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Old June 21st 07, 06:28 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Waghorn Waghorn is offline
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Default From Ascii File to Image !!! How ?

On 21 Jun, 18:21, Waghorn wrote:
On 21 Jun, 14:29, wrote:

Im involved in a project where I have to transform grid ascii files
done like this :
DSAA
92 92
-6.679 23.805
30.142 56.000
0.00000000E+00 47.6781693
0.00000E+000.00000E+000.00000E+000.00000E+000.0000 0E+000.00000E
+000.00000E+000.00000E+000.00000E+000.00000E+00
0.00000E+000.00000E+000.00000E+000.00000E+000.0000 0E+000.00000E
+000.00000E+000.00000E+000.00000E+000.00000E+00
0.0 .....usw


and I have to transform them in images adding europe border ...


I really have no idea from where to start !
Which software to use ? Is there any freeware doing this ?


Thanks
Gio


Prob best thing to do is get it into netCDF then the options are many
depending on yr platform enviroment-
Hints here-http://geon.unavco.org/unavco/IDV_for_GEON_data_converters.html
then you can visualise the netCDF with IDV, -http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/
will generate maps.
Other netCDF tools-http://hemulen.uchicago.edu/~tobis/ideas/netcdftools.html#Gri
I think Ferret may do this as well-http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/

post to the netCDF forums for help-http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/

regards,
David


or a GIS tool like GRASS will do it-
http://grass.itc.it/
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