JSON Implementation of Time-Frequency Radio Catalogues: TFCat
Wednesday 12 March 2025, by Baptiste Cecconi
TFCat (Time-Frequency Catalogue) is a data interchange format based on JSON. It defines several types of JSON objects and the manner in which they are combined to represent data about time-frequency features of a time spectrogram (a.k.a. dynamic spectrum), their properties, and their temporal and spectral extents.
Citation: Cecconi, B., M. B. Taylor, X. Bonnin, A. Loh. (2022), JSON Implementation of Time-Frequency Radio Catalogues: TFCat (Version 1.0). PADC. https://doi.org/10.25935/6068-8528
The authors acknowledge support from PADC and LESIA.
BC, AL and MBT were also supported EPN2024-RI. The Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (EPN2024-RI) project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871149.
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