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20041103: NIDS alphanumeric graphic products

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  • Subject: 20041103: NIDS alphanumeric graphic products
  • Date: 03 Nov 2004 13:12:37 -0700
Robert et al.,

These products (STI, NME, NHI, VTV, DPA, NVW) can be displayed in
NMAP2 as from the image selection widget, but not overlaid onto other
images at this time because NMAP2 is configured to a single image type
selection. Note that when displaying the NVW (Vad Wind) product, you 
will want to turn off the map & latlon lines in the NMAP2 Map dialog!

You can however, overlay these alphanumeric products onto images using
the command line GEMPAK programs.

To overlay thracks, hail, mesocyclones etc onto imagery, creation of a
VGF for use in NMAP2 is possible as Robert mentions:
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/examples/nmap2/gempak_storm_example.gif

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 12:39, Robert Dewey wrote: 
> Haven't played with 5.7.3 yet, but I don't think NMAP2 carries the
> capability to plot the storm tracking, hail, meso, etc. information
> just yet. That would be a great advancement to display it in NMAP2,
> without having to covert it to VGF files, but then that opens the door
> to overlaying an image onto another image, which as far as I know, is
> impossible in GEMPAK...
>  
> Robert
> 
> address@hidden wrote: 
>         Hello,
>         
>         I see GEMPAK 5.7.3 is out and has a new feature that seems
>         like a nice
>         feature. In the What's new page of Gempak it says, "Display of
>         NEXRAD
>         Level III (NIDS) overlay products as well as tabular and
>         alpnanumeric
>         graphic sections of Level III products added to all GEMPAK
>         programs."
>         
>         Does anyone have pictures of this feature in use? And does it
>         work with
>         NMAP2? 
> 
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