MERIS IDL General Purpose Tools

Issue 1.1 November 2000

Interfacing w/ BOMEM files

Last modified: Fri Oct 27 15:16:13 2000.

• READ_BOMEM
• READ_NEW_BOMEM

Routine Descriptions

 NAME:
       READ_BOMEM


 PURPOSE:
       reads tables provided by Bomem


 CATEGORY:
       BOMEM


 CALLING SEQUENCE:
        table=READBOMEM(filename)

 
 INPUTS:
        The name of the file that contents the table.


 OPTIONAL INPUTS:
        None

      
 KEYWORD PARAMETERS:
        None


 OUTPUTS:
        The table saved in a structure.


 OPTIONAL OUTPUTS:
         None


 COMMON BLOCKS:
         None


 SIDE EFFECTS:
         None


 RESTRICTIONS:
         None


 PROCEDURE:
         None


 EXAMPLE:
            tab=read_bomem(tables.txt)


 MODIFICATION HISTORY:

       Vincent Fournier-Sicre, ACRI S.A. , January 1999
       vfs@acri.fr

(See $IDL_LOCAL/BOMEM/read_bomem.pro)

 NAME:
       READ_NEW_BOMEM


 PURPOSE:
       reads the tables written by Bomem since 1/1/2000 
       (they changed the number of decimals and hence the 
       number of data per line and hence the number of 
       lines per record)


 CATEGORY:
       BOMEM


 CALLING SEQUENCE:
        table=READ_NEW_BOMEM(filename)

 
 INPUTS:
        The name of the file that contents the table.


 OPTIONAL INPUTS:
        None

      
 KEYWORD PARAMETERS:
        None


 OUTPUTS:
        The table saved in a structure.


 OPTIONAL OUTPUTS:
         None


 COMMON BLOCKS:
         None


 SIDE EFFECTS:
         None


 RESTRICTIONS:
         None


 PROCEDURE:
         None


 EXAMPLE:
            tab=read_bomem(tables.txt)


 MODIFICATION HISTORY:
       lb@acri.fr, January 2000, from READ_BOMEM 
       by Vincent Fournier-Sicre, ACRI S.A. , January 1999
       vfs@acri.fr

(See $IDL_LOCAL/BOMEM/read_bomem.pro)