Re: Work with Bytes.

• To: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Work with Bytes.
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 07:50:17 -0700

Hi-

Bill Hibbard wrote:
> None of the standard VisAD file format adapters do this (to
> the best of my knowledge). So if you use one of them, you'll
> need to copy your data into FlatFields that you explicitly
> construct with appropriate range Sets.

The visad.data.mcidas.AreaAdapter will use bytes to pack
the FlatField if the calibration type is BRIT which ranges
from 0-255.  Because there is no allowance for missing values
in an AREA file, in this case, values of 255 are set to 254.

Don
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• References:
  • Work with Bytes.
    • From: Olver Hernadez
  • Re: Work with Bytes.
    • From: Bill Hibbard