vol2bird is an algorithm that calculates vertical profiles of birds and other biological scatterers from weather radar data. vol2bird is written in C.
See these publications for a description of the methodology:
Bird migration flight altitudes studied by a network of operational weather radars
Dokter AM, Liechti F, Stark H, Delobbe L, Tabary P, Holleman I
J. R. Soc. Interface, 8, 30–43, 2011, DOI 10.1098/rsif.2010.0116
Recent algorithm extensions and integration with the bioRad R package are described here:
bioRad: biological analysis and visualization of weather radar data
Dokter AM, Desmet P, Spaaks JH, van Hoey S, Veen L, Verlinden L, Nilsson C, Haase G, Leijnse H, Farnsworth A, Bouten W, Shamoun-Baranes J.
Ecography, 42, 852-860, 2019, DOI 10.1111/ecog.04028
Use the vol2bird installer to install vol2bird and all its dependencies:
It currently supports:
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Ubuntu 21.04
- Ubuntu 18.04 & 18.10
- CentOS 8
- RedHat 8 (see RedHat Prerequisities below)
- Mac OS Intel
Browse source code at:
https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird
Report a bug at: https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird/issues
data
contains two polar volume radar files for testingdoc
documentation on ODIM hdf5 data formatdocs
html pages of this documentationdocker
scripts for generating and running a Docker container for vol2birddoxygen
doxygen configuration for generating this documentationetc
contains the user configuration fileoptions.conf
. Put your own modified copy in your working directory to run vol2bird with non-default settings.lib
contains the main librarypgfplugin
product generation framework (PGF) plugin for the BALTRAD systempyvol2bird
is a python wrapper for the librarysrc
contains main executables for vol2bird (main program) and rsl2odim (converts NEXRAD to ODIM data format)tests
unit tests for pgfplugin
Copyright 2010-2022 Adriaan M. Dokter (Cornell lab of ornithology, University of Amsterdam) & Netherlands eScience Centre
Contributors: Anders Henja, Jurriaan H. Spaaks (NLeSC), Lourens Veen (NLeSC), Iwan Holleman (KNMI & Radboud University)