Don -
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> From: Don Murray [mailto:dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20. mars 2003 16:08
> To: dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Kjell Roang; visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Richard D Gonzalez; Tor
> Christian Bekkvik
> Subject: Re: Resampling from lat/lon to projection
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> Kjell-
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> Don Murray wrote:
>
> > You could still use GeoTools on the VisAD adapter by creating
> > a GeoToolsCoordinateSystem that would take a GeoTools object
> > and use that to do the conversion. I'll look at GeoTools when
> > I get a chance (maybe next week). MapProjectionDisplay
> > is in the examples directory. The examples do not have
> > packages, so you would have to cd to the examples directory
> > and run java MapProjectionDisplay.
>
> I just took a quick look at the GeoTools source and it looks
> like you could create a GeoToolsProjectionCoordinateSystem
> that would extend visad.georef.MapProjection and take
> a uk.ac.leeds.ccg.geotools.projections.Projection as
> a constructor. The toRef method (ref being lon, lat)
> would call Projection.unproject() for each x,y and
> the CS.fromRef() would call Projection.project().
> You'd have to get the indices of lat/lon set right,
> but MapProjection has hooks for this. The defaultMapArea
> could be defined from Projection.projectedExtent.
>
> Again, I'd reiterate Tom's suggestion that you let VisAD do
> as much of the hard work automagically instead of having to
> manually do the transforms.
I fully agree. I would try to use VisAd as much as possible, and the
conversation with you has given me hints how to use another projection
package inside VisAd. I must then find a way to put GRIB data into VisAd and
get images and data out of VisAd.
Kjell
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> Don
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