20030717: nex2img test program

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Daryl,

I have a program called nex2img which you can download at
ftp://gbuddy:address@hidden/nawips-5.6/contrib/nex2img.tar.gz

This program will create a GIF format output image of the radar mosaic
with a specified color lookup table in your desired projection.
Since the program does not write a GINI, you can use CED as the projection type.

You can unpack this tar file from $NAWIPS, then build with:

cd $NAWIPS/unidata/programs/nex2img
make clean
make all
make install
make clean

(or I can provide a binary for you if needed).

The "phelp nex2img" shows the setup for producing a national GIF that is
updated every 5 minutes (your supplemental info file for projection 
information will be constant).

This is the first step toward writing the output as a geotiff file,
but since you can already go from GIF (with the supplemental
projection information (CED) file) to your server format, I
was hoping you might find that this helps your problem
with the GINI limitation of "MER".

Again, feedback is apreciated.

Steve Chiswell