A collection of programs for manipulating Optical Array Probe data. Consists of several translators to convert native probe data into a common OAP file format, a processor, and a display program.
Directories:
| Directory | Description |
|---|---|
| cip | DMT CIP and PIP data translators. |
| doc | Documentation. |
| hvpsdiag | Old Qt3 program for SPEC HVPS diagnostics. |
| oapinfo | Program to give some information from OAP files. |
| process2d | 2D Processor to process 2D image data into size-distributions and other quantitative data. |
| translate2ds | SPEC 2DS data translator. |
| usb2diag | |
| xpms2d | X Windows / Motif program for viewing image data from most OAP probes. |
Documentation is available on a per-program basis.
xpms2d User's Guide
The OAP File Format
See doc/procfd2c.doc for description of processing algorithms.
The aircraft OAP utilities are written in C/C++. The utilities build and run on any Unix/Linux operating system, including Mac OS X.
aircraft_oap is available via MacPorts or follow the MacOS build environment directions to build from source.
To install these programs on your computer, ensure the following packages (and the corresponding -devel versions for Linux) are installed:
openmotif (starting to show up as just "motif" on RHEL8 & Fedora).
netcdf, netcdf-cxx
python (needed by vardb)
log4cpp (needed by vardb)
xerces-c (needed by vardb)
boost (needed by vardb)
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
Ubuntu Focal (20.04)
libxt-dev
libmotif-dev
libnetcdf-dev
libnetcdf-cxx-legacy-dev
liblog4cpp5-dev
libxerces-c-dev
libboost-regex-dev
If you are still getting compile errors, you can look here for other things you may need (like Xcode) https://github.com/ncar/aircraft_oap/wiki/MacOS-Build-Environment
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ncar/aircraft_oap
cd aircraft_oap
scons
scons install
All programs will be installed in /usr/local on MacOS, otherwise /opt/local. You may override the install directory, e.g. "scons INSTALL_DIRECTORY=/home/local install" and the binaries will be place in /home/local/bin.
If you just want xpms2d, you can type 'scons xpms2d'. The only dependencies for xpms2d are the openmotif and fonts listed above.