Rain radar tools are separated into Cloudformation stacks which each represent an area of concern
- data - Essentially just a website-enabled s3 bucket. This stores all the raw rain images
- configuration - Just a bucket that stores configurations
- collector - collects rain radar images and stores them in the data bucket
- animator - an http API for generating animated gif/mp4s from the images stored in S3
- tweeter - uses the animation api to produce an animation for a given radar and time period then uploads to twitter
The design is intended to be modular; users of these tools may not need every single stack.
The below instructions details how to start collecting rain images
Create a new Cloudformation stack using the cloudformation/configuration-bucket.yml template in this repo.
ConfigurationBucketName: the name for the S3 bucket. These instructions will assume the name is something like rain-configuration-<yourname>
Edit config/enabled_radar_ids.json so that it contains only the radar ids you want to collect.
upload the configuration files
aws s3 cp --recursive ./config s3://rain-configuration-<yourname>
Create a new Cloudformation stack using the cloudformation/data-bucket.yml template
RainDataBucketName: the name for the S3 bucket. These instructions will assume the name is something like rain-data-<yourname>
This is optional (but very useful)... upload AWS Lab's javascript S3 Explorer so that you can easily browse the radar image data you've collected.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awslabs/aws-js-s3-explorer/master/index.html
aws s3 cp index.html s3://rain-data-<yourname>/
You should now be able to browse the bucket content using the url listed in the CloudFormation outputs.
This script uploads static rain radar background images to the rain-data-bucket for each radar id listed in the enabled_radar_ids.json configuration file
./scripts/upload_static_layers.sh config/enabled_radar_ids.json rain-data-<yourname>
You should now be able to browse these static layers in your s3 data bucket website.
See rain-collector stack for deployment instructions