20030926: Topo bases w/ sat images

Dana,

No, GEMPAK cannot do image composition or mathematical functions at this time.
Dpending on your project, you can do some post processing on the image
output from GEMPAK (using packages like imagemagick) which is useful for
web gifs but not for interactive users.

For overlaying radar on satellite images, you can either use the RCM or
the gridded composite (such as the 6km national mosaic I provide 
in FNEXRAD as a GRIB). These can be used like:
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/examples/gdradr/index.html
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/examples/gprcm/index.html

Since you can always overlay gridded data on satellite, the GRIB data for the
FNEXRAD product, or the 10KM HDS product HAXA00 can be used, or gprcm for the
rcm bulletins SDUS4x.

Steve Chiswell






>From: Dana Price <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200309261855.h8QItFk1005103

>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if/how to overlay mcidas satellite images over the 
>topographic maps.  Since they are both AREA files, I'm not sure how to 
>display both at the same time.  The examples page says  that "Topographic 
>bases can be composited with satellite imagery in MCIDAS to produce 
>complex image bases."..  We ingest the data but don't use the mcidas 
>system at all, so I'm hoping theres a way to do it with gempak.  Also, can 
>I display nexrad data with the overlays?  Since I have to set PROJ=SAT it 
>doesn't seem so.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Dana
>
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