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Hola Gloria, re: > I am sending to you a short description of a Pilot Project in Colombia > that Empresas Públicas de Medellin.E.S.P (EE.PP.M.E.S.P) is developing > and it is supported by OMM. I am sending to you a document that describes > the hydrometeorological system that EEPPM.E.S.P has and the objectives and > awaited benefits of the Pilot Project: "Hydrometeorological System on Nare > and Guatapé Basins located in Antioquia-Colombia". This looks like a very interesting project! > I would like to know if it is possible for UNIDATA to help this project > specifically in objectives 3 and 4 giving access for a government company > (EE.PP.M. E.S.P) to the information that Unidata has If you are asking if we will approve your access to data in our Internet Data Distribution (IDD) system, then the answer is yes. The objectives of your Pilot Project fit nicely with the objectives of the IDD. The questions you need to be able to answer are: - is there sufficient Internet bandwidth to the EE.PP.M.E.S.P site - does the EE.PP.M.E.S.P have a machine running Unix/Linux on which it can install and operate the Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM) software. The LDM is the software on top of which the IDD is built > and allowing it to have some of your models like McIDAS. This portion of your question is a bit puzzling since McIDAS is a display and analysis tool, not a numerical model. The confusion may be due to a difference in language; please forgive me if I am misunderstanding what you are asking for here. If you are asking if you can be allowed access to McIDAS, then I will need to consult with the package's owners, the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) of the University of Wisconsin (UW) at Madison. Our license with SSEC specifically allows us to distribute McIDAS to educational institutions worldwide. It does not allow us to distribute McIDAS to government agencies or commercial entities except under specific circumstances. Question: are there any universities involved in your Pilot Project activities? If the answer is yes, then I feel confident that we can provide McIDAS to the university(s) and that it could be used in your project. Please note that McIDAS is the only display/analysis package we offer that has restrictions for who can get access. Our other packages, GEMPAK and the IDV do not have these restrictions. > And if it is possible, I would like to know in what way it could be done, I > mean, if it is necessary some document from EE.PP.M.E.S.P, or anything else? First, we need to understand exactly what you are asking for. If you are requesting access to the realtime data available in the IDD, there are no problems. If you are asking for access to our distribution of McIDAS, then we will need a little more information on the EE.PP.M.E.S.P (a reference to a web page that describes it, for instance) and what, if any, role universities will play in the Pilot Project. > Thank you a lot for any information that you can give me No worries. > and if you need more information please tell me. As soon as we fully understand what you are looking to get from us, we can proceed. Cheers, Tom **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: OHN-840015 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed