What do we need to be able to do?

• Read in data via python
• ... reformat to McIDAS AREA?
• ... navigation handled by McIDAS routines?
  • do we only do LALO, then?
  • do we need new McIDAS routines for new data types... ever? if we do, what's the point?
• ... calibration handled by McIDAS routines?
  • probably not, see the above
• ... send/receive messages handled by McIDAS routines?
• ... is that all?

Other python-to-fortran-hacking stuff

• https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  • see https://gitlab.ssec.wisc.edu/rayg/himawari/blob/master/py/HimawariScene.py as example
• https://svn.ssec.wisc.edu/repos/nickb/pycrtm/trunk/pycrtm/

Links / References

• https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/doc/prog_man/2015/servers.html
• https://github.com/julienchastang/pyadde

Notes

• product calibration send back data in 0-255
• search mcidas programmer's documentation for LALO to find the lalo block
  • lat, lon, resolution (skip values), index to the top left (modis starts at (2,2))