ucar.unidata.data.radar

Class VCP

java.lang.Object

ucar.unidata.data.radar.VCP

public class VCP
extends java.lang.Object

Static class for describing Volume Coverage Patterns (VCP) for Archive Level II data files. Will probably change in the future. Adapted with permission from the Java Iras software developed by David Priegnitz at NSSL.

Version:

$Revision: 1.11 $ $Date: 2006/12/01 20:42:39 $

Author:

MetApps Development Team

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
VCP() Constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static double[]	getAngles(int vcp) Get the elevation angles for a given VCP.
static float	getCutAngle(int vcp, int cut) Get the elevation angle for a given VCP and cut.
static int	getNumCuts(int vcp) Get the number of cuts for a particular VCP value

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

VCP

public VCP()

Constructor.

Method Detail

getNumCuts

public static int getNumCuts(int vcp)

Get the number of cuts for a particular VCP value

Parameters:

vcp - value for VCP

Returns:

number of cuts

getCutAngle

public static float getCutAngle(int vcp,
                                int cut)

Get the elevation angle for a given VCP and cut.

Parameters:

vcp - VCP value

cut - cut index

Returns:

elevation angle

getAngles

public static double[] getAngles(int vcp)

Get the elevation angles for a given VCP.

Parameters:

vcp - VCP value

Returns:

array of elevation angle values