Software
The DAWG manages two software packages for the SuperDARN community, the Radar Software Toolkit and pyDARN.
For information on how to cite the software in publications, please visit the Zenodo site for each package (links below).
About the software
The RST is the primary software for SuperDARN data processing and analysis. Key components of the package include FITACF, which determines the power, velocity, spectral width and elevation angle parameters from raw autocorrelation functions (ACFs), and MAP POTENTIAL, which produces global plasma convection maps by fitting the measured velocity vectors to a statistical model. The RST was developed at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), with R.J. Barnes and K.B. Baker as the main authors of the codebase. The software is now maintained collaboratively by the SuperDARN community under the leadership of the DAWG.
Documentation
Documentation for RST is provided on two sites:
- Readthedocs documentation, which includes an installation guide, RST tutorials, and a description of the file formats (under development)
- API documentation, which includes the software structure and binary command line description and options
Questions and bug reports
RST is maintained on the SuperDARN/rst repository on Github. If you have questions or find a bug, please open a new issue on Github. Alternatively, you can contact us by email.
Previous versions
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RST4.0 and later are available on Zenodo. A citable DOI is available for each version.
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Earlier versions of the RST can be obtained from the Github RST Archive.
About the software
pyDARN is a SuperDARN data visualization library written in the python programming language. It was first released in 2020 and replaces the deprecated DaViT-py package.
Download from PyPI Download from Zenodo
Documentation
Documentation for pyDARN is available here
Questions and bug reports
pyDARN is maintained on the SuperDARN/pydarn repository on Github. If you have questions or find a bug, please open a new issue on Github. Alternatively, you can contact us by email.