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
datacontains two polar volume radar files for testingdocdocumentation on ODIM hdf5 data formatdocshtml pages of this documentationdockerscripts for generating and running a Docker container for vol2birddoxygendoxygen configuration for generating this documentationetccontains the user configuration fileoptions.conf. Put your own modified copy in your working directory to run vol2bird with non-default settings.libcontains the main librarypgfpluginproduct generation framework (PGF) plugin for the BALTRAD systempyvol2birdis a python wrapper for the librarysrccontains main executables for vol2bird (main program) and rsl2odim (converts NEXRAD to ODIM data format)testsunit 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)