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This report updates the status of Unidata's IDV development efforts since the last report (July, 2007).

• IDV version 2.3 was released on August 15, 2007, and can be downloaded at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/. This release focused primarily on performance improvements since most of the developer time over the previous 4 months was being spent on preparing for workshops.

  A more complete list of new features can be found in the IDV 2.3 Release Notes, but a few hightlights are:

  • The ADDE data choosers now have a timeline selector similar to the NMAP2 time chooser.
  • Support was added for easier selection of multibanded images.
  • Experimental remote Level II chooser from a THREDDS data server was released as a plugin until the server work is completed
• Yuan has been having discussions with the Tropical Research Center in Shanghai, China on the development of a Tropical IDV. They would provide funding for necessary framework changes and training, but much of the development would be done there.
• An Introduction to IDV (16 participants) and an Advanced IDV workshop (14 participants) was held August 1-4.
• Don and Jeff provided several IDV training sessions at the regional workshop held at University of Oklahoma in September. The reviews were very positive with the major complaint of not having more IDV sessions.

New development

Development and testing are underway for the next release of the IDV (2.4) which should be released in Fall 2007 in time for the AMS meeting in January, 2008. Features for this release may include:

• More diagnostic capabilities
• Interactive Jython shell
• Improved caching of grids and images for faster display creation.
• Display properties system for preconfiguring displays.
• Non-experimental remote Level II Radar access
• Bug fixes and suggest improvements noted a the workshops.

Ongoing efforts include:

• Collaborating in the development of VisAD
• Keeping up with new Java interfaces and developments
• Various and sundry IDV bug fixes and enhancements.

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This document is maintained by Don Murray <dmurray@unidata.ucar.edu>