Animation of AFOS (Automation of Field Operations and Services) Graphics

摘要

Animation of satellite pictures has proven to be a useful tool above and beyond that of still satellite pictures. The main advantages to animation are the ability to view a lot of information in a short period of time and to ascertain features which are not obvious in still pictures. The same should be true of any meteorological field such as 500-mb heights, vorticity, radar echoes, etc. The two programs described here provide the capability to animate any series of AFOS graphics. The user is able to create and edit loops and play them back all from his AFOS console. No special hardware is required for the animation.