HDF and NetCDF support in McIDAS-V

[nickb]

Thanks for the feedback!

I agree that there should be an easy way to manually add a fill value. Fortunately most of them are extreme values (-9999, for example) that you can get rid of by changing the range of data displayed. After you load up your dataset, go to the Layer Controls tab in the Data Explorer and hit the "Change" button at the top (next to Contour:). By adjusting the minimum and maximum values, you can keep anything beyond that range from displaying.

[tomw]

Nick -- If the missing values are in the lat/lon, however, then there is almost no way to correct the problem without specifying missing values for these ahead of time. For example, we had a file with missing values of -9999, and the only way to "fix" this was to put in the missing values before the file was read, so that the library would put in NaNs. --tom

[joleenf]

Nick,

An example of a file with missing values in the lat/lon fields is here.

ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/eosdb/aqua/airs/

Select a date, scroll down to "products" directory. Select a hdf file.

Joleen

[kaba]

I agree with Tom W and Joleen with regards to this one. i have seem many files where changing the range
along wouldn't do it.