TRMM Orbit Viewer Installtion

System Requirements

1. A UNIX or Linux Operating System

System		OS	OS Version	IDL File
Compaq	Alpha	Tru64 UNIX	4.0	BIN_compaq
HP	PA-RISC	HP-UX	10.20, 11	BIN_hp
IBM	RS/6000	AIX	4.3	BIN_ibm
Inte	Intel x86	Red Hat	6.0	BIN_linux
SGI	Mips	Irix	6.4, 6.5	BIN_sgi
SUN	SPARC	Solaris	2 2.6, 2.7	BIN_solaris
SUN	Ultra	Solaris	2 2.6	BIN_solaris

2. 64 megabytes of memory is required and 128 megabytes is recomended.

How to Install Software --UNIX--

These instructions assume that you have an intermediate knowledge of Unix command syntax and experience installing applications on Unix. If you have any problems, please contact your system administrator

Follow these steps to install Orbit Viewer:

1. Download the gzip compressed "Orbit Viewer" and "IDL File" tar archive.


2. Uncompress and extract the tar file (Note: this will extract the files to your current directory) :
   
   gzip -d ORBIT.tar.gz
   tar -xvf ORBIT.tar.gz
   
3. Uncompress and extract the tar file (IDL File):
   
   cd TSDISorbitViewer
   gzip -d ../BIN_hp.tar.gz
   tar -xvf BIN_hp.tar
   
4. Define the TSDISorbitViewer_src environment variable in your shell resource file. The table below helps you determine what file to add this definition to. In this example, "XXX" represents the absolute path of the TSDISorbitViewer directory.
   
   setenv TSDISorbitViewer_src /XXX/TSDISorbitViewer
   
   % source /usr/local/TSDISorbitViewer/orbit_setup
   (It is recommended that you will define this in your ".cshrc file".)
   
5. To run Orbit Viewer type "orbit" on the command line: 
   
   % orbit
   
   You can check other options to run as following.
   
   % orbit -help

Sample data of TRMM (HDF format) are archived in TSDISorbitViewer/sample_data directory.

How to Install Software --Windows--

1. Download the compressed "Orbit Viewer" file.(tov10win32.exe).


2. Double-click on the "tov10win32.exe" file.
   (Note: this will extract the files to your current directory)


3. After copying, please make shortcut of  "IDLRT.EXE" and change shortcut link in property window as following:
   
   ***\IDLRT.EXE ---> ***\IDLRT.EXE -em=orbit.sav
   
   (You can find "IDLRT.EXE" file in "BIN" folder.)
   
4. To run Orbit Viewer double-click the shortcut file.

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