Re: geostationary satellite data

2015-12-16 Thread Robin Koch
Am 16.12.2015 um 18:30 schrieb Peter Pearson: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 04:08:02 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >> It could be 16 bits per pixel. Without knowing a lot more about the source of the image and its format, it's hard to say with any certainty. Agreed. It's annoying when an agency goes t

Re: geostationary satellite data

2015-12-16 Thread Peter Pearson
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 04:37:26 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Peter Pearson > wrote: >> Agreed. It's annoying when an agency goes to the trouble of making >> huge datasets available online, but fails to identify the format. >> >> But the 16-bits-per-pixel hypothesis

Re: geostationary satellite data

2015-12-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Peter Pearson wrote: > Agreed. It's annoying when an agency goes to the trouble of making > huge datasets available online, but fails to identify the format. > > But the 16-bits-per-pixel hypothesis is unlikely, given that each > byte tends to echo its predecessor

Re: geostationary satellite data

2015-12-16 Thread Peter Pearson
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 04:08:02 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Peter Pearson > wrote: >> The file is 65274016 bytes long. You claim the dimensions are >> 9896 x 3298, but that comes out to half that number (32637008), so I'll >> bet the real dimensions are 9896 x 659

Re: geostationary satellite data

2015-12-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Peter Pearson wrote: > The file is 65274016 bytes long. You claim the dimensions are > 9896 x 3298, but that comes out to half that number (32637008), so I'll > bet the real dimensions are 9896 x 6596, with one byte per pixel. > I think this image format is called

Re: geostationary satellite data

2015-12-16 Thread Peter Pearson
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:19:26 -0200, jorge.conr...@cptec.inpe.br wrote: > > I dowmloaded some data from the Mirador NASA site: > > http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&dataset=Global-merged%20IR%20Brightness%20Temperature%20Data&project=TRMM&dataGroup=Ancill

Re: geostationary satellite data

2015-12-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 16/12/2015 15:19, jorge.conr...@cptec.inpe.br wrote: Hi, I dowmloaded some data from the Mirador NASA site: http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&dataset=Global-merged%20IR%20Brightness%20Temperature%20Data&project=TRMM&dataGroup=Ancillary&version