20000303: NIDS radar in XCD?

>From: "Batson, Bryan" <address@hidden>
>Organization: JSFC
>Keywords: 200003032015.NAA06657 Unidata McIDAS NIDS NOAAPORT

Bryan, et. al.,

>Does the MUG have any plans for McIDAS-XCD to process NIDS radar data from
>NOAAPORT (see message below)?
>
>Does anyone in the mcidas-users community have any desire for this kind of
>data in XCD?

Unidata will extend its ADDE subservers to support zlib compressed NIDS
products.  As you know, we already provide our users with ADDE AGET and
ADIR servers that can handle the NIDS data available from WSI
Corporation.  These servers were enhanced in the fall of 1999 to
support the slighty different format of the NIDS products in NOAAPORT
(before they got encrypted).  The extension of support to zlib
compressed imagery will not be difficult, so I expect to be able to
offer it when the NIDS data goes "live" and unencrypted in the fall of
2000 (or sooner if we get appropriate documentation and example
files).

The NIDS (and GINI) ADDE servers I have developed are available to any
licensed McIDAS site (Unidata sites already have it) for the asking.

Tom Yoksas

>Thanks,
>Bryan
>
>From: Julie Hayes [mailto:address@hidden]
>Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 12:48 PM
>Subject: FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE 1612
>
>     NOUS40KWBC 031826
>     FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1612     MARCH 3... 2000
>     
>     ATTENTION    FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS
>                  NOAAPORT USERS
>     
>     RADAR PRODUCT COMPRESSION AND TEST INGEST PERIODS
>     
>     DURING JUNE 2000 THE NWS PLANS TO BEGIN COMPRESSION OF
>     THE RADAR PRODUCTS BROADCAST OVER NOAAPORT.  THE
>     COMPRESSION ALGORITHM TO BE USED IS BASED ON THE ZLIB
>     COMPRESSION LIBRARIES.  THESE LIBRARIES AND DESCRIPTIONS
>     ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS
>     
>     HTTP//WWW.CDROM.COM/PUB/INFOZIP/ZLIB.
>     
>     IN APRIL 2000... NWS WILL POST ON THE NOAAPORT HOME
>     PAGE... ADDRESS
>     
>     HTTP//WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/NOAAPORT/HTML/NOAAPORT/SHTML
>     
>     A TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION OF THE PLANNED NOAAPORT
>     ZLIB RADAR PRODUCT COMPRESSION APPROACH AND 6 SAMPLE
>     COMPRESSED RADAR PRODUCTS FOR USERS TO DOWNLOAD AND
>     TEST THEIR SYSTEM PROCESSING.  THE COMMUNICATIONS
>     CONTROL BLOCK... WMO HEADER... AND NNNXXX IDENTIFIER IN
>     THE LINE FOLLOWING THE WMO HEADER WILL BE IN CLEAR
>     TEXT FORMAT PRECEDING THE COMPRESSED RADAR DATA FOR
>     EASY PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION.  NOAAPORT RECEIVE SYSTEMS
>     WILL EITHER BE ABLE TO DECOMPRESS AT THE FRAME LEVEL OR
>     AFTER THE ENTIRE PRODUCT IS RECEIVED /ZLIB
>     LIBRARIES CAN DISTINGUISH AND DECOMPRESS INDIVIDUAL
>     FRAMES WITHIN A SINGLE PRODUCT FILE/.  BEGINNING IN
>     JULY 2000 THE NWS PLANS TO BEGIN REMOVING THE ENCRYPTION
>     OF THE RADAR PRODUCTS ON NOAAPORT FOR LIMITED TEST
>     PERIODS.  THE TEST PERIODS WILL BE BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY
>     8AM AND 4PM EASTERN TIME ON 2 OR MORE PREANNOUNCED
>     DATES EACH MONTH.  THIS ACTION IS BEING TAKEN TO
>     AFFORD ALL NOAAPORT USERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TEST THEIR
>     REAL-TIME INGEST AND PROCESSING OF COMPRESSED RADAR
>     PRODUCTS OVER NOAAPORT.  THE TEST PERIODS IN WHICH
>     THE RADAR PRODUCT ENCRYPTION IS REMOVED WILL CONTINUE
>     UNTIL THE NIDS AGREEMENTS ARE TERMINATED /TARGETED FOR
>     SEPTEMBER 30... 2000/.  ONCE THE NIDS AGREEMENTS ARE
>     TERMINATED THE RADAR PRODUCT ENCRYPTION WILL BE REMOVED
>     PERMANENTLY AND ALL PRODUCTS WILL BE OPENLY AVAILABLE OVER
>     NOAAPORT IN THE COMPRESSED FORMAT.
>     
>     FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
>     
>     MR. MICHAEL CARELLI... NWS NIDS ADMINISTRATOR
>     AT 301-713-1724  EXT. 184
>     OR EMAIL MICHAEL.CARELLI/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV
>     END
>     NNNN
>---------------------------- Forwarded with Changes --------------------------
>From: Julie Hayes at W-OSO17
>Date: 3/3/00 1:40PM
>cc: Michael Sikorski
>cc: Edward Gumkowski
>cc: John Skoda at W-TPO17
>Subject: FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE 1612
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