Scope and Approach

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Types of users Level 1: academia, large organizations - want digital data to generate imagery and products for employees, to input to models and algorithms. Level 2: academia, smaller organizations, forecast offices – want digital data to generate imagery and products (gif, png, and jpeg) for users (managers, emergencies, businesses) Level 3: small groups – are satisfied with gif and jpeg type images I've been interacting with folks in Central and South America and the Caribbean for almost 20 years. Having low cost access to imagery and products and low cost ways to display and probe it have been a constant topic. In those 20 years, technology has greatly increased as well. I come from a satellite focused research organization and so fall into this level one data group If we didn't get it in the introductions, poll for the range of skills and experience. When I’m not working, but I want to look at the imagery to see if clouds are forming upstream over the mountains, and will that affect my afternoon activities, I fall in to Level 3 – I’m satisfied with using gif and jpeg images in an animation. What I’ve encountered most in forecast and hydrology offices is Level 2. They want digital data to generate information for a specific area.

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Imagery and products on GNC-A DIGITAL GeoTiff CSV (WF ABBA) SHP +SHX + DBF Binary BUFR HDF-EOS IMAGE GIF PNG JPEG PDF http://www.geonetcastamericas.noaa.gov/pubs/section-1/GEONETCast-Americas%20Product%20Catalog%20-%20V20152110.pdf How were the products initially selected?

What software do you use? What do you use? What software do you use? DIGITAL IMAGES Global Local Details Same projection Global Local Quick look Different projection

What information do you need to convey? DIGITAL IMAGES Scale: Global, Local Details: units, resolution View: consistent color table Do not have flexibility to change.

Lecture and lab Lectures: Labs: Satellite overview Precipitation Sea surface temperature (SST) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Introduction to Red/Green/Blue (RGB) composite imagery Labs: Realtime GOES GeoTIFF, McIDAS-V data bundle Realtime GeoTIFF, NetCDF (HDF5.nc) NetCDF Realtime and archive GeoTIFF Archive SEVIRI HRIT We can’t possibly cover everything in these few days, so we’ve selected a few examples(although we would like to!) Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI)

Why McIDAS-V? Free software, relatively easy to install Reads in and displays multiple types of data and imagery Allows the user to: readily query the data View in different projections and area coverage View "layers" of imagery and data Perform calculations, manipulate and combine imagery, and Add text Output values to a file Output gif or jpg files.

More Mcidas-v pros and cons Mcidas-v support forum It has a learning curve The labs are structured these two days to build skills and confidence using Mcidas-v For repeated tasks, shortcuts can be created Encourages collaboration

Throughout the week… What level user are you? What software do you currently use? Think about the products you use and make a list If you see a new product that you want, add it to the list Are these software tools useful?