>From: "Servranckx,Rene [CMC]" <address@hidden> >Organization: Environment Canada >Keywords: 200310301548.h9UFmROb027580 McIDAS Hi Rene, >Thanks so much for the information. You are welcome. >Your agreement with SSEC only allows you to >distribute images. For raw data (i.e. that can >be processed), I would have to access the full >SSEC archives and pay per megabyte of data >or whatever. Is my understanding correct? No, not quite. The images in the UNIWISC datastream are data, not pictures. They are not the full resolution from the satellites, however. For instance, the current GOES satellites have 10 bits of information for each channel and are oversample in the element (horizontal) dimension. The images we send out in our broadcast (IDD relay) are 8 bit and the oversampling in the element dimension has been removed (by sampling, not averaging). Also, our sectors do not represent the full spatial coverage available from GOES and they are not available with the same frequence as GOES scans. Again, the coverage of the sectors currently in the datastream can be seen in: GOES-East http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/data/datastream.html#goes_east GOES-West http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/data/datastream.html#goes_west If you need the full resolution data (temporal and/or spatial), then you will need to get the data from the SSEC DataCenter or somewhere else that has a repository of GOES data. >Once again thanks for the info! No worries. Cheers, Tom
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