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)
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