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20021022: ADDE image servers



>From: "Craddock, Mary Ellen" <address@hidden>
>Organization: TASC
>Keywords: 200210221138.g9MBc3p21765 McIDAS SDI ADDE

Hi Mary Ellen,

>       How are you?!

I'm doing well, thanks.

>How's your finger/hand recovering?

My finger has healed nicely.  It is a little funky looking (gnarly and
shorter than my other index finger), but I have full use of it, AND
(most importantly) it isn't overly cold sensitive like I was told it
would be.  Little by little full feeling is returning to the tip.
Sometimes I even forget that I almost lopped it off :-)

>Sorry we didn't get
>to attend the GOES meeting this year, was hoping to run into you before the
>next AMS.

One of these days, you will make it to a MUG meeting.  All-in-all, this
year's meeting was pretty good.  The users that attended had a good
chance of talking with one another, so the time was productive.

>Quick question for you/Unidata/...do you receive the GMS,
>Meteosat-7 and Meteosat-5 data independently of SSEC or do you get the data
>via their ADDE servers?

We get GMS, ME7 and ME5 data through SATEPS.  Like everyone else, we
are not allowed to redistribute Meteosat data before it is no longer
considered to be realtime.  EUMETSAT's definition of realtime is
everything up to 3 days old!

>We are looking for the most cost-effective way to
>receive this data in near realtime and are investigating buying ingestors vs
>paying for the ADDE connection.

Presumably TASC has one or more relationships with NOAA.  If this is
the case, you might be able to get the data from SATEPS like we do.
You may not be able to count on getting the data in realtime from
SATEPS.  Perhaps you should contact Brian Callicott
<address@hidden> and ask him what he thinks your chances of
getting access to the SATEPS ADDE servers is.

One problem with getting ingest systems for Meteosat is signal is
encrypted.  It seems like you would have to work with EUMETSAT to get a
decryption key.  GMS ingest is probably a different story.

Another thing to consider: EUMETSAT just successfully launched MSG
(Meteosat Second Generation), and Japan is scheduled to launch MTSAT
(the GMS follow-on next fall).  I don't know what this will really mean
as far as ingest systems go, but I have to think that there would be
differences in the ingestors.  Marianne Koenig presented information on
MSG at the MUG meeting.  One of her comments is that new ground
stations were installed through Africa for the new satellite.  Given
this, I have to assume that ingestors would need to change for MSG.
But, then again, I am no expert, so don' quote me ;-)

>Thanks,

Talk to you later...

>Mary Ellen
>
>Mary Ellen Craddock
>Meteorologist
>Northrop Grumman Information Technology, TASC
>4801 Stonecroft Boulevard
>Chantilly, VA 20151
>(703) 633-8300 x4022
>address@hidden

Tom