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20010111: example pqact.conf entry for NOAAPORT GINI imagery

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  • Subject: 20010111: example pqact.conf entry for NOAAPORT GINI imagery
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:08:18 -0700
>From: Eirh-Yu Hsie <address@hidden>
>Organization: CU/CIRES
>Keywords: 200101111813.f0BIDHo04324 LDM pqact.conf ldmd.conf

Hsie,

>Could you send me an example pqact.conf entry for save GINI data (diretory 
>structure, feed type ... etc) in UNIDATA.

Here goes the various pieces:

-- ldmd.conf entry to request GINI imagery --
request NIMAGE  ".*"    motherlode.ucar.edu

-- pqact.conf entry to decode GINI imagery --

# NOAAPORT GINI Images
NIMAGE  ^sat/ch[0-9]/.*/(.*)/([12][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([01][0-9])([0-3][0-9]) 
([0-2][0-9])([0-5][0-9])/(.*)/(.*km)/
        PIPE    -close  decoders/readpng -n -l logs/png.log 
/data/pub/raw/gini/\8/\9/\1/\1_\2\3\4\5_\6\7

(Be careful to put tabs where appropriate and not accidentally clip
these lines.)

You can see that you need the 'readpng' routine to decode (unpng) the
images.  Assuming that the machine that is running your LDM is a
Solaris SPARC box, I put a binary of readpng that is running on
motherlode:

SunOS motherlode.ucar.edu 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80

in the pub/ldm directory of anonymous FTP on our FTP server,
ftp.unidata.ucar.edu for you to grab.

I also put a C shell script that can be used to scour the files,
prune_gini.csh, in the same directory.  You must copy readpng and
prune_gini.csh to a directory in the PATH of the user running your
LDM.

Both of these files need to be made executable (chmod +x readpng
prune_gini.csh).  You must edit prune_gini.csh and set PATH and areadir
to match your setup.  PATH must contain the directory where you put
prune_gini.csh.  areadir must be the directory path under which you
store your GINI iamges.  We can talk about this setup tomorrow if you
like.

Also, I verified that the BLIZZARD dataset is now setup correctly for
ADDE access.  Thanks!

Tom