Category: Internet/Weather-Home

GrLevel3 1.0

Author: Gibson Ridge Software
Operation System: Windows All
License: Trial
Size: 5.96 MB
Date: 2006-06-10

GRLevel3 is a Windows viewer for live NEXRAD Level III data from the NWS Radar Product Central Collection Dissemination Service.

The National Weather Service has a central collection of 42 different WSR-88D radar products (level III data) in process. The data can either be obtained by directly connecting to the Gateway for an immediate receipt of the products through a "multicast" flow or via standard anonymous FTP from the Gateway file servers.

GrLevel3 is an application that uses patent pending direct radial rendering techniques to display smoothed radial radar data at high speeds on graphics hardware. The technique combines novel radial geometry primitives and multitexturing to allow for arbitrary, high-frequency transforms between physical units and color space.

The technique covers both the fixed function and programmable graphics pipelines, and higher order smoothing in the programmable pipeline.

It uses hardware pixel smoothing to enhance the radar data. It also allows you to add warning data and storm tracks

Requirements:
· DirectX 9.0


Limitations:
· 30 day trial