Gosden, Smith, Watson, Molenar

The Rapid Scan Operation (RSO) RAMSDIS has been fully tested and is now acting as a server for RAMSDIS On-Line to provide near real-time imagery during rapid scan operations.

A RAMSDIS system has been configured for the Satellite Applications Branch (SAB), was tested by our meteorological staff, and shipped to SAB.

A new (used) HP J210 workstation was procured.  The workstation was updated with all security and y2k patches and configured to support the ingest of the Unidata NOAAPORT realtime data feed that had previously been running on an old HP 715.

New software to access MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) data and the National Severe Storms Laboratory WSR-88D Algorithm Testing And Display System (WATADS) has been installed on RAMM team UNIX workstations.   In addition, several new applications have been installed on workstations to support analysis of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) data.

Software to convert GRIB files to McIDAS GRID format has been installed on the RAMM Team  test McIDAS-NT workstation.

McIDAS-X has been upgrade to version 7.6.