https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird
Generates vertical profiles of birds from weather radar volume scans
https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird
aeroecology c enram eumetnet-opera movement-ecology nexrad radar weather-radar wsr-88d
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Generates vertical profiles of birds from weather radar volume scans
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird
- Owner: adokter
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-03-25T09:48:23.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-27T20:44:42.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-27T21:34:50.802Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: aeroecology, c, enram, eumetnet-opera, movement-ecology, nexrad, radar, weather-radar, wsr-88d
- Language: C
- Homepage: http://adokter.github.io/vol2bird
- Size: 36.4 MB
- Stars: 34
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 16
- Open Issues: 49
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: NEWS.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
[](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3369998)
## Vertical profiling of biological scatterers
**vol2bird** is an algorithm that calculates vertical profiles of birds and other biological scatterers from weather radar data. **vol2bird** is written in C.
See these publications for a description of the methodology:
[**Bird migration flight altitudes studied by a network of operational weather radars**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2010.0116)
Dokter AM, Liechti F, Stark H, Delobbe L, Tabary P, Holleman I
J. R. Soc. Interface, **8**, 30–43, 2011, DOI [10.1098/rsif.2010.0116](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2010.0116)
Recent algorithm extensions and integration with the [bioRad R package](http://adokter.github.io/bioRad) are described here:
[**bioRad: biological analysis and visualization of weather radar data**](https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04028)
Dokter AM, Desmet P, Spaaks JH, van Hoey S, Veen L, Verlinden L, Nilsson C, Haase G, Leijnse H, Farnsworth A, Bouten W, Shamoun-Baranes J.
Ecography, **42**, 852-860, 2019, DOI [10.1111/ecog.04028](https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04028)
### installation
Use the [vol2bird installer](https://github.com/adokter/vol2birdinstall) to install vol2bird and all its dependencies:
It currently supports:
* Ubuntu 22.04
* Ubuntu 21.04
* Ubuntu 18.04 & 18.10
* CentOS 8
* RedHat 8 (see RedHat Prerequisities below)
* Mac OS Intel
### repository contents
Browse source code at:
[https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird](https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird)
Report a bug at:
[https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird/issues](https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird/issues)
* `data` contains two polar volume radar files for testing
* `doc` documentation on ODIM hdf5 data format
* `docs` html pages of this documentation
* `docker` scripts for generating and running a Docker container for vol2bird
* `doxygen` doxygen configuration for generating this documentation
* `etc` contains the user configuration file `options.conf`. Put your own modified copy in your working directory to run vol2bird with non-default settings.
* `lib` contains the main library
* `pgfplugin` product generation framework (PGF) plugin for the BALTRAD system
* `pyvol2bird` is a python wrapper for the library
* `src` contains main executables for vol2bird (main program) and rsl2odim (converts NEXRAD to ODIM data format)
* `tests` unit tests for pgfplugin
Copyright 2010-2022 Adriaan M. Dokter (Cornell lab of ornithology, University of Amsterdam) & Netherlands eScience Centre
Contributors: Anders Henja, Jurriaan H. Spaaks (NLeSC), Lourens Veen (NLeSC), Iwan Holleman (KNMI & Radboud University)