20000913: pqact.conf entry for PNG compressed UW imagery

>From: Clint Rowe <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
>Keywords: 200009131309.e8DD9sb12051 ldm-mcidas LDM PNG pnga2area pqact.conf

Clint,

>Here's a copy of our quote.

Thanks, this might be useful.

>Since you've been working so hard on this, how about sending me the pqact
>entries you've set up (I'm being lazy -- I haven't bothered to try to get
>the png images yet.  But I have updated software and grabbed those
>derived products starting right when they came out!)

Here is a "one-for-one" replacement pqact.conf pattern for users that
file their images in the "McIDAS" manner: use of ROUTE.SYS to name the
output AREA files:

MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....)
        PIPE    -close
        pnga2area
        -a /usr/local/ldm/etc/SATANNOT -b /usr/local/ldm/etc/SATBAND
        -d /var/data/mcidas -r \1,\2

If you have McIDAS-X installed in /home/mcidas, you can eliminate the
specifications of the '-a' and '-b' flags.

You will, of course, have to change the output data directory to
match your system.

If you want to file your image products directly (for GEMPAK/GARP/NMAP)
I can send out example pqact.conf entries that will do that.

Thanks for the quote!

Tom