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>From: Juying Xie Warner <address@hidden> >Organization: NCAR/ACD >Keywords: 200003222201.PAA26234 SSEC ADDE accounting data center IMGDISP POES Juying, >I just started to use McIDAS. I need to display some >NOAA POES satellite images. I tried to link the >datasets from Wisconsin using: >DATALOC ADD GILMORE GILMORE.SSEC.WISC.EDU >Then when I tried to display the data using: >IMGDISP GILMORE/ALL.0, >it responded with an error message: >IMGDISP: Accounting data was not valid. > >I don't understand if my account is not authorized to use the >SSEC data center information, This particular message does indicate that you machine is not authorized to use the SSEC data center information. If you feel that you should have this access (e.g., if NCAR has an account with SSEC that allows for doing just this sort of thing), then you should send an email to the SSEC Data Center: address@hidden >or if my commands are wrong for what I try to do. Your command looks OK _IF_ there is an ALL group of the GILMORE dataset. This can be determined with a DSINFO command: DSINFO IMAGE GILMORE Dataset Names of Type: IMAGE in Group: GILMORE Name NumPos Content ------------ ------ -------------------------------------- ALL 2000 POES all images N12HIRS 10 NOAA-12 HIRS AREAS N12HRPT 2000 POES NOAA-12 HRPT images N12MSU 10 NOAA-12 MSU AREAS N12TIP 10 NOAA-12 TIP AREAS N14GAC 2000 POES NOAA-14 GAC images N14HIRS 10 NOAA-14 HIRS AREAS N14HRPT 2000 POES NOAA-14 HRPT images N14LAC 2000 POES NOAA-14 LAC images N14MSU 10 NOAA-14 MSU AREAS N14TIP 10 NOAA-14 TIP AREAS N15AMSUA 10 NOAA-15 AMSUA AREAS N15AMSUB 10 NOAA-15 AMSUB AREAS N15GAC 2000 POES NOAA-15 GAC images N15HIRS 10 NOAA-15 HIRS3 AREAS N15HRPT 2000 POES NOAA-15 HRPT images N15LAC 2000 POES NOAA-15 LAC images DSINFO -- done So, ALL is a valid group in GILMORE. This means that you problem is simply that your machine has not been enabled to request data from the SSEC Data Center. >I would really appreciate it if you could give me some directions. If you feel that you should be able to access the data, then you need to send an email to the SSEC Data Center at the address I listed above. Tom Yoksas