[AWIPS #HYN-716663]: AWIPS - Egypt

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

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: HYN-716663
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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