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Unidata IDV Workshop for version 6.3

1

Overview of the Integrated Data Viewer

1.0

What is the Integrated Data Viewer?

1.1

2

Starting the IDV/GUI Basics

2.0

Starting the IDV for the first time

2.1

IDV Basic Concepts

2.1.0

Introduction to the IDV GUI

2.1.1

Navigating (Zooming, Panning and Rotating) the View Window

2.1.2

Using the Time Animation Widget

2.1.3

The Main IDV Menu

2.1.4

The View and Projections Menus

2.1.5

Changing Background Maps

2.1.6

Projection Manager

2.1.7

Exiting the IDV

2.1.8

Starting the IDV with Java Web Start

3

Accessing and Displaying Data

3.0

Data Selection Overview

3.1

Using the Data Source Chooser

3.2

Working with Gridded Data

3.2.0

Loading Gridded Data

3.2.1

Using the Field Selector

3.2.2

Using the Display Controls

3.2.3

Plan Views of Gridded Data

3.2.4

Isosurfaces of Gridded Data

3.2.5

Cross Sections of Gridded Data

3.2.6

Using the Display Legends

3.2.7

Probing Gridded Data

3.2.8

Probing Gridded Data (continued)

3.2.9

Vector Displays

3.2.10

Grid Trajectory Displays

3.2.11

Grid Isentropic Analysis

3.2.12

Working with Large Grids

3.2.13

Hovmöller of Gridded Data

3.2.14

Doing More with Grid Displays

3.2.15

Working with Ensemble Grids

3.2.16

Cross Boundary Subset of Grid Coverage Data

3.2.17

Working with NcML

3.3

Displaying Satellite and Level III Radar Imagery

3.3.0

Loading Satellite Imagery

3.3.1

Level III Radar Image Displays

3.3.2

Probing Level III Data

3.3.3

Overlaying Radar on Satellite and other imagery

3.3.4

Time Matching Radar and Satellite imagery

3.3.5

Adaptive Resolution in Satellite Imagery

3.3.6

Doing More with Image Displays

3.4

3.4.0

Introduction to the Color Table Editor

3.4.1

Creating a New Color Table

3.4.2

Using the New Color Table

3.5

WSR-88D Level II Data Displays

3.5.0

Loading WSR-88D Level II Radar Data

3.5.1

Level II Sweep Displays in 2D and 3D

3.5.2

Level II RHI Displays

3.5.3

Level II CrossSection Displays

3.5.4

Level II Volume Scan Display

3.5.5

Level II Isosurface Display

3.5.6

Level II Volume Grid Display

3.5.7

Doing More with Nexrad Data Displays

3.6

Saving State, Views and Data

3.6.0

Creating and Using Bundles

3.6.1

More With Bundles

3.6.2

The Default Bundle

3.6.3

Using Favorite Bundles

3.6.4

Data in Bundles

3.6.5

3.6.6

More with Image Capture

3.6.7

PDF/PS/SVG Capture

3.6.8

3.6.9

3.6.10

3.7

Point Observations

3.7.0

Loading Surface Data

3.7.1

Surface Point Observation Displays

3.7.2

Subsetting Point Data

3.7.3

Layout Model Editor

3.7.4

More on the Layout Model Editor

3.7.5

Observation List Display

3.7.6

More with Point Displays

3.7.7

Exercise: Japan EarthQuakes Display

3.7.8

Text (ASCII) Point Data

3.7.9

Objective Analysis of Point Data

3.7.10

Doing More with Point Observation data

3.7.11

Lightning Display

3.7.12

Overlaying Lightning Data on Radar Data

3.8

Upper Air Displays

3.8.0

Sounding Displays

3.8.1

Single Level Point Data Displays

3.8.2

Doing More with Upper Air (RAOB) Displays

3.8.3

Using the IDV Sounding Display

3.9

3.9.0

3.9.1

Showing Transect Lines

3.9.2

Setting Transect View Bounds

3.9.3

DEMs in the Transect View

3.10

Trajectory Data

3.10.0

Trajectory Display

3.10.1

Trajectory Point Display

3.10.2

3.11

Miscellaneous Displays

3.11.0

Drawing Control

3.11.1

Doing More with the Drawing Control

3.11.2

Weather Text Products

3.11.3

Web Map Servers

3.11.4

3.11.5

3.11.6

WorldWind Locations

3.11.7

3.11.8

Doing more with GIS Data

3.11.9

Using Images in the IDV

3.12

NOAA Profiler Network Winds

3.12.0

Loading NOAA Profiler Network Data

3.12.1

Profiler Time-Height Displays

3.12.2

Profiler Station Plot Displays

3.12.3

Profiler Three-D View

3.12.4

Doing More with Profiler Displays

3.13

Working with WRF Output

3.13.0

3.13.0.0

Loading WRF Output

3.13.0.1

Saving WRF Displays

3.13.0.2

WRF Grid Displays

3.13.0.3

WRF Analysis: Formulas

3.13.0.4

WRF Analysis: Derived Products and Advanced Features

3.13.1

3.13.1.0

3.13.1.1

3.13.1.2

3.13.1.3

Labels and Color Scales

3.13.1.4

Combining Displays

4

Advanced Topics

4.0

Installing the IDV

4.0.0

Downloading and Installing the IDV from Unidata

4.0.1

Using the Installer

4.1

Configuring the IDV

4.1.0

Basic Preferences

4.1.1

Display Settings

4.1.2

Editing Parameter Display Defaults

4.1.3

Editing Parameter Aliases

4.1.4

More on Editing Parameter Aliases

4.1.5

Editing Parameter Groups

4.2

Diagnostic Functions: Formulas and Jython

4.2.0

Basics of IDV Formulas

4.2.1

4.2.2

Doing More With Formulas

4.2.3

Doing More with Jython

4.2.4

Jython and VisAD

4.2.5

Derived Data and Formulas

4.3

Scripting with IDV

4.3.0

ISL Introduction

4.3.1

Generating Images

4.3.2

More on Generating Images

4.3.3

Manipulating Images

4.3.4

4.3.5

Interactive Scripting with the IDV and the Jython Shell

4.3.6

Batch Scripting with the IDV Jython API

4.4

Configuring IDV Sites

4.4.0

4.4.1

4.4.2

IDV Property and Resource Files

4.4.3

4.4.4

4.4.5

Configuring using Web Start

4.5

Miscellaneous Items

4.5.0

4.5.1

Text Point Data

4.5.2

ximg File Format

4.5.3

Image Movie Format

4.5.4

Performance Tuning

5

Java Developer Topics

5.0

Development Environment

5.0.0

Building the IDV from Source

5.0.1

IDV Source Tree

5.0.2

5.0.3

5.0.4

Building with Ant

5.0.5

5.1

IDV Architecture

5.1.0

5.1.1

Managers and Editors

5.1.2

Major Components

5.1.3

IDV Architectural Overview

5.1.4

5.1.5

5.1.6

5.2

5.2.0

Initialization and Properties

5.2.1

Command Line Arguments

5.2.2

Example Args Manager

5.2.3

5.3

IDV User Interfaces

5.3.0

Xml based UI construction

5.3.1

5.3.2

Example UI Manager

5.3.3

Example Menu Bar

5.4

5.4.0

Overview of Data Choosers

5.4.1

Creating a Weather Text Data Chooser

5.5

5.5.0

Overview of Data Sources

5.5.1

Using VisAD Data in the IDV

5.5.2

Creating a Weather Text Data Source

5.6

Display Controls

5.6.0

Overview of Display Controls

5.6.1

Using VisAD Displays in the IDV

5.6.2

Creating a Weather Text Display Control

5.7

5.7.0

IDV Persistence with XmlEncoder

6

IDV and RAMADDA

6.0

Installation and Configuration

6.0.0

OS X Installation

6.0.1

Windows Installation

6.0.2

Linux Installation

6.0.3

Creating the Admin Account

6.0.4

Creating Users and Roles

6.1

Content Publishing

6.1.0

Content Publishing with the IDV

6.1.1

Collaborative Networks with the IDV and RAMADDA

6.1.2

Browser Publication

6.1.3

Server-Side Publication

6.1.4

6.2

Working with Data

6.2.0

6.2.1

6.2.2

More with Point Data

6.3

Content Creation

6.3.0

6.3.1

6.3.2

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