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[IDV #SSL-131391]: Is it possible to extract model data along flight track?

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  • Subject: [IDV #SSL-131391]: Is it possible to extract model data along flight track?
  • Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:54:21 -0700
> Thanks.  The flythrough feature will now collect grid data along a flight
> track.  Unfortunately, it will now only recognize and display grid data in
> flythrough if it is in "plan view," so I can only collect and save grid data
> on a fixed pressure surface, regardless of the vertical coordinates of my
> flight track.  Previously if I had a vertical cross section in the same view
> as the flight track it would recognize that and report the values from the
> grid data in 3 dimensions, it just wouldn't record them correctly when I
> clicked "write data."  Now I seem to have lost that functionality while
> gaining the other.
> 

Can you give me a little detail information about how you collect the 3d data? 
I think what I fixed should
not change the functionality of the IDV.


Yuan
> Can you help me with this?  Thanks.  -Seth
> 
> 
> ----
> Seth Lyman
> University of Washington-Bothell
> 425.352.3533
> 
> 
> address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > > Hi.  I am using IDV to view some flight track data.  I'm interested in
> > > > extracting GRIB2 grid data along the flight track.  I know I can do
> > this in
> > > > flythrough mode - If I use flythrough for my flight track I can see the
> > > > GRIB2 parameter for each flight track point in the "values" tab.  This
> > value
> > > > changes as I move through the track.  If I select "collect data" and
> > then go
> > > > through the flight track, and then go to file>write data, I can save
> > this as
> > > > a .csv file.  The only problem is that it is saving the first GRIB2
> > > > parameter value for all of the flight track locations.  In other words,
> > the
> > > > "write data" feature isn't working.
> > > >
> > > > Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a way to extract the GRIB2 data
> > along
> > > > my track?  thanks.
> > > Hi Seth,
> > >
> > > You are right. It is a bug in the writting, I will fix it soon.
> > >
> > Again, I just checked in the fixed, you can download the nightly tomorrow
> > morning.
> >
> >
> > Yuan
> > >
> > > Yuan
> > > >
> > > > -Seth
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----
> > > > Seth Lyman
> > > > University of Washington-Bothell
> > > > <425.352.3533>425.352.3533
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
> > ===================
> > Ticket ID: SSL-131391
> > Department: Support IDV
> > Priority: Normal
> > Status: Closed
> >
> >
> 
> 


Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: SSL-131391
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open