McIDAS Programmer's Manual
Version 2006

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SATANNOT

Image annotation description file.

The satellite description text information in this binary file is displayed as text annotation when a satellite image is loaded onto a display device.

Each 80-character record contains the following:

For image annotation description file Application Program Interfaces (APIs), refer to the API functions list at the end of this section.

File size depends on the number of satellite description entries and is computed by (20*number of entries) words. For example, two entries may look like this:

Columns 1 to 19 Column 20 Columns 30 and 31

GOES-7 IR

D

33

NOAA-10

K

60

This file is supplied with McIDAS-X.

API functions

Function Description

m0ssdesc

retrieves the satellite sensor information


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