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Old March 7th 18, 01:41 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default SSA 2018 - Weather Presentations

Andy 9B...

John Bird (Aivian) said it well...

His URL link describes all that's needed to convert igc files to netcdf track files. My python skills were not up enough to convert it myself in the day or two before preparing my presentation. He just converted it for me so I could prepare the demo.

IDV is not very user friendly, but there is excellent documentation on www.unidata.ucar.edu/IDV. Actually, creating a GOES-16 animation is not that hard with IDV once you practiced the fundamentals of using IDV. Check out the video tutorials on subsetting GOES imagery on their site. Adding airspace, turnpoint plots ... and the track file... requires a lot more fiddling and detailed HOWTO instructions. I probably should do that and posted it.

BTW, there is another technique for overlaying GOES-16 imagery, TP databases and airspace. Bernd Fischer of TopMeteo pointed it out to me. Just use Google Earch and edit the kml / xml for the multiple images that need to be animated.

I'm not sure which technique is easier to use.

Walt Rogers WX