Hello,
I've been perusing the VisAD docs and tutorials and I'm gaining an
understanding and great appreciation for the library. But, before I get
too far along, I'd like to share my idea for using VisAD and confirm
whether I'm going down the right path. I appreciate any tips and
insights that might help.
I want to render potential wildland fire behavior in a display.
Basically, I'd like to move a UI Slider that represents time and date
and render the potential fire behavior for an area based on wind
forecasts, the lay of the land, and the solar preheating of the fuel.
I think the following MathTypes describe my basic intent:
Solar pre-heating of the fuel driven by time of day and location:
( time -> ( (latitude, longitude) -> ( ( slope, aspect, fuel_type )
-> fuel_preheat ) ) )
Fire behavior output from wind, slope and preheat by time of day and
location:
( time -> ( (latitude, longitude) -> ( (wind_spd, wind_dir, slope,
aspect, fuel_preheat) -> fire_behavior ) ) )
First, are my MathTypes adequate? The wind_spd, wind_dir, slope and
aspect values are all read from data files. The fuel_preheat values
will be computed.
Thus far, I've adapted Don Murray's ArcAsciiGridAdapter into a
GridFloatAdapter in order to read the georeferenced GridFloat (*.flt)
files. And, I've coupled this with the
visad.jmet.AlbersCoordinateSystem to handle the georeferencing. Now I'd
like to compute derived preheat values from the data and rendering some
of the data.
Any tips or comments?
Thanks,
-- Bruce
Bruce Schubert
