Creation of Plain gif Images From LROSE

Run Rview screen from the terminal using the following command from the command line:

Rview -params ~/projDir.olds/display/params/Rview.archive

Right click on the Copy option on the menu bar at the top of the Rview window.

The radar gif image for that particular time instant will be automatically saved in the following directory:

~/projDir.olds/data/images/cappi

Right click on the Time option at the bottom menu bar to view the radar image of the next time instant.

Create the gif image and repeat the process.

Creation of Animated gif Images

To create an animated gif image using the saved plain gif images, run the following command from the command line:

convert -delay 30 ~/path/of/plain_image1.gif ~/path/of/plain_image2.gif ~/path/of/animated_gif_image.gif

To create an animated gif loop using the saved plain gif images, run the following command from the command line:

convert -delay 30 -loop 0 ~/path/of/plain_image1.gif ~/path/of/plain_image2.gif ~/path/of/animated_gif_image.gif

Viewing The Animated gif Image

To view the animated gif image, run the following gif image from the command line:

gthumb ~/path/of/animated_gif_image.gif

Some Sample Animated gif Images:

Animated gif image of a case (Complex Track Number 12, Simple Track Number 12) from 2017/07/09, Olds radar site. animated_20170709_c12s12.gif

Animated gif image of a case (Complex Track Number 20, Simple Track Number 38) from 2017/07/04, Olds radar site. animated_20170704_c20s38.gif

Animated gif image of a case (Complex Track Number 94, Simple Track Number 94) from 2017/07/24, Strathmore radar site. animated_20170724_c94s94.gif