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[IDV #HNE-856233]: Importing and geolocating pictures

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  • Subject: [IDV #HNE-856233]: Importing and geolocating pictures
  • Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:39:04 -0700
> Don & Jeff,
> 
> TomW gave me a great way to attach navigation information to a jpeg file
> through an XML file, for example:
> <image  url="toast_20081119_crop.png"   name="TOAST"  ullat="90"
> ullon="0" lrlat="-90" lrlon="360" />
> 
> This works great for lat/lon projected images. What if I have an image
> in polar stereographic or lambert conformal? If this functionality isn't
> available, about how much effort do you think it would take? Could
> someone at SSEC do it?
> 
> I'm writing a proposal to use McV with GEONETCast products
> http://www.geonetcastamericas.noaa.gov/
> 
> and NOAA may have some $$s to enhance McV to visualize the products
> they're sending out.
> 
>
Hi Dave,
Something like that could be done. Basically in 
ucar.unidata.data.imagery.ImageXmlDataSource
we read the image, create a flat field from it and set the spatial domain with 
a linear2dset.

We could come up with a way to define a new projection in the xml and use that.

-Jeff


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: HNE-856233
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open