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>From: Sidney Gauthreaux <address@hidden> >Organization: Clemson University >Keywords: 200206042029.g54KTYJ26937 IDD FNEXRAD Sidney, >Yesterday I was talking with Linda Miller and she mentioned the >availability of 1 km resolution national mosaics. How do I acquire such >imagery? Your attention to this matter is greatly appreciated. There are basically two ways that you can access the imagery: 1) setup an LDM at your site and be fed the images via our IDD 2) view the images from one of several cooperating community data servers using a McIDAS ADDE-enabled application (e.g., McIDAS or MetApps IDV) The LDM software and participation in our IDD (Internet Data Distribution) are free as are the ADDE-enabled applications, so cost is not an issue. To learn more about the various options, please visit the following web pages: LDM: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/index.html IDD: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/idd/index.html McIDAS: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/index.html MetApps: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/metapps/index.html The process to get the data by the LDM (IDD) is basically: 1) download and install the LDM at your site (binary versions of the LDM are available for a wide variety of popular Unix platvorms); the LDM only runs on Unix... 2) get assigned an upstream feed site by us 3) configure your LDM to request the composites in the IDD from the upstream feed site we assign you 4) decode the data files if desired; they are broadcast in a PNG-compressed format (a standard GINI image header followed by the image data that has been PNG compressed). Our ldm-mcidas package can be downloaded (binaries are available like for the LDM) that will decode the compressed images into standard GINI format (GINI, if your are not aware, is the format of the images sent in NOAAPORT) 5) setup data scouring for the images; the uncompressed 1 km images are each 14 MB in size, so data scouring is important I hope that this helped. Please let us know which routine you want to pursue. We can help you in the installation process for either of the options that you decide to pursue. >Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr. >Department of Biological Sciences >Clemson University >Clemson, SC 29634-0326 >864 656-3584 (office) >864 656-0435 (fax) Tom Yoksas