Re: images and efficieny

• To: "From: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: images and efficieny
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:52:02 -0700

Bill/Garrett-

"From: Bill Hibbard " wrote:

> I don't know if the McIDAS AREA file adapter uses this or not.
> I don't think the Plain netCDF adapter uses it. You might be
> able to read a files into a FlatField with floats, then copy
> it into a FlatField with bytes.

If you go through an ADDE server to get the data and ask
for your Units to be BRIT, AreaAdapter will use an Integer1D
RangeSet for packing.  If you are reading off of local disk,
then the values are in RAW units and no packing is done.

Don
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