What takes so long on the sat imgs...

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What takes so long on the sat imgs...

#1 Postby loon » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:15 pm

It usually takes 30 minutes to get them out to their servers....I am fairly confident that they have plenty of computing power and network resources...do they hold on to this images for some reason? You can almost pinpoint it, say at 2215Z the 2145Z will come out, when it seems to me we should already have the 2145Z for some time.

I am asking in earnest to some of you that might actually be close to this operation, for any kind of insight...

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Re: What takes so long on the sat imgs...

#2 Postby senorpepr » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:21 pm

loon wrote:It usually takes 30 minutes to get them out to their servers....I am fairly confident that they have plenty of computing power and network resources...do they hold on to this images for some reason? You can almost pinpoint it, say at 2215Z the 2145Z will come out, when it seems to me we should already have the 2145Z for some time.

I am asking in earnest to some of you that might actually be close to this operation, for any kind of insight...

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I'm not sure what the issue is, but I can ensure you they are not withholding imagery.
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#3 Postby loon » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:22 pm

yeah, I figured not, kinda bad choice of words considering a certain legeslation that is out there, just curious I guess..thanks
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#4 Postby tw861 » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:25 pm

You can go here...

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/


The images update every 10 minutes or so. I'm using the 1km vis on a 30 image loop 100% zoom quality , and high zoom factor. You can center it over whatever you would like, gives a pretty good loop
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#5 Postby senorpepr » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:26 pm

loon wrote:yeah, I figured not, kinda bad choice of words considering a certain legeslation that is out there, just curious I guess..thanks


Oh, hehe... don't mind the wording. :wink:

I would tend to believe it's just some hardware issues...
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#6 Postby loon » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:26 pm

Cool, thanks!
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#7 Postby tw861 » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:28 pm

Of course a high speed connection is needed, but the results are pretty good.

BTW, nice blowup of thunderstorms going up just south of the center in appears.
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