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> Yuan: > > Yup, that works. > > One final question/bug. Fire up the attached bundle and note the > holes/lines in the color-filled PV pressure analysis. Any ideas why? I > was able to generate this bundle correctly with previous versions of > IDV, but keep running into this problem. Seems to be the case in all > the IDV 5.x versions I've run. > > Thanks, > > Jim Jim, I think this is not a bug. You can go to the display control of the color-filled PV and click on the Change button of contour and set the Minimum value to 50, and you will get better display. Yuan > > > > On 7/21/14 5:02 PM, Unidata IDV Support wrote: > >> Yuan: > >> > >> Well, I have a really interesting bug for you with regards to that > >> satellite imagery. > >> > >> Load up the attached bundle. It will look like crap, but this will > >> suffice for demonstration purposes. Then for the global WV or IR, > >> change either the Legend Label or the Display Label in the property > >> window. It will spontaneously change the data sampling to every 5th pixel. > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> > > Jim, > > This is a bug, I just checked in the fix this afternoon. You can > > download the nightly release > > tomorrow morning. > > > > > > Yuan > >> On 7/16/14 4:13 PM, Unidata IDV Support wrote: > >>>> Hi: > >>>> > >>>> I've been having some problems loading global satellite data into IDV, > >>>> especially in bundles. The data is from the GLOBAL dataset on the > >>>> adde.ucar.edu server. When I pull up the Thermal IR composite images, > >>>> it defaults to a -5 magnification, so I change it to 1 so I get the full > >>>> grid. However, when I then save to a bundle and reload it, IDV5.0 > >>>> downloads and plots the data with the default -5 magnification. See the > >>>> attached globalir.xidv bundle. > >>>> > >>>> Further, all bundles I have created previously (August 2013) that use > >>>> the GLOBAL dataset on the adde.ucar.edu server no longer work and return > >>>> an error that says no images satisfy the selection criteria. See > >>>> Global-10day.xidv. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> > >>>> Jim > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Jim, > >>> The magnification bug has been fixed in the nightly release a > >>> while ago. You can download and give it a try. > >>> > >>> The problem of GLOBAL datasets from adde is a different story. A > >>> few months ago, Tom made an announcement regarding > >>> the changes of these dataset. Basically, the original high resolution > >>> datasets are no longer available due to the > >>> request of the dataset creator SSEC. They are getting paid to generate > >>> these high resolution datasets for certain customers and > >>> do not want to see the Unidata making them freely available. So, we > >>> replace these global datasets with lower resolution datasets, > >>> and this means the IDV users need to redo the bundle. Sorry about the > >>> trouble. > >>> > >>> > >>> Yuan > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Ticket Details > >>> =================== > >>> Ticket ID: ZQH-336619 > >>> Department: Support IDV > >>> Priority: Normal > >>> Status: Closed > >>> > >> > >> > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: ZQH-336619 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Closed > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ZQH-336619 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed