Radolan

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title	Java port of Radolan parser
url	https://github.com/BITPlan/com.bitplan.radolan
version	0.0.1
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ported from golang version https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/since/radolan

DWD Radolan Opendata

• https://opendata.dwd.de/weather/radar/radolan/

Prerequisites

• Oracle Java Runtime 8

or if you'd like to build the Sprinkler software yourself:

• Oracle Java Development Kit 8
• Maven 3

Installation

Download the software for your platform from #Downloads or build the software yourself

Starting

Run the software with java -jar radolan.jar or radolan (If you built the software yourself: cd com.bitplan.radolan/release before this command)

Examples

Radar film

Calling radolan with no arguments will show the current DWD radar film

java -jar release/radolan.jar

which is equivalent to

java -jar release/radolan.jar -i https://www.dwd.de/DWD/wetter/radar/radfilm_brd_akt.gif

Radar snapshot

java -jar release/radolan.jar -i https://www.dwd.de/DWD/wetter/radar/rad_brd_akt.jpg

Daily summary (SF)

The picture below renders the https://opendata.dwd.de/weather/radar/radolan/sf/raa01-sf_10000-latest-dwd---bin radolan SF file as of 2018-08-16 08:20.

The command to create this picture was:

java -jar radolan.jar -i https://opendata.dwd.de/weather/radar/radolan/sf/raa01-sf_10000-latest-dwd---bin -o sf2018-08-16.png -t 5

• -i specified the input url
• -o specified the output image
• -t specified the number of seconds the image should be shown

as of Version 0.0.1 the software has to be stopped with CTRL-C

Commandline Arguments

java -jar release/radolan.jar -h
Help
Radolan: 0.0.1

  usage: java Radolan
 -d (--debug)       : debug
                      create additional debug output if this switch is used
 -h (--help)        : help
                      show this usage
 -i (--input) WERT  : input
                      url/file of the input
 -o (--output) WERT : output/e.g. path of png/jpg/gif file
 -s (--show)        : show
                      show resulting image
 -t (--showTime) N  : showTime
                      show result for the given time in seconds
 -v (--version)     : showVersion
                      show current version if this switch is used

Downloads

• radolan.jar - multiplatform Java
• radolan.exe - Windows executable

Build

git clone https://github.com/BITPlan/com.bitplan.radolan
cd com.bitplan.radolan
mvn install -D skipTests

The resulting jar and exe files are in the release subdirectory.

Test

cd com.bitplan.radolan
mvn test
...
Results :

Tests run: 15, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

Limitations

The port of https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/since/radolan is not fully complete yet. E.g. the RunLength and SingleByte Encodings have not been ported yet. You are welcome to send a pullrequest to incorporate this functionality or ask for help via BITPlan's contact form

Issues

Please report any issues via

• https://github.com/BITPlan/com.bitplan.radolan/issues

Libraries used

• Com.bitplan.javafx