DA WS Satellite images/Tropical Plots

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:32 pm

These will work with the region/sector city zooms, make sure to click on the image to enlarge (for some reason the images aren't updating today???)

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/nexsat_pages ... _home.html

All use the orthographic projection.

Madison
Lat: 43.123
Long -89.325
Scael: 125
800X800
X values: 1, 1.004
Y values: 2, 1

Minneapolis
44.875
-93.216
125
800X800
1, 1.004
2, 1

Des Moines
41.518
-93.642
125
800X800
2, 1.004
4, 1.005

Chicago
41.97
-87.89
125
800X800
2, 1.005
4, 1.005

Also since these are such tight zooms, there may be times when you notice a bullseye pattern around individual stations when you run an isopleh analysis - this is because there aren't enough staions available for proper analysis.

These should look pretty neat with radar and say wind vectors if you can get the radar and satellite image times to match.

An image using the Des Moines IA satellite image and a DA WS moisture convergence analysis from 19Z on Sunday August 13:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n7/p ... dsm-mc.jpg

Pat

Wally Mayo · Post by **Wally Mayo** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:55 am

Hey guys,
Poking around in the pure directories of the Navy site, I found some other good projection sats that didn't seem to be on the pages we use so far, so ... check these out. We'll all start working on the maps.

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/atla ... LATEST.jpg

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/atla ... LATEST.jpg

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/atla ... LATEST.jpg

kinetic · Post by **kinetic** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:27 am

Nice find Walley, great for me here in Michigan. Did you see any ir or
vapor ?

Wally Mayo · Post by **Wally Mayo** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:14 am

Interestingly, no. But here is the more complete directory...
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/atlantic/western/

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:55 pm

&quot wrote:Hey guys,
Poking around in the pure directories of the Navy site, I found some other good projection sats that didn't seem to be on the pages we use so far, so ... check these out. We'll all start working on the maps.

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/atla ... LATEST.jpg

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/atla ... LATEST.jpg

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/atla ... LATEST.jpg

After taking a quick peek at the central US map linked, it appears to be a cartesian projection, rather than mercator. It may be a little tough to get this one to fit vertically (horizontal stretching shouldn't be any problem). Might not be impossible, however.

Good luck.

Pat

Wally Mayo · Post by **Wally Mayo** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:22 am

Hmmm, I missed that Fusion added the rotation capability. Has anyone played with some maps that just seemed a little rotated?

I'm gonna try when I get time. Yes, Fusion is expired, but you can create maps still. (you can't save but still it saves it as TEMPCACH.bmp and .dmf, and you can copy it somewhere else and rename it - a hassle, but that is what it is supposed to be for real unregistered folk).