Re: 20040824: idv and radar data

Ethan-

Ethan Davis wrote:

> Seems like the first thing would be to get an ADDE server set up at NCDC 
> to serve the level III data. I don't think the IDV needs any THREDDS 
> stuff to access ADDE served level III data. (Don, is that right?) 
> Though, because of the size of the NCDC data holdings (Glenn, how much 
> level III data would you want to make available at first?), we might 
> want to look at some cataloging capabilities.

From the IDV point of view, I would want to inteface to THREDDS
middleware to query info about available stations, times, etc.

> Second would probably be more testing of the ESML-OPeNDAP level II radar 
> data server. We've already started looking at this here at Unidata to 
> see what it would take to access the data from the IDV. I think we've 
> had some interactions with the ESML people on this as well. Again we can 
> look at cataloging this data both to let the IDV know what the data is 
> if necessary and to deal with a really large collection of level II 
> radar data.

Sounds good.

> I guess that's about it. Does anyone see something I'm forgetting?
>
> Glenn, does this sound like something you guys are up for?

Don
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