B.2 datalogger data formats, B.2.1 tob2 or tob3, B.2.1 – Campbell Scientific LoggerNet Datalogger Support Software User Manual

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Appendix B. Campbell Scientific File Formats

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B.2 Datalogger Data Formats

B.2.1 TOB2 or TOB3

TOB2 and TOB3 files are created when data are retrieved from external PC

cards on dataloggers such as the CR9000, CR5000, and CR1000. The TOB2

file format has been replaced in new dataloggers by the TOB3 file format.

TOB3 format is similar to TOB2 in most respects but differs from TOB2 in the

following ways:

Frame headers in TOB3 are twelve bytes long rather than eight bytes long.

The additional four bytes contain an unsigned integer with the least

significant byte written first to identify the record number for the first

record in the frame.

In the TOB3 format, the offset field in the major frame footer no longer

represents the number of frames back to the last minor frame. This

information is used in TOB2 to help accelerate searching for data but is

not considered to be necessary in TOB3 because of the presence of the

record number in the frame header.

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