1.. _raster.iris: 2 3================================================================================ 4IRIS -- Vaisala's weather radar software format 5================================================================================ 6 7.. shortname:: IRIS 8 9.. built_in_by_default:: 10 11This read-only GDAL driver is designed to provide access to the products 12generated by the IRIS weather radar software. 13 14IRIS software format includes a lot of products, and some of them aren't 15even raster. The driver can read currently: 16 17- PPI (reflectivity and speed): Plan position indicator 18- CAPPI: Constant Altitude Plan position indicator 19- RAIN1: Hourly rainfall accumulation 20- RAINN: N-Hour rainfall accumulation 21- TOPS: Height for selectable dBZ contour 22- VIL: Vertically integrated liquid for selected layer 23- MAX: Column Max Z WF W/NS Sections 24 25Most of the metadata is read. 26 27Vaisala provides information about the format and software at 28http://www.vaisala.com/en/defense/products/weatherradar/Pages/IRIS.aspx. 29 30NOTE: Implemented as ``gdal/frmts/iris/irisdataset.cpp``. 31 32Driver capabilities 33------------------- 34 35.. supports_georeferencing:: 36 37.. supports_virtualio:: 38 39