[Incubator] motion: wradlib application / community module

[Bruce Bannerman]

-0.   Bruce

Processing of radar imagery is important for a wide range of meteorological and other domain use cases.

However, I question the rationale behind this approach.

This type of analytical process is not trivial. Rather than re-invent the wheel here it may be better to extend libraries that specialise in spatial and image analysis. 

The project is doing this already with GDAL.

A good example analytical framework that may be a sound base would be Grass. They already have algorithms for processing radar imagery e.g. [1]. Grass also has python bindings.

For workflow processing there are also other options, e.g. build on QGIS,  pyWPS or a number of other WPS libraries.

Bruce

[1] https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Radar_data_processing 


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> From: Incubator <incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
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> Good Afternoon from the Bonn code sprint!
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> I am hanging out Kai Mühlbauer, a member of the wradlib project - which focuses on weather radar data processing. The application was lost in trac (I should be checking it more often - sigh). 
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> - https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1644
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> In speaking with Kai it sounds like this would be a great community project - at least to start out with.
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> Motion: Accept wradlib project into the OSGeo Community Project program.
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