SuperDARN / rst

Radar Software Toolkit (RST)
https://superdarn.github.io/rst/
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Updating radar.dat and hdw files for increased latitude/longitude precision and new NSSC radars #605

Closed egthomas closed 1 week ago

egthomas commented 5 months ago

This pull request updates the radar geographic latitude and longitude locations in the hardware files based on commercial-grade satellite imagery from the Polar Geospatial Center, all of which have received PI approval (see https://github.com/SuperDARN/hdw/pull/7). Information is also included for the 6 new mid-latitude radars constructed by NSSC: LJE, LJW, SZE, SZW, HJE, HJW

Note the SYE and SYS locations have not been modified because PI approval for those radars is still pending. Also note the precision of a subset of radars has been kept to the original 2 or 3 decimal places at that PI's request.

Finally, a fix is included for the WAL radar which was operating with only 16 beams (centered about boresight) for a ~20 month interval from 2022-2023. This means that any previously geolocated data from the WAL radar for this period will be incorrect.