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20030731: Gempak - Solaris 8 - Error viewing satellite imagery

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  • Subject: 20030731: Gempak - Solaris 8 - Error viewing satellite imagery
  • Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 13:13:54 -0600
James,

GEMPAK does support McIDAS 2 byte images. Use the GEMPAK program
"arinfo" instead of the old UPC program areaInfo to dump out information
about the files.

Your problem is likely that there are no entries in $GEMTBL/sat/imgtype.tbl
for 2 byte GOES-12 images since the GOES-12 platform is new. You will
see there are 2 byte entries for GOES-8,9,10 that you can copy. (eg,
those entries with the pixel depth column equal to 2).

Steve Chiswell






>From: "James Murakami" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200307312141.h6VLfh8O005738

>Institution: UCLA Atmospheric Sciences
>Package Version: gempak 5.6j
>Operating System: Solaris 8
>Hardware Information: Sun Blade 100
>Inquiry: Hi. I'm having a problem viewing some satellite imagery I ordered fro
> m the satellite data center (SSEC Wisconsin). They're supposed to be McIDAS a
> rea format files (GOES-12, 4km 3.9 micron IR imagery). GARP or NSAT will only
>  display the geographic background (recognizes the date also). The image itse
> lf is blank.  A statement "No image type entry for file" appears. I have no p
> roblems with viewing McIDAS imagery that arrives near realtime on the "Unidat
> a" datastream.
>
>I typed the command "areaInfo -v" for one of the images, and it resulted with 
> "zsiz 2 != 1 not supported".
>Am I limited to using McIDAS software for these images? I'd like to be able to
>  overlay surface observations, which are in GEMPAK format (don't have compara
> ble McIDAS format surface files).
>Thank you in advance.
>
>James
>
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>Department of Atmospheric Sciences
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