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301 NOUS45 KWBC 101157 NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 24 SEPTEMBER 10... 1999 ATTENTION... NON NWS NOAAPORT USERS......THIS NOTIFICATION IS A FOLLOW UP TO NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 21 TRANSMITTED ON AUGUST 31... 1999. THE NEW GINI... KNOWN AS GINI2... WILL PROVIDE THE REAL TIME GOES SATELLITE SERVICES TO THE AWIPS PROGRAM BEGINNING WITH THE NESDIS SWITCH OVER /IE.... GINI1 TO GINI2/ OF THE GOES 10 /WEST/ DATA APPROXIMATELY 1600Z SEPTEMBER 27... AND THE GOES 8 /EAST/ DATA APPROXIMATELY 1600Z SEPTEMBER 29... 1999. NOTE THAT THIS INCREMENTAL IMPLEMENTATION WILL CAUSE THE NESDIS GENERATION OF PARTIAL COMPOSITE PRODUCTS FOR THE GOES EAST USERS UNTIL THE SEPTEMBER 29TH SWITCH OVER OF THE GOES 8 DATA. GINI2 INCLUDES SEVERAL ENHANCEMENTS... 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 IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON THE NWS NOAAPORT HOMEPAGE AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/NOAAPORT/HTML/NOAAPORT.SHTML. A SUITE OF SAMPLE GINI2 PRODUCTS CAN BE ACCESSED FROM THE NOAA SERVER AT 140.90.88.142 VIA ANONYMOUS FTP. THE PRODUCTS ARE LOCATED IN THE NCEPD/RSM/GINI2 DIRECTORY. PLEASE TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DOWNLOAD APPROPRIATE SAMPLE PRODUCT FILES FOR TESTING ON YOUR NOAAPORT RECEIVE SYSTEMS. TESTING DISPLAY OF THE SAMPLE GINI2 PRODUCTS WILL ALLOW YOU TO DETERMINE IF YOU ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE CHANGES IN THE REGISTRATION OF THIS IMAGERY WITH YOUR MAP OVERLAYS UPON THE INITIATION OF GINI2 OPERATIONS DURING THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 27... 1999. A FINAL NOTICE OF THE GINI2 OPERATIONAL SWITCH OVER 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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