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:

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, then edit SConstruct file:

• Comment out line with Requires('vardb')
• Change subdirs list to only include xpms2d

The only dependencies for xpms2d are the openmotif and fonts listed above.