Hi Kun,
re:
> Thank you very much for your answer.
No worries. I apologize for taking so long to get back to you. I am leaving
on travel on Tuesday, and there is much too much to do before then...
> Now, I have another question: I type the line below at the McIDAS-X 2006f
> command window, but the tip is: AXFORM: Invalid area number specified=.
> Why?
>
> AXFORM met5_8_2000_153_0000 FTYPE=ASC NAV=YES
AXFORM is an old, non-ADDE McIDAS application. Because of this, it expects
that images will be in files with a rigid naming convention:
AREAnnnn <- 'nnnn' is a 4-digit number that can range from 0001 to 9999
The online HELP for AXFORM indicates that the program will need the AREA file
number to be input by the user:
HELP AXFORM
AXFORM - Generates multiple files from an area
AXFORM sarea file <keywords>
Parameters:
sarea | digital area number
file | output file; maximum of 100 characters; specify as a file name
or a fully qualified path (directory and file name); do not
include an extension with the file name; see the Remarks
...
So, you will need to either rename your data file(s),
or create a link to them using a link name that conforms to the AREAnnnn
convention.
Note: AREA files numbered in the range of 0060 - 1500 are routinely used
for images broadcast in the Unidata-Wisconsin IDD datastream, and the topography
images distributed with Unidata McIDAS are in the 90nn range. For this reason
I suggest that you use the a number in the range of 2000 - 8999.
> this data was collected by a former student of my boss. It is Meteosat-5
> IR brightness data and cover the area of 72.5°E to 87.3°E and 20.1°N to
> 34.9°N. I checked the Sensor Source Numbers listed at the McIDAS websit,
> and find that Meteosat-5 corresponds to number 56.
> Is 56 the AREA NUMBER for it?
No. If you create the symbolic link to your file using a name that satisfies
the old AREA file naming convention, then the AREA number will be the 4-digit
number I mentioned above.
For instance, try the following:
cd <directory where your image(s) is(are)>
ln -s met5_8_2000_153_0000 AREA2000
Next, create a McIDAS file REDIRECTion that tells McIDAS how to find
the file AREA2000:
REDIRECT ADD AREA2000 "<directory where your images are>
Finally, run the AXFORM command:
AXFORM 2000 153_0000 FTYPE=ASC NAV=YES
> In addition, if you don't mind, I would like to know if the procedure to
> generate multiple files from .area data is like this:
>
> 1) Transfer all .area data sets which I want to process to the directory of
> /McIDAS2006/data
I have no idea what your /McIDAS2006/data directory is, so I would rather not
on it.
To better understand things, I think I should give a brief explanation of
how McIDAS locates data and ancillary data files:
McIDAS uses two facilities to locate data and ancillary data files:
- file REDIRECTions (setup using the McIDAS command REDIRECT)
- directories specified in MCPATH
File REDIRECTions are a pair of information that specifies where files whose
names match a regular experssion will be looked for and read/written. For
instance, here are some REDIRECTion examples
AREA2000 /McIDAS2006/data
AREA2* /McIDAS2006/data
etc.
The namespace of the files that will be affected is completely specified
in the first example: AREA file AREA2000 will be read/written only in
the /McIDAS2006/data directory.
The second example specifies that any file shows name matches the regular
expression AREA2* (e.g., AREA2000, AREA2001, ..., AREA2999) will be read/written
in the directory /McIDAS2006/data.
MCPATH, on the other hand, is a colon-separated lists of directories that
McIDAS will search through when trying to read or write a data file. Every
user's Unix/Linux environment is configured with a MCPATH definition before
s/he runs McIDAS. For users that are not 'mcidas', the MCPATH is most
typically:
MCPATH=/home/user/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/help
The user 'mcidas' MCPATH is most typically:
MCPATH=/home/mcidas/workdata:/home/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/help
> 2) Use command AXFORM to perform the generation
My suggestion is to leave your data files where they are; create symbolic
links to them (one at a time); and run AXFORM using the link name. You
would do this after creating a file REDIRECTion for the link name.
> Thanks again.
No worries. Again I apologize for not having enough time to respond to
your inquiry sooner.
Cheers,
Tom
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