acantha: Thorndyke Bay conditions portal

A map-based portal of near-real-time conditions for oyster growers in Thorndyke Bay (Hood Canal, WA): tides and low-tide work windows, weather and marine alerts, radar, rain, water quality and the LiveOcean water forecast, shellfish status, and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. The map also shows the farm layout, tide-height lines, geotagged farm photos, and on-farm temperature sensors. See PLAN.md for the full roadmap.

It started as the Phase 1 MVP (public data only) and now includes the first Phase 2 pieces (farm sensors via The Things Network). It is a static site with no server or database:

GitHub Actions: update.yml (every ~20 min)
  └─ ingest/fetch.py  → pulls NOAA, NWS, WA DOH, NANOOS/IOOS, IEM, LiveOcean, The Things Network
       └─ writes web/data/*.json
            └─ GitHub Pages serves web/ (MapLibre map + uPlot charts)
GitHub Actions: imagery.yml (twice daily)
  └─ imagery/run.py   → Sentinel-2 products on the imagery-data branch, copied into web/data/imagery/

Run locally

Python 3.9+ with only the standard library, no installs needed.

python3 ingest/fetch.py

python3 serve.py

Then open http://localhost:8000. Re-run fetch.py to refresh the data. --only tides forecast fetches a subset.

Tests:

python3 -m unittest discover ingest/tests

Layout

ingest/
  config.py          site location, station IDs, NWS grid/zone
  fetch.py           runs every source, writes web/data/*.json + meta.json
  sources/           one module per data source
    common.py        shared helpers: HTTP, time parsing, unit conversion
    tides.py         NOAA CO-OPS predictions (Lofall 9445088)
    nws.py           NWS gridded forecast, alerts (PZZ135), surface observations
    rain.py          observed rain: Stage IV at the site + CoCoRaHS gauges (via IEM)
    sun.py           sunrise/sunset (computed)
    doh.py           WA DOH biotoxin status + commercial growing areas
    water.py         NANOOS/IOOS ERDDAP water temp, salinity, oxygen
    liveocean.py     UW LiveOcean model surface temp/salinity nowcast + forecast via OPeNDAP
                     (shown as the "Water forecast" card and map markers; see docs/liveocean-plan.md)
    sensors.py       farm LoRaWAN temperature nodes via The Things Network
                     (SENSORS_MOCK=1 python3 ingest/fetch.py --only sensors for fake data;
                     adding gateways and sensors: docs/sensors.md)
  archive_sensors.py appends every sensor reading to monthly CSVs on the sensor-data branch
  tests/             unittest tests (sensor archive, LiveOcean ingest, HOBO archive)
imagery/             satellite pipeline (needs numpy/rasterio: pip install -r imagery/requirements.txt)
  run.py             Sentinel-2 true color + clear-sky % + tide at capture -> imagery.json
  grid.py            shared UTM 10N 10 m grid every sensor/model output is resampled onto
                     (shown as the "Satellite view" map layer and Satellite card; see docs/imagery-plan.md)
  stac.py            STAC scene search with catalog fallback and retries
  s2.py              Sentinel-2 L2A: tiles -> scenes, read onto the grid, clear-sky stats, true color
  settings.py        catalogs, lookback/retention days, clear-sky thresholds
baseline/            scripts run by hand; outputs are committed to web/baseline/ and not re-run by CI
                     (pip install -r baseline/requirements.txt)
  liveocean_climatology.py  LiveOcean monthly climatology (2014-2024) at the model cells:
                     surface + bottom temp/salinity/oxygen -> liveocean_climatology.json (one-off)
  tide_contours.py   tide-height lines (ft MLLW) from the NOAA NCEI Puget Sound DEM
                     -> tide_contours.geojson (one-off)
  hobo_archive.py    archival HOBO loggers in the Step 4 bag (2024-26) -> thorndyke_hobo.json
                     (stdlib only; re-run after each logger download; see docs/archival-temperature-plan.md)
photos/              farm photos for the map (originals git-ignored; see photos/README.md)
  build.py           geotagged photos -> web/photos/ copies + photos.geojson (needs Pillow)
web/
  index.html         map (radar, satellite, farm layout, tide lines, photos, sensors) +
                     "Today at Thorndyke" panel
  tides.html         low-tide work-window calendar with .ics export
  about.html         data sources and freshness
  farm-layout.geojson  hand-drawn farm layout shown on the map
  baseline/          committed static data (not regenerated by the workflow)
  photos/            web copies of farm photos + photos.geojson (from photos/build.py)
  js/, css/, icon.svg, manifest.webmanifest
docs/                plans (LiveOcean, imagery, archival temperature), sensor how-to, solar gateway assembly
.github/workflows/update.yml   scheduled fetch + Pages deploy (copies the imagery-data branch in,
                               archives sensor readings to the sensor-data branch)
.github/workflows/imagery.yml  twice-daily imagery build -> imagery-data branch

Adding a data source

1. Create ingest/sources/<name>.py with a fetch() -> dict function that returns JSON-serializable data. A source that needs its previous output or another source's output takes fetch(ctx) instead and is listed in WITH_CONTEXT.
2. Register it in SOURCES in ingest/fetch.py.
3. Read it in the browser with load("<name>") from web/js/common.js.

A failing source never blocks the others. In CI the previously published file is reused, and the page shows how old the data is.

Deploy

1. Push to GitHub.
2. In Settings → Pages, set Source: GitHub Actions.
3. The workflow runs on every push to main, every ~20 minutes, and on demand (Actions → Run workflow).

GitHub turns off scheduled workflows in public repos after 60 days with no commits. Push a commit or re-enable the workflow when that happens.

Known gaps in the MVP

• No real-time tide gauge in Hood Canal. Tides are NOAA predictions only.
• Observed rain is an estimate, not a gauge at the bay. None of the nearby NWS stations report rain, so the closure watch uses the NCEP Stage IV radar + gauge analysis at the site (about 2 h behind real time; in the Northwest its hourly values are 6-hour totals spread evenly) plus NWS forecast QPF. Nearby CoCoRaHS volunteer gauges (daily, ~7 am) are shown as a check. An on-farm gauge is Phase 2.
• The rain threshold is a placeholder (1.0 in / 24 h). Each grower should set it to their growing area's DOH conditional-closure rule.
• No current water-quality data near the bay. As of Sept 2026 the ORCA Hansville and Dabob Bay buoys aren't reporting water temperature, salinity or DO. The UW NWEM ERDDAP that serves their depth profiles was also unreachable. The portal shows NOAA Port Townsend water temperature (34 km away) and picks up the buoys automatically once they report again. Contacts listed in the NANOOS metadata: UW APL, [email protected]. On-site sensors are Phase 2.
• DOH biotoxin zones are recreational closures. Commercial harvest follows DOH commercial sampling.

Advisory only. Official harvest closures come from the WA Department of Health.