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-====== Diana  ======
-Diana is a meteorological visualisation and production software developed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no).
-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]]
-  * [[windows:building|How to build Diana on Windows]]
-===== News =====
-=== 2011-05-05 ===
-[[diana_3.27|Diana 3.27.0]]
-  * Diana is now available as debian package
-  * Diana uses the [[https://wiki.met.no/fimex/start|fimex library]] to read field data, including NetCDF files.
-===== 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 10.04)
-  * 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
-See [[autotools|Building Metlibs and Diana with Autotools]] for build instructions and information about dependencies.
-===== 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: geotiff, mitiff (tiff with [[http://diana.met.no/mitiff/mitiff.html|geographical header]])
-===== Documentation =====
-  * [[GettingStarted|Getting Started]]
-  * [[http://diana.met.no/doc/index.html|User guide]]
-  * [[http://diana.met.no/triangle.txt|Map format]]
-    * See [[Triangle Map Format|]] for clarifications.
-  * [[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): ===
-  *  Redesign - field inteface
-=== Future tasks ===
-  * Satellite/Radar interface - use field interface
-  * Shape
-    * New dialog - select colours, linetypes, elements on/off
-    * Maps, observations, weather objects
-  * [[tasks|More details]]
-=== Finnished tasks ===
-  * Projections - using proj4
-  * Autotools / Debian package
-===== Developers =====
-  * [[diana_codestyle|Code style]]
-===== Contact information =====
-Email: diana@met.no