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Hi there, Sorry for the delayed response. > I would like to thank you for making AWIPS available for the community for > free. I do have > a few questions about AWIPS, and I would be grateful if you have answers or > hints to my > questions. > > 1. I am wondering if the AWIPS could be tuned to different zones (e.g., > Egypt)? > 2. Currently, we are using proprietary software (Messir-Corobor). Do you > think that AWIPS > can do the same functions as Messir-com and Messir-vision? > 3. This is a little bit a side question, are you aware of any proprietary > softwares similar > to the Messir system? Thanks for reaching out. To answer your questions: 1. It is possible to program AWIPS to different zones or parts of the world, but it is not a simple task. You would need several things: - Host and run your own EDEX server - Have access to all the data you want to see in AWIPS - Have that data in a format EDEX/AWIPS understands - Feed that data through LDM for EDEX to process Depending on how much data you have this will require a fairly powerful machine. 2. I am not familiar with Messir-Corobor at all so I don't know if AWIPS is similar or not. - You could find out more about AWIPS by downloading and playing with it yourself (with North American data). - You can check out all of our documentation which might be able to give you a quick answer to whether or not it can do the things you want or not: http://unidata.github.io/awips2/ - You can take a look at our blog posts (probably the ones for CAVE) to see if any of our blogs have covered the functionality you're looking for: http://unidata.github.io/awips2/appendix/educational-resources/#cave 3. Again, unfortunately we are not familiar with that software, so we can't recommend another software that would be comparable. I hope this helps a little. Thank you. --Shay Carter She/Her/Hers AWIPS Software Engineer UCAR - Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: HYN-716663 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.