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- From: szeliga@soils.umn.edu (Tim Szeliga - NWS)
- Subject: AVHRR Images posted to alt.binaries.pictures.misc
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- Summary: AVHRR image of Western US
- Keywords: AVHRR NOHRSC satellite
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- Organization: University of Minnesota
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:29:29 GMT
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- We got a particularly nice shot of the Western US yesterday,
- clearly showing snowcover.
-
- We captured it, calibrated it to brightness and temperature,
- registered it to Albers projection, resampled it to 2.2km,
- combined bands 1 3 and 4 into a false color composite,
- converted it to a JPEG image with PBMplus and cjpeg, uuencoded
- it, split it and posted it to alt.binaries.pictures.misc
-
- The original can be found, as usual, via anon-ftp at
- snow.nohrsc.nws.gov in pub/jpg/westalb.jpg.
-
- You may have noticed that some of the jpegs have filename like
- 01b93027.jpg and others 1b93027.jpg. The ones with the
- leading zero are contrast normalized by hand, the others are normalized
- automatically with pgmnorm. The automatic ones are brassy, with more
- magenta and cyan than red and blue . To make the automatic ones, I
- run a single command and sometimes never see the finished product.
- To normalize by hand, I have to displace another analyst, display
- on his 24-bit monitor and enhance the contrast of each band.
- Then, the graphics are embedded, the RGB unloaded to an image file
- and the JPEG conversion begins. Slower, more troublesome, but
- the results justify the effort.
-
- Tim Szeliga tim@snow.nohrsc.nws.gov
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- Gunter Grass
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