Copenhagen meeting 14 12 2009: Summary minutes

Suggestions for concrete plans:

• Resampling
• MPPP
• Provide to DMI
• Implementation at DMI
• Extentions to GOES and Met7 for example

Long term goal / vision

• Same software in production system
• Extend to nordic community (Nordmet)

Information model

• Meta Data structure
• File formas (netCDF & HDF5?) and implementation
• Python Class
  We need to relate to OpenDAP

Tools and standards

• Wiki / Repository
• Documentation
• Restructured text
• Sphynx

3rd party SW:

• pydap
• h5py / pyhl
• Python interfaces to proj: smhi/pps interface pyproj and another “official” pyproj
• gdal
• numpy & PIL
• python 2.6 and 3.0 ???
• pyLint and PEP8
• pylab
• SciPy
• Rpy
• Proj.4
• SQLAlchemy (Object Relation Manager)
• pygrib2?

Version control

• Git

Actions:

1. Martin: Setup an area at github (upload git-repository of MPPP)
2. Martin: Write/make available/locate “git for dummies”
3. DMI: Installing and test MPPP package at DMI – MSG support only – feedback to SMHI
4. DMI: Enhance MPPP to handle GOES and Met7 data
5. DMI: Adapt MPPP to produce DMI final products (e.g. Tiff for Ninjo)
6. DMI: Finalise the Python-resampler and integrate it with the MPPP

Less concrete actions
h4. Working Document on Meta data structures and file formats:

1. All: Investigate existing information models (Eumetsat, NOAA/NASA – NPP/NPOESS)
2. Wiki/Working Document
3. Diagram of design strategy
4. List of readers/current status

Next meeting:
Norrköping, Wednesday 3/3, 2010, the day before the start of the Nordsat 2010 meeting.