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> Hi > > My name is Bob Stafford I'm a software engineer at EEC working on our > EDGE radar software package. One of the features of our package is to > export our radar data in Level II Message 31 format and this works with > some packages, for example GR2Analyst can read our LevelII files with no > problem. > > However it's been brought to our attention that IDV will not read our > level II files. > > I was wondering if anyone would be able to assist me with identifying > why IDV will not read our files and what I need to change to make it work. > > If you can assist I'd be happy to send you one of our files for analysis. > > The backtrace we're getting from IDV is this in case it helps > > *visad.VisADException: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: > index=-1 shape=360* > > *at ucar.unidata.data.radar.CDMRadarAdapter.init(CDMRadarAdapter.java:507)* > Hi Bob, You can upload a sample file here: https://ramadda.unidata.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload Yuan Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: AJV-432941 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.