Recent PTAGIS Accomplishments and Future Direction

John Tenney, Nicole Tancreto, Craig White, Don WarfPacific States Marine Fisheries Commission

A presentation for the2015 PIT Tag Workshop

New Database Server and File Processing System

• Multiyear Development and Evaluation• Ensure Data Continuity and Integrity• Legacy System Retired October 2013• Enhanced Validation, Feedback, Performance • Data loaded every 20 min

• In 2014 processed:• ~570 thousand files• 126 million rows of data

New Reporting System

New Reporting System

• Business Intelligence Platform• Enhanced Reporting Features, Data and Performance• Provided training, webinars and online tutorials• Upgraded Internal O&M Reporting• In 2014:• Over 900 registered users• Executed 242 thousand reports• Returning 5 billion rows of data

New PTAGIS.ORG Web Site

• Production as of April 2013• Web Applications• Tag Distribution Requests• Separation-by-Code Requests• PIT Tag Forecaster

• Integrated Analytics -- 2014 Usage:• 12 thousand visitors• 55 thousand visits• 174.5 thousand page views

New M4 Interrogation Software

• Developed exclusively for PTAGIS mainstem sites• Performs Data collection and Separation-by-Code (SbyC)• Evaluated in-situ 2012; Production 2013• In 2014:• Operated at 27 sites (410 transceivers)• Captured 9 million Observation Records• 98.4% Avg. Diversion Efficiency at 6 SbyC sites

Thin Wall Pass-Through Antenna Design

• 2” thickness -- targeted for counting windows• Reduce concrete cutting and installation costs• Same detection efficiency as standard body antennas• Installed at Dalles in 2013: TD1 and TD2• 2014: Lower Monumental, Little Goose

Evaluation and Deployment of New Transceiver Models

• FS2020 • Target large antennas at ladders/weirs• Auto tuning features • Deployed 70 as of 2014

• FS3001 • Deployed for 17’ x 17’ BCC antenna• Replace obsolete transceiver model

Tag Inventory and Distribution

• New software for tag inventory and distribution • Distributed 1.4M tags to 76 FWP projects in FY14

Tag Quality Assurance and Evaluation

• Software and Automation Innovations for QA• Increase QA subsample from 1% to 3%

• Tag Evaluation for BPA, USACE and BOR procurement

Future Objective : P4 and MRR Enhancements

• Next Generation Tagging Software P4• MRR Data Model Enhancements

Future Objective: Enhance M4, Retire Legacy MiniMon

Future: Spatial Data Enhancements

Ongoing Future Objectives

• Security• Rollout features and enhancements as requested• Additional documentation and tutorials• Enhance website design• Link to other databases• Expand web services (api.ptagis.org)

PTAGIS Staff