Spatial Weather Tools

Spatial Weather Tools is a collection of extensible components for the meteorological processing and spatial conversion of historical or real-time weather data. The tools can analyse and transform the weather data into spatial formats. A spatially-enabled weather service will allow better integration of real-time weather data into clients' Geographic Information System (GIS) to improve the clients' decision making capabilities.

Spatial Weather Tools include components for weather observations, radar data, satellite imagery, forecast weather and gridded model data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABOM) and the U.S. National Weather Service's National Centers for Environmental Predicition (NCEP). Input data formats supported include ASCII, AXF, GIF and netCDF. Processing options include data quality control, filtering, derivation, classification, contouring, streamlines, image enhancement and generation. Output formats supported include GIF, PNG, TIFF, shapefile and GML.

Spatial Weather Tools is a product application of ITT Visual Information Solutions' Interactive Data Language (IDL). An IDL Run-Time license is required to run the application on a Windows, Linux or UNIX platform.

Spatial Weather Tools' capabilities continue to be extended to meet the specific requirements of clients. The components are currently developed and tested on a system running Microsoft Windows XP and IDL 6.3. ITT Visual Information Solutions (U.S.) support METVIS Services in the provision of the IDL software.

Contact Dr Robert Dahni for more detailed information of the Spatial Weather Tools product application.