There are several ways on visualisating ODB data in Magics.

  • use the ODB Magics objects. This allows Magics to read a odb file and extract some columns for geographical plots or graph.
  • In python, it also possible to use odb_api packages to create a numpy array and pass the values in memeoty to Magics. magics is then able to perform symbol plotting on a geographical area, time series, etc .. 

This page will present examples of these different plottings, and will offer skeletons of python programs.

Using an ODB file and create a geographical map

In this example, we have downloaded some ODB data from Mars.

The mars request looks like:

retrieve,

class      = e2,

    type       = ofb,

    stream     = oper,

    expver     = 1607,

    repres     = bu,

    reportype  = 16005,

    obstype    = 1,

    date       = 20100101,

    time       = 0,

    domain     = g,

    target     = "data.odb",

    filter     = "select lat@hdr, lon@hdr, obsvalue@body where (source='ispdv2.2') and (varno=110)",

    duplicates = keep