @leewujung in #1357
• Modify dask image in requirement.txt by @leewujung in #1361

New Contributors

• @dash-uvic made their first contribution in #1323

Full Changelog: v0.8.4...v0.9.0