reading mcidas area data (endian??)

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• Subject: reading mcidas area data (endian??)
• From: "G. G. Campbell" <campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:11:09 -0600

I have access to a large archive of Little Endian Mcidas area files.
In the normal McIdas envirnment, byte swapping is automatic (the area
header is checked
and swapping is implemented if needed).

Reading the data with VISAD appears to ignore this possibility.  The 2
byte input image seems
to be mapped correctly into the 3 d display.  But the color display
appears random
probably because the 2 byte input data was not byte swapped.

Is there provision for this some where?

I am new to VISAD so pardon me if there is an obvious answer.

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