rst - RST 5.1

Key updates in version 5.1 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include:

• New additions
  • Addition of AACGM_v2 and IGRF coefficients to support mapping until the beginning of 2030
  • New tool (find_elvstat) for info on realistic number of elevation angle measurements in a fit-level file
  • New conversion tool (oldsndtosnd) to convert old sounding data (snd) written in binary format to the more modern dmap format
    
  • New derivation of eccentric dipole coordinates for the TS18 and TS18-Kp convection models
  • Addition of slant range parameter (srng) to grid and map files
• New/Updated Radar Information
  • Addition of Iceland East (ice), West (icw); Longjing East (lje), West (ljw); Siziwanqi East (sze), West (szw); Hejing East (hje), West (hjw) radar information
  • Updated hdw.dat files for Blackstone (bks), Kodiak (kod)
  • Updated radar location information based on satellite imagery
  • Addition of tdiff.dat files for several radars
• Updates to Current Binaries and Libraries
  • Modification to grid_filter binary to allow filtering data based on range as well as control program ID.
  • Updates to fitacfclientgui to allow viewing range gate or slant range, on-screen key menu, selection of groundscatter flag, and color scale control
  • Addition of -xshift and -yshift options to field_plot binary to allow shifts to plotting area; also addition of -databeam option to plot field-of-view edges
  • Addition of -dot option in field_plot to mark radar location
  • Improvements for plotting snd data with time_plot
  • Updates to fit library to check for valid elevation angle information and use the sky noise from fitted data to populate the noise fields in grid and map files
  • Support for beam offset parameter included in rtsnd binary
• Documentation, Bug fixes and Miscellaneous
  • Improvements to xmldoc and scdoc binaries used for documentation creation
  • Updating version of mpfit from 1.4 to 1.5
  • Various documentation improvements (e.g. updated installation instructions for Mac OS)
  • Various typo errors, bug fixes, and memory leak fixes
  • Updates to compilation checks in github development environment
  • Support for .tcsh profiles has been removed

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Published by ksterne 10 months ago

rst - RST 5.0

Key updates in version 5.0 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include:

• All fitting algorithms are now called by the make_fit binary, and the following binaries have been removed: make_lmfit, make_fitex2, make_fitex1.
• There is no default ACF fitting algorithm in make_fit. The user should specify the fitting algorithm using a command line option.
• Added the LMFit2.0 fitting algorithm
• C & IDL software to read TDIFF values from a calibration file (sample file included)
• New fields in the fitacf file format: algorithm, tdiff, elv_error and elv_fitted
• New command line option in map_addhmb to constrain the HMB based on a spectral width threshold (no change to default behavior)
• New virtual height model for midlatitude radars and modularized rpos_v2 library
• Speed improvements to map_grd and map_addhmb (~3x)
• New GUI for displaying real-time fit data (fitacfclientgui binary)
• Updates to the data simulator (sim_real and make_sim)
• New command line options in field_plot to correctly display the radar field of view
• Improved color control in plotting routines
• Updated documentation

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Published by ecbland about 3 years ago

rst - RST 4.7

Key updates in version 4.7 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include:

• New routine to list the transmission frequency bands present in a fitacf file (find_freqband)
• New functionality and documentation for the data simulator (make_sim)
• Updated C and IDL code for reading the new hardware file format (Note: the old hardware file format is incompatible with RST 4.7. The new hardware files are included in this release)
• Bug fixes that affected compilation on some systems
• Bug fixes in various analysis and plotting routines

The RST is actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://superdarn.github.io/dawg/).

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Published by ecbland almost 4 years ago

rst - RST 4.6

Key updates in version 4.6 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include:

• Routine for removing non-gaussian noise/interference from fitacf files (fit_speck_removal)
• Routine to display the contents of old-format dat files (datdump)
• Shepherd (2017) elevation angle algorithm added to FITACF3.0
• Ability to plot multiple fields of view with fov_plot
• Added missing mlt2mlon keyword to MLT_v2 IDL/DLM code
• make_grid detects and concatenates multiple input files automatically (deprecates -c flag)
• Check that the search noise is nonzero before using it to replace the skynoise in FITACF3.0
• Check whether interferometer array is in front or behind main array when calculating elv_low/elv_high in FITACF2.5
• Fixed bugs in plotting libraries, cdf file reading, make_grid and trim_raw
• Update hardware files for DCE and DCN, and PI institution information in radar.dat
• Improved compliance with GPLv3 license requirements
• Documentation updates

The RST is actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://superdarn.github.io/dawg/).

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Published by ksterne over 4 years ago

rst - RST 4.5

New features in version 4.5 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include:

• New library for processing and plotting ionospheric sounding (snd) mode data
• New documentation on rawacf file format
• Fixed "core dump" error in make_fit -old
• Update of DLM functions to read dat files
• Fixed grid and map plotting for southern hemisphere data
• Consolidated plotting code into a single library (does not affect functionality)
• Updated compiler to C99
• Removed numerous compilation warnings

The RST is actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://superdarn.github.io/dawg/)

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Published by egthomas about 5 years ago

rst - RST 4.4.1

This is a patch release to fix a compilation error that happens with some systems.

The RST is actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://superdarn.github.io/dawg/)

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Published by ksterne over 5 years ago

rst - RST 4.4

New features in version 4.4 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include: - iqdat reading and plotting bugfixes - make_raw bugfixes to correctly reproduce rawacf file from an iqdat file - Improvements on freeing memory allocation in make_fit - fitacfserver bugfix for system assigned port number - map_addimf bugfixes for CDF files for solar wind input - Input error checking on map_addmodel - rawwrite bugfix for missing acfd array - dmaptocdf and dmaptoncdf bugfixes - Better defining and consistent use of constants - Continued compiler warning cleanup/reduction - Documentation updates - Added .zenodo.json file for better citation control

The RST is actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://superdarn.github.io/dawg/)

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Published by egthomas over 5 years ago

rst - RST 4.3.2

This is a patch release to include updated information for the newly added radars Dome C North (dcn) and Jiamusi (jme). As well, there is updated information for older radars South Pole Station (sps) and Dome C East (dce). Of note, the update to the hdw.dat.dce file applies to data from the start of the radar in 2013.

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Published by ksterne almost 6 years ago

rst - RST 4.3.1

This patch release features the updated AACGM 2.6 that was released by Dr. Simon Shepherd at Dartmouth College (http://superdarn.thayer.dartmouth.edu/aacgm.html).

The RST is actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://homepage.usask.ca/~pbp672/DAWG.html).

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Published by ksterne about 6 years ago

rst - RST 4.3

New features in version 4.3 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include:

• Shepherd [2017] elevation angle algorithm
• Update the Heppner-Maynard boundary (HMB) lower latitude limit from 50 degrees to 40 degrees in map_addhmb
• Moved convection model software into a new library
• Moved elevation angle algorithms into a new library
• Bugfix to map_addimf for missing IMF values
• Updates to map, time, and field plotting
• Bugfix for negative phidiff for fitacf 3.0
• Update to dmap to check for appropriate array size values
• Bugfix to IDL and DLM versions of FitClose functionality
• Bugfix to solve_model for longitude spacing for equal-area grid option
• Updates to real-time grid code in rtgrid
• Proper reading and writing of fit-level data file version numbers
• Updates to numerous hdw.dat files as well as radar.dat file
• Updates to documentation (includes a Readthedocs page that is still a work in progress in parts)
• Updates to make_smr output formatting
• Update to OldFitWrite library to store offset value
• Reduction in number of compilation warnings

The RST is actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://homepage.usask.ca/~pbp672/DAWG.html).

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Published by ksterne over 6 years ago

rst - RST 4.2

New features in version 4.2 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include:

• TS18 and TS18-Kp statistical convection model (TS18 replacing CS10 as default)
• Statistical convection model solver (solve_model)
• Added pre-1900 coefficients for use with AACGM_v2
• Implemented new --version option to print current RST version number
• Added unrecognized command line option handling to remaining binaries
• Disabled low-power thresholding when converting between dat and rawacf format files
• Fixed bug when reading data from early (~1993-1995) dat format files
• Fixed bug when reading records with negative scan flag values
• Fixed bugs in gridtogrdmap and maptocnvmap conversion routines
• Fixed bug in trim_fit to allow removal of first record in file
• Fixed bug in map_addhmb when specifying custom boundary latitude
• Fixed bug in make_grid preventing custom start times with -i flag
• Fixed bugs in AACGM_v2 software
• Fixed numerous plotting bugs
• Updated Falkland Islands and Stokkseyri hdw.dat files
• Updated README and documentation for FITACF 3.0
• Updated documentation following the -new/-old flag change from previous release (4.1)
• Cleanup of numerous warning messages during compilation

The RST is actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://homepage.usask.ca/~pbp672/DAWG.html).

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Published by egthomas over 7 years ago

rst - RST 4.1

New features in version 4.1 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include:

• Deprecation of "-new" flag for dmap format files (old-format files now require "-old" flag)
• FITACF 3.0 (optional, see FITACF3_readme.pdf)
• Chisham virtual height model (optional)
• PSR10 and CS10 statistical convection models (CS10 replacing RG96 as default)
• Major revisions to gridding software, including bug fixes and new slant range filtering options
• Major revisions to Map Potential software, including bug fixes and use of IGRF12 rather than dipole B-field
• Cleanup of numerous warning messages during compilation
• Further improvements to the html documentation (https://superdarn.github.io/rst/)
• Updated compilation process (commands are now just make.build and then make.code)

The RST is actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://homepage.usask.ca/~pbp672/DAWG.html).

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Published by egthomas about 8 years ago

rst - RST 4.0

This is a distinct break away from the VTRST3.5 repository and will be actively developed and maintained by the SuperDARN Data Analysis Working Group (https://homepage.usask.ca/~pbp672/DAWG.html). New features in this release include:

• Fixed multiple compilation bugs and streamlined installation for systems with or without IDL; tested on Debian 8.7, Mint 18.1, OpenSUSE 42.2, Ubuntu 16.04, and macOS 10.12.4 (note there are still issues on macOS)
• Removal of radar operation code introduced in earlier 3.x versions of the RST
• Removal of several directories which were either redundant or created during compilation
• Fixed numerous broken links in the HTML documentation
• Bug fixes to FITACF for calculating velocity errors and processing multi-channel twofsound data
• Introduction of AACGM-v2, MLT-v2, and IGRF-v2 libraries

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Published by egthomas almost 9 years ago

rst - VTRST3.5

This snapshot corresponds to the point at which the current Radar Software Toolkit (RST) repository diverged from the VTRST3.5 repository (https://github.com/vtsuperdarn/VTRST3.5).

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Published by egthomas about 9 years ago