Aeros

EOL Facility:

Research Aviation Facility (RAF)

Maintenance Status:

Stable

Developers/Maintainers:

RAF

Used by these EOL facilities:

RAF

Application:

A visualization package for real-time and post-deployment of aircraft observations.

Status:

Active

Level of Support:

Supported

Stakeholders:

Operating System:

Windows

Mac

Linux

Revision History

The changes that are visible to users are given in the following table. The changes that are made for software maintenance and minor bug fixes are not listed here, although they are tracked in the EOL software revision control system.

Date	Revision	Details
March, 2019	1.0-400	Add support for reading Optical Array Probe files (*.2d). Update to save-ascii. Size-distributions now save cell sizes. Ported from Qt4 to Qt5.
April 3, 2017	1.0-45	Updates to histogram functionality
August08, 2016	1.0-31	On Connect IWG1, ask user for subnet. NASA aircraft do not use the same subnet as RAF.
July13, 2016	1.0-29	We have moved from Subversion to git. Version numbering has been reset. This rev fixes a bug with University of Wymoing netCDF files that was introduced in January of 2015.
June24,2015	5140	Added Page Fwd and Page Bkd (fn-upArrow and fn-downArrow on OSX) to scroll through data.
June15,2015	5137	Fixed the broken OSX distribution, so that Aeros will run on all Mac hardware. Track plot is more flexible in the variable names that it wil use for plotting. Behind-the-scene changes to datastore handling of the time dimension.
May12,2015	5122	Configuration storing/restoring has been improved. Other behind-the-scenes software maintenance.
Jan21,2015	5079	Fixed missing library in the W7 distribution.
Jan13,2015	5076	Beta: Trackplot has been refactored with new components, and a slight change to the user interface. Limited testing has been successful, but please report any bugs that you discover.
Jan03,2014	5035	Build for Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks). Track plot is temporarily disabled in the Mavericks version only.
Dec06,2013	5029	FIxed missing libraries in the Windows distribution.
Nov18,2013	5027	The built-in help manual was redesigned. No support for Windows XP after this version.
	4958	End of support for OSX 10.7 (Lion)

History

Originally developed as part of the NCAR Gulfstream V aircraft project. Aeros was designed to replace WINDS and ncplot, ncpp and xpms2d.

Notes

New features will eventually be added in order to replace some of the netcdf display tools.

Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) from University of Hawaii is used for the Geo-Political boundaries. Redhat users can use yum to install GMT (e.g. yum install GMT "GMT-coastlines*"). Make sure to set environment variable GMT_SHAREDIR=/usr/share/GMT .

Windows 10 (and 7) - The latest version is not available thruogh the download links below. We are currently working on a fix for it but you can currently download the latest copy of Aeros for Windows from here.