Tool to generate interactive maps from Total Electron Content grids automatically using IGS archive data.
TEC maps visualize the spatial distribution of total amount of electorns in Earth's ionosphere. The total electron content in ionosphere affects in the delay of radion and microwaves carrier phases while the waves travel through the ionosphere. The ionospheric delay of the radio signals is a major error source for satellite navigation and this tool is inteded to visualize the severity of the ionospheric delay.
The tool allows user to select an IGS analysis center, time and date for mapping the TEC. The data is downloaded from IGS archive(s) automatically and if successful, a TEC map is shown to user.
The visualization part is based on bokeh and geoviews.
- Install docker
- Install docker-compose
- Go to the root of the repository
- Execute
docker-compose up - Open http://localhost:5100/app on your browser
- Add some form of dependency handling (requirements.txt?)
- Add next day and previous day buttons
- Add "play" button to go over hours / days automatically with given intervals
- Add tests
- Improve plotting speed (slow locally, on server fast?)
Thanks daniestevez for providing similar tool in a notebook enviornment in which the IONEX parsing and handling is based on.