JADE - Feature Summary

This is a summarized list of features that JADE currently supports:

• 2D Maps
  
  
  • In various projections (Lambert, Stereographic, LatLon, Flat, Polar Radar)
  • Tool tips
  
  
• Zooming and Panning Operations
  
  
  • Zoom Rectangle
  • Undo Zoom
  • Panning by dragging the map
  • Overview Window with preconfigured projection
  • Preconfigured Snappable Areas of Interest
  • Smart Zoom to give highest resolution data.
  
  
• Altitude Control
  
  
  • Preconfigured altitude range
  • User selectable altitude
  • Feet, meters, flight level or mb units
  • For now, based on a standard atmosphere
  
  
• Time Control
  
  
  • Real-time and Archive modes
  • User configurable min/max time range
  • User selectable current time
  
  
• Animation
  
  
  • Maps
  • XSections
  • SkewTs
  • Delay and Dwell Times
  
  
• Vertical Cross Sections
  
  
  • Preconfigured Flight Paths
  • User defined Flight Paths
  • Flight Path History
  
  
• SkewT plots for psuedo and observed soundings
  
  
  • Virtual and Observed Soundings
  • Preconfigurable Sounding locations
  • Zoom/Unzoom
  • Tool tips
  • Wind staffs
  
  
• Data Layer Configuration
  
  
  • Transparency
  • Contour Configurations (min, max, delta, line color, label appearance )
  • Color Scale Configurations
  • Wind Barb Density
  • Shapefile Labels and Density
  
  
• Layer Ordering (moving layers up/down)
  
  
• Save/Load Configurations
  
  
• Export PNG pictures
  
  
• Dynamic Shapefile Loading
  
  
  • Attribute labelling
  • Label density control
  
  
• JADE supports the following data formats:
  
  
  • Mdv grids (eg: RTFDDA, Satellite, Radar, ETA, GFS, GeoTiff, topography)
  • Spdb (eg: Observational data)
  • FIDO's NetCDF-like data (eg: Metars, SAMS, Lightning, Microsteps)
  • ESRI Shapefiles
  • a JADE lat/lon format for line segment data (eg:
  • ADDS' Data Formats (eg: Metars, TAFs, Airmets, Sigmets)