Re: McIDAS Data (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:09:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jennie L. Moody" <address@hidden>
To: "Robert R. Mullenax" <address@hidden>,
    Michael W Dross <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: McIDAS Data


In the appended messages, Mike Dross has raised the question of 
access to more satellite imagery (more frequent, and higher resolution
imagery) potentially available to the user community via NOAAPORT.

I image that Unidata may respond to this question also, however, 
I wanted to simply say that I am glad to see this kind of opinion
(for access to more and better satellite imagery) expressed.  And I
wanted to note that this is a subject I anticipate us addressing at
our next User's Committee Meeting at Unidata, September 30th and October 1st.

I would like to point out that we have had discussions about these
data (NOAAport GINI) previously, as well as other discussions about increasing
access to more frequent satellite data or alternately, more channels of 
satellite data.  Robert raises the issue of data overload (which is something
we have always had to consider with the datastreams, and tradeoffs have
to be made regarding frequency/versus number of channels, etc).  However,
in addition to these concerns, the GINI format is a remapped image which 
represents a significant loss of information content for those of us in the 
community who work with satellite imagery in a quantitative way.  So I do 
not think its as simple as:

"replacing the MCIDAS satellite imagery with
  the GINI NOAAPORT data"

Nevertheless, I am glad to hear these opinions being expressed
as we continue to discuss options and explore opportunities for 
increased access to higher resolution satellite imagery (both 
spatial and temporal) within the User Community.


Jennie Moody
Unidata User's Committee Chair




On Aug 30, 23:37, "Robert R. Mullenax" wrote:
> Subject: Re: McIDAS Data
> The problem I see is that those of us with only T1 conections
> (we can't be the only ones) would be overloaded with the amount of
> data.  1km imagery every 15 minutes would be great, but I don't
> believe we can handle it.  It took three years to get upgraded
> to a T1, I shudder to think about how long it would take to
> convince the various entities to upgrade us to a T3,
> 
> Robert Mullenax
> 
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Michael W Dross wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > With the tremendous amount of satellite imagery now available on NOAAPORT 
> > has
> > anyone discussed the possiblity of replacing the MCIDAS satellite imagery 
> > with
> > the GINI NOAAPORT data? I suspect that McIDAS can't handle GINI, I belive 
> > GEMPAK
> > can and  I know WXP can.  It might be a more cost effective solution
> > and the NCF does have 24/7 coverage which in theory should provide a 
> > reliable
> > data stream 24/7.
> > 
> > My $0.02
> > 
> > Mike Dross
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- End of excerpt from "Robert R. Mullenax" <address@hidden>



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