Projections

WebWinds has the ability to display data that is referenced to geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) in several different projections in applications such as Image.
The "Menu" button in  Image offers several choices under the "Projections" option. The default choice, "None", does not apply any projection transformation to the axes. Often this means that the default projection is rectangular. Other choices are "Mercator", "Polar Stereographic" (North and South pole centered) "Mollweide" and a "Sinusiodal" projection.

Note that tick marks will be computed in projected space.  Grids will also be drawn in projected space; they will not necessarily be orthogonal. Grids will not be drawn on areas with "No data" pixel values. They will be drawn over "Missing Data," so specify "No Data" for area outside the image and "Missing Data" for holes inside it.


WebWinds Home / Oct 5, 2001