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> Hi, > > Just curious if nmap2 can display GOES-13 mcIdas AREA files or GOES-13 > data in netCDF formats ? > > What is the preferred data format for displaying Satellite data within > GEMPAK nmap2 ? Hello Kota, NMAP2 does indeed display GOES-13 AREA files, but does not support display of netCDF files. McIDAS products are available on the UNIWISC feed as PNG-compressed AREA files (see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/datastream.html ), which can be read natively by NMAP2 and the GEMPAK programs. The LDM pattern action file pqact.conf ( https://github.com/Unidata/gempak/blob/master/ldm/etc/templates/pqact.gempak_images.new and ~ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_images on an installed system ) defines where the UNIWISC imagery will be filed, the default location being subdirectories under data/gempak/images/sat, known in the GEMPAK environment as $SAT. This directory is automatically available in NMAP2 under Data -> Satellite. -Michael Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: HVS-308265 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Normal Status: Open