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>From: Unidata User Support <address@hidden> >Organization: Unidata Program Center/UCAR >Keywords: 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