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[ldmMcidas #PVL-726977]: goes 10 imagery

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  • Subject: [ldmMcidas #PVL-726977]: goes 10 imagery
  • Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 10:21:31 -0600
Hi Waldenio,

I am attaching the relevant portions of scripts that are used to generate
the Unidata-Wisconsin (IDD feedtype UNIWISC (aka MCIDAS)) GOES-West imagery
products.

The scripts for GOES-West (used to be GOES-10) product creation/injection
are run by crontab entries:

################################################
# GOES-West
# 20030429 - Schedule changed to H+1x (was H+15)
################################################
8,38 * * * * /home/ldm/mcidas/bin/start_copy.ksh goes10 I
9,39 * * * * /home/ldm/mcidas/bin/start_copy.ksh goes10 W
10,40 0,1,2,3,4,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 * * * 
/home/ldm/mcidas/bin/start_copy.ksh goes10 V
11,41 * * * * /home/ldm/mcidas/bin/start_copy.ksh goes10 39
12,42 * * * * /home/ldm/mcidas/bin/start_copy.ksh goes10 12

The files are a mixture of Korn shell scripts (.ksh), a McIDAS BATCH file,
and something that looks like a McIDAS executable (pnginject.k) but is actually
a script:

start_copy.ksh        - run by cron; sets up a McIDAS script session; runs
                        get_uni_goes10.ksh
get_uni_goes10.ksh    - does the bulk of the work; runs INJECT.BAT
INJECT.BAT            - McIDAS BATCH that runs pnginject.k
pnginject.k           - Korn shell script named so that McIDAS thinks it is one
                        of its executables (99.9% of McIDAS executables have
                        a '.k' suffix).  Injects an image that has been PNG
                        compressed by the ldm-mcidas routine 'area2png' into
                        an LDM queue
make_qc_thumbnail.ksh - Korn shell script that runs creates a JPEG thumbnail 
image
                        of the product injected into the LDM queue

The set of scripts will likely seem to be overly complex.  They are the result
of years of modifications by people at SSEC and me.

I think that the scripts should give you some ideas of a good way to generate
the products for your GOES-10 datastream.  Please let me know if/when you have
questions on how to use ideas in them for your purposes.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PVL-726977
Department: Support ldm-mcidas
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed

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