Re: arc_ascii.jnl error

[Jonathan Callahan <callahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

We're in the process of putting some more documentation on line to
answer exactly this sort of question.  Here's a URL that you can look at
even though it's not linked from the regular Ferret documentation yet.

http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/FAQ/


-- Jon


"McCann, Mike" wrote:
> 
> Jonathon,
> 
> Thanks, that seems to have fixed it.
> 
> Also, I did get your info on creating multiple xml files.
> Are these the instructions I need to use xml includes
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude#IDwgAq1?
> 
> I'm working on a path to getting our scattered data into
> reasonable grids so that LAS can handle them.  I'm hoping
> that all these pieces will fall into place and we can
> demonstrate the usefulness of LAS for ocean observatory
> data.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mike
> 
> --
> Mike McCann   (mccann@mbari.org)
> Group Leader, Information Applications Group
> Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
> 7700 Sandholdt Road
> Moss Landing, CA 95039-9644
> Voice: (831) 775-1769   Fax: (831) 775-1646 http://www.mbari.org/rd/iag.htm
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Callahan [mailto:callahan@pmel.noaa.gov]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 12:00 PM
> > To: McCann, Mike
> > Cc: 'las_users@ferret.wrc.noaa.gov'
> > Subject: Re: arc_ascii.jnl error
> >
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > The first possibility that comes to mind is the following:
> >
> > From the version 5.2 release notes:
> >
> > "The order of arguments to the SAMPLE functions is reversed
> > relative to
> > earlier versions
> >      This is for consistency among the various SAMPLE functions.  They
> > all follow the pattern SAMPLE*(DATA, sample points)"
> >
> >
> > Since the arc_ascii.jnl script works for my server using Ferret 5.22,
> > the arguments to the SMAPLEJ() function are probably
> > backwards for your
> > server using Ferret V500beta1.1.
> >
> > Please make the following change to this script:
> >
> > ! let expr_rev = samplej(expr,j_rev) ! arguments ordered for
> > Ferret 5.2
> > let expr_rev = samplej(j_rev,expr) ! arguments ordered for Ferret 5.0
> >
> >
> > And let me know if that doesn't fix things.
> >
> >
> > -- Jon
> >
> >
> > "McCann, Mike" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > When I try to create Arcview Gridded output on my LAS 3.2
> > > server from the sample Levitus data I get this error:
> > >
> > > LAS Error
> > >
> > > The following error message was received from LAS:
> > >
> > > Adding an acceptable error string: "*** NOTE: ".
> > >         NOAA/PMEL TMAP
> > >         Program FERRET (V500beta1.1)
> > >         Version 5.00 - 05/26/99
> > >          2-Aug-00 16:27
> > >
> > > yes? CANCEL MODE VERIFY
> > > yes? GO setup_region "100.0:420.0" "-89.0:89.0" "0:0" " "
> > > yes? GO arc_ascii "levitus_climatology" "salt"
> > > "output//ef35c2c670080f94ec14642c8cbbb960.arc"
> > >
> > > Bailing out of external function "samplej":
> > >          Sampling index -21474831   in ARG1 is outside the
> > range of J
> > > indices for ARG2 (1:178)
> > >
> > > Looks like something might be wrong around these lines:
> > >
> > > ! reverse the j indexing
> > > let jj = j[g=$2]
> > > let j_rev = sortj(jj[j=`jstart`:`jend`]*-1)
> > > let expr_rev = samplej(expr,j_rev)
> > >
> > > I confess to not understanding much of this code.  Could
> > someone please
> > > help me to fix this?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike McCann   (mccann@mbari.org)
> > > Group Leader, Information Applications Group
> > > Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
> > > 7700 Sandholdt Road
> > > Moss Landing, CA 95039-9644
> > > Voice: (831) 775-1769   Fax: (831) 775-1646
> http://www.mbari.org/rd/iag.htm