Abstract

Generating Scheduled Rasters using Python
Track: Learning and Research Lightning Talk
Authors: Kevin Cary

Raster surfaces of meteorological variables from Ky. Mesonet weather stations are generated on a time schedule by a Python script using the ArcPy site package launched automatically on timed intervals from Window’s Task Scheduler. Point feature data is called from an SDE geodatabase maintained by WKU’s Center for GIS and interpolated using Spatial Analyst’s Kriging tool. Raster surfaces are clipped to the commonwealth of Kentucky and assigned a colormap for use in a Ky. Mesonet static web map.