[Met_help] Re: Re: MET-related white papers?

[John Halley Gotway]

Jan,

OK, I understand.

They do actually relate somewhat to what's in MET.  These are a few of the
things that Randy Bullock, a senior software engineer at NCAR, has written
up about his work.

Specifically, moments.pdf and gc_simple.pdf relate to the MODE tool, while
config_doc.pdf relates to all of the MET tools that use configuration
files.

The first and higher moments described in moments.pdf are used by MODE for
defining the centroid, axis angle, and complexity of objects.  In
gc_simple.pdf, Randy explains great circle arcs and distances.  In MODE,
we can use great circles to plot the polyline outline of an object.  So
there's a minor relationship there.

config_doc.pdf details the configuration file language that Randy wrote
and is used by the MET tool for parsing configuration files.

This info will most likely not be of interest to the casual MET user.  But
if you'd like to get deeper into the code and understand how object
attributes are computed in MODE or what is possible to encode in the
configuration file, they may be helpful.

Thank you for your feedback.  I think it would be a good idea for me to
include on the website a short explanation of how each of these write-ups
relates to MET.

Thanks,
John

> "John Halley Gotway" <johnhg at rap.ucar.edu> schrieb am 21.01.2008 17:04:14:
>
>> Jan,
>>
>> I checked the links and was able to download them fine myself.  Perhaps
>> it's some sort of browser issue.
>>
>> I've attached a copy of those PDFs to this email in case you continue to
>> have problems accessing them from the website.
>>
>> Can you tell me, what browser and version number are you using?
>
> John,
>
> I can download them all right, but I can't see how their content is at all
> related to MET?
>
> Regards,
> Jan Ploski
>
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>>
>> Thanks,
>> John Halley Gotway
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'd like to point out a potential mistake on the MET web site:
>> >
>> > The "MET-Related White Papers" at
>> > http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/docs/overview.php seem to be just
> dummy
>> > PDF documents.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Jan Ploski
>> >
>> > --
>> > Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Jan Ploski
>> > OFFIS
>> > Betriebliches Informationsmanagement
>> > Escherweg 2  - 26121 Oldenburg - Germany
>> > Fon: +49 441 9722 - 184 Fax: +49 441 9722 - 202
>> > E-Mail: Jan.Ploski at offis.de - URL: http://www.offis.de
>> >
>> [Anhang "circle_fit.pdf" gelöscht von Jan Ploski/BI/Offis] [Anhang
>> "config_doc.pdf" gelöscht von Jan Ploski/BI/Offis] [Anhang
>> "gc_simple.pdf" gelöscht von Jan Ploski/BI/Offis] [Anhang "moments.
>> pdf" gelöscht von Jan Ploski/BI/Offis]