TRMM Radar Software Library
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Current RSL Version 1.44, released 11/21/2013
In support of the Tropical Rainfall
Measuring Mission's (TRMM) Global
Validation Program, the NASA TRMM Satellite Validation Office has developed a Radar Software
Library for working with the various input radar formats. This is an object-oriented
library written in C.
This library is an object oriented programming environment for writing
software applicable to all RADAR data related to the TRMM
GV effort. This library reads the WSR88D, Lassen, Sigmet, McGill, UF,
HDF, RADTEC and native RSL file formats. Additional functions are
provided to manipulate the RSL objects. Nearly all of the functions return
objects. When they don't, they usually perform actions like output, making
images, etc. The most general object in RSL is Radar. The structure
Radar
is the method used to define the ideal or universal radar representation
in RAM while keeping the natural resolution of the data unchanged. More
simply, Radar represents the super set of all radar file formats.
The Radar structure is hierarchically
defined such that it is composed of Volumes, each containing one
field type. Volumes are composed of Sweeps.
Sweeps
are composed of Rays and Rays contains a vector of the field
type. Some field types are Reflectivity(DZ), Velocity(VR), Spectrum Width(SW),
etc. There are approximately 20 field types. See the
Users
Guide for more information. Also, check out What's
New.
Send questions or comments to gsfc-rsl-help@lists.nasa.gov.
Supported Radar Data Formats
| Format Type |
Input |
Output |
| Sigmet Raw Product |
Yes |
No |
| WSR-88D Level II |
Yes |
No |
| UF - Universal Format |
Yes |
Yes |
| Lassen |
Yes |
No |
| McGill |
Yes |
No |
| HDF 1B-51, 1C-51 |
Yes |
Yes |
| RADTEC |
Yes |
No |
Not Supported but Retained for Backward Compatibility
| Format Type |
Input |
Output |
| EDGE |
Yes |
No |
RAPIC |
Yes |
No |