How to read the fitacf file directly ?

[FancystarWang]

It's very easy to make some plots from the data by using RST. But when I want to read the data ,rather just plot the rti_plot or cnvmp , there is not a clear guide to tell the new one like me how to make some detail research. Reformating fitacf to ascii is not a good choice, so must I change the C code to get the detail data? Well, I hope it will be easier.

[asreimer]

Hey @FancystarWang, there are essentially 2 options: 1) use the dmap library in C to read the fitacf file contents, see https://github.com/SuperDARN/rst/tree/master/codebase/general/src.lib/dmap.1.25 2) use python to read the fitacf file contents

If you want to use python instead, there are 2 options: 1) pydarn, which is under active development, but the file reading is working beautifully: https://github.com/SuperDARN/pydarn 2) using backscatter: https://backscatter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backscatter.dmap.html#reading-and-decoding-data

I would start with pydarn and try the usage example given here: https://github.com/SuperDARN/pydarn/blob/develop/README.md

[mts299]

Here is the most updated documentation on pyDARN: https://pydarn.readthedocs.io/en/doc-user/ Including up to date installation guidelines and tutorials on reading SuperDARN files.

[FancystarWang]

When I read codebase，I found a C file named fit to ascii . It is not a finished file but useful . And I've tried the pyDARN,it's useful too.Thank you~