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Table of Contents
Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer
1
Overview
1.0
Release Notes
1.1
System Requirements
1.2
Downloading and Running the IDV
1.3
Data Formats and Sources
1.4
Documentation and Support
1.5
FAQ
1.6
Known Problems
1.7
License and Copyright
2
Getting Started
2.0
An Animation Loop of Satellite Imagery
2.1
An Animation Loop of NWS WSR-88D Level III Radar Imagery
2.2
Level II Radar
2.3
Plots from Gridded Data
2.4
Surface Observations - METAR and Synoptic Plots
2.5
Skew-T Plot of RAOB data (Balloon soundings)
2.6
Profiler Winds
2.7
Globe Display
3
Dashboard
3.0
Quick Links
3.4
Choosing Data Sources
3.4.0
Choose Data on Disk
3.4.1
Chooser a URL
3.4.2
Choose Cataloged Data
3.4.3
Choose Satellite Imagery
3.4.4
Choose NEXRAD Level III Radar Data
3.4.5
Choose NEXRAD Level II Radar Data
3.4.6
Choose Radar Data from Remote Server
3.4.7
Choose Point Observation Data
3.4.8
Choose RAOB Data (atmospheric balloon sounding)
3.4.9
Choose NOAA National Profiler Network Data
3.4.10
Poll on files in a Directory
3.5
The Field Selector
3.5.7
Data Source Properties
4
Main Window
4.0
Menu Bar
4.1
View Properties
4.2
Main Toolbar
4.3
Time Animation
4.4
Zooming, Panning and Rotating
4.5
Transect Views
4.6
Flythrough
5
Display Controls
5.0
Overview
5.0.0
Display Legends
5.0.1
Drag And Drop
5.0.2
Menus
5.0.3
Properties Dialog
5.0.4
Color Scale
5.0.5
Display Visibility
5.1
Gridded Data Displays
5.1.0
Plan View Controls
5.1.1
Flow Plan Control
5.1.2
Value Plan View Control
5.1.3
Vertical Cross-section Control
5.1.4
Isosurface Control
5.1.5
Volume Rendering Control
5.1.6
Point Volume Control
5.1.7
Hovmoller Control
5.1.8
Ensemble Grid Control
5.1.9
Grid Trajectory Control
5.2
Satellite and Radar Displays
5.2.0
Image Control
5.2.1
Image Sequence Control
5.2.2
WSR-88D Level III Control
5.2.3
Radar RHI Control
5.2.4
Level 2 Radar Display Controls
5.2.4.0
Radar Sweep Control
5.2.4.1
RHI Display
5.2.4.2
Radar Volume Control
5.2.4.3
Isosurface
5.2.4.4
Radar Cross Section
5.2.5
Range Rings
5.3
Profiler Controls
5.3.0
Profiler Time/Height Control
5.3.1
Profiler Station Plot Control
5.3.2
Profiler 3D Multi-station Control
5.4
Probes
5.4.0
Data Probe/Time Series
5.4.1
Time-Height Control
5.4.2
Vertical Profile Control
5.4.3
Data Transect Control
5.5
Mapping Controls
5.5.0
Map Control
5.5.1
Topography Control
5.5.2
Shapefile Control
5.6
Observation and Location Controls
5.6.0
Point Data Plot
5.6.1
Observation List Control
5.6.2
Gridded Point Data
5.6.3
Sounding Display
5.6.4
Location Control
5.6.5
WorldWind Control
5.6.6
Track Control
5.6.7
Point Cloud Control
5.7
Miscellaneous Controls
5.7.0
Storm Track Control
5.7.1
Mutli-Display Holder
5.7.2
Range and Bearing Control
5.7.3
Text Notes
5.7.4
Drawing Control
5.7.5
Transect Drawing Control
5.7.6
Location Indicator Control
5.7.7
Omni Control
5.7.8
HTML and the IDV
5.7.9
QuickTime Movie Control
5.7.10
WebCam Control
5.7.11
Web Map Server(WMS)/Background Image Control
5.7.12
Jython Control
5.7.13
Weather Text Product Control
5.7.14
Audio Control
5.8
Charts
6
Tools
6.0
User Preferences
6.1
Projection Manager
6.2
Color Table Editor
6.3
Layout Model Editor
6.4
Display Settings
6.5
Parameter Alias Editor
6.6
Parameter Defaults Editor
6.7
Parameter Groups Editor
6.8
Contour Properties Editor
6.9
Image and Movie Capture
6.10
Timeline
6.11
Message Console
6.12
Support Request Form
7
Miscellaneous
7.0
Bundles
7.1
IDV Scripting
7.1.0
ISL Overview
7.1.1
Basic ISL Tags
7.1.2
File ISL Tags
7.1.3
ISL Data and Displays
7.1.4
Data Source Types
7.1.5
ISL Images and Movies
7.1.6
Writing Text Files
7.1.7
Changing Bundle Properties
7.1.8
Scripting with Jython
7.1.9
Tag Index
7.1.10
Display Properties
7.2
Sharing
7.3
Data Analysis
7.3.0
Formulas
7.3.1
Jython Methods
7.3.2
Derived Data
7.3.3
Jython Shell
7.3.4
Jython Library
7.4
Site Configuration
7.4.1
Plugins
7.4.1.0
Plugin Creator
7.4.1.1
Plugin Jar Files
7.4.1.2
Creating Map Plugin
7.4.2
Resource Viewer
7.4.3
Configuring Image Defaults
7.4.4
Adding in new GRIB tables
7.5
IDV Special Data Formats
7.5.0
Text (ASCII) Point Data Format
7.5.1
Location XML Files
7.5.2
Image XML Files
7.5.3
Image Movie Files
7.5.4
XGRF Symbols
7.6
Actions
7.7
Command Line Arguments
7.8
Performance Tuning
7.9
Building the IDV from Source
8
Appendix
8.0
Examples of Display Types
8.0.0
Plan Views
8.0.1
3D Surface
8.0.2
Imagery
8.0.3
Radar -- Level II WSR-88D Data Displays
8.0.4
Soundings
8.0.5
Profiler Winds
8.0.6
Flow Displays
8.0.7
Observations
8.0.8
Miscellaneous Display Types
8.0.8.0
Globe Display
8.0.8.1
Multi-Panel Display
8.0.8.2
Omni Display
8.0.8.3
HTML Viewer