Hands-On, Minds-On Meteorology
Description | Programming | Operation

Radar

Description

The Radar program is a simple adaptation of SlideViewer, customized to view/annotate/save radar images.


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Objectives

The primary objective of the Radar application is to allow students to view/compare/annotate variations of radar images, either by region or product to learn their unique nuances and the differences between them. The current version of the program has a radar image from one radar location and another image which is a national composite.

 

Programming

Theory

This is simply a customized slideviewer, with labels for the types of radar images.

 

Assumptions

N/A

Equations

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Other

N/A

 

Operation

Running the Program

  • Click the 'Radar' button
  • Change slides by changing the appropriate pulldown menu.
  • Save current slide and annotations by clicking save.
  • Changing slides will not result in the loss of annotations.

Extra Knowledge

None as of yet.

 

Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Created by Dan Bramer: Last Modified 07/27/2004
send questions/comments to bramer@atmos.uiuc.edu