McIDAS, ldm-mcidas, GOES Ingest and NOAAPort Status Report
Winter 2008/2009

Overview

The use of McIDAS in the U.S. educational community remains largely unchanged since the last Policy Committee meeting in October, 2008.

• Unidata McIDAS-X v2008 was made available on August 17, 2008. The UPC continues to make bugfix and enhancement upgrades available through an addendum process
• The UPC continues to receive sporadic requests for McIDAS from international university users and U.S. government agencies. Government agencies are referred to UW/SSEC for access to McIDAS; international educational community user requests are granted on a case-by-case basis after they provide a clear statement of their acceptance of the terms of use provided by SSEC.
• ldm-mcidas v2008 includes support for USPLN lightning data
• Unidata-ingested GOES-10 imagery has been included in Unidata-Wisconsin GOES-East composite image sectors since January 31, 2007.
  Unidata's GOES-10 ingester, goessouth.unidata.ucar.edu, serves, on-average, ~1 TB/month of image data via McIDAS ADDE.
• Unidata NOAAPort ingest package continues as a community resource for IDD HDS, IDS|DDPLUS, NGRID, NIMAGE, and NEXRAD3 data

by Tom Yoksas.