A Rust toolkit for working with the United States' network of WSR-88D weather radar sites. What began as a single Level II decoder has grown into a workspace of focused crates that take raw NOAA Archive II volumes all the way through to rendered reflectivity imagery, each published to crates.io and documented on docs.rs.
The suite is split into composable crates so you can pull in only what you need:
nexrad: the umbrella crate offering ergonomic APIs for accessing, decoding, and processing radar data, gated behind feature flags.nexrad-model: a common, well-documented data model for radar volumes, sweeps, radials, and gates, approachable without prior knowledge of the Archive II format.nexrad-decode: binary decoding that follows NOAA's WSR-88D Interface Control Document.nexrad-data: download and file I/O, including pulling archival and real-time volumes from AWS S3.nexrad-process: processing algorithms for cleaning and analyzing radar data.nexrad-render: turns decoded sweeps into visual images with configurable color scales.nexrad-inspector: an interactive terminal UI for inspecting Archive II volume files locally or from AWS.
Feature flags keep the dependency footprint small and make the core
nexrad-model and nexrad-decode crates WASM-compatible, and the same code
powers NEXRAD Workbench, a browser-based viewer
built on top of this suite.
