Intro – RAF software

OUTLINE:

Real-time data - on aircraft or ground

• acserver web display, Mission Coordinator

• aeros

• internet relay chat

Post-flight data - netcdf files

• RAF software

April 2011

Mission Coordinator display – on ground

http://www.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/flight_data/platform.pl

Mission Coordinator display: web browser on aircraft

Avoid browsing to sites off the airplane!

Satcom is expensive

PREDICT project, dropsonde pattern IR satellite image

-50°C blue

-60°C green

-70°C red

triangle = waypoint flight track lightning

ATC boundaries

Video = forward, left & right

internet relay chat aircraft satcom ground

run from

web page

internet relay chat aircraft satcom ground

or download &

install xchat

client

Password

connect to GV

/nick yourName-location

you need server ident and password

use care with messages because text is logged

Display laptop on network at each station

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Data display on GV or C-130, aeros plot and list > 250 variables

demo will be shown at

end of presentation

Data display on the ground, aeros

using satcom relay to ground, aeros can plot & list > 20 variables

aeros - configuration files

Data files - netcdf

netcdf – self-documenting, multi-variable format.

Analysis software IDL, MatLab, Origin, ..

Data files will be available after each flight & archived by

EOL for project investigators

RAF provides free software for display & to convert

between ASCII and netcdf

More?

http://www.eol.ucar.edu/

aeros = linux, Mac, Windows

free distribution + other RAF software

http://www.eol.ucar.edu/data/software/downloadcenter

HIAPER Investigator’s Handbook

aeros demo

Display laptops at each station

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CDP & 2D-C = wing mounted probes

uhsas video MTP CDP King

RICE hot-wire

Fast

2D-C

photos

uhsas

MTP

RICE

CDP

King

hot-wire

Fast

2D-C

right wing

left wing