Re: Station data

• To: Doug Lindholm <lind@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Station data
• From: Tom Whittaker <tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:23:15 -0600

Doug:
> I've read that Shapes and PlotText.render_label can "be used to generate
> traditional station plots from meteorological data." Has anyone taken
> this a step farther and actually created some sort of station object? I
> want to display station data on a 3D scene with terrain and other data.

I am actively working on several, related things in a jmet system. While
I had started work to convert the code I had for drawing the WMO symbols
from an instructional applet I had from last summer, I have put that
aside for a while to work on an application for displaying NCEP model
data from netCDF files.

I plan to get back to this work early this Summer, since I want to have
the ability to plot in situ data in traditional formats, overlaid on
other fields/images.  It's a few weeks' worth of converting 'drawLine()'
method calls into something else.  If you're anxious to get started, I
can give you the Java source code for the station model plotting
excerise ;-)

tom

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Tom Whittaker (tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science and Engineering Center
Phone/VoiceMail: 608/262-2759
Fax: 608/263-6738

• References:
  • Station data
    • From: Doug Lindholm