Re: 20000605: GOES 9 imagery for COMET_case_008

>Date:20000605
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200006050635.e556ZQT18463 McIDAS area files conversion

Arthur, 

I believe this URL should answer most if not all of your questions.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mug/prog_man/Current/progman-117.HTML#13797

PLease write back if you have any further questions, and thank you for
using the COMET Case Study Library.

-Jeff
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Jeff Weber
Unidata/NWS-COMET Case Study Library
University Corp for Atmospheric Research

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On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Unidata Support wrote:

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> >From: "Arthur Henkel" <address@hidden>
> >Subject: GOES 9 imagery for COMET_case_008
> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> >Keywords: 200006050635.e556ZQT18463
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> Hello:
> 
> Thanks for making the satellite data for the various COMET case studies 
> public.  I downloaded the imagery for the Dec 96/Jan 97 CA flood event (case 
> study 008) and have been trying to understand the McIDAS format.  I was 
> hoping that you could answer a few questions concerning that format that 
> might help me in successfully displaying the imagery (of most interest 
> initially, is the IR band).
> 
> 1)  Is the data already projected into a map coordinate system?  If so, what 
> are the corner/center coordinates? (pixel size?)  I have been trying to view 
> the imagery in the commercial package ENVI; ENVI apparently knows nothing 
> about how to read the AREA or NAV blocks of the McIDAS files, other than 
> allowing the user to view the integer/character data manually.
> 
> 2)  Are there any simple, stand-alone utilities available to assist in 
> navigating/georeferencing the images outside of the McIDAS software 
> environement?... perhaps converting to other more readily available formats 
> (ERDAS, ESRI's formats, etc?)
> 
> 3) Any other help/hints that you can provide about the geometric/radiometric 
> corrections that have been made to this data would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> Arthur F. Henkel
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