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465 NOUS45 KWBC 311851 NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 21 AUGUST 31... 1999 ATTENTION NOAAPORT USERS THE GOES INGEST NOAAPORT INTERFACE /GINI/ WAS IMPLEMENTED MORE THAN FIVE YEARS AGO AS THE REALTIME GOES SATELLITE INGEST... REMAP AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR AWIPS. THE TECHNOLOGY WAS AGING... HARDWARE COMPONENTS BECAME OBSOLETE... AND THE SOFTWARE AND FIRMWARE WERE NOT YEAR 2000 COMPLIANT. NESDIS HAS ADDRESSED THESE PROBLEMS AND OTHER GINI CONCERNS BY RECREATING THE GINI FUNCTIONS ON A MODERN OPEN SYSTEMS PLATFORM. THE NEW GINI... KNOWN AS GINI2... WILL PROVIDE THE REAL TIME GOES SATELLITE SERVICES TO THE AWIPS PROGRAM BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER 1999. GINI2 INCLUDES SEVERAL ENHANCEMENTS... SOME OF WHICH ARE THE RESULT OF COOPERATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING BETWEEN THE NWS AND NESDIS. IN ADDITION TO BEING ABLE TO CONTINUE PROCESSING THROUGH THE YEAR 2000 ROLL OVER... GINI2 SECTOR CORNER POINTS HAVE BEEN FINE TUNED AND THE REMAPPING PROCESS ON GINI2 IS NOW BASED ON AN ELLIPTICAL EARTH MODEL. ALSO... THE SATELLITE IMAGES WILL APPEAR LESS BLOCKY AND PROVIDE A GREATER RANGE OF CALIBRATION VALUES. DETAILS OF THE CHANGES MAY BE FOUND IN THE RECENTLY REVISED AWIPS NESDIS ICD DATED AUGUST 1... 1999. THIS DOCUMENT WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON THE NWS NOAAPORT HOMEPAGE AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/NOAAPORT/HTML/NOAAPORT.SHTML. THE CHANGE IN EARTH MODEL AND SECTOR CORNER POINTS MEAN THAT FIELD OFFICE AWIPS WORKSTATIONS WILL NEED A SOFTWARE CHANGE /PATCH/ TO DISPLAY THE GINI2 DATA CORRECTLY. THE SOFTWARE CHANGE WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO NWS SITES DURING EARLY SEPTEMBER IN TIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION ON OR ABOUT SEPTEMBER 20... WHEN THE GINI2 WILL BEGIN PRODUCTION. A FINAL NOTICE OF THE GINI2 OPERATIONAL SWITCHOVER WILL BE TRANSMITTED SHORTLY BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE AND TIME. QUESTIONS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO RON SMITH AT RONALD.SMITH/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV OR /301/ 713-0070 X 162. END NNNN ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
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