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Working with Unknown Data

If you supply data in a format not recognized by the current iTool, the Create Visualization dialog allows you to specify how the data is to be used.

Figure 2-5: The iTools Create Visualization Dialog

Figure 2-5: The iTools Create Visualization Dialog

You will see this dialog if the data you supply when launching an iTool from the IDL command line does not match a known data organization for the selected tool, or if you open an ASCII text file containing data that appears to be irregularly gridded.

The Create Visualization dialog contains the following choices:

Using the Gridding Wizard

The iTools Gridding Wizard allows you to convert irregularly-gridded data into regularly-gridded data using a variety of methods. The gridding wizard processes your irregularly-gridded data in three steps.

Figure 2-6: The IDL Gridding Wizard Step 1 of 3

Figure 2-6: The IDL Gridding Wizard Step 1 of 3

The IDL Gridding Wizard Step 1 of 3 dialog contains the following items:

The IDL Gridding Wizard Step 2 of 3 dialog contains the following items:

The IDL Gridding Wizard Step 3 of 3 dialog contains the following items:

  IDL Online Help (March 01, 2006)