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color bar in seadas 8.0 beta version

by arvindsahay » Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:39 am America/New_York

Is there any tool for color bar in seadas 8.0 beta version like in earlier versions of seadas 7.5.2. I want to label few values between minimum to maximum in color palette not all. Selecting one by one and removing many values in new color palette slider is very time consuming if I want to do it for multiple images.

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Re: color bar in seadas 8.0 beta version

by OB SeaDAS - knowles » Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:59 pm America/New_York

We are currently developing the color bar tool for SeaDAS 8.x. It will be similar to the color bar tool in SeaDAS 7.x, but a bit better. In the meantime, you may wish to use SeaDAS 7.5.3 for exporting your color bar.

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Re: color bar in seadas 8.0 beta version

by gnwiii » Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:44 am America/New_York

When making many similar images with color bars, coastline overlays, grids, annotations, etc., 3rd party command-line batch-oriented tools are often more appropriate than SeaDAS, such as:
  • Python (e.g., using basemap and matplotlib)
  • GIS Software (QGIS, ArcGIS, etc)

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Re: color bar in seadas 8.0 beta version

by arvindsahay » Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:29 am America/New_York

[quote="OB SeaDAS - knowles" post_id=7962 time=1617915589 user_id=2495]
We are currently developing the color bar tool for SeaDAS 8.x. It will be similar to the color bar tool in SeaDAS 7.x, but a bit better. In the meantime, you may wish to use SeaDAS 7.5.3 for exporting your color bar.
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Thanks I did the same.

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Re: color bar in seadas 8.0 beta version

by arvindsahay » Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:32 am America/New_York

gnwiii wrote:
> When making many similar images with color bars, coastline overlays, grids,
> annotations, etc., 3rd party command-line batch-oriented tools are often
> more appropriate than SeaDAS, such as:
>
> [list][GMT](https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/)[/list]
> [list]IDL or [GNU Data
> Language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Data_Language)[/list]
> [list][NCAR Command Language](http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/D6WD3XH5)
> [main site](http://www.ncl.ucar.edu)[/list]
> [list]Python (e.g., using basemap and matplotlib)[/list]
> [list]GIS Software (QGIS, ArcGIS, etc)[/list]
I have the basic knowledge of these tools. Will try to explore these tools more for ocean color applications, if possible

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Re: color bar in seadas 8.0 beta version

by gnwiii » Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:37 am America/New_York

It doesn't make sense for SeaDAS developers to put a lot of effort into duplicating capabilities already present in general purpose tools, and those tools have much larger user bases so more avenues to get support if there is an issue.

There are examples using many of the mentioned tools in the [HDF Group Zoo](https://hdfeos.org/zoo/index_openOBPG_Examples.php)

I often use one tool to make a base map overly with coastlines, grids, etc. as a vector format file (e.g., PDF) and a different tool to make the false color images. Some care is needed to ensure the mapping is consistent between the different apps, but once you have the details worked out you can process 100's of images with batch scripts, and with small changes produce browse or web quality imagery as well as publication quality. For publications you can overly a vector base map on a series images using LaTeX or other publishing apps.

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