19990909: NOAAPORT NIDS product support in Unidata McIDAS-X

>From: Dave Santek <address@hidden>
>Organization: Space Science & Engineering Center
>Keywords: 199909091334.HAA26569 Unidata McIDAS-X NOAAPORT NIDS

Mark,

Dave Santek asked me to respond to your inquiry about the NIDS products
currently in the NOAAPORT datastream:

Dave Santek said:
  >One of our newer McIDAS sites is interested in displaying the NIDS data.
  >This is from Mark Chambers (address@hidden)at Universal
  >Weather.He has some questions about the radar that I think you may know:
  
Mark Chanbers asked:
  >> What I am trying to determine is
  >> whether the ADDE server that you mentioned Unidata wrote will ingest the
  >> NIDS products from the NOAAPORT stream or will it only handle the NIDS
  >> products as provided from WSI?  
  
Dave Santek asked:
  >Can you either:
  > o answer him (please cc me so I'll know in the future)
  > o tell me and I'll pass it onto him

The answer is that my NIDS servers (ADIR and AGET) do not directly
support the NIDS products in NOAAPORT.  The modification to support
these products is trivial, however (the only difference is a few bytes
of header at the beginning of the product).  The only reason that I
have not made the mods is that the NOAAPORT NIDS products are scheduled
to be encrypted in the very near future.  In the two year timeframe,
they will be unencrypted and freely available on a proposed 5th
NOAAPORT channel.

If we learn that the plans to encrypt NIDS has been shelved, I will
make the mods to my code and then make them available to SSEC.

I hope that this helps...

Tom
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