Background

This package provides a Pythonic way to interface with the NOAA National Ocean Service Web Camera Applications Testbed (WebCAT). The real-time data is hosted on the SECOORA site (Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association), on the dedicated WebCAT page. Historic data can also be accessed by retrieving files using specific HTTP requests (using a pattern described on the WebCAT page).

More details about WebCAT are available in this Open Access paper:

Dusek, G., Hernandez, D., Willis, M., Brown, J. A., Long, J. W., Porter, D. E., & Vance, T. C. (2019). WebCAT: Piloting the development of a web camera coastal observing network for diverse applications. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 353, 25 June 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00353