Elevation statistics tool

[aburrell]

Created a tool to count the number of elevation angle observations with potentially realistic values. To test, try a radar that has and another that doesn't have elevation angles. This, unfortunately, doesn't identify garbage values that are within a potentially realistic range.

find_elvstat 20000131.2200.00.hal.fitacf3

Yields:

Opening file:20000131.2200.00.hal.fitacf3
0 positive elevation angles below 90 degrees

While find_elvstat ~/Programs/Data/SuperDARN/Downloads/20170105.1001.00.lyr.fitacf3

Yields:

Opening file:20170105.1001.00.lyr.fitacf3
39809 positive elevation angles below 90 degrees

[ksterne]

Sorry it's taken a bit! This is a nice feature to add in and I got the binary to work fairly easily. I had a few general comments or questions that aren't specific to any line so I thought I would post them here. Feel free to point me to a line in the code of somewhere that is relevant though. First, are you able to easily add in some info for the --help option? The option is there in the binary, but it doesn't seem to have anywhere to go. Maybe it was a forgotten copy of a ~/doc/ directory in the main binary folder?

Second and much more minorly, I wasn't able to reproduce the results for the 20170105.1001.00.lyr.fitacf3 file. But this could be from a different version of RST. I used the 5.0 release to generate a fitacf3 and got 22517 for the result. Again, this is likely different input and not an issue with this binary, but it would be good to make sense of that. @aburrell, are you able to confirm this number with a more recently generated fitacf3 file?

[ksterne]

@aburrell, giving this a bump to see if you're able to add in a few things, mostly the results for the --help option when running the binary.

[ksterne]

Hey @aburrell, do you think you'll be able to check this out? If you don't think you'll be able to look at adding --help results I can look into making a suggestion of what that would look like.

[egthomas]

@ksterne I think @aburrell has been out on travel, so you may need to allow some more time for her to reply.

[ksterne]

Not a problem! I'm certainly patient on this, especially since it took my several months to initially review it. Just trying to put it at the top of the e-mail to try to get attention. But I understand there can be hotter burning fires that need to be put out, especially after being on travel.

[aburrell]

Hey @ksterne, I am now back from Japan and recovered from COVID. Unfortunately that means I have a bunch of stuff to catch up on. I will try to get to this in a week or so.

[egthomas]

@aburrell this looks good to me - I just added an XML documentation file so that find_elvstat --help will show something meaningful. Please let me know if I made any mistakes or if the description should be changed.

[aburrell]

Thanks @egthomas this looks good to me!

[aburrell]

@egthomas if I remember correctly, I am not supposed to merge this. Correct?

[pasha-ponomarenko]

It looks like there is another reviewer, Kevin.