ARM Radar Toolkit Viewer
ARTview is an interactive GUI viewer that is built on top of the Py-ART toolkit for weather radar data. It offers the ability to visualize, query and edit data and is cross-platform compatible. All file types available in Py-ART can be opened with the ARTview browser. The intent of ARTview is to provide an easy interface for novice users of weather radar data as well as provide analytical and editing tools for advanced user by leveraging the quickly maturing Py-ART code base, as well as internal features unique to ARTview.
Documentation for ARTview can be found in the online documentation or using Python's built in help system. In addition, a brief introduction is available as well as many video tutorials.
ARTview is an open source project that is keen on receiving contributions from users. A central idea in ARTview is provide "Plugins" that perform any sort of operation. Along with the package plugins, you can write your own plugin. ARTview will automatically load this plugin at startup. If you think it's useful please send it to us (see Getting Help below) and it can be included in the next release. Another feature is building your own script to have components start automatically.
The easiest method for installing ARTview is to use the conda packages from the latest release. To do this you must download and install Anaconda or Miniconda. Then use the following command in a terminal or command prompt to install the latest version of ARTview
conda install -c jjhelmus artivew
To update an older version of ARTview to the latest release use
conda update -c jjhelmus artview
Installing ARTview from source is the only way to get the latest updates and enhancements to the software that have not yet made it into official release. The latest source code for ARTview can be obtained from the GitHub repository (via download from links above) or use git to checkout the repository
git clone https://github.com/nguy/artview.git
To install in your home directory, use
python setup.py install --user
To install for all users on Unix/Linux
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
Jonathan Helmus
Paul Hein
Timothy Lang
ARTview has a mailing list where you can ask questions and request help. If you find a bug or have a suggestion, please submit and Issue on Github.