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FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1708 JUNE 15... 2000
ATTENTION FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS/NOAAPORT USERS
SUBJECT RADAR PRODUCT COMPRESSION AND TEST INGEST PERIODS
DELAYED
THIS IS A FOLLOW UP TO FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1643
DATED APRIL 7... 2000.
THE NWS PLANNED JULY 2000 INITIATION OF COMPRESSION OF THE
RADAR PRODUCTS BROADCAST OVER NOAAPORT HAS BEEN DELAYED A
MINIMUM OF TWO MONTHS. THE INITIATION OF RADAR PRODUCT
COMPRESSION OVER NOAAPORT IS DEPENDENT ON AN NWS AWIPS
SOFTWARE RELEASE /VERSION 4.3.3/ TO BE INSTALLED AT ALL NWS
SITES. ANOTHER FOLLOW UP STATUS NOTICE ON THIS ACTIVITY
WILL BE ISSUED IN SEPTEMBER. THE TECHNICAL INFORMATION
ON THE PLANNED COMPRESSION AND THE ACCESS TO TEST DATA
SETS THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE APRIL 2000 NOTICE IS REPEATED
BELOW.
THE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM TO BE USED IS BASED ON
THE ZLIB COMPRESSION LIBRARIES. THESE LIBRARIES AND
DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING WEB
ADDRESS HTTP//WWW.CDROM.COM/PUB/INFOZIP/ZLIB
A DOCUMENT DESCRIBING THE RADAR PRODUCT COMPRESSION APPROACH
IS NOW ACCESSIBLE UNDER THE WHAT/APOSTROPHE/S NEW HEADING
ON THE NOAAPORT HOME PAGE...
ADDRESS HTTP//WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/NOAAPORT/HTML/NOAAPORT.SHTML
THE SAME WHAT/APOSTROPHE/S NEW ENTRY PROVIDES THE WEB ACCESS
TO THE ADDRESS AT WHICH 6 SAMPLE RADAR PRODUCTS ARE
AVAILABLE... BOTH IN COMPRESSED AND DECOMPRESSED FORMATS...
FOR USERS TO DOWNLOAD VIA FTP AND TEST THEIR NOAAPORT
RECEIVE SYSTEMS PROCESSING. ALSO AVAILABLE AS A SEPARATE
ENTRY UNDER THE WHAT/APOSTROPHE/S NEW HEADING IS A
DISSEMINATION OF WSR-88D PRODUCTS CONCEPT PAPER DATED
MARCH 27... 2000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
MR. MICHAEL CARELLI... NWS NIDS ADMINISTRATOR
AT 301-713-1724 EXT. 184
OR EMAIL MICHAEL.CARELLI/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV
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