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 ====== Diana  ====== ====== Diana  ======
  
-Diana is a meteorological visualisation and production software developed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no). +Diana is no longer maintained, and we do not recommend new users to start using diana
-Diana is developed for operational use at met.no, and has been used this way since spring 2000. Diana is also used extensively by researchers. It was released as open source under the [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html|GNU General Public License (GPL)]] in May 2006. +
- +
-  * Report bugs to [[https://diana.bugs.met.no/|Bugzilla]] +
-  * [[https://svn.met.no/|SVN repository web view]] +
-  * [[https://svn.met.no/diana/|SVN repository]] +
- +
- +
-===== News ===== +
- +
-=== 2010-02-01 === +
- +
-[[diana_3.17|Diana 3.17.4]]  +
- +
-=== 2009-08-18 === +
- +
-[[diana_3.13|Diana 3.13.2]]  +
- +
-=== 2009-03-10 === +
- +
-[[diana_3.8|Diana 3.8.2]]  +
- +
-  * Download from svn +
-  * Using [[http://www.pathname.com/fhs/|Filesystem Hierarchy Standard]] +
-  * Bugfixes +
- +
-=== 2008-06-25 ===  +
- +
-[[ftp://ftp.met.no/diana/|Diana 3.0.7]] +
- +
-  * New version of the graphical user interface, Qt4 +
-  * Easier to install, the internal libraries are compiled and installed using configure +
- +
-=== 2008-02-07 ===  +
- +
-[[ftp://ftp.met.no/diana/|Diana 2.4.0]] +
- +
-== NetCDF == +
- +
-Added support for fields in NetCDF (CF-1.1 compliant). \\ +
-Please see the  +
-[[http://folk.uio.no/lisbeth/doc/ug_fileformats.html#FIELD.NETCDF.FILES|online documentation]]. \\ +
-The test dataset includes some example NetCDF files.  +
- +
-== BUFR == +
-  * Added support for observations in BUFR format with standard WMO templates +
-  +
- +
-===== Diana features ===== +
- +
-Combined visualisation of +
- +
-    * Fields +
-    * Satellite and radar images +
-    * Surface observations +
-    * Trajectories in isosurfaces +
-    * Weather charts +
- +
-Separate viewers available for +
- +
-    * Soundings +
-    * Vertical cross sections +
-    * Time series +
- +
-Editing tools  +
- +
-    * Field modification +
-    * Drawing of fronts, weather symbols etc. +
- +
-Other features  +
- +
-    * Highly customable with setup-files +
-    * Batch version for non-interactive production available +
- +
- +
-Diana depends on an IT infrastructure, including databases/filesystems for fields, observations and images. There is no acquisition or dissemination tools included. +
- +
-===== Programming environment ===== +
- +
-  * Linux (We use Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian etch) +
-  * C++ (g++) +
-  * Qt4 for GUI and window handling, platform independent +
-  * Mesa3D OpenGL +
-  * MySQL databases +
-  * a few other freeware libraries (fonts etc.) +
-  * connections between applications by Qt QSocket +
- +
-===== Formats ===== +
- +
-  * In-house met.no formats +
-  * Field format: NetCDF (CF-1.1 compliant)  +
-  * Observation format: BUFR (rdb and WMO standard templates) +
-  * Satellite and radar images: mitiff (tiff with [[http://diana.met.no/mitiff/mitiff.html|geographical header]]) +
- +
-===== Documentation ===== +
-  * [[http://diana.met.no/doc/index.html|User guide]] +
-  * [[http://diana.met.no/triangle.txt|Map format]] +
-  * [[http://diana.met.no/mitiff/mitiff.html|mitiff]] - used for satellite and radar images +
-  * [[diana_code_doc|Developer Documentation]] +
-  * [[diana_bufr|BUFR observations in Diana]]  +
-  * [[diana_references|References]]   +
- +
-===== Tasks ===== +
- +
-=== Current tasks (met.no): === +
- +
-  *  [[diana_proj4|Projections - using proj4]] +
-  +
-=== Future tasks === +
- +
-  * Redesign - field inteface +
-  * Satellite/Radar interface - use field interface +
-  * Shape  +
-    * New dialog - select colours, linetypes, elements on/off +
-    * Maps, observations, weather objects +
-  * Observations - synop plot +
- +
- +
-=== Finnished tasks === +
- +
-  * Autotools / Debian package +
- +
-===== Developers ===== +
-  * [[diana_codestyle|Code style]] +
- +
-===== Contact information ===== +
-Email: diana@met.no+
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