[Incubator] motion: wradlib application / community module

[Jody Garnett]

I got the impression this was more of a desktop application Bruce. That
said competition and collaboration is a good balance to have in open source.

--
Jody Garnett

On 29 August 2016 at 14:18, Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com
> wrote:

> -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>
> *Sent:* Saturday, 27 August 2016 9:12:05 PM
> *To:* incubator at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [Incubator] motion: wradlib application / community module
>
> Good Afternoon from the Bonn code sprint!
>
> 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).
>
> - https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1644
>
> In speaking with Kai it sounds like this would be a great community
> project - at least to start out with.
>
>
> Motion: Accept wradlib project into the OSGeo Community Project program.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
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