Satellite Data Archive at SSEC/UW (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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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 





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