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Getradar is a program for easy automatic downloading of weather images. It was created for the purpose of collecting data for storm research and tracking migrating hawks with the Nation Weather Service WSR-88 radar system. The programs are written in Perl and are free for use and personal modification. There are also Windows 9X/NT/2000 executable versions available.

Features:

Download radar and satellite products from WeatherTap weather service.
Convert GIF images to PNG
Download data from up to 10 radar stations
Date and Time stamp file names
Set a download time range and interval
GIF image viewer

Here are some screen shots of the program:
Screen Shot 1 Main Interface,
Screen Shot 2 Radproc Interface,
Screen Shot 3 Satellite Download,
Screen Shot 4 Custom Download

Radproc is a program for filtering out unwanted values from the radar images. It has an easy to use interface in Getradar or it can be run stand-alone from the command line.

Features:

Remove unwated values from WeatherTap clear air and precipitation images in PNG format.
Perform Less than, Greater Than, Equal to, Not Equal to, Range and Not Range operations
Batch file processing
Also supports Intellicast Clear Air and precipitation mode images.

To give you an idea of what it can do here is a before and after picture:

News:
7/22/01 - Getradar Ver. 2.8
- resizeable control windows for people with small screens.

    6/25/01 - Getradar Ver. 2.7
                       - Changed search order for radproc filtering program. Looks for *.exe first
                           then *.pl.   Fixes problem with people who couldn't run filtering because
                           both .exe and .pl version were in the directory, but perl wasn't installed.

    6/17/01 - Getradar Version 2.6 Radproc Version 2.3
                    Updated for NWS image download and filtering.
                     Added radar site listing.
                     Fixed some Win9X bugs.

Download:
getradar_full.zip (2.4 MB) - Everything: perl scripts, gif2png and Win9X/NT/2000 Executables
getradar_perl.zip (27 K) - perl scripts and gif2png
getradar.zip (1.5 MB) - Perl Scripts + Win9X/NT/2000 EXE files
radproc.zip (740 kB) - Perl Scripts + Win9X/NT/2000 EXE files + gif2png package

Installation Instructions:

1) Create a new directory for it such as c:\getradar.

2) Download getradar_full.zip

3) Use Winzip to unzip the file in the same directory.

4) Use explorer to drag the getradar.exe file onto your desktop.

5) Just double click the desktop icon when you want to run getradar.

    6) optionally you may want to create some sub directories for data and processed images:
           c:\getradar\download - Put downloaded images here.
           c:\getradar\out            - Put processed images here.

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