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[IDV #YAV-659857]: dump transect data

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  • Subject: [IDV #YAV-659857]: dump transect data
  • Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:05:56 -0600
Hi Joseph,

At IDV support, we often get questions like this for users who wish to employ
the IDV to convert data from one format to another. In truth, the IDV is not
really meant to be a data conversion tool. The idea is you bring data into the
IDV and you do your analysis and visualization from within the IDV.

That said, here is what you can do. Click on the legend link for the transect
which will take you to the transect "control". Go to File > Save > Export
Displayed Data to NetCDF. Once you have the data in netCDF format, you can use a
tool like ncdump to convert it to text. These text files could be quite
voluminous depending on your data.

Best,

Unidata IDV Support

> Full Name: Joseph Spain
> Email Address: address@hidden
> Organization: Wrisk Consulting, LLC
> Package Version: 5.3
> Operating System:
> Hardware:
> Description of problem:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Regarding the transect data in IDV, which is displayed in a graph,
> is it possible to dump the data to text? It is simple to dump point
> data to text, but I am unable to find an option to dump transect data
> to text. Please advise.
> 
> Perhaps another way to think of this is in terms of the file, bin, or
> cache that the x-y graph is plotting the transect data from. The data
> are somewhere, but where?
> 
> Thanks kindly.
> 
> Regards,
> Joseph
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YAV-659857
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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