Fleetcode FM45-IV IAC overlay

[Peter Benney]

I have overlaid the Fleetcode FM45-IV IAC decode on a GeoSatsignal orthographic remapped Met7 IR image.

Results at:.......

http://www.polarorbiter.co.uk/Fleetcode.htm

Peter

[rik wessels]

Read about this in the Satsignal group as well

Now we sure would like to know a couple of things :

-settings ( both in DA and GSS)
- source for this data , it seems to me there's more fleetcodes-data here than when downloading the fleetcode with DA

In short : everything you'd be willing to tell

Also: does anyone know if the fleetcodes are restricted to Europe or are there other sources for other regions and would DA support this data ??

[Peter Benney]

Settings:-
GSS:-
Met7 IR image from Dundee remapped with following settings:-
Remapping enabled
Grid 10 degs
768 x 576
Orthographic
Meridian 000 Parallel 55 Span 43
DA:-
Generate Map>
Lat 55 Long 000
Scale 3850
Imaged width 768 Height 576
Internet/Retrieve data:
Fleetcode (HB Yacht)
METAR/SYNOP/BUOY Albany worldwide.
Data: Data plot/Fleetcodes all notations

DA map overlaid on remapped IR image using Paint Shop Pro. All plotted data obtained using DA Internet/Retrieve data.

Peter

[Meteo Maarssen]

Tim/Others

I didn't had the time to check the new fleetcode into DA. It is not all hosanna. Here some results:

Some bugs in this version:
High and Lows (by loaded synopts/Metars) are not plotted in this version, eighter <suspend> is checked or unchecked from preferences or on controlpanel left-side. Isopleths have also a fixed standard dark blue color, this can't be controled by any style. Values are hard to read, I can't find any working option to control the tekst color. Options as negative or transparant do not work.

About Fleetcode:
Seems to work, good job. But there are some strange things with the styles. Only three do support fleetcodes. Other .sty files don't. It is not possible to create a new file with use of newest .sty-files. If, by example, awips.sty is loaded the extra options for fleetcode are removed while saving as other .sty-file: you can modify the original version, but not save it as new *.sty.

Fronts: Upperair fronts and weakening fronts are all plotted as normal surface-fronts. Altough it isn't a bug at all I would suggest to use at least the the upperair frontsymbols (open versions of surface frontsymbols).

It is kind of a personal view, but I think that plotting of the Fleetcodes in reverse order (all anotations) gives a slightly better result thus:
1: isobars, 2: fronts; 3: High/Low
H/L signs are sometimes overruled by fronts, and fronts and H/L by isobars.

I have checked all this double, including after uninstall and reinstall of all versions and patches available.

Thanks and cheers,

Ton Lindemann

[Meteo Maarssen]

The is an much easier way to use your GSS dump in DA. First create a matching overlay with indentical panorama views in both programs. This a trial and error procedure. Next save a map in DA as TEST.DMF. Make a same map is GSS/Groundmap and name it TEST.BMP.

Go to the location of the saved DA - TEST.DMF file. You will see also a TEST.BMP. Replace this by the GSS/Groundmap-dump.

Now you can plot anything on your image you wish directly by DA if you open that file by TEST.DMF

Cheers;

Ton Lindemann