Data Visualization Working Group Quarterly Report

Date: 2021-09-07

DVWG Charter Status

After the SuperDARN Workshop 2021, the PEIC decided to create the Data Visualization Working Group (DVWG) to focus on pyDARN.

Proposed charter is attached or found here

PI representative for DAWG

The Working Group Guidelines state that:

One to two PIs will be designated as primary representatives of the PIEC for each WG to facilitate ongoing communication between the PIEC and the WG.

Please confirm which PI’s will be assigned to DVWG

DVWG Current Members

• Marina Schmidt, USASK (Chair)
• Carley Martin, USASK
• Daniel Billett, USASK
• Pasha Ponomarenko, USASK
• Emma Bland, UNIS (DAWG Co-Chair)
• Shibaji Chakraborty, VT
• Shane Coley, VT
• Xueling Shi, VT
• Devin Huyghebaert, UiT (Tromso)
• Nathaniel Frissell, University of Scranton
• Francis Tholley, University of Scranton

pyDARN Update

Current Status

pyDARN v2.1 released on June 10, 2021.

pyDARN provides the following plotting methods now:

• ACF plots
• Range-time Parameter plots (also known as RTI plots)
• Time-series plots
• Summary plots
• Fan plots
• Grid plots

Utilities:

• slant range calculation
• ground-scatter mapped calculation
• reading hardware files from the hardware repository

Future Directions

• Convection map plots
• update hardware reading with new hardware format
• Geographical plotting
• range gate to geographical calculation
• testing code to help prevent bugs being released