Hi Fred, re: > NESDIS currently makes the Japanese satellite data available via the ADDE PUB > server. They make MTSAT-2 data available, and they created ADDE dataset definitions for Himawari-8 data, but so far the Himawari datasets are empty. re: > They currently provide data from the MTSAT-2 satellite. The new Japanese > satellite > Himawari-8 is now the operational satellite for Japan. The MTSAT-2 will be > turned off > Dec. 4. The Himawari-8 has 16 channels and scans the Earth every 10 minutes. Yup, the Himawari data is fantastic! re: > Have you heard anything about NESDIS making this new satellite data > available via ADDE? I brought this question up at the recently held McIDAS Advisory Committee (MAC) meeting. The NESDIS representative(s) on the MAC said that they would look into if the H-8 imagery will be made available on one of their ADDE server machines. So far, I have not heard anything back from them regarding this. I am assuming that one of the challenges will be the sheer volume of H-8 data that would need to be served. The satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov machine may simply not have the disk (or CPU, memory, etc.) resources to be able to handle the data to the _MANY_ users that would invariably be hitting the server for H-8 data. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KXY-614160 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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