Introduction to McIDAS-XCD
The McIDAS-X Conventional
data Decoder (McIDAS-XCD) enables workstations running McIDAS-X to directly
receive and process data from the NCEP/NWSTG and NCEP/NWSTG2 channels of the
National Weather Service NOAAPORT broadcast. All of the operational McIDAS-XCD
client commands for accessing conventional data have been removed from the
McIDAS-XCD package. These commands have been replaced with ADDE (Abstract Data
Distribution Environment) commands distributed with McIDAS-X. See the McIDAS
User's Guide for
more information.
This introduction
consists of the following topics:
