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20030815: 20030815: IMBAR or other?

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  • Subject: 20030815: 20030815: IMBAR or other?
  • Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:14:40 -0600
Stonie,

The sounder images in GINI I last looked had nothing in the calibration block, 
but I'd be willing to look at it.
Does you copy of the NESDIS interface control document give the format?

Steve


>From: "Stonie R. Cooper" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Planetary Data, Incorporated
>Keywords: 200308151611.h7FGB7Ld022972

>Steve,
>
>Actually, GINI does have a calibration block . . . it's just never used.  If I
>  
>preprocessed the GINI to have the necessary conversion, does GEMPAK 
>understand the calibration block in GINI?
>
>Stonie
>
>On Friday 15 August 2003 16:05, Steve Chiswell wrote:
>> Stonie,
>>
>> The AREA files in the UNIWISC IDD feed have calibration information, so the
>> units and values are shown in the image bar. This includes the sounder
>> channel products which are also in the NOAAPORT sbroadcast as GINI images.
>>
>> The GINI images in the NOAAPORT broadcast do not have a calibration block,
>> so unless you were to use an external table for the GINIs (similar to what
>> I did for the radar composites I create in GINI format for the FNEXRAD
>> feed) the programs do not have theinformation to plot units/values other
>> than the pixel values.
>>
>> Steve Chiswell
>-- 
>Stonie R. Cooper
>Planetary Data, Incorporated
>(402) 782-6611
>