Re: [visad] Issue of overlay in visad

• To: Ankita Zalavadiya <ankitazalavadia@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [visad] Issue of overlay in visad
• From: Tom Whittaker <whittaker@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:52:56 -0500

Hello Ankita...

1.  VisAD does not have a file adapter for XML.  There is one for text
files that are in tabular format (comma- or space-separated values).
There is a provision there for 2D "grids" of values.

2. VisAD does not have a "shape file adapter" for reading shapefiles.

3. The HDF5 capability of the build-in library is very old and has not
been maintained by the original authors (from the NSCA/HDF group).

I would suggest you look at either Unidata's "Integrated Data View
(IDV)" or the McIDAS-V applications.  Both are built on VisAD
(McIDAS-V is actually built on the IDV), but contain many more
capabilities for reading data files (such as shapefiles and HDF5
data), since they use the current NetCDF/Java library which has been
extended to include many different types of file types for reading.

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

tom

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Ankita Zalavadiya
<ankitazalavadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Problem :
> OVERLAPPING OF TWO LAYERS( IMAGE ON WORLD MAP)IN VISAD.
> 1.I dont have any idea about which type of data contains in XML file and
> how to use XML file in overlapping of layers in visad.
>    Would you Please give me example of XML file in visad?
>
> 2. We have h5(HDF5) file and retrive lat-lon from this h5 file. Now,WE have
> to overlap Image(Created from this h5 file) on World map(shape file).we dont
> have any idea about the projection-mapping.
>
>    we can't read h5 files using H5Form() in-built class of visad.
>
>    How can we map these lat-lon- image on world-map?
>
>
> -  Regards
>
>       Ankita
>
>
>
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  • [visad] Issue of overlay in visad
    • From: Ankita Zalavadiya