Title: Intro
1Intro RAF software
- OUTLINE
- Real-time data - on aircraft or ground
- acserver web display, Mission Coordinator
- aeros
- internet relay chat
- Post-flight data - netcdf files
- RAF software
April 2011
2Mission Coordinator display on ground
3http//www.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/flight_data/platfo
rm.pl
4Mission Coordinator display web browser on
aircraft
Avoid browsing to sites off the airplane! ?
Satcom is expensive
5PREDICT project, dropsonde pattern
IR satellite image -50C blue-60C green-70C
red
triangle waypoint flight track lightning ATC
boundaries
6Video forward, left right
7internet relay chat aircraft ?? satcom ?? ground
run from web page
8internet relay chat aircraft ?? satcom ??
ground
or download install xchat client Password
connect to GV
9/nick yourName-locationyou need server ident and
password use care with messages because text is
logged
10front of aircraft
Display laptop on network at each station
11Data display on GV or C-130, aerosplot and list
gt 250 variables
demo will be shown at end of presentation
12Data display on the ground, aeros
13using satcom relay to ground, aeros can plot
list gt 20 variables
14aeros - configuration files
15Data files - netcdf
- netcdf self-documenting, multi-variable format.
Analysis software IDL, MatLab, Origin, .. - Data files will be available after each flight
archived by EOL for project investigators - RAF provides free software for display to
convert between ASCII and netcdf
16More?http//www.eol.ucar.edu/
- aeros linux, Mac, Windows
- free distribution other RAF software
- http//www.eol.ucar.edu/data/software/downloadcent
er - HIAPER Investigators Handbook
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18aeros demo
19front of aircraft
Display laptops at each station
20CDP 2D-C wing mounted probes
21photos
right wing
left wing
MTP
RICE
Fast 2D-C
King hot-wire
CDP