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Hi Jane, re: - does the contents of your Edit Remote Dataset window look like the image I attached? > Yes OK, this is very weird indeed. Unfortunately, I can't diagnose anything from here, so we have to move to Plan B... re: > Here's a complete list of the imagery days, wavelength channel, aerial > coverage, animations and resolution. All imageries are of IR, Vis, and WV 5 > days prior to each tropical cyclone listed. Coverage area for all TCs is 0 > to 60S and 120E to 120W. Animation would be nice to have but I think it > will be distracting to the audience. I would stick with gif images if > possible. However, if you do work on animation, please have it running > every 6 hours. For the resolution, I would like them to be as clear as can > be. Here is the first big problem: there is no one satellite that provides coverage over your region of interest: - the sub-satellite point for MTSAT is 140E; the sub-satellite point for GOES-11 was 140 W GOES-West and MTSAT images could be composited together to give the desired areal coverage: 120E - 120W; 60S - 0S - the composites would not be seamless as the wavelengths for the various channels are slightly different: MTSAT GOES-West Channel -----------+-----------+--------- 0.73 um 0.65 um VIS 6.75 um 6.8 um WV 10.8 um 10.7 um IR The process for creating the coverage you want would then be: - create an image that has the coverage desired - remap MTSAT into that coverage - remap GOES-West into the remap of MTSAT - do this for every wavelength channel and time step desired - display each composite and capture a GIF - post the GIF to a machine where you could access the images This will take some time given the large number of cases that you have listed: > TC Hettie: > date range: January 20, 2009 to January 25, 2009 > time: 00:00:00 UTC to 00:00:00 UTC > > TC Hamish: > date range: February 27, 2009 to March 4, 2009 > time: 12:00:00 UTC to 12:00:00 UTC > > TC Kirrily: > date range: April 18, 2009 to April 23, 2009 > time: 18:00:00 UTC to 18:00:00 UTC > > TC Neville: > date range: January 15, 2010 to January 20, 2010 > time: 00:00:00 UTC to 00:00:00 UTC > > TC Sarah: > date range: February 15, 2010 to February 20, 2010 > time: 00:00:00 UTC to 00:00:00 UTC > > TC Tomas and TC Ului: > date range: March 5, 2010 to March 10, 2010 > time: 00:00:00 UTC to 00:00:00 UTC > > TC Yasi: > date range: January 23, 2011 to January 28, 2011 > time: 00:00:00 UTC to 00:00:00 UTC > > TC Jasmine: > date range: February 01, 2012 to February 06, 2012 > time: 12:00:00 UTC to 12:00:00 UTC > > TC Evan: > date range: December 06, 2012 to December 11, 2012 > time: 00:00:00 UTC to 00:00:00 UTC > > TC Haley: > date range: February 04, 2013 to February 09, 2013 > time: 12:00:00 UTC to 12:00:00 UTC I am not sure that all of this work can be accomplished by Wednesday morning. Would it be possible for you to: - settle for one wavelength channel instead of all 3? - settle for one composite every 6 hours? - prioritize your cases so that the most important ones get done first? Just a comment: it would been a good idea to start working on this over the past weekend... 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: TSV-261063 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed