Robert, I was able to view your IR right off, and had to add the following lines for HRVis and WV respectively: METEOSAT8 WV 0 255 51 32 1 watvap.tbl METEOSAT8 HRVIS 0 255 51 2048 1 GRAY The arinfo -a output shows the Channel ID in Word 19 which is used for the band in the imgtyp.tbl file. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SIZ-617948 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Normal Status: Closed