20030401: GINI data in gempak

Mark,

First, make sure your ingester isn't leaving any junk before the
product. Try running "od -c yoursatfile | head -1". You should see your
TIGx WMO header starting at the first byte. If not, then your ingester
needs to handle that. Eg:
0000000   T   I   G   E   0   1       K   N   E   S       3   1   2   2 

You also will running in to a problem with the sat key templates in Garp.

I suggest you file your images to a directory structure such as:

data/gempak/images/sat/WEST-CONUS/4km/IR4/IR4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2

where $SAT is $GEMDATA/images/sat. I beleive that the first part of
the filename before the first "_" is expected to be the same as
the directory name. Eg, when in the IR4/ directory, it is looking
for files named IR4_*

If you use the above directory structure, the Garp_defaults and 
$GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl templates won't need modification.

Steve Chiswell






>From: Mark Tucker <address@hidden>
>Organization: Lyndon State College
>Keywords: 200304012121.h31LLO7U021260

>
>We've just installed a NOAAPort receiever system here at Lyndon State.  I've
>been trying to enable NGINI imagery in garp but without success.  I have added
>several simple entries in the pqact.conf on our ldm server and it seems to be
>filing the image files correctly.  I've updated my Garp_defaults to match
>the directory structure I've created.  The problem is that when I try to load
>one or more image files through the garp image menu the graphic says"no
>image". I am able to navigate the menu correctly and identify the appropriate
>date and time of the image files.  Our ldm is running 6.0.2 on Linux with
>gempak 5.6f.
>
>NIMAGE  ^TIGW04 .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-5][0-9])
>FILE    -close 
>data/gempak/images/ngini/goeswest/conus/4micron/GWestIR4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\
>2\
>
>Do I need to have this data processed by one of the decoders?  Does Unidata
>have any example pqact.conf entries for GINI data (gempak and/or mcidas)?  I
>am also interested in doing something with the RedBook data that is available
>but have not been able to find any information on setting this up with the
>ldm.  Thanks.
>
>-- 
>Mark Tucker
>Systems Administrator
>Meteorology Dept. 
>Lyndon State College
>http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu
>address@hidden
>(802)-626-6328
>

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