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Re: Satellite image remapping
- Subject: Re: Satellite image remapping
- From: david(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:11:36 -0600
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
- Organization: Fanning Software Consulting
- References: <9hsvqd$ick$1@newsreader.wustl.edu>
- Xref: news.doit.wisc.edu comp.lang.idl-pvwave:25513
Sean writes:
> Hello, I just found out about this newsgroup. I think it will be a godsend.
Indeed! :-)
> Anyway, I'm just getting started with IDL. I have done a few things in the
> past few months and am working up to a major project. I know there is an
> extensive amount of code out there so maybe my problem is already solved.
>
> What I am doing is remapping satellite images, specifically full-disk images
> from a GOES satellite. These images are not internally georeferenced.
> However, there is available a navigation file which gives the lat/lon for
> each pixel. What I would like to do is remap this image onto a flat
> projection. I know I can do it with a brute force method, but I have the
> sneaky suspicion that this sort of thing has been done before. Does anyone
> have any experience in this arena? I would be thrilled.
Better check out Liam Gumley's Imagemap tools. This
is *the* solution as far as I know.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/imagemap.html
Cheers,
David
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