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>From: Ricardo Mantilla <address@hidden> >Organization: CU >Keywords: 200508091531.j79FV0jo003790 McIDAS Hi Ricardo, >I just send the email to my group in Colombia regarding LDM and McIDAS. >I will wait for their response. I got the CC and read through your email. I think that it is a good introduction to some of the basic capabilities that McIDAS offers. >I hope you liked the examples I set up in: > >http://cires.colorado.edu/~ricardo/research-real-time/demo_colombia.htm ><http://cires.colorado.edu/%7Ericardo/research-real-time/demo_colombia.htm> I liked your examples very much. >I could not get that FRMOLAY to work, so I created animations with the >IR and VIS bands. When I get the chance, I will look into why we couldn't get FRMOLAY to work with regular satellite data. >I wanted to share with you a preprint of the GIS we are developing in >Colombia. I was the main architect of the program while I was in >Colombia, but after I came other people took over and have been >developing it further. > >http://cires.colorado.edu/~ricardo/papers/hydrosig_2005.pdf ><http://cires.colorado.edu/%7Ericardo/papers/hydrosig_2005.pdf> Very nice! >I had a problem setting up the scripts to create the images. I could >not set up a loop to create the images, instead I had to create them one >at the time. Hmm... Creating a loop of images in McIDAS should be easy enough. Each frame would need to be captured individually, however, since FRMSAVE does not have the option of saving an animated GIF. >I have attached the two scripts that I am using to create and update the >animations (Notice That I set up my REDIRECT to write the images in a >public web directory) This email did not contain any attachments. Can you send them again? >Notice that in goesSetup.sh I had to write a line of code for each >image, while in goesUpdate.sh I could use the bash loop syntax to rotate >my images. How can I get loops to work after the mcenv line? >P.S. I want to thank you again for the McIDAS workshop. It sure was an >enlightening experience. As you noted in the email you sent to the list, McIDAS can be daunting at first. The good news is that it gets a lot easier the more you use the package. Cheers, Tom -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * Tom Yoksas UCAR Unidata Program * * (303) 497-8642 (last resort) P.O. Box 3000 * * address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 * * Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/* +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+