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
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
Recent algorithm extensions and integration with the bioRad R package are described here:
bioRad: biological analysis and visualization of weather radar data
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
Use the vol2bird installer to install vol2bird and all its dependencies:
It currently supports:
Browse source code at:
https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird
Report a bug at: https://github.com/adokter/vol2bird/issues
data contains two polar volume radar files for testingdoc documentation on ODIM hdf5 data formatdocs html pages of this documentationdocker scripts for generating and running a Docker container for vol2birddoxygen doxygen configuration for generating this documentationetc 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 librarypgfplugin product generation framework (PGF) plugin for the BALTRAD systempyvol2bird is a python wrapper for the librarysrc contains main executables for vol2bird (main program) and rsl2odim (converts NEXRAD to ODIM data format)tests unit tests for pgfpluginCopyright 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)