Multi-beam Record Conversion

[RemingtonRohel]

Extended conversion to dmap dictionaries to allow for multiple beams in a record.

• Methods convert_bfiq_record() and convert_rawacf_record() affected

Scope

Converting HDF5 files to DMAP format.

Issue: Borealis files with multiple beams in a record only have the last beam per record converted.

Approval

Number of approvals: 1

Test

import pydarnio

infile = "path to borealis file with multi-beam records"
file_type = "rawacf" or "bfiq"
file_structure = "site" or "array"
sdarn_file = "path to output sdarn file"

converter = pydarnio.BorealisConvert(infile, file_type, sdarn_file, borealis_file_structure=file_structure)

After this, you can try plotting the data for all beams to verify that the data has been correctly converted to DMAP. See "Plotting Lag-0" in the pyDARN documentation for how to plot (if your data is rawacf): https://pydarn.readthedocs.io/en/main/user/range_time/

[RemingtonRohel]

Tested and was able to plot all beams from iqdat and rawacf dmap files.

[kevinkrieger]

Tested with /home/dataman/widebeam_3tx/20211213/multi_record/20211213.2034.52.pgr.0.rawacf.hdf5.site.avg16 on maxwell. Used the script shown above then plotted all beams. Here's three of the plots: