McIDAS Programmer's Manual

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Chapter 6

This chapter describes the formats of the data files developed for applications running under McIDAS-X. The data files are presented alphabetically with the following information:

• name of the data file and a description of its contents
• relevant facts about the file, such as how it's organized and if it's an ASCII or binary file
• word allocation for each part of the file
• API library functions used with the file

This chapter describes these file formats:

File	Description
AREAnnnn	Area (image) files
DC*	MD schema definition files
*.ET	Enhancement save files
FRAMED	Panel configuration file
FRAMENH.001	Frame enhancement table
FRAMEn.p	Image frame files
GMSCAL	GMS calibration file
GRIDnnnn	Grid files
*.GRX	Graphics save tables for McIDAS-X
HIRSCRPF	HIRS calibration reference parameters
HIRSTAUL	HIRS transmittance coefficients
MDXXnnnn	MD files
MSUSCRPF	MSU calibration reference parameters
OUTL*	Base map files
SATANNOT	Image annotation description file
SATBAND	Image annotation description file
SKEDFILE	Scheduled McIDAS commands
UC	McIDAS User Common
VASTBLS	VAS calibration tables
VIRTnnnn	Virtual graphics files

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