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[AWIPS #AYD-739501]: CAVE - RGB Composites - GeoColor option and CIMMS Natural Color option

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  • Subject: [AWIPS #AYD-739501]: CAVE - RGB Composites - GeoColor option and CIMMS Natural Color option
  • Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 14:52:37 -0500
> Greetings.  Despite the Satellite -> GOES-East Conus -> RGB Composites -> 
> CIRA RGBs (derived at CIRA) -> GeoColor menu option showing a valid time 
> stamp (see below)
> 
> [cid:image001.png@01D7CF30.9DF86300]
> 
> when selected it shows the error (see below) "No data available for resource  
> com.raytheon.uf.vis.trucolor.rsc.TrueColorResourceGroupData".  Note that in 
> this image snippet all necessary components are available in the product 
> stack and all at the same valid time that are seemingly required to make this 
> image per 
> /awips2/edex/data/utility/common_static/base/menus/satellite/goesr/goesrRGBCompositesCIRA.xml.
> 
> [cid:image002.png@01D7CF30.9DF86300]
> 
> We do get the CIMMS Natural Color to plot just fine (and is quite stunning to 
> view in a loop) and many other RGB composites so we know the RGB 
> functionality is working properly.
> 
> Question 1 - is there another level of configuration required to view 
> GeoColor images?
> 
> Question 2 - the CIMMS Natural Color image is rendered properly and defined 
> in 
> /awips2/edex/data/utility/common_static/base/menus/satellite/goesr/goesrRGBCompositesCIRA.xml
>   however its red, green and blue elements are set to generic Red Green and 
> Blue respectively - vs a specific channel.  Where are "Red" "Green" and 
> "Blue" being defined and what channels are being used.
 

I don't believe you have access to the CIRA data products. I'm not sure why 
there is a valid timestamp showing up, but the CIRA products are not publicly 
available that I'm aware of. We are receiving those products directly from CIRA 
and redistributing them on our LDM.

Thanks,

Tiffany Meyer
AWIPS Lead Software Engineer
UCAR-Unidata

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: AYD-739501
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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