20040325: GOES-9 S-VISSR to AREA converter (cont.)

>From: McIDAS Help Desk <address@hidden>
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>Keywords: 200403221738.i2MHcLrV007082 S-VISSR to AREA converter

Hi Rick,

re: user's S-VISSR image file

>Any word on this?  Otherwise I'll close the inquiry.

The user's machine was out of service until this morning.  I just
downloaded one of his "S-VISSR" image files and an associated doc
file.  I put them in the pub/mcidas/data directory of anonymous
FTP on our FTP server, ftp.unidata.ucar.edu for you to grab.  The
file is named svissr.tar.gz.

Thanks for the help.

Tom
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>From address@hidden  Thu Mar 25 12:39:10 2004

Hi Tom,

    The short answer is no.  JMA is taking the GOES-9 data and 
retransmitting it in raw GMS format. So in theory a GMS-SDI ingestor 
could handle the data, probably not the most economical choice.  Dee 
mentioned that all the GOES-9 data has been archived and is freely 
available (theres a phrase rarely used these days) to students in the 
.edu domain.  If the user request a large amount of data, a charge will 
occur.  Large amount is subjective, if they ask for a years worth of 
data, the answer will be no, also depends on current log of requests.

Hope this helps,

Rick