20050204: GeoTIFF output from McIDAS ADDE server (cont.)

>From: address@hidden
>Organization: GMU
>Keywords: 200501201830.j0KIUJv2013893 McIDAS AREA GeoTIFF ADDE

Hi Ying,

>Thanks for your "step by step".

No worries.

>It seems OK when I type: 
>dsinfo.k IMAGE RTIMAGES
>
>        Dataset Names of Type: IMAGE in Group: RTIMAGES
>
>Name         NumPos   Content
>------------ ------   --------------------------------------
>ANTARCTIC    99999    Antarctic IR Composite
>EDFLOATER-I  99999    Educational Floater
>EDFLOATER-II 99999    Educational Floater II
>GE-39        99999    GOES-East Hemispheric Short IR
>GE-CO2       99999    GOES-East Hemispheric CO2
>GE-IR        99999    GOES-East Hemispheric IR
>GE-IRTOPO       10    GOES-East IR/TOPO Composite
>GE-VIS       99999    GOES-East Hemispheric VIS
>GE-VISTOPO      10    GOES-East VIS/TOPO Composite
>GE-WV        99999    GOES-East Hemispheric H2O
>GEW-IR          10    GOES-East/West IR Composite
>GEW-IRTOPO      10    GOES-East/West IR/TOPO Composite
>GEW-VIS         10    GOES-East/West VIS Composite
>GEW-VISTOPO     10    GOES-East/West VIS/TOPO Composite
>GEW-WV          10    GOES-East/West H2O Composite
>GW-12        99999    GOES-West Western Long IR
>GW-39        99999    GOES-West Western Short IR
>GW-IR        99999    GOES-West Western US IR
>GW-IRTOPO       10    GOES-West IR/TOPO Composite
>GW-VIS       99999    GOES-West Western US VIS
>GW-VISTOPO      10    GOES-West VIS/TOPO Composite
>GW-WV        99999    GOES-West Western US H2O
>MDR          99999    Manually Digitized Radar
>MDRTOPO         10    MDR/TOPO Composite
>MOLL-IR      99999    Mollweide Composite IR
>MOLL-IRTOPO     10    Mollweide IR/TOPO Composite
>MOLL-WV      99999    Mollweide Composite H2O
>RESFLOATER   99999    Research Floater
>
>DSINFO -- done
>-----------------------------------------

OK, this shows that there are definitions for the RTIMAGES ADDE dataset.
The second part of the equation is making sure that the definition
for the contents of the dataset are correct.

>But no images showed up when I type:
>
>imglist.k RTIMAGES/GE-VIS.ALL
>Image file directory listing for:RTIMAGES/GE-VIS
>imglist.k: No images satisfy the selection criteria
>imglist.k: done
>
>Is it because of XCDDATA? 

No, it is not because of XCDDATA.

To figure out what is going on you should:

1) review how you are decoding the images from the UNIWISC (aka MCIDAS)
   IDD datastream (check your entries in ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf)

2) make sure that the images are being decoded where you expect them
   to be from your pqact.conf entries

3) after you know where the images are located, adjust the definitions
   in LSSERVE.BAT

To help you out in this, I would need to look at your pqact.conf
actions that decode UNIWISC images, AND I need to look at the contents
of your LSSERVE.BAT file.

The structure of the LSSERVE.BAT file entries for RTIMAGES dataset
definition looks like:

DSSERVE ADD RTIMAGES/GE-VIS       AREA  TYPE=IMAGE 
DIRFILE=/data/ldm/gempak/images/sat/GOES-12/4km/VIS/VIS_*   "GOES-East 
Hemispheric VIS

The value of the DIRFILE=keyword is a regular expression that is
supposed to match the files that should comprise the particular subset
of RTIMAGES (in this case, the subset that comprises the GE-VIS subset).
The idea behind the regular expression is that you can use the Unix
'ls' command to see if the files will be found:

ls /data/ldm/gempak/images/sat/GOES-12/4km/VIS/VIS_*

If the 'ls' command gives a correct listing, the ADDE server will also.
If the 'ls' command does not give a correct listing it means that the
regular expression is incorrect and needs to be changed.  After changing
all of the entries in LSSERVE.BAT (if needed), you will need to do the
dataset definitions:

<as 'mcidas'>
cd ~mcidas/workdata
batch.k LSSERVE.BAT

>Another related question came to my mind is kind of fundamental: Previously
>I used LDM-McIDAS decoders so that GEMPAK can read the files. This time, can
>McIDAS read and display the files already stored, like /var/data/ldm/gempak/ima
> ges/sat/GOES-12/4km/VIS/VIS_20050204_0115?

Yes.

This listing gives me enough information to let me know how you should
change your LSSERVE entry for RTIMAGES/GE-VIS:

DSSERVE ADD RTIMAGES/GE-VIS       AREA  TYPE=IMAGE 
DIRFILE=/var/data/ldm/gempak/images/sat/GOES-12/4km/VIS/VIS_*   "GOES-East 
Hemispheric VIS

Make corresponding changes for the other GOES12 images and then rerun
'batch.k LSSERVE.BAT'.

>Or it will only decode the steam data and store it under another folder of
>its own for display?

No, McIDAS can use the directory structure used/needed by GEMPAK.

>Because I specified XCDDATA=/var/data/ldm and really
>not sure about this...

I had you define XCDDATA since it is used in the LSSERVE.BAT batch file.
If it is not defined to something, the BATCH invocation will fail at
the first point it is referenced.

>Thanks for your help!

No worries.

Cheers,

Tom
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