Welcome to the AMS Short Course on Open Source Radar Software

Stuff

Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory
Jonathan Helmus, Argonne National Laboratory
Nick Guy, University of Wyoming
Timothy Lang, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Joseph Hardin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marcus van Lier-Walqui, NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies

What Is Open Source?

"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer."

—Richard Stallman

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Course Objectives

To give a familiarity with Python and the Scientific Python ecosystem and IPython and project Jupyter

To introduce the Python ARM Radar Toolkit and reveal the data model used

To show how to plot a variety of different radar data with Py-ART

Demonstrate how to add a field so you can do processing on your own data

Introduce you to several tools in Py-ART including texture retrieval, dealiasing and gridding

Course objectives

Introduce you to ART-View

Introduce you to an array of tools built on and independant of Py-ART for working with radar data

8:30 a.m. ARRIVAL AND INTRODUCTIONS AND INSTALLATION OF SOFTWARE AND DATA. Collis and Helmus
9:15 a.m. AN INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON AND IPYTHON Jonathan Helmus
9:30 a.m. BASIC PY-ART AND THE PY-ART DATA MODEL Jonathan Helmus
10:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

10:15 a.m. BASIC PY-ART AND THE PY-ART DATA MODEL (CONT) Jonathan Helmus
11:30 a.m. EXAMPLES OF RADAR PROCESSING USING PY-ART Scott Collis
12:00 a.m. LUNCH (included)

1:30 p.m. EXAMPLES OF RADAR PROCESSING USING PY-ART (CONT) Scott Collis
2:00 p.m. Py-ART TOOLS, TEXTURE, DEALIAS AND GRID Scott Collis
2:30 p.m. PYTHON TOOLS 1: ART-VIEW Nick Guy.
3:00 p.m COFFEE BREAK

3:30 p.m. PYTHON TOOLS 2: RADAR MET TOOLS. Tim Lang
4:15 p.m. WRAP UP AND FUTHER DISCUSSION. ALL
5:00 p.m. Adjourn.

This is a living course

Data is at: This figshare repository

Materials live This GitHub Repository



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