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20010119: short wave IR imagery

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  • Subject: 20010119: short wave IR imagery
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:30:54 -0700
>From: address@hidden
>Organization: University of Kansas
>Keywords: 200101192137.f0JLbNe19886 McIDAS ADDE

Donna,

>Is there a way that we could get the short wave IR imagery (3.9 micrometers)
>in AREA format?  Perhaps using ADDE?

Yes.  First, you do receive such a product in the Unidata-Wisconsin
datastream, but only at night.  You would find this product in either
EDFLOATER-I or EDFLOATER-II.

Second, if you do not mind that the product has been remapped into
a Lambert Conformal projection, you can access all 5 imager channels
that are broadcast in NOAAPORT from several different ADDE servers:

adde.ucar.edu         <- a Sun E450 at NCAR/SCD
papagayo.unl.edu      <- a Sun E450 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu   <- a dual 800 Mhz PIII at the University of Georgia
snow.plymouth.edu     <- a dual 550 Mhz PIII at Plymouth State College
stratus.al.noaa.gov   <- a Sun SPARC at CU/CIRES

To access these machines, you have a choice of datasets:

adde.ucar.edu         RTGINI, GINIEAST, GINIWEST, GINICOMP
papagayo.unl.edu      RTGINI, GINIEAST, GINIWEST, GINICOMP
cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu   GINIEAST, GINICOMP
snow.plymouth.edu     RTGINI, GINIEAST, GINIWEST, GINICOMP
stratus.al.noaa.gov   RTGINI, GINIEAST, GINIWEST, GINICOMP

RTGINI   <- combination of GINIEAST, GINIWEST, GINICOMP
GINIEAST <- GINI images from NOAAPORT channel 1
GINIWEST <- GINI images from NOAAPORT channel 2
GINICOMP <- composite GINI images from NOAAPORT channels 1 and/or 2

To point at one of these servers for a particular dataset, use the
McIDAS DATALOC command:

DATALOC ADD GINIWEST papagayo.unl.edu
DATALOC ADD GINIEAST cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu
DATALOC ADD GINICOMP snow.plymouth.edu
DATALOC ADD RTGINI   adde.ucar.edu
etc.

To see what elements any of these datasets contains, use the McIDAS
DSINFO command:

DSINFO I RTGINI
DSINFO I GINIEAST
DSINFO I GINIWEST
DSINFO I GINICOMP

To display one of these images, use the McIDS IMGLIST command.  For example:

IMGLIST GINIEAST/GE4K39 EU=IMAGE LATLON=35 80 REFRESH='EG;MAP H'
IMGLIST GINIWEST/GW4K39 EU=IMAGE STA=KTOP REFRESH='EG;MAP H'
etc.

Your inquiry was _very_ timely!  I was just about to announce the general
availability of these servers!!

Please let me know if you run into any difficulties.

Tom Yoksas