[McIDAS #QFU-969979]: Retaining calibrated units after imgremap

Hi Greg,

re:
> I'm still working on saving area files in netCDF format from
> GOES-10 for this particular project we are working on very soon. I'd
> like to have 1 netCDF file per scan for the 1km Vis channel and
> another netCDF file that contains the other 4 channels at 4km
> resolution. The problem I'm having is that I can't seem to get all 4
> channels, in TEMP units into the same netCDF file. Here's what I get
> for various attempts:
> 
> IMGCOPY MYDATA/IMAGES.1076 MYDATA/NCDF.6 SIZE=800 800 BAND=2-5 UNIT=TEMP
> IMGCOPY: Server does not support BAND lists
> IMGCOPY: done
> IMGCOPY failed, RC=1
> 
> IMGCOPY MYDATA/IMAGES.1076 MYDATA/NCDF.3 SIZE=800 800 BAND=ALL
> Beginning Image Data transfer, bytes= 5128080
> Transferring AREA data outbound, bytes= 5128160
> IMGCOPY: MYDATA/IMAGES.1076 copied to MYDATA/NCDF.3
> IMGCOPY: done
> 
> The above seemed to work but the netCDF file contains variables with
> raw instead of calibrated units.

I think that the IMGCOPY invocation you are looking for is:

IMGCOPY MYDATA/IMAGES.1076 MYDATA/NCDF.6 SIZE=800 800 BAND=2 3 4 5 UNIT=TEMP

This assumes, however, that the image in MYDATA/IMAGES.1076 is multibanded.

I just ran the following and it seemed to work as desired:

IMGCOPY SOUTH/SH NETCDF/IMAGES.1 BAND=2 3 4 5 UNIT=TEMP TIME=23:45 DAY=265

> IMGCOPY MYDATA/IMAGES.1076 MYDATA/NCDF.3 SIZE=800 800 BAND=ALL UNIT=TEMP
> IMGCOPY: BAND=ALL is invalid for a non-native UNIT=
> IMGCOPY: done
> IMGCOPY failed, RC=1

Presumably this failed since MYDATA/IMAGES.1076 _is_ multibanded and contains
the Vis channel (0.65 um) as one of the bands.  The UNIT=TEMP keyword 
combination
should fail in this case as TEMP is not a valid calibration type for Vis images.

> FYI, this is what MYDATA/IMAGES.1076 contained:
> IMGLIST MYDATA/IMAGES.1076 FORM=ALL
> Image file directory listing for:MYDATA/IMAGES
> Pos Satellite/         Date       Time      Center      Res (km)
> Image_Size
> sensor                                 Lat  Lon    Lat   Lon
> --- -------------  ------------  --------  ---- ----  ----- -----  
> ------------
> 1076  G-10 IMG      19 SEP 08263  21:58:00   -18   82
> Band: 2    3.9 um IR Low Cloud/Fog,Fire Detection    4.00  3.82    800 x  800
> Band: 3    6.8 um IR Mid-level Water Vapor           4.00  3.82    800 x  800
> Band: 4    10.7 um IR Surface/Cloud-top Temp         4.00  3.82    800 x  800
> Band: 5    12.0 um IR SFC/Cloud Temp, Low-level WV   4.00  3.82    800 x  800
> proj:    0 created: 2008260 173158  memo: RT GVAR
> type:GVAR     cal type:RAW
> offsets:  data=    1280 navigation=  256 calibration=  768  auxiliary=    0
> doc length:   0   cal length:   0   lev length:   8 PREFIX=   8
> valcod:          0 zcor:  0 avg-smp: N
> start yyddd: 2008260  start time:162810  start scan:  818
> lcor: 9601  ecor:  9601  bytes per pixel: 2  ss: 74
> Resolution Factors (base=1):   Line=    1.0   Element=    1.0
> IMGLIST: done

Very good. The image is multibanded.

> Is there a way I can concatenate all of the 4km resolution channels
> into a single netCDF file in calibrated units?

Try using BAND=2 3 4 5 instead of BAND=2-5.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: QFU-969979
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed