Possible Andriod Radar Application

[Nathan Schnur]

Hi,

I am strongly considering making an attempt at writing a radar app for Android since I dislike most of the ones currently available. Now I'd have no problem going out and grabbing images and using them for the radar image but I'd like to try and convert the raw NWS data into an image (Similar to GRLevel3 and StormLab). I am assuming this is no easy task. Is there documentation anywhere that even begins to describe how to do this or where you can even gather the raw data from?

I'd consider myself a decent developer but this brand new territory so any help in the right direction would be awesome.


-Nathan

 

[czenzel]

Hi,

I am strongly considering making an attempt at writing a radar app for Android since I dislike most of the ones currently available. Now I'd have no problem going out and grabbing images and using them for the radar image but I'd like to try and convert the raw NWS data into an image (Similar to GRLevel3 and StormLab). I am assuming this is no easy task. Is there documentation anywhere that even begins to describe how to do this or where you can even gather the raw data from?

I'd consider myself a decent developer but this brand new territory so any help in the right direction would be awesome.


-Nathan

Hi Nathan,

On NOAA's web site with the Weather Climate Toolkit for Java you can find the Level 3 Documentation by going to their document library.

The Weather Climate Toolkit for Java provides great source code for processing images:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct/

The source code is available under API/Download Source.

Here is a direct link to the Level 3 Documentation of the NIDS format.
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/documentlibrary/tddoc/td7000.pdf

(Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/doclib/)

Let me know if you need any help.

Thanks,
Christopher Zenzel

 

[Mike Brady]

Hi,

I am strongly considering making an attempt at writing a radar app for Android since I dislike most of the ones currently available. Now I'd have no problem going out and grabbing images and using them for the radar image but I'd like to try and convert the raw NWS data into an image (Similar to GRLevel3 and StormLab). I am assuming this is no easy task. Is there documentation anywhere that even begins to describe how to do this or where you can even gather the raw data from?

I'd consider myself a decent developer but this brand new territory so any help in the right direction would be awesome.


-Nathan

A App is already in development and will be available this fall It will be all that you describe and have several other features that put it above any other app currently on mobile phones on any platform if you look around the forums I have made posts about it before. So if you can wait until fall you might not have to do all the hard work that goes into development and you will have a great app to use.