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Hi Bernie, re: > Thanks for the clarification. Do I actually have to display the > images? I have had heap space memory issues when trying to display > full GOES and Meteosat images using McIDAS-V in the past. If this is a > problem can I bypass the display and just ingest the image and output > the netCDF files? Quite frankly, I don't know for sure, but I suspect that you may have to display the image. You do realize that you can display either a subset of an image or a decimation of an image. The good news is that if you get the image from a McIDAS ADDE server, then a decimation will be a sampling of the image -- each pixel in the sample will be a pixel from the original image (i.e., it is not an average or something like that). I assume that an image loaded from a disk file will be the same as one coming from an ADDE server, but I am not 100% sure about this as I did not write the code. I am curious about what the ultimate objective is. Are you doing data processing in IDL, or are you just looking at the image displays? Also (in the category of random comments), at one time there was some java code that one could use in/with IDL to read imagery from an ADDE server. I never used it so I am no expert on if it still exists, where to get it, or how to use it, etc (e.g., if it needed the images to be in a set projection). Perhaps Liam Gumley has made some sort of comment about this capability? Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KKG-192015 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed