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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:35:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jennie L. Moody" <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject: Satellite Data Archive at SSEC/UW User's Committee Colleagues: At the last Unidata Policy Committee meeting, Dr. Robert Fox of the University of Wisconsin-Madison requested reaction from UserCom members on making satellite imagery archived at SSEC on 3590 media freely available to Unidata member universities for research and education purposes. The turn-around time for access of the data would be on the order of a few days. If reaction is positive, then approval must be obtained from NCDC before any data can be distributed. This would expand the available data to include the highest resolution imagery from all channels, including data not currently available to the user community, such as all 19 channels from the GOES East and West sounders. Do you, as a representative of the Unidata user community feel that this would be a valuable resource for participating member institutions? Please feel free to provide some specific or detailed responses (more than just, "sure, sounds great") since we will be passing this information along to the Policy Committee. Just as a reminder, I would like you all to note that presently requests for archived satellite imagery are processed through NCDC for a fee, regardless of the usage (ie., educational or research applications do not get a break). The only satellite archive currently "freely" available to our user community is the Unidata-Wisconsin data stream archive, also at SSEC, which begins in 1991, and includes the data which have been sent in the Unidata-Wisconsin broadcast (ie., the visible, water vapor and thermal IR channels at the reduced resolutions). Please provide us with your feedback by Wednesday, September 8th. This issue will be discussed at the next Policy Committee meeting, at NSF on September 13-14. Thanks for you time in addressing this important issue. Jennie Moody -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Jennie Lynne Moody, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor Department of Environmental Sciences Ph: (804) 924-0592 University of Virginia (804) 924-0569 351 Clark Hall address@hidden Charlottesville, VA 22903 FAX:(804) 982-2300 UVA Weather Page--> http://windfall.evsc.virginia.edu/~mcuser *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*