The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for analysis and display of spatial data is becoming prevalent in the scientific community and governmental agencies. GIS usage will most likely increase as the scientific community continues to find a use for this tool, also while state and local governmental agency budgets permit adding GIS technology to their lists of available services and tools. Local water resource personnel would more readily benefit from having this radar-estimated precipitation data available to them if it could be imported into a GIS without having to use processing software as an intermediary step.

This paper identifies the available types of radar data that currently are able to be imported into a GIS, as well as documenting the import process. A case study is presented describing the use of a GIS for analysis and display of WSR-88D Radar Data.