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>From: Student mail Account <address@hidden> >Organization: CCNY >Keywords: 200202212035.g1LKZGx03095 McIDAS IMGPROBE Kamal, I am sorry I couldn't answer this when it first came in, but I have been participating in a two day meeting here in Boulder. >There is no problem with the DMAP FRAMED,DMAP FRAMENH.001 or DMAP >TERMCHAR.001 files and they are in their respective directories.I used >the McIDAS command IMGDISP MYDATA/IMAGES.9010 1LATLON=27 -84 MAG=3 >EU=IMAGE REFRESH='EG;MAP X 5 FILE=OUTLHPOL; MAP SAT 1' to display one >of the images in the McIDAS. PC E 27:47:08 -86:50:01 to point to the >cursor and then pressed the right ALT and D keys to measure the >temperature but the value given is same as the raw value and brightness >value. If the 9010 image (AREA9010) is the image that is sent out with Unidata McIDAS, then temperature data will not be available since it is a topography image. You should make sure that the image being used for MYDATA/IMAGES.9010 is the one you really want to use. Do this by us use of the DMAP command: DMAP AREA9010 Does the output from the DMAP command show you that the image you want to load is the one being accessed? The reason I am suspicious about this problem is that I noticed that a number of the images located in the ~wxnut/mcidas/data directory on your Linux machine were incorrectly named. I even pointed this out to Ward in a previous email. In fact, I think I remember seeing an AREA file of name AREA901, and you may be mistaking MYDATA/IMAGES.9010 as this image. McIDAS, in fact, will not recognize this image since its name does not follow McIDAS naming conventions: AREAnnnn, where nnnn is a 4-digit number that ranges from 0001 to 9999. If this is your problem, you should: o rename the AREA file: cd ~wxnut/mcidas/data mv AREA910 AREA1910 o make sure that your McIDAS session can see this image: DMAP AREA1910 o load the image using IMGDISP: IMGDISP MYDATA/IMAGES.1910 1LATLON=27 -84 MAG=3 EU=IMAGE REFRESH='EG;MAP X 5 FILE=OUTLHPOL; MAP SAT 1' o and then see if you can't interrogate it with IMGPROBE >Another problem is I cannot display visible images using the same >command, the message I get is "BANDS NOT PRESENT". Can you give me specifics on this: o machine you are running this on o account you are trying to load this in o image you are attempting to load With this information, I should be able to logon to your machine and investigate the problem. Please let me know if I am misinterpreting anyting in your message. Tom Yoksas