Hi Oana, I got the following back from the creator of the rotating globe demo seen at: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/composites.html Here is what he (Rick Kohrs) had to say: You can start by directing the user to my paper from the 2006 AMS Conference: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/98509.pdf This will lay the ground work for creating the image. Also, McIDAS 2006 should (has not completed testing yet) include my new application that combines the images (IMGRGB). Here's the location of the basemaps I use: ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/mug/basemaps/ In a nut shell, I use IMGREMAP to remap all the GEO images in to a rectilinear projection and use IMGOPER with FORM=CMIN to combine the images and to attach the correct calibration. I have been using GFS model data for surface temperatures. To create the spinning globe, I use the old trick of poking word 70 (value = 0 to 3600000) of a meteosat-7 image: ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/mug/basemaps/basemap.metnav.gz I remap the R, G and B areas created by IMGRGB into the meteosat projection. If the user is fairly McIDAS savvy, the above information should get them on the right track. Rick The "old trick of poking word 70 of a meteosat-7 image" is the same thing that is done in the rotating globe McBASI script, GLOBLOOP.MCB, so there is no mystery in how to rotate the globe. The fantastic displays that Rick creates are a function of how he combines various images with the "background" imagery (e.g., land use images, topography, etc.). I, for one, was happy to see Rick's comment that the McIDAS program he wrote (IMGRGB) is scheduled to be included in the v2006 McIDAS-X distribution. The only thing that Rick's note did not touch on was turning the rasters of each frame (GIF?) into a QuickTime movie. There are, however, undoubtedly lots of procedures out there for doing this. 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: ZLP-298012 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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