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>From: Bernard Mendiburu <address@hidden> >Organization: UCLA >Keywords: 200311191822.hAJIMROb008058 IDV Vis5D Hi Bernard- The problem with the Vis5D file using the Linear coordinates is that the vertical dimension does not get mapped to Altitude. In the IDV, the main display has mappings that are basically Latitude to Y, Longitude to X and Altitude to Z. In a Vis5D file, you basically have (row, col, height) as the 3 dimensions. The Vis5DForm which creates a VisAD object out of this data usually adds in a CoordinateSystem such that (row, col, height) ==> (latitude, longitude, altitude). However, with type 0, it ends up as (row, col, height) ==> (latitude, longitude, GENERIC_REAL) so there is no mapping to Altitude. If you use the OmniControl in the IDV, then you can see the data because you can map GENERIC_REAL to Z. In the IDV's main window, you don't have that type of control since it is meant to handle only georeferenced data. I'm discussing this issue with Bill Hibbard (Vis5D, VisAD creator) and trying to get it so we have the correct mappings. For now, I would say use something other than type 0 if you can until we can (hopefully) get this fixed. Don Murray **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program 303 497 8643 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW Service http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support **************************************************************************** Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:58:39 PST To: "'Unidata Support'" <address@hidden> From: Bernard Mendiburu <address@hidden> Subject: RE: 20031125: V5D files. That doesn't make a big problem for me. It was mainly a bug follow-up. I just wonder if sometimes next year, we'll have defomations in the display because of the "cylindrical" parameter. Anyway, i'll do my best to add IMG file handling in visAD. It's much more efficent in the long-term than convert in vis5D. Thank for all.