User's Guide

AUTOESAL1B

Stack AVHRR archive images to tape.

Function:

Stacks AVHRR archive images to an ANSI labeled tape for ESA. If the tape drive is equipped with an automatic tape stacker, this function can stack multiple tapes.

Parameters:

ACCTNUM
Account number. The account number to which this order will be sent and billed.

ORDERNUM
Order number. The order number that includes this item.

UNITNUM
Unit number. The Level 1b unit number of the specified order.

DRIVE
Tape drive. The tape drive to be used. If a drive is specified, the operator will not be prompted to mount a tape. It is assumed that the specified drive has NTAPES tapes mounted and ready for writing. If NULL, the operator will be prompted to mount NTAPES tapes.

NTAPES
Number of tapes. The number of tapes that are to be stacked. If NTAPES is greater than one, it is assumed that DRIVE is equipped with an automatic tape stacker.

TTYPE("8HI")
Tape type. Type of tape that is to be stacked. The default is 8HI and the list of valid tape types is defined by the TAE global $TTYPEVAL.

MINBYTES(0)
Minimum megabytes. The minimum number of megabytes that are to be stacked to a tape. If the combined size of all the available images does not exceed this value, AVHRRSTACK will wait until additional images appear in the input directory.

MAXBYTES(4500)
Maximum megabytes. The maximum number of megabytes that can be written to a tape.

SCENEFLG("NO")
Scene print flag. A flag to specify if the scene summaries are to be printed.

= YES: Print out the individual
       scene summaries
= NO:  Do not print the scene
       summaries