20000922: LWTOA3 image data missing from Unidata-Wisconsin datastream (cont.)

>From: Thomas Don Aratari <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Michigan
>Keywords: 200009210254.e8L2sbb18779 Unidata-Wisconsin ldm-mcidas pnga2area 

Tom,

>The files are still called AREA1### not AREA0###
>
>the onesky.engin.umich.edu machine gets fed from yin.engin.umich.edu (our
>main machine)

OK.

>I did the notifyme on yin.engin and i saw both types coming thru.

This makes sense since onesky is seeing all products.
>
>Here's my pqact.conf entry: (from onesky.engin.umich.edu)

>MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q1 (..) (....) (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....)
>        PIPE    -close /sky1/local/ldm-mcidas-7.6.4/bin/pnga2area
>        -a /usr/local/ldm/data/mcidas/SATANNOT
>        -b /usr/local/ldm/data/mcidas/SATBAND
>        -l /logs/mcidas.log -v
>        -d /usr/local/ldm/data/mcidas -r \1,\2

There are two things to change here:

o put a tab between '-close' and '/sky1/local/ldm-mcidas-7.6.4/bin/pnga2area'
o change and the second selection parentheses on the header line

I recommend you change your entry to:

MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q1 (..) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....)
        PIPE    -close
        /sky1/local/ldm-mcidas-7.6.4/bin/pnga2area
        -a /usr/local/ldm/data/mcidas/SATANNOT
        -b /usr/local/ldm/data/mcidas/SATBAND
        -l /logs/mcidas.log -v
        -d /usr/local/ldm/data/mcidas -r \1,\2

The BIG culprit is the second selection parenthsis.  The default AREA file
numbers for the CIMSS products are 4 digits long, and three digits long
for the "normal" GOES images. This can be seen from the headers contained
in the notifyme listing from onesky:


Since these AREA numbers are not constrained
to be any particular length, it is best to use the '(.*)' selector.

>I tried having that script use the AREA115? and AREA114? but the output is
>all black on the .GIF after i run the xsat program...

I suspect that xsat can't handle the CIMSS products, but I have no way
of knowing.  Have you tried running it by hand and see if there area
any error messages.

notifyme -vxl- -f MCIDAS -o 3600 -h onesky.engin.umich.edu
Sep 21 22:00:50 notifyme[22115]: Starting Up: onesky.engin.umich.edu: 
20000921210050.247 TS_ENDT {{MCIDAS,  ".*"}}
NOTIFYME(onesky.engin.umich.edu) returns OK
Sep 21 22:00:54 notifyme[22115]: NOTIFYME(onesky.engin.umich.edu): OK
Sep 21 22:00:54 notifyme[22115]: d6ceaabbd7c8568d384dd79b3490a3ed     9782 2
0000921210606.778  MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q1 U3 202 GRAPHICS UNKBAND 5km 
20000921 2059
Sep 21 22:00:54 notifyme[22115]: 1db66532d041a451784b92074061fadf   133016 2
0000921211028.991  MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q1 U1 192 GOES-9_IMG UNKBAND 20km 
20000921 1800
Sep 21 22:00:55 notifyme[22115]: d87536de1c13ddd7039e32ac610ef78c    87565 2
0000921211511.793  MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q0 CA 1100 GOES-10_SND UNKBAND 14km 
20000921 2000
Sep 21 22:00:55 notifyme[22115]: 65d4a9ba0a4da18a20433b84b018e2c9   160135 2
0000921211634.061  MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q1 UB 173 GOES-10_IMG 6.8um 8km 
20000921 2100
Sep 21 22:00:55 notifyme[22115]: 0d6764fb1aaf4bee024009a5456f178b   989282 2
0000921211720.883  MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q1 U5 131 GOES-10_IMG 10.7um 4km 
20000921 2100
Sep 21 22:00:55 notifyme[22115]: b2f14025c753b36b0d1f1a9a26dcb263  1693926 2
0000921211712.645  MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q1 U9 121 GOES-10_IMG 0.65um 4km 
20000921 2100
Sep 21 22:00:56 notifyme[22115]: e85ff8028d9232a37e6bfee3418c0c80    60430 2
0000921211809.942  MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q0 CD 1130 GOES-10_SND UNKBAND 14km 
20000921 2000
Sep 21 22:00:56 notifyme[22115]: 266e0e79acf863cd9ec780d582541f2f    60858 2
0000921213109.253  MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q0 CB 1110 GOES-10_SND UNKBAND 14km 
20000921 2000

The headers in this list are:

pnga2area Q1 U3 202  GRAPHICS    UNKBAND 5km  20000921 2059
pnga2area Q1 U1 192  GOES-9_IMG  UNKBAND 20km 20000921 1800
pnga2area Q0 CA 1100 GOES-10_SND UNKBAND 14km 20000921 2000
pnga2area Q1 UB 173  GOES-10_IMG 6.8um   8km  20000921 2100
pnga2area Q1 U5 131  GOES-10_IMG 10.7um  4km  20000921 2100
pnga2area Q1 U9 121  GOES-10_IMG 0.65um  4km  20000921 2100
pnga2area Q0 CD 1130 GOES-10_SND UNKBAND 14km 20000921 2000
pnga2area Q0 CB 1110 GOES-10_SND UNKBAND 14km 20000921 2000
          ^  ^  ^    ^           ^       ^    ^        ^
          |  |  |    |           |       |    |        |__ Time [HHMM]
          |  |  |    |           |       |    |________ Date [CCYYMMDD]
          |  |  |    |           |       |____ resolution
          |  |  |    |           |_______ band (wavelength)
          |  |  |    |___________ SATellite
          |  |  |___ default AREA file number
          |  |__ McIDAS routing table product code
          |_ time indicator [Q0..Q4]

The CIMSS products are broadcast under the 'Q0' time indicator, and the
"normal" GOES images are broadcast under the 'Q1' time indicator.

>Any more ideas ? :)

I a confident that as soon as you change your pqact.conf entry and send
a HUP to pqact, you will once again be decoding the images you want.

Tom

>From address@hidden Fri Sep 22 17:07:35 2000
>Subject: Re: 20000922: LWTOA3 image data missing from Unidata-Wisconsin 
>datastream (cont.) 

Tom

Yes! its working.. I'm getting the GOES images now, and xsat is pumping
the IR/SAT images out..

thanks for all your help! .. and sorry that i missed the email a ways back
about the McIDAS change :)

Thanks again

Tom

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