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[IDV #NQO-486806]: Spanning the dateline

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  • Subject: [IDV #NQO-486806]: Spanning the dateline
  • Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:43:30 -0700
> Hello.
> 
> I am trying to show global satellinte imagery over the Pacific.
> I cannot find how to shift longitude and put the seam at 0.
> 

Hi Brian,
       The satellite imagery from the ADDE server is actually imagery product, 
there is no way to shift longitude.


IDV support
> Searching for "Pacifc", "180", "dateline" etc. in the help and online 
> documentation
> and FAQs and google finds nothing. Changing the Projection to Australia still 
> clips at the
> dateline, and there is no "Pacifc" projection to choose. I am stumped after 
> perhaps
> 10 minutes of skilled trying, so either it is not possible, or the 
> documentation could use
> adjustment. Either way, time to call in the cavalry (you).
> 
> 
> Actually the whole universe of satellite imagery is very confusing - 
> inscrutable product names,
> many come up empty, and I have found that bundles with satellite data are 
> especially fickle.
> This link from the documentation is dead:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/docs/userguide/data/choosers/DataSources.html
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> Brian
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NQO-486806
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed