[Xastir-Dev] NWS Radar Images

[Gerry Creager]

They're what we call "Level II" data, NIDS II, or CRAFT.  I've access to 
them now for a research basis but in a couple of months, they're going 
to be much more readily accessible and because the Private Sector is 
demanding it for commercial purposes, radar data are going to be very 
low latency:  10-30 sec behind actual data reception at the most.  Thus, 
the commercial folks can sell it at near-real-time speed, nearly as fast 
as NWS sees it on their displays.

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Gerry Creager wrote:
> 
> 
>>So what happens if we get the NexRAD products directly, and process the 
>>data in xastir to develop a composite image, rather than expecting NWS 
>>to do all the heavy lifting?  This data's about to become "widely 
>>available...."
> 
> 
> So, you're telling me that we'll be able to bypass NOAA/NWS?  Man,
> where's it going to stop!
> 
> Tell me more about these NexRAD products, first I've heard of them.
> I'm going to take a wild guess and say they might be Next Generation
> Radar products?  Higher resolution than current data and so on?
> 
> If you have descriptions of the files and the format is not too
> difficult, I'd love to take a stab at it.  Perhaps some sort of
> GIS/CAD files with multiple layers?

Delivery is via LDM, which I'm (conveniently) on.  Basically, I can 
generate the binary file with the data, and plan to make an FTP download 
or some sort of cgi availability from, more'n likely, my work desktop. 
I'll get all the file descriptors next week and forward them on.
-- 
Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu
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