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Re: IDL in Scientific Communication and Visualization [message #81578]

Tue, 02 October 2012 21:51

David Fanning
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TonyL writes:

> http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/history/20110311.shtml
> the first image is an IDL graphic showing the max wave amplitude from a tsunami prediction.
>
> http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/
> this map and all the associated textual products are created by an IDL desktop app. Difficult to show you a current warning map as events are infrequent...but essentially coastal zones are hatched in. If you look at http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/about/jatwc.shtml
> the picture at the top shows an operator in front of 3 screens, left one is an IDL graph showing predicted wave amplitude for a specific point and a google-earth like sphere that depicts model wave amps (also done in IDL), the middle screen shows the warning preparation tool, an IDL widget app.

Thanks, Tony! Exactly the kind of thing I am looking for.
Anyone else want to show off their IDL skills? :-)

Cheers,

David

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