getInstruments.py is a script run to return a text output of all instrument data.

It is presently used by the madmatlab methods getInstruments, and via the cgi script getInstrumentsService.py the madmatlab method getInstrumentsWeb. It has no input arguments.

Returns comma-delimited data, one line for each experiment, with the following fields:

1. instrument.name Example: Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar

2. instrument.code Example: 30

3. instrument.mnemonic (3 char string) Example: mlh

4. instrument.latitude Example: 45.0

5. instrument.longitude Example: 110.0

6. instrument.altitude Example: 0.015 (km)

This script, and the corresponding cgi script getInstrumentsService.py are available to any scripting language that wants to access Madrigal metadata.