Metadata Catalogue Metadata Catalogue https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/ https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/portal.opensearch https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/rdf.search?any= eng Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/thesaurus.download?ref=external.place.regions ecoportal.fos_1.rdf https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/thesaurus.download?ref=external.ecoportal.fos application/xml XML text/html HTML 7c456a20-3e0d-49dd-8327-9c840b148f0f Quality Data For Aloft Virtual Lab Currently weather radar data is processed to biologically relevant metrics (vertical profiles) at the European collaboration between radar meteorologists. Here data is used where frequently biological information is already filtered. Higher quality of biological data can be obtained by accessing data directly from the meteorological institutes. This was clearly shown in the case of German weather radar data. However data is only public for three days therefore continues processing is needed. All software to do this processing (r packages getRad, bioRad and vol2birdR) is functional. This virtual lab is used for the creation, maintenance and running of a recurring workflow to process this data. <div>The vLab has been created by using the LifeWatch NaaVRE platform (<a href="https://naavre.net" target="_blank">https://naavre.net</a>).</div> Weather radar Bird migration Radar aeroecology WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://beta.naavre.net/vreapp/vl/quadfavl WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://naavre.net/ 2025-07-07 license Department Theoretical and Computational Ecology (TCE) Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Berend-Christiaan Wijers Bart Kranstauber