LOFAR preprocessing software, including averaging, flagging, various kinds of calibration and more.
The DP3 documentation can be found at: https://dp3.readthedocs.org
This repository is a continuation of the one at svn.astron.nl/LOFAR. In particular, it has branched off at LOFAR Release 3.2 (Sept 2018). The version of DP3 that is in the ASTRON repository is no longer maintained.
Some non-standard dependencies of this project are: armadillo, boost, boost-python, casacore, hdf5, aoflagger, and EveryBeam. See the Dockerfiles docker/ubuntu_22_04_base and/or docker/ubuntu_24_04_base as examples.
Typical installation commands:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j4
make install
Issues can be filed either at gitlab or github.
Want to contribute some code, or improve documentation? You can start by cloning our code from the DP3 development repository.